Not much I can say about this legendary UK recording engineer… how about the UKs Paul C? How about the one man to practically shape the sound of UK Hip Hop in the late 80s to mid 90s and beyond? No Sleep Nigel is an amazing man and has accomplished an amazing amount of things in his life. This is part 1 of the interview with the man. Part 2 next week, with parts 3 & 4 next year… massive thanks to Nigel for his time & contribution to the scene we know & love, respect.

Horrifying your ear canals and liquifying your soul with DETT Hip Hop… the fires of HIP HOP HELL satisfy your darkest desires with 2 hours of vampiric wax & bloodthirsty beats. I did a special UK section for the last half hour squeezing as many tracks as I could in to make you realise that the UK ALWAYS ROCK THE HARDEST BEATS!!!

1.The Devil Made Me Do It
2.Baritone Tiplove – All Hell Is Breaking Loose
3.Big L – Devil’s Son
4.Whodini – Haunted House Of Rock
5.Run DMC – Back From Hell
6.Kings Of Pressure – Tales From The Darkside (Cut Shock Mix)
7.Amityville – The Slaughterhouse
8.Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Nightmare On My Street
9.Lovebug Starski – Amityville – The House On The Hill
10.Whodini – Freaks Come Out At Night
11.Godfather Don – Diabolique
12.Beatnuts – Hellraiser
13.Donald D – Hell Raiser
14.T La Rock – Hellraiser
15.Wu Tang – Click Clack (UK version intro)
16.Hell Razah – Fear Of God
17.Primo – God vs The Devil intro
18.Cappadonna/Ghostface/Killah/Raekwon – Daytona 500
19.Beatnuts – Worlds Famous
20.Masta Ace – Slaughtahouse
21.Gravediggaz – Diary Of A Madman
22.The Cenubites – You’re Late
23.Ice Cube/Dr Dre – Natural Born Killers
24.GZA – Hip Hop Fury
25.Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Death Becomes You
26.Geto Boys – Mind Playin Tricks On Me

UK HELL FIRE SELECTION (Quick Mix to remind you how DOPE the UK IS)

27.Hardnoise – Serve Tea Then Murder (Disco Scratch Anthem)
28.Hundredth Monkey
29.Killa Instinct – The Sparrows
30.Insane Macbeth – Effect Of Fear 2
31.Suspekt – Mic Murders
32.Rhyme Asylum – Open Mic Surgery
33.MC Duke – Final Conflict
34.MC Mell O – Mello Gone Crazy
35.Silver Bullet – Ruff Karnage
36.Gunshot – Killing Season
37.Demon Boys – Rougher Than An Animal
38.The Criminal Minds – Widowmaker (Retouch)
39.Klashnekoff – Murda
40.Hijack – Doomsday Of Rap (with 3 rewinds!!!)

GET IT HERE! if you are having problems with the player/download

Damn it’s easy to forget how many tracks we have been blessed with by the DJs in Hip Hop.It’s where I started, it’s where my heart is at, and the DJ is the most integral part of Hip Hop in my opinion. Join me, the missus & the ghost of Norman Wisdom as we explore the dope tracks that the best DJs from the vaults of hip hop can offer you. Wicked in the chartroom too & as usual Disco Scratch competitions & giveaways courtesy of Rare Kind Records & Style Warrior…

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro

2.Grandmaster Flash – Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel

3.Public Enemy – You’re Gonna Get Yours (Terminator X Getaway Version)

4.Tuff Crew – Behold The Detonator

5.Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Live At Union Square November 1986

6.Genius At Work (Out To Scenes14)

7.Ultramagnetic MCs – Moe Luv On The 1 & 2s

8.Run DMC – Jam Master Jay

9.Cash Money & Marvellous – Ugly People Be Quiet

10.Diversion Tactics – For The Deejays

11.DJ Needles (CutManiacs) – Cold Cutz

12.ThatKidNamedCee – ToXiKwazteKuttz

13.Eric B & Rakim – Chinese Arithmetic

14.Grandmaster Flash – Girls Love The Way He Spins

15.Kid Frost & Alien Wizard (My fave DJ name EVER!!!) – Terminator (Out to REPO136)

16.Chris The Glove Taylor – Ichiban Scratch

17.Main Source – Scratch & K Kut

18.EPMD – DJ K LA Boss (Out To DuckAlert)

19.Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra – The Manipulator (Out To Agent Finch)

20.Gang Starr – DJ Premiere In Deep Concentration (Out to Corrina)

SILVER BULLET COMPETITION (For T Shirt courtesy of Style Warrior)

Question: Why was Silver Bullet banned from the BBC for 5 years?

