Tag: Grandmaster Flash
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RC 346: The Light And Dark of the City – Chilled mashup show
A Long time coming, and recorded last month, here’s the ambient chilled mashup podcast mentioned in 344 – and in fact is a sequel to 344, as it’s the part of the same podcast really! From 1975 to 2021, we have plunderphonics, blends, mashups, bastard pop and various sampleage plundering synthwave, electronica, rock, dub, reggae,…
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RC 282: Ladies First
This is a response to the frankly whack Guardian listicle about the greatest female rappers that James (hi!) sent to me and Kirk. 4/10 – that’s not only my ‘see me after class’ score, it’s also the paltry amount I agree with. Ladies first, well last in this case. It reads like some bored intern…
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There But for the Grace of God Go I
I’m really loving The Get Down, a semi-fictional series about hip-hop in 70’s Bronx via Baz Luhrmann. I don’t know why it’s got mixed reviews because unlike other shows, it has Grandmaster Flash, Nas and Kurtis Blow on board, as well as Furious 4 advising and although there are some minor slips (I’d have gotten…
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Dunproofin’s Grate Compilation
Dunproofin’s genius gets a lot of love on the podcast (he did the remix that is the current intro music) and here on the blog, and he’s released a compilation of his 50 best remixes and mashups over the years, called 50 Golden Grates. It’s not cheesy, it’s full of golden slices of fried gold…
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Apache and the birth of hip hop
Good excerpt from Sample This! a documentary charting the history behind Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache. It might seem strange to only focus on one record, but there aren’t many record in hip hop as fundamental and used and abused as Apache (and important to founding at least 3 of the 4 elements and the invention…
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Planet Disiac 2000 Light Years From Home
Sometimes you come over something that shouldn’t work, but in the spirit of Oki or Pilchard it just hangs together in it’s own crazy orbit. From the alternate universe of Disiac Here’s Rolling Stones vs Melle Mel and a few other bits I don’t recognise. Brilliant in it’s madness. Also like his take on Elvis…