Disco Scratch

Yes that’s right, grab your Motorola flip,stick a few cold Red Stripes in a bag,  borrow your mums car and drive up a hill nearby as you move your aerial about to listen to the dulcit tones of WaxOnWaxOff as he defecates in your ear canals with the dopest flavours from the UK, 21 years ago!  This week I was dusting off some old tunes and I’d sorted out a load of stuff and the majority was from 1989.  Upon closer inspection it dawned on me that 1989 was probably the best year for the UK and decided to do a 1989 special.

The tracks I play are full of wicked lyrical skills, def production, I mean cutting up stabs on top of breaks, like James Brown & The Meters while top rappers deliver raps so sharp you imagine them in pain after they finish rhyming, cutting the insides of their mouths with the razor sharp verbals.

This show takes you back to a time when the UK were HUNGRY for Hip Hop and keen to split from the US and stand on their own.  The UK had by this time got a solid enough base of radio stations, venues, record shops, producers, labels, engineers, club DJS and such to be self supportive and this show proves that.  Listen to the shout outs at the end of the MC Mello tracks “Bizzie Rhymin” to hear a nice slice of who was making the most noise at the time.

The only downer with this show is that I had a few gremlins in the studio last night and couldn’t record it at high quality and for some reason the stream went out at a lower quality so it’s not as bright as usual… but maybe that was fate?  Maybe someone used the force to manipulate that to give it a dusty tinge to replicate those static filled tapes from 1989, with the odd burst of the local taxi firm overriding your tape recording.  Still, the Disco Scratch logo was shone into the night, and the red Scratch phone rang at Repo136′s yard, where a mighty voice from one of the generals of the UK Army’s front line on maneuvers told me it was OK… he was recording…  download is at the bottom of the post after the tracklist…. Enjoy this show and get on next week for UK LEGEND MC DUKE!!!

Tracklist:

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.Waxer – Where’s The Scratch
3.2 The Top – The Rhythm I Give ‘Em
4.Kinetic Effect – Beyond The Parameters Of Amateurs
5.Cash Crew – One Decade
6.Chris Biscuit – Rhymes To Kill
7.Cookie Crew – Born This Way
8.Dee Lawal – The D Don’t Play
9.Freshki Dames – Kickin It Live
10.JC001 & DJ D Zire – Bad Place To Get Hit
11.MC Martay & DJ DBM – Beyond Control
12.KCF Productions – Words N Music
13.MC Cardi & DJ 357 – Rough Potential
14.MC Buzz B – How Sleep The Brave (70s Funk Mix)
15.MC Groove – The Groove
16.MC Mello – Bizzie Rhymin
17.MC Untouchable – Back Street Blues
18.Shogun MC – The Struggle Continues
19.Hijack – Doomsday Of Rap
20.Normski – Easy
21.Goldtop – Introduction
22.Freshki & Mo Rock – Pick Up On This
23.DJ Mink – Hey Hey Can You Relate
24.Cue Tips & Dashy D – Control
25.Blade – We’re Going Independent
26.MCs Logic – We’re On A Mission
27.MC Duke – I’m Riffin’

Overlord X has to be in the top 5 MC list of most UK Hip Hop fans.  X brought energy, politics, raw Hip Hop in a B Boy Stance not seen before and became a defining act in the early days of UK rap, moving away from the American sounding party tunes.  His track “14 days in May” broke down many boundaries and showed non believers that Hip Hop was a serious artform and not just kids rapping about gold chains and girls.  Likened to Chuck D & Melle Mel, Overlord X dropped 2 massive LPs and multiple 12s.

In this interview we discuss many aspects of his introduction to rap and his involvement in it, his politics and thoughts on the industry, plus the infamous beef with MC Duke!  Many thanks for Overlord X for having the time, energy and enthusiasm to make Old School UK Hip Hop lovers very happy!  Nuff respect, enjoy the interview, tracklist below, download at the bottom of the post.

DSR6 – Overlord X

Tracklist:

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.DuckAlert – Project 88
3.Goldtop – My Introduction (Instrumental)
4.Trouble – I Get Hype (Instrumental)
5.DJ Format – Last Bongo In Brighton
6.Hijack – The Drummer
7.Mighty Ethnicz – Any R’ddim (The Dub)
8.Barry Blue – Cancel ‘Em All Out (Instrumental)
9.X’s Choice – City Limits Crew – Fresher Than Ever
10.X’s Choice – Overlord X & Dark Heart – Let There Be Rock
11.Demon Boyz – Northside (Instrumental)
12.Freshki & Mo Rock – Talking Pays (Beats)
13.11:59 – Dubrise
14.X’s Choice – 14 Days In May
15.Champions Of Nature – The Fuck Off (Instrumental)
16.Most Dominant – Hostility Part 2 (Instrumental)
17.Def Tex – Addiction To Rhyme (Instrumental)
18.Point Blank – Planting Semtex (Instrumental)
19.X’s Choice – Rough In Hackney
20.Jehst – Carpe Diem (Instrumental)
21.Krispy 3 – On Tempo (’94 Lick Instrumental)
22.X’s Choice – X Posse – Return Of The Breaks
23.EMF – Rough Potential (Instrumental)
24.NSO Force – Give It Up (Bonus Beats)
25.Daddy Freddy – We Are Champions (Version)
26.MC Duke – I’m Riffin (Instrumental)
27.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Bonus Beats)
28.Cash Crew – You Can’t Stop This (Instrumental)
29.Cookie Crew – Come On And Get Some (Cookstramental)
30.She Rockers – Jam It Jam (Instrumental)
31.Silver Bullet – Bring Forth The Guillotine (DJ Beats)
32.Def J – Just Save It (Instrumental)
33.Deliverance – Dead Funny (Instrumental)
34.X’s Choice – Hijack – Hold No Hostage

