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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 Krush coming live & direct
With a career spanning twenty years, it’s fair to say that DJ Krush knows his stuff when it comes to hip hop. Since forming ‘Krush Posse’ back in 1987, Krush (real name Hideaki Ishi) has consistently turned out many a diverse album; from his soulful debut Krush (1994), his many releases for the Mo’ Wax [...]
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 [...]
Colin Faver: Kiss FM Hardest Mix (mastermix series #6)
The mastermix series rolls on. A short and sweet effort this time, with the personal touch from Rich Color:
“London’s Kiss Fm began broadcasting illegally on 94fm in October 1985 and soon Colin Faver played this mix late one evening. It blew me away. Some correspondence to Colin followed and by special request he played it [...]
Katamari Damacy Fun Pack!
Katamari Damacy is a videogame with a daunting premise - rebuild the cosmos. No pressure, then! Originally released on Playstation 2 in Japan and the US in 2004, the game tasked you, the prince, to roll a sticky ball (the katamari) around real-world locales, collecting anything and everything in it’s path to increase it’s size [...]
MF DOOM: RSE Radio Special
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything of significant note from the tower of power MF DOOM. After a couple of production duties for Ghostface Killah last year and some compilation appearances on Stones Throw and Nature Sounds, DOOM has kept things well and truly on the down low in regards to new material. [...]
Fresh Steinski mixes for your ears
Following on from this week’s earlier news, it gives me great pleasure to offer up some choice sounds courtesy of Steinski. Steve has kindly permitted a couple of his mixes to be co-hosted here at bosbos.net - Live From The Basement and Shop & Shop. I’ll let the man himself take to the virtual floor [...]
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 [...]
