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Vintage Solid Steel: J. Rocc - Syndromes 2
Not much time to spare this time round, but don’t think this entry from the Vintage Steel treasure chest is any less special because of it. Don’t take our word - just peep that deliciously funky tracklist! J. Rocc has been doing his hip hop thing since the mid-eighties; starting out with PSK, he went [...]
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 [...]
New York Scratchmasters - Scratchmaster’s Jam #2 (mastermix series #13)
The mastermix is back. After languishing away for some time, the series is being resurrected and we’re back on track with the New York Scratchmasters. Scratchmaster’s Jam #2 was originally released as a one-sided slab of vinyl back in the mid-eighties, but found it’s way on to the London airwaves courtesy of Colin Faver [...]
Neon Neon - Stainless Style Influences
Everyone loves the eighties! Even the kids of today who weren’t even born then but suck up it’s cultural influences like it’s going out of fashion. Which it did, but came back, then went out of fashion again, and… oh, it’s just too complicated. A couple of cats who do still rep for the eighties [...]
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 [...]
Disco 45: Jam On It (mastermix series #7)
Okay, so we’ve gotta step it up a gear here - too many classic mastermixes going unheard! Not too much on the words and unfortunately no tracklisting, but plenty of that unmistakeable mid-eighties soulful sound that was on every dial in the land back in the day. Rich Color:
“Saw an ad for this 12-inch white [...]
The art of the Mastermix
Pressing pause to cut out ‘talking’ on the radio must seem like quite a daft idea to the kids of today. The military precision required to gain a clean dub from the radio in order to avoid going to the shops to spend all your pocket money in one go on a 7-inch record or [...]