About time old Waxer drops some more dusty flavour on all you Scratcho Discers!  This tape is a bit shorter than the others I’ve upped but still comes off like frogs legs in Paris.  This must have been bang on the time when the Black Rock n Ron LP “Stop The World” came out as both Tim & Dave are playing cuts from the LP plus Black Rock n Ron were in the UK.  Dunno about you but I think the Stop The World LP is an absolute iron clad classic and I was well happy to hear some flavour from them on this tape.

Thesre are some shout outs from various heads that called into Dave Pearce’s show, one dude shouts out “Area, flex, bob, Crimea, arcade, race & stoop (I think)” so if you recognise those name maybe it was you??  About 30 seconds in there’s a crazy wack housey remix of “Scrum & Then Some“, which some of you may remember as being the much better B Side to the 12 “Black & Proud” by the Dismasters.  All these uploads are unedited, I think it’s important to keep the whole tape as is, whether good or bad.

Also the legendary “How on earth did he become a Hip Hop scratch DJ on one of the most prominent Hip Hop shows of the day” K C J does 2 utterly dreadful mixes on this tape, good selection of tunes but mixed perhaps while he was simultaneously trying to beat the world record for putting on and taking off a wetsuit complete with flippers, mask & oxygen tank as many times as possible, who knows!!!  Still, as pony as his mixing skills were, you gotta love it!!!

Track List: (Remember back then I might have missed the track name or artist name so when I do these track lists I just copy whatever I put on the tape)

Side 1

1.Ca$h & Marv – Who’s In The Place

2.? Black Is Back

3.KCJ – Live Session On The Wheels

4.Stizo – Take It To The Max

5.Black Rock n Ron – ?

6.De La Soul – Ghetto Thang

7. ?/?

8/?/?

9.P Fine – NY Rap Report

10.Doug E Fresh – D.E.F

Side 2

1.KCJ – Mix #2

2.Black,Rock n Ron – Tired Of All Of This

3.Demon Boyz – Recognition

4.Kings Of Pressure – ?

5.Most Wanted – Calm Down

6.Ace & Action – Together

At the start of the tape I used a beat from my homeboy DuckAlert, if you like his stuff peep him here:

http://dopetracks.com/DuckAlert & http://twitter.com/DuckAlertUK the track is called “Diamond Dust”.

Anyway, spring is here, lookin forward to some heat hopefully… I might be moving this year back to the South so moving from the cold & damp West Midlands to get some heat back in these weary B Boy bones… see ya soon, Waxer.

Well… been a while, eh? Yep nothing from the Palace of Villainy for a good while… still, onwards & upwards, here we are in 2010, so to kick things off for this year (a little late but never mind!) here’s another tape rip from my collection.

 

This one has no date, but Dave Pearce mentions live on GLR this easter Weekend and I think this was 1989 so gotta be round there somewhere.  This tape’s got audio from the Cash Money & Marvellous Night Network performance they did, I have it on VHS and loved the routine so much I got the audio off my dad’s video recorder onto tape and put it on this one.  Some nice classic Capital Radio jingles and Westwood one liners in here plus the set from DJ Aladdins DMC performance of the year, cuts are fatal, he was the best at transforming back then easily.

Track List:

Side A:

1.Kane – Lean On Me

2.Eazy E – We Want EZ

3.Special Ed – I got It Made

4.All Out Kings (One of my fave Hip Hop crew names EVER!) – Shack It Up (got this on 12, LOVE IT!)

5.??? Cold Ca$h

6.Gig Guide

7.Black Rock & Ron – Tired Of All Of This

8.DEF – Dougie Fresh

9.Stetsasonic – Ain’t Makin it

10…. In My Move

Side B

1.Aladdin DMC routine

2.De La Soul – Brainwashed Followers

3.? But Def!

4.LL Cool J – Rock The Bells

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5.K9 Posse – Ain’t Nuthin to it

6.Steady B – Serious (BDP Remix)

7.Soul 2 Soul – Keep On Moving

8.Cash Money & Marvellous Live in the studio

 

Enjoy… I’ll keep uppin’ ‘em, you keep downin’ ‘em!

