Disco Scratch

Last night I was fumbling about on the net and my old pal Dan Fluent posted up on FACEBOOK that Music Of Life label owner was on DJ Semtex’s show on 1xtra.  Personally, I don’t think Semtex represents Hip Hop… not my definition of it anyway, and I couldn’t actually be arsed to listen to all the dog shit that he plays just to hear the interview with Simon Harris, so I waited until it was up on iPlayer and ripped it to post up here so you get straight to the meat.

I haven’t actually fully listened to this yet so I can’t comment on the content, but Simon Harris’ imprint MOL played probably the most important part in the development of UK Hip Hop since the Electro series from Morgan Khan’s Streetsounds label.  For the unaquainted, MOL was responsible for the first DJ scratch tools that I was aware of, the Breaks, Beats & Scratches LPs.  He was responsible for signing Derek B (the first MOL release being “Good Groove”) and probably the ultimate UK britcore anthem “Untitled” by Hardnoise.

His vision opened up a lot of careers… other artists include MC Duke & Daddy Freddy, and probably my top UK crew Demon Boyz.  He also released the Hard As Hell series, plus the Live Hustlers convention, opening up more avenues for underground UK artists.

Enjoy this and leave a comment about what you thought about Simon Harris’s statements… peace, Waxer.

 

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Continuing in this series this is number 4, out of 8 that I own.  A few decent loops on this one, Straight Out Of Compton beat, Soul To Soul’s Back to Life break, Bob James’ Mardi Gras & Impeach The President among others.

Tracklisting:

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)

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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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Flippin’ back through the crates to another slice of Simon Harris Wax.  This time volume 2 is up.  My personal favourite out of the first 4 that he released, this deffo had some decent cuts.  The “woo yeah” break from Lyn Collin’ “Think” makes an appearance, as does the break from Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid In Full”, Soul Searcher’s “Ashley’s Roach Clip”.

You can cop this from Rapidshare, link after the tracklist, make sure you grab volume 1 as well…

Simon Harris – Breaks, Beats & Scratches Volume 2

A1             110 BPM Dancefloor Justice (3:00)
A2           120 BPM House Attack-The Jack Zone (3:00)
A3           90 BPM Go Go Steaming & Cranking (3:00)
A4           95 BPM Rough Neck Beats (3:00)
A5           105 BPM Rebel Beats (3:00)
A6           113 BPM “The Loop Of 88″ (3:00)
B1           98 BPM “The Loop Of 87″ (3:00)
B2           104 BPM You Got Soul Loop (3:00)
B3           109 BPM Raw Loop (3:00)
B4           104 BPM Bad Young Beats (3:00)
B5           100 BPM Raggastylee (3:00)
B6           Effects & Scratches (3:00)

Effects & Scratches (hand typed too, what a BITCH!)

1. Screech 2.Woh 3.Stab 14.Chaaah!5.Hold It Now 6.Big Stab 7.Camera 8.Stab 2 9.Scratch 1 10.Break
11.Hit It 12.Rockit Stab 13.Funkyroll 14.Dit 15.Stab 3 16.Stab 4 17.Car Stab 18.Davey Stab 19.Funky 20.Bust This
21.Electro Krunch 22.Rock 23.Electrobark 24.Stab 5 25.Grunt Stab 26.Electro Stab 27.Tom Roll 28.Tape Stop 29.Electro – Uh 30.Low Tom
31.Whistle 32.The Magnificent! 33.UUH! 34.How Y’all Feel? 35.Check This out 36.  AAH Yeah 37.This Is A Test 38.Get On It 39.Laugh 40.The Music Turns Me On
41.Ridim 42.You Make Me Feel So Good 43.Calling All Cars 44.Go-Go Roll 45.Peeper Stab 46.Quack!!! 47.Creak 48.Dash 49.Crunch 50.Lazer Gun

Enjoy…

Vinyl ripped by Waxer & The Palace Of Villainy, 13th December 2008.

MP3 @ 192kbps/44.1khz/16 bit/stereo

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