UK Hip Hop Radio Tape 14

About time old Waxer drops some more dusty flavour on all you Scratcho Discers!  This tape is a bit shorter than the others I’ve upped but still comes off like frogs legs in Paris.  This must have been bang on the time when the Black Rock n Ron LP “Stop The World” came out as both Tim & Dave are playing cuts from the LP plus Black Rock n Ron were in the UK.  Dunno about you but I think the Stop The World LP is an absolute iron clad classic and I was well happy to hear some flavour from them on this tape.

Thesre are some shout outs from various heads that called into Dave Pearce’s show, one dude shouts out “Area, flex, bob, Crimea, arcade, race & stoop (I think)” so if you recognise those name maybe it was you??  About 30 seconds in there’s a crazy wack housey remix of “Scrum & Then Some“, which some of you may remember as being the much better B Side to the 12 “Black & Proud” by the Dismasters.  All these uploads are unedited, I think it’s important to keep the whole tape as is, whether good or bad.

Also the legendary “How on earth did he become a Hip Hop scratch DJ on one of the most prominent Hip Hop shows of the day” K C J does 2 utterly dreadful mixes on this tape, good selection of tunes but mixed perhaps while he was simultaneously trying to beat the world record for putting on and taking off a wetsuit complete with flippers, mask & oxygen tank as many times as possible, who knows!!!  Still, as pony as his mixing skills were, you gotta love it!!!

Track List: (Remember back then I might have missed the track name or artist name so when I do these track lists I just copy whatever I put on the tape)

Side 1

1.Ca$h & Marv – Who’s In The Place

2.? Black Is Back

3.KCJ – Live Session On The Wheels

4.Stizo – Take It To The Max

5.Black Rock n Ron – ?

6.De La Soul – Ghetto Thang

7. ?/?

8/?/?

9.P Fine – NY Rap Report

10.Doug E Fresh – D.E.F

Side 2

1.KCJ – Mix #2

2.Black,Rock n Ron – Tired Of All Of This

3.Demon Boyz – Recognition

4.Kings Of Pressure – ?

5.Most Wanted – Calm Down

6.Ace & Action – Together

At the start of the tape I used a beat from my homeboy DuckAlert, if you like his stuff peep him here:

http://dopetracks.com/DuckAlert & http://twitter.com/DuckAlertUK the track is called “Diamond Dust”.

Anyway, spring is here, lookin forward to some heat hopefully… I might be moving this year back to the South so moving from the cold & damp West Midlands to get some heat back in these weary B Boy bones… see ya soon, Waxer.

Sarah Love… she’s a DJ on 1xtra and does a decent show once a week on a Friday night/Saturday morning starting at 01:00am on Saturday.  She normally drops a lot of material that appeals to old Waxers’ ear canals and hence here’s the UK Originators mix from her show last Saturday 13th Feb.  Here’s the tracklist:

1. 1. Cookie Crew — A Word To The Conscious

2. Caveman — Whole 9 Yards … And Then Some

3. Demon Boyz — Glimity Glamity

4. Katch 22 — Lifestyles Of The Poor & The Ruffneck

5. London Posse — How’s Life In London

6. MC Mell’O’ — A Total Eclipse Of The Art

7. Cash Crew — Microphone Maniac

8. Hijack — Style Wars

9. Blade — Lyrical Maniac

10. Outlaw Posse — Stop The Negativity

11. Krispy — Destroy All The Stereotypes

12. The Brotherhood — Put Up Or Shut Up

13. Newtrament — London Bridge Is Falling Down

14. Son of Noise — Funk Meets Son of Noise

15. Gunshot — No Sell Out

16. Monie Love — Monie In The Middle

17. Silver Bullet — 20 Seconds To Comply (Final Conflict)

A lot of tunes that most of you will already know, but still, take my hat off to her for dropping the flavour and educating a new audience… The whole show was dope actually and next week she’d got 2 dope UK MCs in the house, Endemic & Nottz Mic pro Cappo.  Show some love for the Love!

Pz, Wax.

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.

This one has no date, but Dave Pearce mentions live on GLR this easter Weekend and I think this was 1989 so gotta be round there somewhere.  This tape’s got audio from the Cash Money & Marvellous Night Network performance they did, I have it on VHS and loved the routine so much I got the audio off my dad’s video recorder onto tape and put it on this one.  Some nice classic Capital Radio jingles and Westwood one liners in here plus the set from DJ Aladdins DMC performance of the year, cuts are fatal, he was the best at transforming back then easily.

Track List:

Side A:

1.Kane – Lean On Me

2.Eazy E – We Want EZ

3.Special Ed – I got It Made

4.All Out Kings (One of my fave Hip Hop crew names EVER!) – Shack It Up (got this on 12, LOVE IT!)

5.??? Cold Ca$h

6.Gig Guide

7.Black Rock & Ron – Tired Of All Of This

8.DEF – Dougie Fresh

9.Stetsasonic – Ain’t Makin it

10…. In My Move

Side B

1.Aladdin DMC routine

2.De La Soul – Brainwashed Followers

3.? But Def!

4.LL Cool J – Rock The Bells

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5.K9 Posse – Ain’t Nuthin to it

6.Steady B – Serious (BDP Remix)

7.Soul 2 Soul – Keep On Moving

8.Cash Money & Marvellous Live in the studio

Enjoy… I’ll keep uppin’ ‘em, you keep downin’ ‘em!

