| QUOTE (Picko-d- @ October 28, 2009 01:48 pm) | ||
i think Stevo is actually being serious about the Status Quo track |
Damn right.
| QUOTE (Picko-d- @ October 28, 2009 01:48 pm) | ||
i think Stevo is actually being serious about the Status Quo track |
| QUOTE (al-onestare @ November 10, 2009 11:27 am) |
| Oh.MY.GoOdNeSs 1989 looks HHHHHOOOOTTTTTT. ~edit~ given it a good rinse. Excellent work - shame it cuts off at the end in true, "oh shit, we've been rumbled" 1989 stylee. |
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| QUOTE (Keep It Wheel @ October 19, 2009 12:12 pm) |
| Well, I've given up with internet radio for now... Instead I've become master of my own destiny and *Pod-o-matic permitting* will upload and share shows and mixes at my own leisure rather than undergo that anxious "will it work? won't it work?" session every Saturday morning... http://kiw.podomatic.com/ Episode three - 1989 Episode two - a tribute to Fleetwood Mac Episode one - Da Doo Ron Ron UP NOW... 1989.... Thrown together on three decks, in one live take... This is the sound of 1989 as I remember it... Episode three setlist... Intro (Silver Bullet, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Soul II Soul) Public Enemy - Fight the power Queen Latifah and Monie Love - Ladies first Kid n Play - Gettin' funky (acapella) Mantronix feat Wondress - Got to get your love Alyson Williams - Sleep talk Electra - Destiny Stone Roses - Fools gold De La Soul - Say no go Digital Underground - Doowutchhyalike Royal House - Can you party? MC Duke - I'm riffin (acapella) Richie Rich feat The Jungle Brothers - I'll house you (acapella) Black Riot - A day in the life A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo ray (remix) She Rockers - On stage Roxanne Shante - Live on stage Paradox - Jail breakout Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings of life Tony Scott - That's how I'm living Silver Bullet - 20 seconds to comply Raul Orellana - Real wild house Raze - Break 4 love Lil Louis - French kiss FPI Project - Rich in paradise spiel... Harum Records, stuck on an awkward limbo between a zebra crossing and Enfield Town precinct was an unlikely a place as any for an epiphany. 7” singles, still high in the charts, could be grabbed for 25p a pop; new 12”s, and even not-yet (and occasionally never-to-be) available promos, could be grabbed for a quid and, on days when I’d just been paid for my paper round three new albums could be grabbed for about a fiver. Looking back it must have been a chart rigger’s dream: Crammed to the rafters with promotional material and with more cheap vinyl being added to the racks ahead of every school break. This was 1989. I was 15 and had been well brought up on a diet of fish fingers and The Human League. I was well placed to forgo a proper lunch when there was the promise of new singles each day and with lurid newspaper headlines warning of the dangers of ‘raves’, well: I was all smiles ☺ But by the end of the year I’d never managed to get close to a proper rave. None of my mates had either I suspect. Despite living within a mile of an M25 teeming with convoys of our peers we merely caught the vapours of the last genuine explosion of youth culture. When the kids in the years above were able to drive round the suburbs looking for lasers in the sky and ‘a thumping bass and a smiling face’ we were playing records at home. Alone. We may as well have been into The Cure. Had it not been for the radio, and the last golden year for the charts we may well been. Earlier generations have spoken of seeing Bowie perform ‘Starman’ on ToTP, The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, even Greg Wilson on The Tube as seismic moments in taking youth movements into a wider arena; commentators now talk of 1989’s famed ‘Madchester’ episode of TOTP as if it had the same impact on ‘my lot’ but, no, not for me, instead there a handful of memories that shaped my musical destiny. Inner City and Soul II Soul reaching the charts for the first time at the same time – that was what listening to the top 40 was all about; hearing Lil Louis’ “French Kiss” on daytime radio one when fishing with my dad and trying to pretend I wasn’t listening; Todd Terry on TOTP with Royal House; everyone at school going round shouting ‘acieeeeeeeeeeed’; trying to smuggle my mate’s cassette copy of De La Soul’s ‘3 feet high and rising’ so I could copy it without him noticing (sorry Dre!!); nearly getting mugged after our first visit to Busby’s on Tottenham Court Road; pirate radio… ah, the summer of rave indeed. A number of these acts went on to sustain decent careers: Jazzie B’s Soul II Soul spent most of the very hot summer at number one with Back to Life; Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City gave us some of the finest house music anthems of all time over the next few years; Lil Louis remained a consistent producer of top quality house music; De La Soul and Public Enemy remain potent touring hip-hop acts even if their records don’t have me waiting for record shops to open these days. Looking back on the tracks on this mix (thrown together on three decks in one take – as you’ll notice!) it really shouldn’t flow at all. It harks back to a more innocent time when DJs would play hip hop and house together, certainly on the radio; when Italo and Balearic weren’t dirty words; when English rappers weren’t universally derided; when hip-house was still, er, hip. This mix is dedicated to Andre and Dan. And, in true 1989 pirate radio style, it’s goin’ out to DJ Mark Sterling from City FM (104.4) who through his evening shows put me on to more records than any other DJ at any time. At one point I rang in for a shout, as you did, and offered to send him a mix I was working on - even though I only had one turntable and was attempting to mix using cassette decks. He said he’d play it on air. I never did send it in… maybe this will make up for lost time! Only 20 years late! The extra good news is that once you've subscribed via i-tunes or one of the other various media you need do nothing other than refresh your i-tunes podcasts every so often and then, better than the mail, another session will arrive for you to listen to at your leisure. Hope you can check it out. Big love, Steve (ex-Time FM, Push FM, Starpoint FM...) |
