Posted by Waxer | Posted in Audio, Mixtape, Turntablism | Posted on 10-11-2009
In the early to mid 90s myself and Duce did a weekly scratchfest/B Boy event in a bar in Pompey called Slurps. I can’t remember how long it ran, I think maybe around 3 months before the management kicked us out? Well anyway, it was there that I met this fresh faced scratch fanatic known then only as “Theory”. I saw him around at various events and then noticed him starting to compete at events, not only that but winning too. Theory’s style was… well, vicious to be honest! I knew he was a horror fan and I think maybe this bled into his scratching & turntablism. Now I’m sure I’m gonna get this all arse about face and dates wrong and all that but I’m doing my best!
Theory, alongside Shanks & someone else (ooops!) started a DJ crew called Plastic Soldiers, dunno if they’re all still affiliated or moved on now or what but still they were dope! So Theory moved round in various Hip Hop circles… I had moved to London and got bits and bobs of information about him and learned he’d started combining his DJ skills with other musical styles. I gotta admit I was surprised to hear this but I heard his music and can only say he is in a genre of his own. You can’t call it folk music, or roots or blues or turntablism or really pigeonhole it anywhere. I’ll leave it to you to visit No Frills Records to check his music out for yourself.
So Theory carved himself a path through music in the UK with various influences, styles & some damn fine turntablism skills… now Theory 77 is very active in the UK music scene, check his site out for all the links, just google him for all his myspace/soundcloud/blah blah links and anything not listed on his site.
Even though Theory has a wide range of skills with Rhyming, poetry, spoken word, turntablism, production, engineering and knowledge of various acoustic instruments, he often returns to his roots… it’s with this that brings me to this piece of devastatingly fresh audio, a just over 30 minutes mix of def old school tracks and razor sharp cuts. This ain’t your average “Golden Era” mix with a load of predictable tracks in there either… there are a lot of tracks you hardly ever hear, so massive props for that! He still intersperses that with def tracks like “Lyrics Of Fury” & “Breakin Bells” but biggest pat on the back goes for including one of my fave Hip Hop tracks ever, “Holy War”.
So onto the Audio, here’s Theory 77… Reasons… enjoy & if you like his stuff PLEASE SUPPORT HIM & BUY HIS MUSIC! Nuff respect, see ya!
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:
| A1 |
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101 BPM Life Beats |
| A2 |
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102BPM Heavy Loop |
| A3 |
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90 & 5/6 BPM Dopin’ Drums |
| A4 |
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106BPM Mardis Gras |
| A5 |
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111 & 1/5 BPM Groove Beats |
| A6 |
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101BPM Big Beats |
| A7 |
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113 & 1/3 BPM Hold Tight |
| B1 |
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95 & 1/2 BPM Impeach! |
| B2 |
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94 & 1/2 BPM Funky Break |
| B3 |
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103BPM Compton Loop |
| B4 |
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100BPM Ruff Loop |
| B5 |
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119BPM Course Beat |
| B6 |
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123 & 1/5 BPM Samurai Beats |
| B7 |
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FX & Scratches
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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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