Answer: He refused to appear on TOTP for 4 weeks straight when he had 20 seconds to comply hit

Winner: Websta!!!! Congrats mate!

21.Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Rhythm Trax House Party Style

22.Cut Chemist – Lesson 4

23.Knights Of The Turntable – Techno Scratch (Out To Sire)

24.Mr Thing – Mr Thing’s Tribute To Cool V (Part 2)

25.Richie Rich – My DJ (Pump It Up Some)

26.Q Bert – Cosmic Assassins

COMPETITION – NAME THE FINAL SCRATCH TRACK to win 12 from Yungun & Mr Thing “Dancin Shoes” courtesy RARE KIND RECORDS

WINNERS: METRONIK & REPO136 Well done!!!!

27.Word of Mouth & DJ Cheese – King Kut

Changing up the selection this week I present to you the first part of the Roots Of The Roots series.  With these shows I’ll be inviting people to do a 2 hour show either hosting themselves, co-hosting with me ot just providing the music.  Their selections will reflect their knowledge and thoughts on the UK music scene before the explosion of Hip Hop in the UK.

Tonight I run through my own 7″ vinyl selection (just a couple of exceptions, Bob James/The Meters/Bob Marley’s Concrete Jungle) were off LPs, the rest all my own 7s…

If you are interested in doing one of these shows please let me know, drop me an e-mail to waxer@discoscratch.co.uk and we can discuss it.  Hope you enjoy this show, I especially enjoyed the dub section, great hearing that crackly vinyl!

I have had some reports of problems with downloads so this week the show is hosted on the Sensei server as opposed to the DS server… you shouldn’t experience any problems if you subscribe via RSS, should be no difference but if you prefer you can just hit Sensei up for this show and any of the past shows, peep it here: http://sensei.fm/shows.php?dj=122

1.John Barry – The Persuaders Theme

2.Sandy Nelson – Let There Be Drums

3.The Shadows – Apache

4. Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall

5.The Clash – The Call Up

6.Kraftwerk – Computer Love

7.Blondie – Heart Of Glass (Out to my mum, love ya, always remember you playing this)

8.Ian Drury – There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards

9.Bad Manners – Armchair Discoteque

10/11/12 The Specials medley:

Longshot kick de bucket/Liquidator/Skinhead Moonstomp

13.UB40 – King (Out to Raj & Family)

14. Bob Marley – Exodus (Version)

15. Thunderball

16.Ken Boothe – Drum Song

17.The Aggrovators – Everything (Version)

18.Sly & Robbie – Days (Version)

19.Bob Marley – Concrete Jungle

Jam news/Current Website news etc

20.Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sherriff

21.The Meters – Here Comes The Meterman

22.Bob James – One Mint Julep

23.Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin Pt 1

24.Dazz – Brick

25.Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together

26.Rodney Franklin – The Groove

27.The Droids – Do You Have The Force

28. Rhythm Heritage – Theme From S.W.A.T.

29.Meco – Cantina Band Theme

30.Mickie Yoshino – Theme from Monkey (BBC)

Co hosted by Norwich’s finest cole rocking the spot, My Mellow REPO136 we delved into the Golden Era of True School Hip Hop and dropped so many bombs even Westwood would have trouble competing!!! A great show with loads of lively chat in the chartroom, a competition with 3 exclusive 7″ singles up for grabs (Deadline 9PM next Thursday) and the announcement for the jam of the year, “3 The Hard Way” when Disco Scratch, Ageing B Boys Unite & Heroes Of UK Hip Hop form like Voltron to bring you the ultimate Hip Hop Christmas jam for the discerning mature B Boy.

