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’

 

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Yes folks I’ve got another tape rip from the archives here for ya, this time me and Duce on the wheels in the flat in Somerstown droppin’ some knowledge on heads…

Back in this era I went from being called Radiate (my 2nd DJ name, the first was ESTEEM, don’t ask me why!) cos I loved cuttin’ up all the times Rakim says Radiate on his tracks. Back then I was training a lot and got the nickname Madd Dogg by the people I trained with for various reasons and I kinda adopted that.

God knows when I changed, or indeed when Waxer became my name of choice, but still!

This is a decent show and because podpress won’t drop 2 bits of audio into the iTunes subscription, I am now upping shows as 1 complete 2 hour show. This tape has seen better days and side 2 is a bit wobbly at the start but settles down after a bit.

Infamous Rap Show Jamm FM 29th January 1993 Tape Cover

 

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Tracklist:

Side A

1.Pharcyde – For Better Or For Worse

2.King Tee – I Got It Bad Y’al

3.Cutty Ranks – Living Condition

4.Kurious George – Walk Like A Duck

5.Poppa Bear – Permanent

6.Diamind D – Yo That’s That Shit

7.Bobby Konders – Heads

8.Super Cat -

9.YBT – Tap The Bottle

10.Consolidated & Paris -

11.Paris – Coffee,Donuts & Death

12.Pharcyde -

Side Bl

1.A Tribe Called Quest – When The Papes Come

2.Stereo MCs – Smokin’ With The Muthaman

3.Diamond D – Check 1,2

4.Lord Finesse – A Lesson To Be Taught

5.Pete Nice – Rat Bastard

6.Waxer – Diggin’ In The Crates Mix

7.Apache – Gangsta Bitch

8.MC Mell ‘o’ – Mell ‘o’ Gone Crazy

When I was ripping this show it brought back loads of memories, I literally haven’t listened to it for 15 years!  I used to play Duce up somthing terrible, tickling him when he was on the mic, makin’ him laugh, generally pissing about, and when we were all in the studio we all used to do it cos he was a stress head and was laughing but also wanted to kick our heads in!

Also I remember the Tap The Bottle tune causing debate as I’d seen Young Black Teenagers with either EPMD or PE and they got really badly booed, but when the Notting Hill Carnival was on, this tune made the crowd go mad, so we debated whether to play it or not, and I know that they were on that Das FX sorta tip and a bit of a concept group with the Young Black Teenagers name and all being white, but still, this was a TUNE!

Also this show contains one of my fave cuts of all time, Diamond Ds Check 1,2 and that is a bit oof a signature tune for me.  The Diggin in the crates section is interesting too, with cuts from the late 80s.

Well, that’s it. enjoy, leave some comments, peace, Steve.

Side B of the tape…

b1.Tim Dog – Takin No Shorts
b2.Doc Savage – Straight From The Underground
b3.Gang Starr – Check The Technique
b4.Terminator X/The Interrogators – Back To The Scene Of The Bass
b5.Black Sheep – Black With N.V.
b6.Ultamagnetic MCs – Funky (Remix)
b7.? I’m Serious (Prod By DJ Pooh)
b8.Kid N Play – Last Night
b9.Gunshot – Crime Story
b10.PE -
b11.Schoolly D – Livin’ In The Jungle
b12.A Tribe Called Quest -  Push It Along
b13.? ?
b14.MC Lyte – Not Wit’ A Dealer
b15.Run DMC – Run’s House
b16.Big Daddy Kane – Raw

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Yo ho ho and it’s about that time to bring you another tape rip from the domain of the Langoliers.

This is a My Apocalypse show from January 1992, featuring Devious on the cut & presenting, with additional verbals from Fyooge & MC Sonic.  Some nice tracks throughout with a couple of less obvious LP cuts making the show, which was the beauty of pirate, no one told you what to play.  From what I know pretty much all this stuff was out of Devious’ record collection (Yo D am I right?) and big up for ID ing the couple of tracks I didn’t know.
The last 20 minutes or so the lads forgot the mic was open and discussed… whatever 20 year olds discuss!  Probably Ribena, Bensons, Nik Naks and how shit football is!  Some well funny (if you were there and knew us) moments in the show, take a listen see what you think, don’t forget to comment!

Devious chops it up!

Because it seems like only one part of the audio shows up in the podcast, I am seperating posts into two parts from now on, so for any given tape it’ll be side a in one post, then side b in the next…

Tracklist:

a1.NWA – Approach To Danger
a2.Tim Dog – Step To Me
a3.BDP – South Bronx
a4.Tuff Crew – Tuff Crew Is Back
a5.MC Duke – I’m Riffin’
a6.Demon Boyz – Vibez
a7.Black Sheep – F*ck You
a8.Terminator X/Dubmaster – DJ Is The Selector
a9.Gangbusters Instrumental
a10.PE – Welcome To The Terrordome
a11.PE – More News At 11
a12.Caveman – You Can’t Take It
a13.Outlaw Posse – Original Dope
a14.Heavy D – Don’t Curse
a15. Roxanne Shante – She’s A Skeezer
a16.Lord Finesse – Party Over Here
a17.Schoolly D -
a18.NWA – Appetite For Destruction
a19.? ?

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