U.K Treats

A few tunes you may not have heard and a couple of remixes too...

All U.K, all classic.

London Posse - Gangster Chronicles (Sparki remix) and Jump Around (Nomad Soul remix), taken from the 1991 12" on Island.

S.L Troopers - Movement and There It Is (89, Music Of Life 12")

Breaking The Illusion - Can You Understand, Drop The Mic and Drop The Mic Reprise(1989 12")

I'm large, fry me.

As promised earlier, here's a few tunes for your Sunday PM, nothing too taxing....

Chuck Chillout & Kool Chip - I'm Large (1989, from the No DJ Like Chuck 12").

K9 Posse - Ain't Nothing To It (12" remix, 1989).

Caveman - Fry You Like Fish (Jazz remix, 1990 12").

Playhowyalike

It's Monday, could there possibly be a better time to Doowhutchalike with Digital Underground?

Tracy Lauren Marrow

Time for a couple of Ice-T tracks, remixed and reworked...

Heartbeat (featuring War), 1989 from the Lethal Weapon 12".

You Played Yourself (Aladdin and King Tee remix), 1990 12".

Drama (Simon Harris remix), 1989, from the High Rollers 12".

Say what you like about Ice-T, he managed to convince his wife to pose for the sleeve... And it beats looking at Tracy Lauren Marrow himself. The Beemer is nice though, but not in red thanks.

Also, as a bonus for the weekend, have a bit of Ice doing his thing in 1984 alongside Chris "The Glove" Taylor and Dave Storrs on "Tibetan Jam".

Flav meets Spike

Three nice tunes up now including some good old lunacy from Flavor Flav, Barry White's band and a relative of Eddie Murphy (search for yourself, it's Friday and I can't be bothered to check)...

Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Flavor Flav meets Spike Lee) (1989, Fight The Power 12")

K-9 Posse - No Sell Out (1988 from the self-titled LP)

Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Can't Seem To Find Him (1974 from the Together Brothers LP)

Missed Dynamite

Good afternoon to y'all, back again with a few dusty treats after a sparse weekend and today, it's about the female UK rappers and a couple of belters for those who liked a dance.

All of today's tunes are brought to you by the year 1989.

Kicking us off with the laydees, we have the She Rockers with "On Stage", MC Martay & DJ DBM's "Beyond Control" plus "Female Force" and then a bit of the Cookie Crew's "Black Is The Word" (produced by Stetsasonic's Daddy-O and DBC). Then, we'll have a slice of DJ Mink's "Hey! Hey! Can U Relate" and for dessert, Shut Up And Dance with "5,6,7,8" which I'm delighted to reveal, samples George Kranz, not Steps.

5,4,3,2,1 Calm Down

Staying in '89 for the time being, here's III Most Wanted with two tracks from their self titled album. Chances are that you will have heard "Calm Down" at some point, especially the last verse which has featured in several DMC sets over the years... "Most Wanted" is another dancefloor friendly track that's typical of the era.

As you may well expect, there was a hip-house track on the album also but I'm not going there...

Records on decks, made on vinyl, rappers, poppers, breakers on lino...

A nice little treat for Friday now, taken from the Music Of Life 1989 Hustler's Convention Live L.P (credited as being the world's first ever live rap album on the front cover).

Here's the Demon Boyz doing their thing over instrumentals from their "Recognition" album, also nice to hear Westwood doing the intro and getting Mike-J's name wrong... knacker.

Anyhoo, the track is "Roughneck Business", the rest of the album is quite interesting, shout out in the comments if you want more.

3xD

1989 again and time for an undisputed classic slice of Three Times Dope.

Taken from the Funky Dividends 12" we have the album title track "Original Stylin'" and the Going For Broke mix of "Funky Dividends" itself.

Pay attention during Dividends and you will hear EST describe himself as "the overlord of fresh"... Would make for a great job title...

Laylow

Some of the best eighties and nineties UK hip hop came from London's Ladbroke Grove area. Here's a couple of slightly lesser known examples for your leisurely perusal...

Firstly, N.S.O Force Organisation with "Give It Up", released on 12" in 1989 and produced by J Saul Kane (better known as Depth Charge amongst other names...).

Secondly, The Mighty Ethnicz with 1990's "Murder", going some way to proving that any hip hop track that samples The Meter's "Just Kissed My Baby" is going to sound good enough or thereabouts without much more effort.

Keep a Low Profile...

Staying in America but going back just a little further to 1989 now. Low Profile were DJ Aladdin and WC, notable for being mates of Ice-T but more so for Aladdin being a 1989 DMC finalist.

The following is a selection from their album "We're In This Together", I've chosen what are probably my favourite 4 tracks, all with a large helping of Aladdin doing his thing for good measure....

How Ya Livin

Funky Song

Keep Flowin

Aladdin's on a Rampage (including an extended session of tearing the shit out of Rock The Bells, as previously used in his DMC final routine, featured below for reference and nostalgia).

Drippin' Dope

Wow, almost forgot about this one!

Reel Deal with "Drippin' Dope", a 1989 12" on B-Boy Records... really nice to hear this again....

It's what Westwood would have described as a smoking jammie back in the day (before he became a sad parody of himself... don't get me started).