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 9 MC Duke

The thing about having so much love for the old school UK scene is I am a fan as much as I am someone who runs a website.  These interviews are so fascinating and uncover so much stuff, I don’t think I’ll stop until I’ve unearthed every rock of UK Hip Hop!  MC Duke has blessed me with a couple of hours of his time and gone into serious depth about his roots in the Hip Hop culture.

For the uninitiated, MC Duke started with Hip Hop from it’s very first inception in the UK.  Before Hip Hop was even in the UK he was a record boy with his dad, learning the craft and being able to DJ and hold a crowd with just one turntable and a mic.  This was well before Rappers Delight even hit these shores.  From his early trip to the Bronx and return to the UK with his experiences in Covent Garden, through the golden era of UK Hip Hop, there’s practically nothing Duke hasn’t experienced or seen.

Duke unearths loads of gems about the old school sphere of Hip Hop in it’s fledgling years, discussing the formation of the early scene, his years on Music Of Life, events he attended and touches on the infamous situation with Overlord X.  He also answers the questions put in by members of the Heroes Of UK Hip Hop Forum and the Disco Scratch forum.  It was a pleasure to verbalise with Duke and I hope all the listeners to the Disco Scratch Show also enjoy this…

Big respect to Duke and his extended fam for the time, energy and love for the true school of UK Hip Hop. Download after the tracklist…

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.DuckAlert – Project 88
3.Son Of Noise – The Mighty Son Of Noise (Instrumental)
4.SL Troopers – Systematic Terror (Instrumental)
5.Rude Boy Business – Cool Sailing (Instrumental)
6.Bushkiller – Troublemakers (Instrumental)
7.Duke’s Choice – Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
8.Fission – Word (Instrumental)
9.Duke’s Choice – George Duke – Brazilian Love Affair
10.Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (Beats)
11.Broken Glass – Street Style (Beats)
12.Einstein – Friday Night & Saturday Morning (Instrumental)
13.Derek B – Rock The Beat (Instrumental)
14.Demon Boyz – Vibes (Instrumental)
15.MC Duke – Jus Dis
16.Powerlords – British Mic Control (Instrumental)
17.Cash Crew – You Can’t Stop This (Instrumental)
18.The Principle ft Silent Eclipse – Your Rap Machine Is Broken (Instrumental)
19.MCs Logic – Get Involved (Bonus Beats)
20.MC Wildski – Warrir (Warrior Beats)
21.MC Duke – I Don’t Care Anymore
22.MC Duke – Free
23.Richie Rich – My DJ (Pump It Up Some)
24.Hijack – The Badman Is Robbin (Instrumental)
25.Blade – Lyrical Maniac (Bonus Beats)
26.2 The Top – Score To Settle (Instrumental)
27.Waxer – Based In Science (Instrumental)
28.MC Duke (Medley) Miracles/Throw Your Hands In The Air/I’m Riffin
29.Public Enemy – Shut ‘Em Down (Pete Rock Remix Instrumental)
30.ATL – Murder Rap (Instrumental)
31.Brand Nubian – Drop The Bomb (Instrumental)
32.Pete Rock – Classic (Instrumental)
33.Group Home – The Realness (Instrumental)
34.Master Ace – Style Wars Remix (Instrumental)
35.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Instrumental)
36.Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown – Unity
37.Gunshot – Children Of A Dying Breed (Instrumental)
38.Hijack – Syndicate Outta Jail (Instrumental)
39.Duke’s Choice – Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair

 

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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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Wicked show again last night thanks to all who got in the chatroom, made for a good laugh and was great to have the connections with other old school heads!  If you are reading this but have not got into the chatroom yet when the sho is live, you really should, I mean what else are you going to do on a Thursday night?  It’s after 9 so the kids are in bed, get your iPad, your lappy, your phone, DS lite, I dunno, your fridge with internet connectivity, put your headphones on so you don’t upset the missus with all this hardcore rap and get in the chatroom!

The rap contest was won by MC Dope Noise outta New Cross so respect to him, but no one rang up for the break to the beat so no winners there!  The break was from the Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack – Heaven On Their Minds, the rap was Blade – Watcha Waitin For.  So, hopefully see you in the chatroom!  Respect to all the old school soldiers…

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.DuckAlert – Project 88
3.Bushkilla – Strings In Motion
4.2 Tone Committee – Way We Operate
5.First Down – Mad Dogs And Englishmen
6.Dominant Force – Flex
7.General Levi – Dem No Wicked Like We
8.Shock Wave – It’s The Games (We Play)
9.Ultramagnetic MCs – Chorus Line
10.Freshki & Mo Rock – Spectacular Venacular
11.Diversion Tactics – Live To London (Featuring Blade & Beyond There)
12. Diversion Tactics – 3 Card Brag (Ft D Gritty & Blade)
13.Diversion Tactics – Where I’m From
14.PD3 – Funk Rhymes Funky Style
15.MC Mell O – Open Up Your Mind (Wack As Fuck Version, sorry!!!)
16.Suspekt – Style Unorthadox
17.Bury Cru – MCs
18.Brotherhood – Alphabetical Response
19.Mista Websta – Breakdancing at Dinner Time
20. Aspects – My Genre
21.Dominant Force – Criminals
22.Break To The Beat Version Excursion – Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack – Heaven On Their Minds
23.Total Fiasco – Method To The Madness
24.MC Dope Noise (New Cross) Rap Line Winner
25.MC Duke – Final Conflict
26.Demon Boyz – International Karate
27.Sir Fresh & DJ Critical – Sir Vere (dedicated to DuckAlert, T Zone & SEIN)
28.Krispy 3 – Can’t Melt The Wax
29.Break To The Beat Version Excursion – Blade – Watcha Waitin For
30.Def Tex – Addiction To Rhyme
31.Gunshot – Patriot Games

