Disco Scratch

Dust… that’s what I had on my fingers after doing the show tonight.  I should have had some snooker referee gloves on handling the wax for tonight’s show!  Some nice old slabs of late 80s US plastic, as usual digging into the US stack plus a couple of new cuts.  I’m now doing jam news every week, on the top of the hour at 10PM every week.  Starting next week I’m also going to do a Disco Scratch chart.  This will run as a post on the Disco Scratch Forum where you can vote for your favourite tracks of the moment, real basic, best tracks reach the top, those that don’t won’t!  It’ll probably take a bit of fine tuning, it’s not like there’s stacks of new material that appeals to the Disco Scratch audience, so I take it on myself to put say 20 tracks on the site and you can vote for your favourite.

I’ll just see how it goes, it’ll be interesting to see how much interaction there is, I mean I think of Disco Scratch like this… once a week at around ten to 9, old buggers shuffle into a darkened working mans club, put their coats on the stand revealing a faded T Shirt bearing the name of an old UK crew, order a cup of tea, break the seal on a packet of chocolate hob nobs and sit down to sift through the beats entering their domes!  At 11 O’clock, they all say their goodbyes in standard Hip Hop sign off format and leave the room with a warm glow, a tea induced high and a bellyfull of family circle biscuit selections… a happy soul to know that there’s life in the old dog yet! (To Quote Websta!)

I’m the barman, chatting with you all and providing the background music… the fire crackles away in the background while we smile at memories of B Boy battles, scarpering from the plod and rival crews after bombing the neighbourhood and doing pause button mixes…

But, for any hard rocks reading this, trust me, Disco Scratch is no pushover, if need be we’ll form like Voltron (whatever the HELL our yank cousins mean by that!) and throw our Hob Nobs in the air while we grab handfulls of import 12s to battle you with, DON’T test the Disco Scratch Sound System, we’ll draw tracks that’ll stomp the plop out of ya!  Just look at our tracklists from the past shows…

Ahem, anyway, got carried away there, download’s after the tracklist, Enjoy!!!!

DSR12 Dust Track List

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – The Delta (Instrumental)
3.Majesta – Tough Scene
4.Black Sheep – Forever Luvlee
5.Black Sheep – Birds Of A Feather
6.MC Crash – Life On The Street
7.Majesta – Suckers Just Scam
8.Grandmixer DST – Rock The House In Japan
9.P.Gunn & Mr.I.Till – My Mic & My Handle
10.T.D.S. Mob – Crushin’ ‘Em
11.Tuff Crew – Philly Style
12.Just The 2 Of Us – Most Valuable Poet
13.Rapia – All The Zones
14.Killa Instinct – The Sparrows
15.Original One – Skillz n Grillz

***News & Jam events ****
16.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse (Instrumental)
17.DuckAlert – Down Wit Tha BKs

18.Majesta – Sneezin’
19.PHP – When The Wind Blows
20.Paradox – Soul Feels Free
21.2 The Top – The Matter At Hand
22.Rapia – Code For Doom
23.Def Tex featuring DPF – Synchronise
24.Microdisiacs – Deep Waters
25.Rammelzee – Beat Bop Part 2 (Ft. K Rob)
26.Edan – One Man Arsenal
27.Hostyle – Diane
28.Smooth Tha Hustler – Broken Language
29.Doug E Fresh – Play This Only At Night
30.Waxer – Thanet 808

 

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Disco Scratch Radio Show 1

So last night I went live at 9PM on Freestyle FM to give you the first Disco Scratch show.  Many thanks to all those that tuned in live & got in the chatroom.  It was a good look and I played a lot of classic UK tunes from back in the day.  I also got pranked by Bones bless him!  Big interviews coming up, names from the depths of Hip Hops’ past… I had a few technical issues with distortion but this should all be sorted for next week.

Last nights’ show was dedicated to Malcolm McClaren who sadly lost his battle with cancer yesterday, respect, RIP.

Till next week…

Playlist:

1.Trevor Jones – The Death Of Arthur

2/3/4.Malcolm McClaren:Buffalo Gals/Do ya like Scratchin/World’s Famous

4.Syncbeat – Music

5.Foreverreaction – B.E.D. 34

6.Rapologists – The Hip Hop Beat

7.Hardrock Soul Movement – Do It

8.Paul Hardcastle – Sound Chaser

9.Sir Drew – Old School Style

10.Dynamic MCs – I Feel Dynamic

11.Cash Crew – Microphone Maniac

12.Mutant Rockers – Classical Scratch

13.LL Cool J – I Need A Beat

14.Lewis Parker – A Walk In The Sky

15.DJ Yess & DJ Crime – Keep It Underground

16.NSO Force – 2 Deep

17.Demon Boyz – Rougher Than An Animal

18.T La Rock – Breakin Bells

19.Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra – Manipulator

20.Duke Booty – Broadway

21.The Addicts Psalm – Ralph Carmichael

22.All The People ft Robert Moore – Cramp Your Style

23.Ben E King – What Is Soul

24.Stereo MCs – What Is Soul

25.Weather Report – Non Stop Home

26.Ramsey Lewis – Les Fleurs

27.Percee Pee – Lung Collapsin Lyrics

28.Percee Pee vs Lord Finesse battle snippet

29.Hijack – I Had to Serve You

 

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Coming to a cpomputer near you, April 8th 2010

It’s with great pleasure I announce a new partnership with Freestyle FM.  Disco Scratch Radio

will be a weekly 2 hour show stepping back in time to when you were in a posse, said words like “Fresh”, “Def”

and waved an aerial out of your window in an attempt to pick up Mike Allen.

