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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 [...]
DJ Krush - Suimou Tsunenimasu DVD review
When is the best time for an artist to be retrospective about their work? In most cases, it’s usually linked to the impending close of a recording label contract, when a lazily packaged ‘greatest hits’ compilation falls into place in the absence of any new material. For some, it can be a chance to cast [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Björk: Breezeblock Mix
In honour of the recent release of Björk’s sixth studio album Volta, you’d do well to get your ears around her Breezeblock mix as featured on UK station Radio 1 in 1998. It’s an hour’s worth of nice electronica and wonky sounds (she was enjoying her Aphex back then, put it that way), with a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