 

So this tape is a bit messed up, I rewound it, fast forwarded it, tapped it about a bit and still ended up with weird noises!  That’s only for the first 5 minutes or so then it settles down.

The first side and half of side 2 is Dave Pearce with legendary shit mixer KCJ doing a couple of mixes that if in a battle Ced Gee could beat with one hand up a cows’ arse blindfolded on a fisher price turntable!

Still, that’s what makes it so listenable.  If it was DJ Aladdin standard we’d pay it no mind!

Well worth a good listen as there are a lot of writer shout outs on this tape, you never know, you may be on it!!  I have no idea which tape it is but one of the rips I’m doing a writer from Pompey rings up and shouts all the Pompey lads.

This was recorded on 5th/3rd 1989, enjoy it and leave a comment!!!

My yout’ dem helped me with the tape but my daughter couldn’t stop laughing!  Bigup Frog & Schmoo!!!

This tape features many of the biggest artists with the biggest tunes at the time.  Also featuring Cutmaster Swifts winning ’89 mix from the DMCs, with Scratch Professor’s mix also.

More of Tim’s dulcit tones, a dodgy mini mix from me (as DJ Radiate) to cover an advert in the tape and some UK Hip Hop news to top it off.

Back to ’89 y’all!!!

Enjoy!

Side A:

1.Jungle Brothers – Black is Black (remix)
2.NWA – Straight Outta Compton
3.Ultras – Give The Drummer Some
4.Ultras – Moe Luv’s Theme
5.?
6.DJ Mark The 45 King Interview
7.Lakim Shabazz – First In Existence
8.Stezo – To The Max
9.Kwame – The Boy Genius
10.Antoinette – Getting Dub Wise
11.NWA – It Ain’t Enough
12.Stezo – It’s My Turn
13.Cutmaster Swift Winning Mix 1989 DMC

Side B

1.Scratch Professor DMC mix
2.DJ Radiate’s Mini Mix (My Gap Filler)
3.London Hip Hop Top 10
4.Shinehead – Gimme No Crack
5.Kwame – You Gotta Get Down
6.De La Soul – Ghetto Thang
7.Stezo – To The Max
8.NWA – Express Yourself
9.EPMD – Get Off the Bandwagon
10.Break 2 Beat Version Excursion
11.De La Soul – Say No Go
12.Steady B – Serious
13.Ultras – Give The Drummer Some

Overall a dope tape with a lot of the major players in 1989 featured.  Amazing how things have moved on… I mean Swifts mix was great, but listen to how off beat it was!  My mini mix wouldn’t have won a contest down Woolworth’s with just me and Mrs Williams from no 42 who has never seen a turntable before, so I’m not one to dis Swift!  Hope you enjoy and you get some good memories!

 

 Disco Scratch UK Radio Tape Rips Hip Hop 8 1989 [97:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (498)

So we come to tape 7 of all those old radio shows I religiously taped back in the day… this one has got a live studio session from the LA Rhyme Syndicate, Kool G Rap heat and KCJ with his shit mixing skills!  DON’T SLEEP!  Also record release news and DJ competition news from that time… Jesus, 20 years ago, that is maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

 

 Disco Scratch Hip Hop 7 February 1989 [93:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (359)

Here’s the 3rd installment of the Breaks, Beats & Scratches volumes… and by far the shittest yet!

I can’t help it, I got these for the scratches, but other than the 900 number loop and the scandalise loop, the rest is, well, plop. Even house lovers that know the “house” loops he made said they were gash.

Still, here it is… er, enjoy?

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Simon Harris – Breaks, Beats & Scratches Volume 3 (Music Of Life 1989)

Vinyl rip @ 192kbps/44.1khz/16bit/stereo

A1             128 BPM Hip House (3:00)
A2           124 BPM Monster Beats (3:00)
A3           108 BPM Secret Beats (3:00)
A4           105 BPM Dopejam (3:00)
A5           124 BPM Pleasure Break (2:50)
A6           126 BPM Deep House (1:50)
A7           104 BPM Garibaldi Beats (3:00)
B1           110 BPM 45 Rocks The Spot (3:00)
B2           122 BPM Scandalous Riddim (3:00)
B3           122 BPM Racing Loop (3:00)
B4           119 BPM Dancefloor Drums (3:00)
B5           121 BPM Southern Style and Fashion (3:00)
B6           FX & Scratches

3rd installment of gash beats knocked up with no soul, I gotta admit, these albums were pony then and are equally as bad now!  I bought these back in the day purely for scratching purposes as they were the only ones out, but fuck me with a fish fork, the actual beats are dog shit, what was he thinking?  I gotta be honest, I can’t be arsed to write out the 50 scratches on the back, I did it on the last 2 and I’ve lost the will wityh this one, I hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment!

Anyway, enjoy!!!!

Ripped by Waxer @ The Palace Of Villainy, 9th January 2008

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