Starting at 9PM on www.freestylefm.net

I’ll be bringing you interviews, features on places in the UK, spotlight on crews, DJs, MCs, Writers, B Boys, Beatboxers, record shops, venues and the fans of UK Hip Hop from it’s birth to the mid 90s.

If you were a fan of Hip Hop in the UK in the early days, I’d like to hear from you.  Either hit me up on facebook on the links on the right or e-mail thediscoscratch@gmail.com

Hopefully I’ll be broadcasting on USTREAM at the same time hit me up at USTREAM.COM/DISCOSCRATCH

When the show finishes you’ll be able to cop the download from this site, or if you hit the iTunes link on the top tight and subscribe you’ll get it automatically, or you can hit the RSS link at the top to get it in a feed reader of your choice.

So, hit the Freestyle FM link at 9PM every Thursday from April 8th 2010 to get Old School UK Hip Hop pumped into your ear canals, hit the chat link on the freestyle FM page to join in with other old school UK heads.

See you there, respect to the molecule!

Many thanks for supporting DS for it’s first year in existence… some things didn’t work out for one reason or another.. I would have like to have put on an old school jam with some prime UK artists but didn’t have the resource… an old school meet up never happened, I was going to try to get a load more vinyl & tape rips up but I’m afraid time was against me and lastly because of the weather I just couldn’t get over to Repo136 to do the Christmas podcast…

BUT

We have had loads of dope tape rips, vinyl, some great discussions and next year round about spring I’ll be taking the site down, revamping it and coming back like Lee Majors!  Hopefully there will be a meet up next year, plus the database will be back up and running and I’ll be opening a shop for all your purchases.  I’ll have stuff like custom graf clothing, jewelery like 4 finger rings, tag belts, old trainers like Troop & British Knights & maybe some old vinyl & such.  If you are interested in having your stuff available in the shop please let me know.

I want to introduce a new feature where you can upload your own audio & video for sharing with other old schol UK heads.

So, on that note, I’ll be away for a couple of weeks over Christmas and new year so I really hope everyone has a great holiday season and I’ll speak to you in the new year.

May the force be with you, peace, Waxer.

Last Thursday I went down to the Hare & Hounds in the South of Brum. Got a lift with DJ Cro (respect for the grub mate!), then into the venue to meet Pogo, Sparkii, Pritt, Mikey D, Maurizio (RSC) Beatmaster and a load of proper Hip Hop heads. Kosyne came up as well and we had a chat, nice one mate ( http://louisden.com )

So I got on stage to do my bit, a little LL Cool J “I’m Bad” intro, followed by the beat. I did 3 parts to the beat as there was loads of material on the records I bought to make a beat out of… and Pritt got back £9 change from a score!

Here’s some pics:

The night was wicked, with Cro dropping a bad boy underground set, followed by Ian Beatmaster rockin the wheels, then it was me (no one to battle, my opponent Darren Myers never showed up) followed by Sparkki rockin the mic, some beatbox and freestytles, then Pogo ripped it up with some B Boys out the crowd doing their thing, followed by Mikey D tering up the stage!

What a night and to top it off Mikey D announced we are going to do a track together! Can’t ask for more than that!

So here’s the track I made, props to Pritt for his ongoing support love & dedication to Hip Hop, to Mikey forblessing the mic and still slamming MCs on cement after nearly 30 years in the game!

To Pogo/Cro/Beatmaster for killing it on the wheels of steel, Sparkii for all his hard work & ongoing commitment to the scene, Keith for all the background work you did (respect to the molecule), and to all the heads I spoke to in the crowd nuff respect for turning up and supporting real Hip Hop!

Lastly sorry to the geezer who’s head nearly got taken off when I threw my breaks into the crowd!

For more information head to http://kingofthebeats.com

 

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After 6  months I thought it only right I grace your ears with my dulcit tones, get in the mix for a couple of hours and verbalise about my thoughts on Hip Hop, life, the solar system, whatever deranged thoughts that happen to pass through my mind at any given time while playing some dope tracks.

I’m not going to post a tracklist up, and here’s why:  I find that when you do this, people automatically look through the tracklist to see what you’ve played, and tend to judge the podcast purely on that, which sort of sucks…once it’s been up a couple of weeks I’ll add the tracklist, but rest assured you’ll find some classics, rareities, UK & US tracks, demos and more… if you are really desperate for it, I embedded it into the lyrics section of the ID3 tag.

