DSR48 - MC Mell 'O' Part 1

The UK has produced some incredible MCs… this small island we call home has had B Boys, Poppers, Lockers, DJs & Writers from a very early era in the development of the UK music scene.  The man I spoke with tonight lived through the inception of the UK Hip Hop scene, became actively involved in it RIGHT FROM THE START and continues to represent up til now.

If you don’t know this British rappers heritage, this interview will bring you up to speed… at least in his formative years.  The interview is only the first part of this legacy.  Mello goes into proper depth with the melting pot of people in Battersea, South London that influenced his career and helped him carve his individual path through the fledgling scene right to present day.  Not many MCs can rip up a mic after reppin’ for nearly 30 years!  Here’s one that can and do it with depth, professionalism, attitude & knowledge.

I’ll be analysing the interview over the coming week and updating the database to reflect the people, places & subjects covered in this interview.  Until then, pour some knowledge into your ear canals, add a couple of spoonfulls of dub, roots, funk & soul into the mix, sprinkle it with rough rhymes, B Boy mentality and fold in staying power, cook for 30 years & you’ll get Mell ‘O’… ENJOY… download after the tracklist

Tracklist:

1.SWS – Boys From The Bec
2.Top Billin’ – Straight From The Soul
3.Sons Of Nubia – Pump Your Fist Like This
4.2 The Top – The Rhythm I Give ‘Em
5.Goldtop – Introduction
6.KCF Productions Featuring C Madd E – Words N Music
7.EMF – Rough Potential
8.Point Blank – Planting Semtex
9.Huntkillbury finn, shaka-shazzam & the icepick – burial proceedings in the coarse of 3 knights
10.Def Tex – Addiction To Rhyme

MC Mell ‘O’ In interview…

Track List:

1.DuckAlert – Rock Harder
2.MC Mello Medley (Snippets)

1.Jus Badd – Freestyle (1987)
2.Bizzie Rhymin’ (1989)
3.Open Up Your Mind (Bassapella) (1990)
4.Our Time (from the Thoughts Released LP) (1990)
5.Senga Abele )with Manu Dibango) from the Polysonik LP
6.Mell ‘O’ Gone Crazy (1992)
7.Buss A Verse (1994)
8.Mek Dem Know (1994)
9.Melloizdaman (1999)
10.Give Them What They Want (2005)

3.South Bronx – The Big Throwdown (Inst)
4.Augustus Pablo Rockers Meets King Tubby In A Fire House – Dub In A Matthews Lane Arena
5.King Tubby – Dub Gone Crazy
6.Bob James – Farandole (L’Arlesienne Suite)
7.Grover Washington Junior – Mister Magic
8.Scotch Dub – Skin Flesh & Bones Fighting Dub
9.Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng
10.Light Of The World – London Town
11.Linx – Intuition
12.Junior – Mama Used To Say
13.The Specials – Ghost Town
14.Melle Mel – Pump Me Up
15.Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
16.Cybertron – Clear
17.Great Peso & Mr Nasty – It’s Time To Rock
18.Arthur Baker – Breakers Revenge (Jazzy Break Down)
19.Dynamic Breakers – Dynamic (Total Control Dub Version)
20.G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid – Play That Beat Mr.DJ
21.Waxer – Ya Nah Know Who Unnu A Ramp Wid
22.Waxer – The Extra Celestial
23.Wildstyle OST – Subway Theme

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!!!!!

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

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….