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) but this was in any case awesome pop (the follow up 'hello' was trully terrible though) and was a real sucker for the conveyor belt of beatmasters, rebel mc, lisa stansfield, cookie crew, yazz, ben liebrand records, which I would tape religiously. Quite liked soul II soul too and that whole sound - esp alyson williams - I need your lovin' - but all perhaps a bit too laidback/adult listening for someone at 14| QUOTE (Keep It Wheel @ November 10, 2009 02:15 pm) | ||
Yeah sorry about that!! Garageband just stops at 1hr 6mins for some insane reason... I would've faded out but was cueing up Sueno Latino |
| QUOTE (Olly @ November 10, 2009 03:08 pm) |
| I was also too young to properly appreciate 1989 at the time - was almost entirely dependent on mainstream radio and didn't really understand why these records were crashing into the charts each week by faceless producers I had never heard of (and in many cases would never hear of again!) biggies for me were : Tony Scott - gangster boogie - which I still have on a DEEP HEAT comp (still missing a few of those!), fresh 4 - wishing on a star, fpi project - rich in paradise - definitely in my top 10 house records of all time, sydney youngblood - if only I could (cheesy as, and a blatant rip of raze break 4 love - but ridiculously catchy), raul orellana - the real wild house - infectious cod-flamenco-house - inevitably, this was all over spanish radio whenever I was out there. 808 state - pacific state / stone roses - fools gold - admittedly, I didn't cotton on to what was "going on" in "The North" until the following year, The Beloved - sun rising - at this point, I had no inkling of what 'balearic' meant (still not sure I do now ) but this was in any case awesome pop (the follow up 'hello' was trully terrible though) and was a real sucker for the conveyor belt of beatmasters, rebel mc, lisa stansfield, cookie crew, yazz, ben liebrand records, which I would tape religiously. Quite liked soul II soul too and that whole sound - esp alyson williams - I need your lovin' - but all perhaps a bit too laidback/adult listening for someone at 14but although I think all these made a splash on the charts of the day, (certainly all would be considered quite commercial today) I don't recall the real dance takeover of the charts happening until 90/91 (when hardcore seemed to eclipse italian pianos) but as far as the true underground was considered - I was pretty much oblivious to it all until much, much later on |
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| QUOTE (al-onestare @ November 12, 2009 07:20 am) |
| Thinking this through, 89 was a turning point for me. I was 12 so a bit more of a nipper than you Mr KIW, but this twin tape was a big influence, as was PE "Fear of a black planet" (still their best work - FACT). Both I'd purchased via a mate through the Britiannia music club thing. Both wore out in the end due to endless plays. Here's the tracklisting - great slices of cheese with some BIG BIG tunes: A1 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - Get On The Dancefloor A2 Royal House - Can You Party (Club Mix) A3 Inner City - Big Fun A4 S'Express - Hey Music Lover A5 Coldcut - People Hold On Vocals [Featuring] - Lisa Stansfield A6 Adeva - Respect A7 Monie Love - I Can Do This (Uptown Mix) Remix - Danny D* A8 LNR - Work It To The Bone A9 Black Riot - A Day In The Life B1 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray B2 De La Soul - Me Myself And I B3 Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Wee Rule B4 Joe Smooth - Promised Land B5 Beatmasters, The - Who's In The House Vocals [Featuring] - Merlin B6 Lisa Stansfield - This Is The Right Time Producer - Coldcut B7 Farley "Jackmaster" Funk & Hip House Syndicate, The - Free At Last (Hip Appella Mix) B8 Donna Allen - Joy And Pain B9 Raze - Break 4 Love C1 Starlight - Numero Uno C2 Sueño Latino - Sueno Latino (The Latin Dream Mix) Vocals [Featuring] - Carolina Damas C3 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam Featuring - Felly C4 Raúl Orellana - The Real Wild House (Wild Mix) C5 Hithouse - Jack To The Sound Of The Underground (Acid Mix) C6 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid (Snowman Mix) D1 Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life D2 Digital Underground - Doowutchyalike (Radio Edit) D3 Kimiesha Holmes - Love Me True (Radio Lovers Mix) Remix - George Louvis D4 Jo Ann Jones - I Don't Need Your Love D5 James Bratton & Kelly Charles - Keep On Reachin' D6 Mac Thornhill - Diana D7 Humanoid - Tonight D8 House Master Boyz, Rude Boyz Of House* - Do It Fast Bold were (and still are) big music - and yes, you can't beat a bit of Technotronic |
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