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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 [...]
Paul Oakenfold & Woody Wood - Live And Direct (mastermix series #14)
Paul Oakenfold isn’t the obvious name when it comes to mastermix territory, but he’s in the club too. Live And Direct is a recording taken from Kiss FM in 1985, by Rich Color. Unfortunately no back story or tracklist for this one, but in seven and a half minutes Oakenfold (and his ‘engineer’ Woody Wood) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Les Adams - Doctor’s Orders (mastermix series #10)
Les Adams - forever legendary for being the first UK club DJ to perform an entire live show… using Minidisc. Err, nice one Les! To be fair, Les Adams has a lot more strings to his bow, and has made his fair share of contribution to the world of music in one way or another [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cattanach, Lee & McKeehan: Octomnipent Zeitgeist (mastermix series #5)
‘Octomnipent Zeitgeist’ - loosely meaning ‘THE spirit of 1985′, apparently - was the brainchild of mixing engineer Glenn Cattanach, along with Greg Lee and Jeff McKeehan, a pair of DJs from Lexington, Kentucky (that’s in the USA, fact fans). Everything was laid down using two turntables, a ¼-inch track 15 IPS reel to reel recorder, [...]