We wax lyrical about as much as we can squeeze into 2 and a bit hours, starting with D’s career in the mid 80s, his roots, his involvement with Liberty Grooves, his vinyl releases and of course, his addiction to plastic!!  Yes the licorice merry go round is in full effect, wax fondlers everywhere need to hear this man drop science on a range of subjects… <p>

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – The Delta
3.Roxanne Shante – Fly Shante (Inst)
4.MC Rajah – Lyrics With A Vengeance (Inst)
5.MC Mike & DJ Mazey Maze – The Big Payback (Inst)

6.D’s Choice – Treacherous 3 – New Rap Language

7.Biz Markie – Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz
8.Magnetic Force – Hip Hop Bystander (Inst)
9.Lord Shafiyq – My Mic Is On Fire
10.Low Profile – Funky Song (Inst)

11.D’s Choice – MC Shan/Marley Marl – Marley Marl Scratch

12.Loose J & The Master Of Wax – The Hi-Lo Cut (Inst)
13.Ligit – Settin It Strate (Inst)
14.Levi167 – Something Fresh To Swing To (Inst)
15.Kings Of Pressure – Give Me The Mic (Inst)

16.D’s Choice – MC Mello & Dexter – Slow Jam (Out To Johnny F)

17.K Bee & Ceil B – Who Am I (Inst)
18.Just The 2 Of Us – MVP
19.Jah Love – Dance Craze (Inst)
20.JVC Force – Big Trax (Inst)
21.Group Home – Livin Proof (Inst)
22.Drum Machine – Drum Machine (Inst)

23.D’s Choice – Solid N Mind – Centre Stage

24.DuckAlert – Kool Roc Ski (Inst)
25.Depth Charge – Five Deadly Venoms
26.J Dilla – E=MC Squared (Inst)
27.Kool G Rap – On The Run (Untouchables Remix Inst)
28.Lord Finesse – Actual Facts (Inst)
29.Main Source – Live At The BBQ (Remix Inst)

30.D’s Choice – Battle Tipped Rhyme
31.DuckAlert – Dam Izm (Inst)
32.Waxer – Flippin’ (Inst)

33.D’s Choice – True Style – The Enemy Within (Disco Scratch Exclusive)

Adult life sometimes throws such a mix of things at you… I can walk in from work, pick up the mail off the floor and open a court summons while my 4 year old daughter is simultaneously saying “Daddy, Daddy!… I drew this for you today!” and presents me with a picture of our dog, Snoop or something.  You know? At least there’s karma there, ying and yang… But this week, I felt like there were no crayon drawings of any pets, just constant hammerings, I felt like I’d been ripped through by a whole team of blood thirsty rugby players .  Worst thing was I couldn’t do anything about it… so what did I do?  Laugh… PISSED myself!  Haha, I had a joke competition and asked people to make me have a good laugh!

And, thank the maker you lot responded and I heard some top drawer jokes!  The winner was my man LG with this killer:

Una Stubbs had a marriage offer from Idi Amin.  She accepted and was then known as Una Amin (younahmean?!) Haha! Sounds funnier when you say it, but well done to him, he wins a CD of Evil Eds Dope LP “The Enthusiast” Courtesy Rare Kind Records

Well, Rhyme Traveller in interview next week, here’s the tracklist, RRRRREEESPECT!!!

DSR 15 – VEXED!!!! Tracklist

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – Diamond Dust
3.TDS Mob – Dope For The Folkjs
4.Awesome Of Course Crew – Micski Is Blasting
5.Baby T & Devious – Down With The Program
6.MCM – Powermoves
7.Needles & Waxer – Cuts Like An Axe
8.2 The Top – Score To Settle
9.Sirus – Controlling The Funky Pressure
10.SL Troopers – Put Your Brain In Gear
11.Korperayshun – Microphone Nutter
12.Lords Of Rap – Lords Of Rap Theme
13.ThatKidNamedCee – DaKnuckleScrap’R

////// Jam News  \

14.MC Duke – Dial Tone ### DISCO SCRATCH EXCLUSIVE #####
15.Lord Digga – Simple Sweet
16.Godfather Don – Why
17.Esoteric – 1989
18.Encona Coarse – The Streets (Unreleased Mix)
19.Original One – Mad Skills
20.Kids In Tracksuits – Head To The Woods

VEXED Joke Competition… winner.. my man LG!!! Respect!