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!!!”

So a few days have now passed since I first heard of the untimely death of an inspiring, ground breaking and influential UK MC.  Derek Boland, born 15th January 1965 in London, started DJing at 15 on pirates in London, namely LWS and KISS.  Rock the Beat was his first sonic Assault in 1987, released on the Music Of Life imprint and forging a new path for UK acts to follow in his wake.  Derek B was the  third rapper to ever perform on Top Of The Pops, with “Bad Young Brother”,  following Doug E Fresh and Break Machine.

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He was a big big name back in 88 and I remember my first purchase of his was indeed the “Bad Young Brother” 12.  The energy that he had was inspirational and I’m proud to say I was a fan back then and will continue to be a fan of his music.

After releasing his LP “Bullet from a gun” I don’t really recall much being released from him, or seeing him anywhere he seemed to just fade out.

I think this was because he is essentially an old school artist and struggled to find a place in the Britcore scene at the time, which had become harsh and political instead of the party style that Derek B was associated with.  I never had the pleasure of seeing him live on stage, but I do however have some quality 80s footage on video which as far as I’m aware is not available ANYWHERE on the net, so I’m going to try to find it, rip it and upload it to youtube tonight, then add it in here later.

There is a lot of stuff I could write about Derek B, but in the past week a lot has been written already and I don’t want to fo over the same stuff twice, so here are some

links:

Drew Huge from Fat Lace does freelance journalism and wrote this piece for The Guardian

Here is the link to The Guardians’ piece about Derek Bs death and here is the obituary.

More Links to Derek B:

Derek Bs Myspace

Derek B on wikipedia

His discography

New Music Express

BBC news article

Starts tributes to him (via Gigwise)

I always believe in looking back over someone’s life with happiness that they existed and contributed to our lives and considering the up and coming festive season, here is the dope “Chillin’ With Santa” as included on the “Christmas Rappin” LP that came out in 1987.

Nuff respect to Derek B, a UK legend.  Being as Disco Scratch is at the heart of the old school UK Hip Hop community and is read by many people in the scene show some love & respect for this artist by taking the time to leave a comment to this post, it will be a longstanding mark of his career.

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.

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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!

After some chat in the forum about old radio rips I thought it’d been a while since I uploaded one.  So I ripped a tape tonight with a classic live performance from UK Britcore legends Hardnoise.  I’ve never heard a live performance of theirs anywhere else so this may indeed be an exclusive.  You may have heard the EXACT same audio before because I included the Hardnoise set on a mix CD for HOUKHH a couple of years ago, so maybe someone ripped it & leaked it, who knows? I decided to make a 2 year jump to this tape as there had been chat about Max & Dave and Richie Rich so I got this one ripped.

Well anyway, this tape has got the live Dingwalls set from Saturday 12th December 2009, broadcast from midnight to 2am on Kiss 100FM in London, hosted by Max LX & Dave VJ.  Hardnoise do a slammin’ performance of Untitled, folowed by a few cuts by Dave VJ, then you hear me whizz across the dial to Capital to get Westwood on at the same time.  Then there’s audio from the Richie Rich Rap Academy that was on a week later to finish the tape.  I tried to scan the cover but my poxy scanner won’t work in Snow Leopard (Grrrrrrrr!)  Hope you like it, another step back in time to the golden era of UK Hip Hop…

Side 1:

1.Hardnoise PA Dingwalls, Camden.

2.Kool G Rap & Polo – Poison

3.Gang Starr – Can’t Handle The Whole Weight

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Westwood

4.?

5.?

6.Build Bridges Instead

7.Young Girls wine

8.Kane – I Can Do It Right Remix

9.Main Source – Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball

10.Main Source – Live At The BBQ

11.Ghetto Is The World

Side 2:

1.Heal

2.?

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Richie Rich

3.Kane – Get The Job Done

4.Digital Underground – Same Song

5.K Solo – Fugitive

6.Young Disciples – Step Off

7.Main Source – Snake Eyes

8.Gang Starr – Execution Of A Chump

9.You Can’t Play With My Yo Yo – Yo Yo & Ice Cube

10.Kane – I Can Do It Right Remix

So I got on stage to do my bit, a little LL Cool J “I’m Bad” intro, followed by the beat. I did 3 parts to the beat as there was loads of material on the records I bought to make a beat out of… and Pritt got back £9 change from a score!

Here’s some pics:

The night was wicked, with Cro dropping a bad boy underground set, followed by Ian Beatmaster rockin the wheels, then it was me (no one to battle, my opponent Darren Myers never showed up) followed by Sparkki rockin the mic, some beatbox and freestytles, then Pogo ripped it up with some B Boys out the crowd doing their thing, followed by Mikey D tering up the stage!

What a night and to top it off Mikey D announced we are going to do a track together! Can’t ask for more than that!

So here’s the track I made, props to Pritt for his ongoing support love & dedication to Hip Hop, to Mikey forblessing the mic and still slamming MCs on cement after nearly 30 years in the game!

To Pogo/Cro/Beatmaster for killing it on the wheels of steel, Sparkii for all his hard work & ongoing commitment to the scene, Keith for all the background work you did (respect to the molecule), and to all the heads I spoke to in the crowd nuff respect for turning up and supporting real Hip Hop!

Lastly sorry to the geezer who’s head nearly got taken off when I threw my breaks into the crowd!

For more information head to http://kingofthebeats.com