What's all this then?

Hey you! This blog is mainly a way of protecting my precious music against electronic loss, but you are most welcome to take anything you like.

In all cases, I'd urge you to track down the original, where possible, and purchase it, but I do understand a lot of posts on here are rare and next to impossile to find anymore.

Anyway, if you download from me, all I ask is that you leave a comment before you leave rather than just taking anonymously and disappearing.

Peace & luvizm

Kymba xx

Saturday, 28 April 2012

test

MCA Records - DMCAT 1432


Brit-Soul legend Junior Giscombe (he of Mama Used To Say fame) came back in fine style with this dance-floor smasher back in 1990.

Despite featuring D Mob's Dancin' Danny D on production and Nuff Juice on the rap (a combo that worked to great effect on D Mob's Put Your Hands Together), Step Off seems largely forgotten (I can't even find a video on Youtube for it), but still sounds great to me.

The 7" version is dope, with its Hip-Hop breakbeat, stabs, and early nineties trademark piano chords. Dancin' Danny D's Slammin' & Jammin' Mix is essentially an extended version, and, is my favourite of the bunch. The oddity here is The Boogie Pella, which strips out the vocals & melodics and turns it into something of a breakbeat led monster. Really good if you're into that sort of thing (like me).

I've just found out there are a suite of Blacksmith remixes of this that I haven't ever heard before. Damn. I think I'm going to get the 12" and post it here in the future if Mickey hasn't got it. Mick??

By the way, I'm trialling putting up lossless .WAV rips as well as high quality 192kbp MP3s with this post - let me know if it's worth me taking the time doing this. Thanks!!

Enjoy!

  • Step Off (7" Version)
  • Step Off (Dancin' Danny D's Slammin' & Jammin' Mix)
  • The Boogie Fella

The high quality MP3 CD rip @ 192kbps download link is here: Download
Filename: Step Off.ZIP  Size: 23.2 MB

The lossless quality CD rip WAV files download link is here: Download
Filename: Step Off - WAV.ZIP  Size: 122 MB

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Sorry!

Sorry I've left this dormant for so long.

New goodness coming soon.

Also, I will re-up the posts so that they're downloadable from Mediafire, seeing as Megaupload is now pushing up electronic daisies!

x

Thursday, 16 April 2009

Double Dee & Steinski: The History Of Hip Hop

RP101A
Small

Double Dee and Steinski

  • Lesson 1: 'The Payoff Mix'

It's 1983, Tommy Boy Records have just held a remix contest to promote G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That Beat (Mr. DJ) and the winner has just been announced. It's unanimous: Steve "Steinski" Stein & Douglas "Double Dee" DiFranco's "Lesson One: The Payoff Mix.

It gets played everywhere on American radio but never gets commercially released. These guys can't afford the clearance on any samples, let alone the bucket load that they've used here.

It's all done with a trailer load of vinyl and a light touch on the pause button of a double tape deck. Loads of kids try and copy the feat.

Two more Lessons soon followed:

  • 'Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix'
  • 'Lesson Three: The History of Hip-Hop'

Together, these Lessons became history and a new genre was born.

quote monkeyfunk.net
Steve Stein was working with a large advertising agency in the early 80's. Between briefs, he and fellow music-nut Doug DiFranco (Double Dee), spent many hours languishing around legendary NY hiphop club the Roxy, and buckling the counters of every record store with vast hauls.

When Tommy Boy launched an open-door remix contest in 1983, to promote G.L.O.B.E & Whizz Kid's "Play that Beat (Mr.DJ)", Stein & DiFranco hunkered down over a weekend, armed with little else but the song, a turntable, an eight track deck...and a fuck-off record collection, and an already huge, gleaned and lifted library of quotes, out-takes and samples.

The result, "Lessons 1 : The Payoff Mix" won the prize, and cut-ups were born. The record went crazy on the radio, and to this day has inspired kids to start plugging their parents VCR's into a tape deck to lift choice dialogue and soundgrabs. Brainfreeze ? Ninjatune ? Skratch Piklz ? The Lessons series, and Steve's subsequent work including "The Motorcade Sped On", "it's Up To You" and the Nothing to Fear" mix continue to cast a long shadow...

Small

White Label Bootleg 1985

All three mixes were collected together and pressed on a bootleg 12".

Lesson 3 was the A-Side and my white label features the serial number...