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21.OC – Time’s Up – (Dedicated to DuckAlert)
22.K.I.D. – Big Boss (Out o LG)
23.First Down – No Rest For The Wicked
24.Craig G – Droppin Science
25.Most Wanted – Calm Down
26.Kings Of Pressure – Tales From The Darkside
27.Tragedy – Trag Invasion (Out To Agent Finch)
28.Suspekt – Look Like A Rapper (Out To Rapia)
29.Tuff Crew – Danger Zone

Disco Scratch Radio 14 - Def J

Back in 1991 I picked up Def J, Mad Bomber and KLA from the train station in Pompey as they had a jam booked at the Polytechnic.  Now I just cannot remember how we got together, I can’t even remember if I hooked it up, I’m sure my man Comic Shop Dan had something to do with organising this… Mr K was a student in Pompey at the time and that was deffo the connection but how it all worked out I just can’t remember… the long and short of it was that these live dudes were in my motor and having a right crack, running down each other with mum jokes, slurping on the blue thunderbirds (all except J) and being raucous, after all, it was a day at the seaside for these guys!!!

This was the start of a friendship lasting nearly 2 decades.  Tonight I bring you Original One, aka Def J, frontman of Encona Coarse, the lyrical scientist who devastated our ear canals with “Rhyme Grenade”, “Streets” and the coveted “Just Save It”.  J’s career is still ongoing and shows no signs of slowing down.  We spoke for over three and a half hours, I managed to get this down to 2 hours and 20 minutes, damn homey is deep!!!  So great to reconnect after all this time… for those that don’t know O1 came and wrecked shop with a dope performance at the Heroes Of UK Hip Hop Jam back in 2007, which was about a year after we reconnected.  Now listen to the story that formed this heavyweight MC and what this lyrical Jedi has done in his career… download after the tracklist…

Links: Original One Main Website

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1.Disco Scratch Intro

2.DuckAlert – Man With 2 Brains

3.Fission – Word (Inst)

4.Thrashpack – Kinda Cool In The Place (Inst)

5.Fission – Kings Of Swing (Bonus Beats)

6.Elite Force – Crack Cutie (Inst)

7.J’s Choice – Arthur Baker – Breakers Revenge

8.Ah Boo – Jungle Pack Man (Instrumental)

9.Almighty 3 – To The Other MCs (Instrumental)

10.Broken Glass – Style Of The Street (Stylestreet)

11.Hardrock Soul Movement – Hardrock Throwdown (Instrumental)

12.MC Craig G – Shout (Instrumental)

13.J’s Choice – Ultramagnetic MCs – Travelling At The Speed Of Thought

14.Richie Rich – My DJ Pump It Up Some

15.Hijack – Style Wars (Inst)

16.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Inst)

17.Craig G – Droppin Science (Beatz)

18.DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Nightmare On My Street (Inst)

19.J’s Choice – Black Radical Mark 2 – England Is A Bitch

20.MC Lyte – Paper Thin (Inst)

21.MC Shan – I Pioneered This (Dub)

22.Skinny Boys – Get Pepped (Inst)

23.Encona Coarse – Rhyme Grenade

24.3rd Bass – 3 Strikes 5000

25.Above The Law – Watcha Can Prove (Inst)

26.Freshki & Mo Rock – Come Along (Inst)

27.Encona Coarse – Streets

28.Unanimous Decision – Making A Living (Inst)

29.Tim Dog – Fuck Compton

30.Point Blank – Planting Semtex

31.Def J – Just Save It

32.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse

33.Waxer – Based In Science

34.DuckAlert – Project 88

35.DuckAlert – Where’s The Soul? (Waxer Remix)

36.Hijack – Hold No Hostage

37.Big Daddy Kane – Wrath Of Kane

38.Easter Egg – Def J Freestyle

Live & Direct From The POV

I know I’ve been away and not had much chance to get my act together for the shows, but as some of you know I had some family stuff to deal with.  Anyway, stronger than ever I’m back this week and for the next 4 weeks I am back in full interview mode.  The lineup is 90% there but not sure yet what day those people will be on (confirming today)

The show is always evolving and now I’ll be including the following sections:

Guest Mix

Your chance to send me a mix for the show, no more than half an hour.  Upload to somewhere like Mediafire then use the contact form to let me know you’ve uploaded it, or just hit me on FaceBook.  There are no rules, just do your thing!  Oh, I’d prefer it if you could not include profanity as over the next year I’m hoping to increase the portfolio to try to get the show on a station like the BBCs Radio 6.  E-mail is discoscratch@gmx.com if you prefer.

