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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...)

Nice one Stevie,
Must be better and easier that a radio show though mate

I'll check this later on fella

Told you so....

Margo & The Marvettes - When love slips away
Susan Maughan - That other place
Karmello Brooks - Tell me baby
Ernestine Anderson - See see rider
Cavril Payne - When I open my eyes
Della Reese - I got the blues
Honey Cone - If I can't fly
Della Reese - Compared to what
Betty Chung - Bang bang
Ginette Reno - Don't let me be misunderstood
Shirelles - No sugar tonight
Tina Harvey - Nowhere to run
Anna Walker & Crownettes - Ode to Billy Joe
Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta
Lulu - Stop Fooling Around
Nancy Holloway - Tu n'es pas venu
Beverley Warren - Baby baby hullabaloo
Teardrops - Here comes loneliness
Betty LaVette - What condition my condition was in
Betty Wright - There's a break in the road
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - I want you back

V1.1
Chantels - Indian giver
Honey Cone - Sunday morning people
Fire & Rain - Somebody to love
Laura Nyro - Eli's comin'
Merry Clayton - Gimme shelter
Thelma Houston - Jumpin' Jack Flash
Leslie Uggams - River deep mountain high
5th Dimension - Puppet man
Dottie Cambridge - He's about a mover
Lulu - Move to my rhythm
Betty Everett - Take me
Cleo Laine - Night owl
Lyn Roman - The look of love
Salena Jones - Am I the same girl?
Dionne Warwick - I think you need love
Nina Simone - Take care of business
Esther Phillips - Home is where the hatred is
Ruth Brown - Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)
Little Eva - Stand by me

Episode 2

Fleetwood Mac’s career spans five decades; in that time they’ve lost lots of members (including one to a cult, and kept a girl called Stevie and a bloke named Lindsay), hosted the Brits, sold millions of records, endured broken marriages and affairs and made their biggest selling album with a velvet bag of cocaine beneath the mixing desk in the studio (allegedly!)

Over time they shifted away from their blues roots and now, some 40+ years since the original reincarnation made their debut, they’ve become darlings of the nu-disco re-editing scene as their heavier riffs are plundered by a new generation of producers; diggers who themselves are really only discovering what the first wave of Balearic pioneers already knew!

This isn’t really mixed ‘properly’ but it’s thrown together in a sequence-of-sorts (and I might overdo it with the ‘echo’ to help it flow together!) Why Fleetwood Mac for a tribute? Well, their touring for the first time in a few years with the original ‘Rumours’ line-up and I’m off to see them on Friday…(although I’ve my doubts about Christine showing!)

The Mac: Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, Bob Welch, Bob Weston, Christine Perfect, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham.

BIG LOVE.

Fleetwood Mac tribute

Oh well pt2
The chain pt1
For your love
The green manalishi with the two-pronged crown
The chain pt2
Tusk
Oh well pt2
You make loving fun
Big love
Big love (Arthur Baker remix)
Little lies
Family man
Rhiannon
Sara
Dreams
Say you love me
Go your own way
Everywhere
Everywhere (extended remix)

Also available at:
http://soundcloud.com/keep-it-wheel/fleetwood-mac

mick fleetwood and sam fox at the Brits

not sure I've ever enjoyed telly so much

Love the Mac, looking forward to this.

Was that you DJing at the Komedia on Saturday? You were too high up to speak to (!) but I made hand signals to you suggesting that it needed turning down (it was distorting). I think you thought I was a random drunk, which, to be fair, I was.

LOLLY!!!

Yes mate, I was playing on that ridiculously high and very big stage... One of the decks was in a wretched state and it took a while for the replacement to arrive...

Had a great night though... always nice to DJ in a suit to a proper up-for-it crowd... you should've said hello (admittedly not easy at the time!)

Jesus Christ.

Dire(sic) Straits will be next

You love it really.

ps: Did you ever get your hands on the Ottoman Empire 12 which teased Dire Straits' "Private investigations" into an awesome monster... Beane would love it.

nope

Fleetwood Mac are in a mental box of mine with the words 'Do not touch' on it

as are Dire Straits

I love Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing, and even Walk of Life. I can't help it.

Next podcast sorted then.

How about Status Quo "In the army now" - i think that's under rated.

Fuck off! I've got some scruples (just not many).

i think Stevo is actually being serious about the Status Quo track