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Vintage Solid Steel: Coldcut Meet Juan Atkins
Many of the Solid Steel shows doing the rounds over the past few years as MP3s have mostly come from the mid-nineties onwards. While there have been some outstanding shows from that time, they don’t really reflect the early days of Solid Steel. And by early, we’re talking the eighties! Back when every radio show [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: Coldcut Meets The Orb
Welcome to the very first Vintage Solid Steel, brought to you by bosbos.net in conjunction with Ninja Tune’s ‘Solid Steel’ radio show. Solid Steel has been delivering the broadest beats for 20 years, resulting in a hefty archive to mine for some classic shows to listen to and enjoy. Thanks to the efforts of DJ [...]
Rhettmatic - Bake & Bits (Stones Throw)
Stones Throw podcast time. Looks like it’s the last one for 2007, and what better way to go out than to recruit one of the founding fathers of the Beat Junkie crew, Rettmatic, to go nuts with the doughnuts. Not so much a round-up of Stones Throw’s blistering releases from the past year, instead podcast [...]
Mr. Magic - Girls (mastermix series #12)
Mr. Magic was a DJ from a time before hip hop was making it big on the airwaves. Magic was one of the pioneering early radio DJs to make the transition from disco and soul, taking hip hop from it’s early roots of block parties and clubs and putting it out there for a wider [...]
United States of Audio: BTTB (Back To The Basics) mix
United States of Audio is going back… way back - to the basics! Well known for his eclectic and creative DJ mixes, his skills have been a feature on numerous radio shows worldwide. A regular contributor to BTTB, he has also shown up on Coldcut’s legendary Solid Steel show, BBC Radio 1 and plenty more [...]
DJ Undercover - One Time Mix (mastermix series #9)
Westwood on the rewind, baby! By which I mean, here’s another choice snippet from the big dawg’s early days. Not an awful lot of info on this one, but as usual Rich Color fills in the gaps:
“Tim Westwood broadcast this on his LWR hip hop show in early 1985. It’s a live scratch mix taking [...]
DJ Hollywood & Brucie B - Tim Westwood Shout Mix (mastermix series #8)
It’s The BIG DAWG! Yeah yeah yeah, blowin’ up the spot tonight. It’s important to know that before Tim Westwood presented a TV show about tarting people’s cars up to look worse than they were to begin with, he actually had a hand in promoting quality hip hop back in the early pirate radio days.
This [...]
Peanut Butter Wolf: Cover Me Badd mix
Michael Jackson. Queen. Prince. C+C Music Factory. Is nothing sacred these days? Cover versions, you either hate ‘em, or hate ‘em. Occasionally you might find a gem or two like the frankly weirder-than-Jacko-himself Japanese cover versions of Jackson 5 hits, but on the most part they are turgid beyond belief. What drives someone to do [...]
Big Apple Production Vol. 2 (mastermix series #3)
Cutting to the chase, it’s 1984, and the Big Apple Production mastermix has gone on to the next step - volume 2 courtesy of the Latin Rascals. Rapidfire ain’t the word - this mix wedges in everything but the kitchen sink! Every few bars a new track or one-shot sample. As Rich Color puts it: [...]
Solid Steel: DK & Strictly Kev respect to James Brown mix
James Brown - what is there that’s left to say? His status of living legend to solely ‘legend’ was a sad but inevitable blow when, ever the showman, he passed away on Christmas day of 2006 at the age of 73. A number of tribute mixes appeared shortly after Brown’s passing, his impressive back catalogue [...]
