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Vintage Solid Steel: War Is Stupid
War is bad. Perhaps the only good thing about war is how it inspires people to rise up and make their voices heard, however much some of our nations’ politicans choose to ignore them. Musicians often step into the breach, being in an enviable position to reach people on a wider scale. Strictly Kev covers [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: Coldcut And The Return Of Alien Sphinx
Alien conspiracies! Faces on planets! Unearthed DATs! Yes, it’s all here. A bit of a special broadcast, this one (aren’t they all?) as Coldcut go offworld with the Alien Sphinx. Strictly Kev is your flight director at mission control, take a close read as he guides you through the Solid Sphinx story. ‘Return Of The [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: ‘Now, Listen’ Tour Retrospective
As the opening salvo for the official Solid Steel mix CD series, Solid Steel: ‘Now, Listen’ had plenty of expectation riding on it’s shoulders. Embarking the Solid Steel brand on it’s logical progression, DJ Food and DK expanded on the hap-hazard nature of the selections heard on the radio broadcasts with an outstanding grab-bag of [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: PC
There are many music producers who would happily sit back and operate behind the scenes, never revealing their true identity, determined to retain a shadowy persona to let the music speak for itself. This was an automatic given for early DJ Food contributor Patrick Carpenter. Whether intentional or not, using his initials (PC) caused a [...]
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 [...]
BosBos - Xmas Swap 2007
Christmas may have been and gone for another year, but there’s still one more gift tucked underneath the tree for you to receive. The Xmas Swap is an annual affair in which members of the Ninja Tune forum each create a mix or compilation to exchange between themselves. This year’s crop was of a fine [...]
Peanut Butter Wolf - Badd Santa’s Xmas After Party
Oh no he didn’t! Yes, Peanut Butter Wolf went and shamed us out of the building. As reported in an earlier post, the end of 2007 wasn’t going to be a kind year for Stones Throw fans expecting their festive podcast hit. With the Badd Santa CD going on sale at retail for, shock horror, [...]
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) [...]
Six Vicious (AKA Sixtoo) - Ghostride The UFO
Weapons House is the online presence for A/V developments from Megasoid and Six Vicious (AKA Sixtoo). Consisting of Sixtoo (Rob Squire) and Wolf Parade’s Hadji Bakara, the Megasoid sound system has been busting up people’s ability to hear straight on a monthly basis, alternating club-style nights with impromptu block parties on the side courtesy of [...]