3 The Hard Way Christmas Jam Logo

I’ll be covering the Christmas Jam in a separate post later next week, but here are the basics… the jam is called “3 The Hard Way” and represents Heroes of UK Hip Hop, Ageing B Boys Unite & Disco Scratch.  It’ll be in Birmingham on Saturday 11th December 2010, tickets are £10 payable in advance to our paypal account.  When you pay you’ll get your ticket, souvenir pamphlet & Special Mix CD by the 3 The Hard Way Crew exclusive to those that get their tickets early.

You’ll be able to buy your tickets within the next couple of weeks.  We’ll be posting tickets out about 2 weeks before the event.  This is probably going to be limited to 200 so I stronly suggest you get yours in ASAP.  We’ll be announcing acts and DJs soon…

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro

2.WAXER: Serch – Here It Comes

3.REPO: Cypress Hill – Real Estate

4.WAXER: Chi Ali – Roadrunner (Remix)

5.REPO: Gang Starr – Jazz Thing (Video Mix) (with added DODGY BASS FOR SOME REASON!!!)

6.WAXER: Ultramagnetic MCs – Make It Happen

7.REPO: Nice & Smooth – Sometimes I Rhyme Slow

8.WAXER: The Brotherhood – Beats R Ruff N Rugged

9.WEBSTA – 7 Minutes In The Microwave

JAM ANNOUNCEMENT “3 The Hard Way” December 11th 2010 Birmingham

3 way jam with Heroes of UK Hip Hop, Ageing B Boys Unite & Disco Scratch

SORRY… the ghost of Norman Wisdom pulled the wire out my router

so here’s where we went tat upwards!!!

10.WAXER: Stetsasonic – Sally (Out To Mrs Fluent!!!)

11.WAXER: Rakim – Heat It Up

DS/ABU Blankety Blank Competition (see forum for details)

12.REPO: Tribe Called Quest – Scenario

13.WAXER: Public Enemy – Shut ‘Em Down (Pete Rock Remix)

LATERZZZ!!!!!

Had a good chat tonight with all the regulars in the chatroom, I tried to do something a little different, showcasing some of the stuff people may have missed over the last 10 years or so, some incredibly dope sh*t! This show features 3 cuts from DS beat provider and all round dope individual DuckAlert on the boards with collaborations he’s had with various dope US MCs.  Look out for releases from him next year on Disco Scratch Records.

Should be back to streaming on Sensei & Freestyle next week as I now have the Don Gargan 50MB cable broadband so should be no streaming issues, if there is I’ll be plotting up outside the Virgin offices blasting distorted Britcire 24/7 til they sort it out!  Why can’t they make the upload to 10mb or something? I dunno…

Anyway, enjoy, see ya next week…

DSR 19 Incredibly Dope Shit Tracklist

1     Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2     the ampitheatre     dj black steel
3     Hazardous     Def Defiance
4     On the run (Junk’s UK remix)     ZEB.ROCK.SKI feat. BLADE
5     Turn My Headphones Up     Freestyle Professors
6     Graffiti Won’t Die (Prod By Verb-T)     Fliptrix
7     The Physics     II Tone Committee
8     Properties Of Steel [Explicit]     Godfather Don
9     Me & The Beatbox     DuckAlert (Feat. Devils Advocate)
10     We Got That Raw Shit (feat. Secondson & Lewis Parker)     Jehst
11     Good for you to know-Chrome+Dj Tags
12     My Genre     Aspects
13     They Will Not Last     Def Wish Cast
14     Breakout Def Defiance (Supreme Shar, Rola & Project Cee/S.S.A/South*Side*Alliance)
15     Flows Of Trojin     Suspekt
16     Fuckin Ninja Style     Mickey Rourke
17     T Zone – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
18     KRS 1 Breaks It Down
19     Afrika Bambaataa – Zulu War Chant
20     King monkey – Badd mann dann
21     Do I Wanna Battle?     Karl Hinds
22     Talk Like Sex II (Original)     Smut Peddlers Ft. Kool G Rap
23     The Kink Panther – Necro
24     Game Punk     Duckalert (Feat. Dutch McVeigh)
25     Nikes On My Feet     Mac Miller
26     Three’s company ft. Big daddy kane     Marley Marl
27     For The Brain     Original One
28     Attack Ya Whole Format     Warped Ethics
29     microphone fiend (live in new york)     Rakim
30     Insight Presents (Intro)     Nas
31     Who’s World Is This     Nas
32     Murda Ya’     KRS-One & True Master
33     Back     Stig Of The Dump
34     Keep The Crowd Listening Remix (Main)     Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth
35     1979     Nut-Rageous
36     Vinyl’s Dead     MC Esoteric
37     Flawless Crowns     Raekwon
38     DuckAlert (Feat. Filosophy) – Dunk Smacked (Remix)
39     Gotta Go Harder     DuckAlert (Feat. Stormin Norm & Shay)