 

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This is what Hip Hop geeks dream about… especially UK ones!  For the uninitiated, Repo136 runs one of the most popular Old School UK Hip Hop sites around, Ageing B Boys Unite .  We started chatting about 2 years ago and found we had a lot in common.  A few months back, just before Christmas we were going to record a podcast but real life got in the way, so here we are with a full on interview to see what makes up the Repo man.  Some dope music and extremely in depth chat about the old days of life in Hip Hop in the UK.

So, join us for (what should have been but ended up being 2 1/2 hours) 2 hours ( *ahem) of old school UK Hip Hop banter with the man behind the early 90s rap fanzine “Juice”.  Enjoy!

If you are interested in telling the world your stories via the interview medium please get in contact, hit us up at thediscoscratch@gmail.com peace!

Tracks Used during the show:

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2. Russell Brothers – Party Scene (Instrumental)
3.Gang Starr – Manifest
4. Gang Starr – GotchU
5. Captain Rock – Cosmic Glide (instrumental)
6. Pieces Of A Dream – Mount Airy Groove (Instrumental)
7. T Ski Valley – Catch The Groove (Instrumental)
8. Disco 4 – Let It Whip (Instrumental)
9. Trouble Funk – Pump Me Up
10.  Jonzun Crew – Pac Jam (Look Out For The OVC)
11.  Warp 9 – Nunk (Instrumental)
12. C Bank – One More Shot (Instrumental)
13. The VHB – Beethoven’s 5th Street Symphony (Short Version)
14. Fantasy 3 – Biters In The City (Scratch Version)
15. Bobby Broom – Beat Freak (Dub Version)
16. B Boys – Girls Part 2 (Snippet)
17. Fantasy 3 – The Buck Stops Here (Instrumental)
18. Great Peso & Mr Nasty – It’s Time To Rock (Instrumental)
19. Newcleus – Jam On It (Instrumental)
20. Byron Davis – My Hands Are Quicker Than The Eye (Instrumental)
21. Eric B & Rakim – Eric B is President (Dub)
22. Justice – Put That Record Back On (Instrumental)
23. Kid Frost – Terminator
24. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Price – A Toucjh Of Jazz
25. Kid n Play – Lat Night (Dub)
26. Kool G Rap & Polo – Rykers Island (Instrumental)
27. Hijack – The Contract (Instrumental)
28. Hijack – The Badman Is Robbin
29. SL Troopers – Knowledge (remix instrumental)
30. K Solo – Letterman (Instrumental)
31. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Ill Street Blues (Instrumental)
32. A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour (Instrumental)
33. Beatnuts – No Equal (Instrumental)
34. Diamond D – Sally (Instrumental)
35. Onyx – Throw Ya Gunz (Instrumental)
36. Run DMC – Down With The King (Instrumental)
37. Word Of Mouth & DJ Cheese – King Kut

 

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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.

Yes yes y’all!!! Get your funky egg nog on, light those scented candles, bung on those dodgy 10 year old fire hazard lights, pull back the tab on a cold can of red stripe, throw another log on that open fire and let the dulcit tones of Mr Repo136 & Mr WaxonWaxoff drift merrily over you as we drown you in verbal diorrhea!

Yes, 2 hours of chat about how good Hip Hop used to be, hear us moan about the state of the current scene, join in with our rants about lack of lyricism these days, suede Pumas, diamond pattern socks, 8 ball jackets and when Westwood was good….

That’s right you lucky people, on Saturday 19th December 2009, the 2 leaders in the retro UK Hip Hop scene combine for a legendary podcast. Fuelled by mulled wine, egg nog & meths, we aim to entertain you and ring a few people while we’re recording and put them on the spot. If you know us and we have your number, WATCH OUT!!! We’ll be dropping the dopest old school flavour, some apt Christmas joints, I might even dress up as Waxer Claus who knows!!!

We’ll take some pictures and take your attention for a few seconds as you marvel over pictures of us messing about with that old stuff called “Vinyl” Yes that’s right, only REAL RECORDS getting played here ladies & gentlemen! If you wanna get at us, leave a message here, on facebook , twitter or hit Benzini up at ABBU  or get at him on Facebook. So, to recap, booze, memories, proper Hip Hop, from Saturday 19th December 2009…. In the words of Eazy E, “Merry muthaphuckin’ Christmas!!!”

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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