So without further ado, download & leave a comment if you have time!

 

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Here’s a quick guide just so that you know how to get the podcast automatically every time I do one.

There are many RSS readers that you can use, basically when you click on the RSS picture at the top of the page you’ll get options with what you want to do with the link.  If you use firefox, you can just add the link as a live bookmark, so every time you launch your browser it’ll refresh to get any new posts.  You can use Outlook, Apple Mail, Newsfire etcthose will get you every post.

Personally, I use iTunes as it then automatically downloads all the audio straight into iTunes, then if you have your ioPod on automatic sync, all you have to do is start iTunes then plug your iPod in and it drops the podcast onto your iPod.  When you look at your iPod menu, any podcasts you haven’t listened to will have a blue dot by it, making it easy to know which is the latest.

An easy link to get the podcast directly linked to iTunes is by just clicking the iTunes link below.  I hope this guide helps, please leave a comment if you need any help!

Merry Christmas one and all, and albeit a little late, here’s the podcast!  The first Disco Scratch podcast, we had a good laugh making it and we hope you like it.  The spirit of what I’m going to be doing with this, is just let my guests be themselves, talk about the music they love, experiences, whatever really…just be natural.

I’ll be speaking to personal friends over the coming months, and some people that are know in the UK Hip Hop scene.

Well, Corrina joined me for the first one and we spoke about sampling, soul, funk, Rare Groove, all kinds of stuff, a little over an hour.  I’m writing this on Christmas Eve at just after twenty past nine, with two ridiculously excited kids upstairs!

Have a great holiday and I hope to be posting some treats for your listening pleasure over the coming week,

Enjoy the podcast, I’ll put a tracklist up in a couple of weeks, just enjoy the tracks, kick back & let me know what you think.

If you want more information on Corrina, use the following links:

http://corrinajoseph.com

http://myspace.com/corrinajoseph

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Corrina+Joseph

Peace, Waxer.

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So this is the first tape rip I’m uploading, it’s a show from January 1992, from the pirate radio station (Delta Force FM, Portsmouth, UK)I was part of.  The full Infamous Rap Crew was myself, Duce, Panoramix & Big Jim, with extended family Life, Maf, Slyde & a bunch of other people.  We just bunged records on and had no real idea about levels and all that so sometimes you can barely hear people talking!

Delta Force FM had a number of DJs with specialist shows covering most underground styles.  For a period of time there was 2 rap shows on the station, ours and My Apocalypse.  We had some friendly inter-station competition and always a bit of banter, the odd dis here and there!

As a result of there being 2 shows and me having a mix of tapes, there might be an odd mistitled tape.  This first tape I upped was a case of naming it wrongly, so I now need to edit the ID3 tags and re-up it, so apologies to anyonea who has already downloaded it, from now it should all be OK.

The My Apocalypse Crew consisted of my old homeboys Devious, Fyooge, Sein & original Legend In Leather, Son of Cowboy, TJ Fresh a/k/a Lord “Freak” Justice!

Anyway, I’m going to scan the tape and cover and add them to this post, but the audio is up here.  I’ll be getting it all OK from now on so ID3 tags and correct information should be there…

Side A

1.PE – Miuzi Weighs A Ton

2.Ice Cube – Once Upon A Time In The Projects

3.Stereo MCs – Gee Street

4.Lord Finesse – Party Over Here

5.CPO – CPOsis

6.Outlaw – Stop The Negativity

7.?

8.Blade – Rough It Up

9.Ice T – Lifestyles Of The Rich & Infamous

10.Cash Crew – Ghetto Circumstances

11.MC Shy D – ?

12.Black Rock N Ron – Stop The World

13.Kool G Rap & Polo – Men At Work

14.Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Go With The Flow

15.EPMD – Manslaughter

Side B

1.Ca$h & Marv – New Sherriff In Town

2.MC Lyte – ?

3.T La Rock – Breakin’ Bells

4.Hijack – The Conflict

5.Main Source – Large Professor

6.Skinny Boys – Get Pepped

7.Richie Rich – Comin’ From London

8.Heavy D – Don’t Curse

9. Tall Dark & Handsome – Tall,Dark & Handsome

10.King Bee & Ultras – Cold Slammin’

 

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Hi all, just to let you know the first podcast will be up this week (weekend latest).  I’m doing this with my other half, Corrina Joseph ( http://corrinajoseph.com & http://myspace.com/corrinajoseph )  For those that don’t know she’s a vocal recording artist that has a discography spanning 15 years ( you can see it at discogs, http://www.discogs.com/artist/Corrina+Joseph )

We’re gonna do a Christmas tinged Hip Hop vs funk, soul & rare groove type affair, with some gossip, general conversation & other bits and bobs.  To subscribe to the podcast you can get a direct iTunes link or just use an RSS reader.  The podcast will be available directlt in the blog, so check back soon.

Merry Christmas all!