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past couple of weeks slowly getting all my vinyl in order.  They were all very roughly in order, but I had loads of years muddled up and as I get older I seem to forget what the hell I got in the racks and what year… in fact it’s starting to just get in to th 80s/90s/00s categories! So, I had to sort this out and started with the older part of my collection.  So, I was doing my 1983 12s and it was just such an incredible year I thought it would make a wicked show just to play 12s from that year.

Thing is, 1982 is often cited as the commercial explosion of Hip Hop in the US and 1984 as the explosion in the UK, but some big and important tunes came out this year, with the start of the Street Sounds Electro Series and release of possibly the most important Hip Hop film ever, Wild Style.

Everyone in the chatroom seemed to have a laugh reminiscing, I dropped a couple of news stories from ’83 in the mix and an advert.  Also I thought I’d see if everyone was paying attention and play a track from 84 and give a prize to the person who spots it… well I dropped “Jam On It” by Newcleus and almost as soon as it had started, Scenes14 from Suspekt crew spotted it and put it up in the chat, so prize bundle on its’ way to him.  Well, it was great to do this show and I just enjoyed letting the 1983 vibes wash over me for a couple of hours… hope you enjoy/enjoyed it too!

1.Disco Scratch Intro (Special Mix)
2.Run DMC – Sucker MCs
3.B Boys – 2, 3, Break
4.Fantasy 3 – It’s Your Rock
5.Grandmixer DST – Crazy Cuts
6.Knights Of The Turntable – Techno Scratch
7.Kraftwerk – Tour De France
8.Planet Patrol – Cheap Thrills
9.Time Zone – Wild Style
10.Fearless 4 – Problems Of The World Today
11.Elemental – Cup Of Brown Joy
12.Crash Crew – We Are Known As MCs
13.Newcleus – Jam On Revenge (Wikki Wikki Song)
14.Tyrants In Therapy – 3 People Naked Below the Waist
15.Newcleus – Jam On It (1984 prize track, respect to Scenes 14 for getting this!)
16.Cybertron – Clear
17.Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
18.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse… Jam News & General news roundup
19.DuckAlert – The Delta
20.Pumpkin – King Of The Beat (Out To DuckAlert)
21.Fantasy 3 – Biters In The City (Scratch Version)
22.The B Boys – Girls Pt 1
23.The B Boys – Girls Part 2 (Sonicity Remix)
24.Cold Crush – MC Battle (Off Wild Style Soundtrack)

1983 Medley:

25.Xena – On The Upside
26.Herbie Hancock – Rockit
27.Malcolm X – No Sell Out
28.Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 – Scorpio
29.The Rock Steady Crew – The Rock Steady Crew
30.Herbie Hancock – Lookin Like a Hobo (Mysterious non stereo version!!)
31.Ice T – The Coldest Rap
32.2 Sisters – High Noon
33.The Incredible T H Scratchers featuring Freddy Love – Hip Hop Bommi Bop
34.George Krantz – Din Daa Daa
35.Art Of Noise – Beat Box
36.West Street Mob – Breakdance Electric Boogie

37.Remellzee vs K Rob – Beat Bop
38.Russell Brothers – Party Scene (Instrumental) featuring Mike Allen

Standing in the queue with Maf, Mad B, Def J & MC Sphinx on Saturday night 20th March 1993 there I was debating whether or not to take my walkman in.  It was a recording walkman and I had a tape in it, a Westwood show.  So I thought I’ll try it, put it in my batty crease and went in.  Glad I did too!  Westwood was wicked and hyped the crowd into a bloodthirsty Hip Hop mad mob!