Pub Quiz

Let the nerd in you jump out and get cred.  Probably I’ll be running this every other week.  I’ll be going through the rules and stuff in this weeks show, basically you need a team of 2 or more and I need at least 2 teams per quiz…oh, and obviously you need a team name, something like “Rap Nerds”, “Bicuit Dunkers Unite” or “Uphill Gardening Massive”, oh, er… sorry that’s another quiz… so hit your geeky mates up, get a team ready, leave your nines at home and bring your geekiness to the battle…

Wax Can’t Drum

In the forum I put a post up about what track you’d like me to recreate.  Once a month I’ll do this and it’ll be on the show first then on youtube and facebook.  I decided I might as well push the boat out with this, so I’m actually going to try to recreate every part of the track, so I’ll drum, scratch, do the samples and god help me, rap! There will be a vote for you to pick which old school classic out of four you’d like to hear, so I’m at your mercy!  Be prepared for me saying I’ll do it once a month and that turning into once a year though!  If I get it down to pat I might even do a set at the DS Christmas Do! (God help YOU LOT!!!)

Competitions

As well as the pub quiz I’ll be running regular competitions with great prizes courtesy of my man Ewan at RareKind Records Brighton.  This will probably be every week that I don’t do an interview, or if the interviewee wants to give something away then I’ll be doing something joint with them.

Reviews

If you have a new release let me know.  Use the contact form and I’ll send you postal details for vinyl and promotional stuff.  For MP3s please e-mail discoscratch@gmx.com.  I’ll do a review on the show and also post it up on the main site, like I did with the Solid and Mind 12 and the Chrome EP “Flow Man”

Chart

Also I’ll be doing a chart rundown, probably either once a fortnight or once every month.  This will be for whatever Hip Hop is out there that’s floating my boat at that particular time.  It’s impossible to get any real idea of sales and such, so when I hear dope stuff I’ll be noting it in a chart.  If you know of stuff that’s out there, let me know in the forum, there’s a special section in there.  I’ll be posting the chart on the main site as a separate post with a mix of the tracks in that chart so you can hear them or burn to CD or whatever…

Disco Scratch Rap Session

Whenever I get a chance to catch up with MCs I’ll be recording live rap sessions for broadcast exclusively on the show, so if you’d like to come to the Palace Of Villainy with your crew, I’ll hook the mics up and get on the decks while you drop science.  I am mobile and have the gear to record wherever, but it’s never like it is in the studio while accompanied with jerk chicken, rice n peas from Tasties in Dudley & Red Stripe from my man J at Bain’s Wines up the road in Netherton!  That’s what I’ll be providing for those that want to bless the mics…

Guest Co Hosters

If you feel you’d like to cole rock the spot with me for a show, let me know… I can do it in person with a visit from you to the Palace Of Villainy (preferable) or over Skype.  I used skype (username DiscoScratch) with MC Duke and it was crystal clear with no lag, so deffo an option, but never like it is when you do it in a studio together.  I’ll be doing some shows with Big Jim soon and hopefully Duce (both from my old radio show) so as usual let me know via the usual channels…

Suggestions

As things progress with the show I love to get your feedback, so in the forum there’s a section for feedback and comments about the show, so let me know if you’re feeling what I’m doing or not, also feel free to add your comments to this post, but the forum is probably better as many more people can be active in the thread

Well, that about wraps it up for this update, speak to you all on the air, peace & hairgrease…