RP101A MT

...etched into the run out. (RP101B MT on the flip, of course)

Small


quote fuelfriends
The famed Lessons, which were produced in '83-'85 by Double Dee & Steinski - the first records made entirely from other records. Their innovative purpose was to be fodder for the turntables, a collection of sounds to scratch into others. Self-confessed record junkie Steve Stein (aka Steinski) says he remembers thinking when he first heard these sounds: "There is nothing in this music that I don't want to hear. This is music that I've been waiting all my life to hear . . . and I didn't know it." That's a quote that could just as easily be applied to the birth of the rock 'n' roll, but here the same sentiment is cropping up 20-30 years later in the birth of turntablism and hip hop culture."

Small

Steinski & Mass Media*
"The Motorcade Sped On"
Steve Stein created this cut-up of Kennedy assassination coverage. His label, Tommy Boy, was unable to officially release it because CBS refused to grant clearance for the use of Walter Cronkite’s voice. It was released as a freebie 7" single in the UK 1987.

The download link is here: Download
Filename: A History Of Hip Hop.rar Filesize: 28.04 MB

Small

Coldcut - Beats + Pieces 1987

Ahead Of Our Time CCUT 1
Photobucket

1987 was a great year for interesting new ideas. PC's were becoming more available and Cut'n'Paste technology became the new thing. Hot on the heels of Double Dee & Steinski, came Coldcut.

Jonathan Moore & Matt Black have taken the concept to a whole new level nowadays but back in '87 they delivered this slab of vinyl to an unsuspecting world. Featuring Floormaster Squeeze, but doing what, I ask?

Note the logo on the sleeve....

"SORRY, BUT THIS JUST ISN'T MUSIC"

Photobucket

  • Mo' Bass Remix
  • Edit
  • More Beats

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut Beats.rar Filesize: 22.16 MB

Photobucket

Coldcut - Find A Way/Say Kids 1987

Ahead Of Our Time CCUT 8 TL
Photobucket

This White Label was highly sought after and is still in demand (I think?) Very little info, the letraset title was added by me. 'ADRENALIN' is etched into the runout on both sides and that's it. The A-side is a rap by Queen Latifah (one of the De La Soul posse) that was probably known only for its inclusion here. It sure as hell wasn't the reason this 12" sold.

For those that haven't heard of this, it's a cut up in the same style as the Double Dee & Steinski Lessons. Kicking off with "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" we have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Rupert The Bear dialogue & King Of The Swingers from Disney's Jungle Book, amidst a whole host of infectious beats and samples.

Photobucket
Photobucket
  • Find A Way (featuring Queen Latifah)
  • Say Kids!
  • Bonus Beats 1
  • Bonus Beats 2
The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut - Say Kids.rarFilesize: 24.71 MB

Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber 1998

Ninja Tune ZEN CDS65A
Photobucket

My apologies the soulies but I have a diversion today. Sorry, This Just Isn't Music!

No, this is Coldcut (again) and this time they have teamed up with Hexstatic and their on a mission. Timber comes from the Let Us Play album and it has a purpose. The aim of the 'song' is to raise awareness to the disappearing rainforests around the globe. It's a good cause and its a good bit of music but you need to be open minded. Click on the graphics below and read more about the campaign and the project. It is interesting, honest!

Photobucket
Photobucket

Timber has been built from sound samples taken from a documentary about the deforestation of the rainforests around the world. Included in the rar are the Video Remixes also which explains why it's 285 MB. This is an incredible piece of experimental music harking way back to the Steinski & Mass Media project. A collection of rhythms and melodies built from media soundbytes and layered to form a song. The original Chopped Down Radio Edit is perfect and no amount of tinkering can improve it. It is what it is! The remixes are mostly Drum & Bass ventures Quant's Shaggy Dog Story being my fav. They are all well put together but unnecessary. Clifford Gilberto's Jazz trips are way out there. If your head can get around it, this is a great experience.

Photobucket
  • Chopped Down Radio Edit
  • Quant's Shaggy Dog Story
  • DK Recut
  • Future 3 Network
  • Clifford Gilberto Remix 2 "cracked timber"
  • Hexstatic Video
  • EBN Video
  • Clifford Gilberto "a different forest" Video
The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut & Hexstatic.rar Filesize: 285.48 MB

Photobucket

Monday, 16 March 2009

Coming attractions

Sorry, I haven't had time to follow up on my initial posts, but I'm getting back into the swing of things and the following will be appearing on here ASAP:

Ready to go:
The Scientist - The Excicist II (The Remix) - 12"
The Scientist - The Bee - 12"
The Scientist - The Bee (Remix) - 12"

To follow:
The Ragga Twins - Juggling/Wipe The Needle - 12"
The Ragga Twins - Reggae Owes Me Money - CD album

The House Crew - The Theme
The House Crew - The Theme (Remix) / Euphoria (Nino's Dream)