It was wicked and listening back to the tape I realised I had to rip it and put it up.  The geezer in the pic is my mate Maf, we went mad on Cypress, he got these 2 tats, I myself have got a Soul Assassins tat on my right leg, on my calf…

I edited the tape so it flows a bit better as in the jam I just put it on record and then flipped the tape to record as much of Cypress as I could, so it now has the Westwood show that was on it first in one chunk, then the jam in one chunk.  Obviously the audio quality is pretty poor, parts of it are alright but the majority sounds like I had it in my pocket when I recorded it.  Whatever the weather, it was wicked to hear it again and I had chills hearing the crowd reaction when Westwood was dropping classic after classic, damn I yearn for those days!

Download after the tracklist, if you like it, please leave a comment at the bottom… props to all original Brixton crew!

0:00:00 Westwood show:

1.Cypress Hill – When The Ship Goes Down
2.Nice n Smooth – Cash In My Hands
3.Ice Cube – 24 With An L
4.CEB – Can’t remember
5.J The Sultan On The Line
6.Onyx – Slam

0:26:09 Funkdoobiest

1.I’m Shittin’ On ‘Em
2.The Funkiest
3.Where’s It At
4.?
5.?
6.Bow Wow Wow
7.Freak Mode

0:40:45 Westwood:

1.Run DMC – Down With The King
2.Time Zone – Zulu War Chant
3.LOTUG – Funky Child
4.Brand Nubian – Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down
5.Kool G Rap – Ill St Blues
6.Das EFX – Mic Checka
7.Snoop Dogg – Nuthin But A G Thang
8.ONYX Announcement – Sunday 15th August 1993
9.Tim Dog & KRS-1 – I Get Wrecked
10.Redman – Time For Some Akshun
11.Young Black Teenagers – Tap The Bottle
12.Flavor Unit – Down Wit The Flavour
13.Snoop & Dre – 187
14.Snoop & Dre – 187 Special

1:00:27 Cypress Hill:

1.INTRO (INCREDIBLE BASSLINE!!!)
2.How I Could Just Kill A Man
3.Real Estate
4.Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk
5.PIGS
6.We Ain’t Goin Out Like That
7.When The Shit Goes Down
8.Let The Gat Hum
9.Hand On The Pump
10.Cock The Hammer
11.Insane In The Brain

On this tape I took the time to carefully go through the shout outs and post them up here.  I want to get as many entries on the Database as possible, and I hope there might be people reading this that recognise the shout outs.  This is an interesting tape as it features a really in depth interview with De La Soul and a long NY rap report from P Fine talking to George Kay on GLR.  I have detailed the shout outs below.  It’s mad hearing those lists of writers… that must have been a proud moment for them, being on the radio.  I wonder where they are now?  Look out for more tape rips coming soon, including a Cypress Hill concert from 93 I illegally recorded using my walkman up my batty crease and a jam with Encona Coarse live on stage in Portsmouth… download after the track list…

Hip Hop 18

Capital Rap Show – Tim Westwood

A

1.Most Wanted – Calm Down

2.Heavy D – We Got Our Own Thing

3.Ace & Action – Together

4.T La Rock – T n’ Off

5.Dismasters – Act Like You Know

Jam News:

Friday 14th April camberley football club daisy age jam

Speaks about jam in Reading “Kinda livestock”

Special shout out to Damien, Mark, Mike & Paul from Gravesend & Sandra “On the West Side”

6.De La Soul In interview

7.DJ Radiate Minimix (To cover over the adverts)

B

Audio From N Sign Radio (For some reason!)

