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Vintage Solid Steel: PC Via Josephine/Coldcut Meet Jean Jacques Perry
A mixed bag (aren’t they all ‘mixed’ bags?) here, but quality assured nonetheless. PC returns to the shores of bosbos.net yet again with ‘Via Josephine’, and we’re more than happy to accomodate him. And what’s this? Jean Jacques Perry turning up along with Coldcut for a natter? The only thing to improve this wonderful listening [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: DJ Food Vs DJ Vadim
Vintage Steel brings vintage DJ Vadim. A big-hitter on the dusty beats and breaks scene back in the mid 90s, Russia’s finest carved a niche for himself early on by utilising unique sounds that other producers hadn’t thought to load into their samplers back then - it seems Vadim had a lot of squeaky door [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: King Megatrip - I Must Insist You Eat Steel/Coldcut - Planet Of The Apes Special
(Introduction courtesy of Strictly Kev) For this week’s vintage session we turn the tables over to Solid Steel’s US ambassador: King Megatrip. For those who don’t know, Megatrip has been first a fan, then a show archivist, amassing possibly the world’s biggest collection of past Solid Steels. He has also had guest mixes featured [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: Coldcut - Best Of The K Mixes
Exactly how deep do Coldcut’s cavernous vaults go? Well If this Vintage Steel selection is anything to go by, you’d need a hard hat and a mining canary to detect for gas to tunnel on down there! Welcome to the ‘K mixes’, a truly eclectic blend of quality mind-bending mad mixes you’ve come to expect [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Madlib: Motown mix
Madlib still takin’ all corners, punching in for the latest Stones Throw podcast with a solid hour of Motown classics. If you never really took the Motown sound seriously before, then consider this your wake-up call. The motor city of Detroit pumped out some serious soul classics during the sixities, and you can’t argue with [...]
