Zoning out to

Beat Junkie Radio 09/11/09 - The Beat Junkies and the Da Beatminerz making you realize why hearing this music spun how it should be - remains a big part of your life - believe it!

I Am What I Play

This classic from '79 remains the truth! Catch the drift.



On that note, here is last weeks playlist from a little radio program I steer weekly. You already know what it is:

Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Nickel Eye - Brandy of the Damned (Mark Ronson remix) featuring. Wale
Cat Power - Blue
Radiohead - All I Need
Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place

Mic Break

Incognito - L 'Arc En Ciel De Miles
Chris Whitley - Drifting
Santana - Aqua Marine
Allan Holdsworth - Shallow Sea
Santana - Stormy
John McLaughlin - Don't Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother

Mic Break

Quro - Hunter Gatherer
13th Son - Yo
Good Buddah - Sydney has got the System
13th Son - Our Lives
13th Son - Symphony of Man
13th Son - Ladies featuring Fame
Seekae - ?

Priceless

A DJ Is Not a Jukebox!

Massive shout out to the Paradise Lost collective for throwing another of their AWESOME house, disco, funk, soul sound-tracked party in Inner Sydney last night this morning. There were no requests, no too cool for everybody types, just a monster sound system, heavy tunes, good deejays and a care, stress free crowd who came to let loose. Sydney Needs more parties like this...

Be sure to check out Brut 33 and Mikey (Paradise Lost), radio show Boogie Dance Cafe on....

Priceless

DJ Scratch cuts up Run-D.M.C.'s Peter Piper. Then DJ Evil Dee joins him on the 1 and 2's at the same time and they proceed to tear it up (starts a little into the recording), from the Black August Hip Hop Project 2008 in NYC 8.31.08. Shout to Grand Good

Hell Yeah

......The Visuals, The Lyrics, The Music, The Message, The Artistry, Skills, History - all that is Deejaying!

I'm going to push DJ Revolution's King Of The Decks because it's a great record. If you're into Hip Hop and you give a damn about giving something back to, supporting a real DJ who spends every second of every day doing it the way it should be done, then you will seek out this album, in fact you really should be buying it.

DJ Revolution is a master of his craft, that's undeniable....


(Part one of a eight part Hardknock TV feature with DJ Revolution)


(Part two)

Rev's King of the Decks is out September 16th through Duck Down

Straight Outta Belgium

I wanted to send a shout out to Alex Deforce. A while back he sent me an email about some very cool video interviews / pieces he's doing on a littany of icons / rising stars in street / youth culture. From upcoming Californian based Hip Hop / Experimental / Indie music producer Flying Lotus through to legendary art and anthropology photographer, documentarian, historian Martha Cooper. His site is On Point. Take a visit and give him a pound for the time and effort he's putting in to these interviews.

Here's the part one of the interview with Martha Cooper he did, conducted at the booksigning session of "Street Play" at Mr Ego, Brussels, Belgium.

Dope for the folks

Wishing everyone out there a safe, healthy and successful new year.

Now back to the scheduled program.



Rhythm and Poetry: The Australian Hip Hop Perspective

Chris Read's - "The Diary" (The Worlds Greatest Rap Megamix) is truly AMAZING. 801 Hip Hop jewels from 1979 - 2007 in the effortlessly fresh mix. You need to hear this. Hears what a few DJ's you may of heard of had to say about it:

“Great! I couldn't take it out of the CD player. I just needed to hear what was coming next!"
(Andy Smith - Portishead)
“A tour de force through the history of hip hop. A unique view of hip hop’s golden moments”
(DJ Food - Ninja Tune / Solid Steel)
“Bloody great! One of the best hip hop mixes I’ve heard in years.”
(DJ Format – Genuine Records)
"Oww.This sh*t is stoopid suuuun!! No turn left unstoned! Serious DJs and collectors will swear Chris has been raiding their collection! A mixtape king no question."
(DJ Ollie Teeba - The Herbaliser)
“Megamixing at its finest… Original and essential!”
(DJ Plus One – The Scratch Perverts)
“An amazing piece of work!”
(Mr Thing – Former World DMC Team Champion)
“This mix is bananas! F***ing awesome! The best and some more”
(Marc Hype – Former ITF Champion)
(Quotes from Music Of Substance)

Link: WGRM

I discovered this mix over at DJ Blueprints outstanding blog This Is Tomorrow

Brick City's DJ Nes has generously converted and upped the promotional only "Repeat Offender" half hour video, from the now defunct Stephen Powers founded Hip Hop publication "On The Go", you can check it (in three parts) over at his mighty blog or overhere

Canadian DJ Neoteric's awesome, mighty, bass pounding, dance-floor driven, raw, mind-blowing Mixin It Up

Our Gang 62's documentary on photographer Ernie Paniccioli, entitled The Other Side of Hip - Hop (The Sixth Element)

Below is some classic footage for any overseas readers of DJ A.$.K (Cross Fader Raiders) on the 1 and 2's @ the 1990 NSW DMC DJ Championships, held at the "Fame" nightclub in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia (courtesy of DJ KC over at DJs United)



TBC

This is for the DJ

(DJ Tony Tone image from the archives of Joe Conzo via Fact magazine)

Respect due. Everyone wants to be a DJ, but in a time where the music, information and access to how to dvd's on the fundamentals of mixing, scratching and breakbeating is readily available there are only a few who are still keeping the culture alive. This new track from Termanology, produced by Fizzy Womack (Lil' Fame), with cuts from Statik Selektah - The Music Industry (Spine magazine) is so relevant in the revolving door climate in which everything seems to be expendable and in a society where acceptance is often granted nowdays to those who can afford to buy their way into an artform, such as a style of music that developed from a subculture pioneered by the poor that was once dismissed by major labels, corporate entities and the general public as a fad.