1.De La Soul – Potholes In My Lawn

2.Def Jeff – Give It Here

3.MC Lyte – Paper Thin

4.Run DMC – You Talk Too Much

5.Demon Boyz Studio Session

Dave Pearce GLR Sunday Night The B Factor

6.Stezo – Freak the Funk (I called it fruit the funk!)

7.Got To Get Down

Shout outs from:

Powerful MC, MC Power D to:

All Out Rhyme Master Posse (I think) (his crew), MC Tech, MC Time, MC Dread, MC Wander, MC Resh, MC Creativity… Dave, keep kicking those hardcore beats…

Another young homeboy shouts his crew out:

Felt, Carve, War, Shane, Aero, Sinbad, Disk, KD, Mauve, No-One & Hyper & anyone else down with the graf.

7.Stezo & Jimmy Slice – in the studio

8.Bennie Ben – Rhyme Gets Rougher

Ring 01 224 2000 and tell Dave what label Stezo is on to win one of 5 signed copies of his latest 12 “To The Max”.  Well, go on then!!!

MC Resha to Wembley Posse:

MC Power D, MC Tech, MC Sold, MC Donald, Drain, Real, Rhia, going out to Enelick toy, MC Creativity will be resting in peace tomorrow…

Buck, Paid, Sir, Mesh, Shape, Aja, Fed, Cose, Cover, Cuzed & Any other homeboys I know… from AMBER

P Fine live rap report talking to George K, details Mr Magic leaving WBLS, replaced by Marley Marl… Kane leaving Juice Crew… Biz producing own LP… Rakim & Kane battling…

People dissing De La Soul in the media… talking about the Me Myself & I 12″ with 2 grooves on same side, depends where you drop the needle on the groove,

you put it on one place & you get the Me Myself & I remix, somewhere else & get brainwashed followers… so so, dope!

Roxanne Shante update… some ill lyrics with She’s a Skeezer…

Kickin records in NY, number 1: Slick Rick Children’s Story (Knock ‘em Out The Box Mix & Mona Lisa, also 12″ remix of black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, Rob Base & EZ Rock remix of Joy & Pain…

Lastly a new track from Arthur Baker… how could he make Breakers Revenge & Then do this?

Here we are again, another piece in the puzzle, another thread in the matrix of maintaining the history of the UK Hip Hop Scene.  Another tape from the vaults, this one with Tim Westwood on the Capital Rap Show & Dave Pearce on GLR.  Funny when I listen back to these how my 17 year old mind edited out stuff that now I wish was left in, even the shit adverts and such, still, most of the music is here!  I seem to remember taping sections of the Saturday dance show just so I had some music that was a bit more palatable by birds so I had stuff to play them in my car!

Hip Hop 17 Front

Download at the bottom following the tracklist… enjoy another dope tape rip from the Palace Of Villainy…

Old School UK Hip Hop Radio Tape 17

Side A

Saturday 15th April 1989 Capital Rap Show Tim Westwood

1.Sweet Tee – Let’s Dance (Remix)

2.Cookie Crew – Come On & Get Some

3.Ace & Action – Letter To The Better

4.Kyra – Every People’s Step

5.Sugar Bear – Capital Rap Session

6.Stezo & Jimmy Slice – Capital Rap Session

7.Allison Williams – Raw

Sunday 16th April 1989 Dave Pearce GLR

8.KCJ – Mix Number 2

9.UTFO – Wanna Rock

10.Ultramagnetic MCs – Break North

11.Most Wanted – Calm Down

Side B

7th May 1989 GLR Dave Pearce

1.K9 Posse – Ain’t Nothin To It

2.KCJ – Mix 2 (Walk On By Mix)

3.Supreme B (Raw Wisdom) – Live Studio Session

4.Busy Boys – Hold The Laughter

4th August 1989 Capital Tim Westwood

5.? ?

6.Double J – Cannibal Town

7.Digital Underground – Your Life’s A Cartoon

8.Wrecks n Effect – The New Jack Swing

9….