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I saw Ed DMX DJ last night at a Dissident Records party in Soho.  It was fun.

It reminded me how music should be – real vinyl, scratching, eclectic, clever and joyful.  He kept switching between styles from gangsta rap to funk to electro to acid and beyond. SO GOOD!

He’s got a podcast you should check out. It has this freestyle gem on it:

PAJAMA PARTY – YO NO SE

Those Two Sisters were OK but this is the real deal. One of the best battle records ever. I know it from Street Sounds Vol 8.

Bring it on.

SPARKY D VS THE PLAYGIRLS – THE BATTLE

BTW Sparky D’s back after a 20 year break from entertainment as a christian rapper.

I don’t know where I got this compilation. It’s the type that has lots of songs inaudibly pressed on each side and the first beat frustratingly skips so even if wanted to use the pressing to DJ you’d screw up. You know what I mean? About a third of my vinyl’s like this.

It’s called “Paradisco: 12 essential Italian club cuts” and it’s full of early late 80s/early 90s house. My favourite track is this:

MB – YOU DON’T GET STOP

Now DFA’s not so ubiquitous I’ve realised I made a mistake – it was actually alright! All those years hating Our Disco were wasted. This song isn’t that great but the video reminds me of all my favourite 1980s dance movies.

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Just to think – I was in that very kitchen the next day!

DJ Venom and Damage might be playing Corsica Studios very early on Saturday morning. Check out our remix of I seen your boyfriend.

VENOM & DAMAGE – I SEEN YOUR BOYFRIEND (REMIX)

I found this 12″ during my holiday to South Beach Miami between visiting the fabulous Wolfsonian Design Museum and not so fabulous World Erotic Art Museum. BTW take a look at some of the exhibits at both.

Man Parrish, the “electro funky white boy” and pioneer of electronic music, made a track with Paul Parker, the creator of my favourite jogging track – Right on target.

PAUL PARKER – ONE LOOK (WAS ENOUGH)

The collaboration reads better than it sounds – right?

I’ve posted this video before but it’s so good I’m doing it again. This time here’s the mp3 too although Tracy performs it far better in the film than on record.

CHRIS “THE GLOVE” TAYLOR FT ICE T – RECKLESS

I don’t know much about The Glove but seems pretty amazing. Here he is with Egyptian Lover, who is also wearing a glove, teaching you suckers how to DJ.

We’ve been working hard – really hard. Our new soon to be finished mix features  13 of our own productions and remixes which range in tempo and style from heavy breathing ‘83 electro to electrohouse bangers and dubstep wobblers. There’s only two tracks not by us on the mix. One by L Vis 1990 and another by AC Slater. Here’s an unmastered preview/demo of one of ours and it’s a bootleg of Detroit In Effect that sounds a bit like Deekline IMO. What do you think?

VENOM & DAMAGE – R U MARRIED

All the clothes in this video are perfect.

THE JETS – CRUSH ON YOU

All the old original b-boys would talk about Wild Style, Style Wars, etc like they were Citizen Kane, Jules and Jim, and The Godfather all rolled into one. They’re wrong. Beat Street’s only got two good scenes.  One of which is a 30 second clip of Brenda K Starr performing Vicious Beat. I’m guessing, like almost everything else in the film, it’s produced by Arthur Baker. I can’t find the track anywhere on 12″, MP3 or tape. Does anybody on the world wide web know where I can find it?

The other good scene, The Roxy battle,  features Rock Steady Crew and the NYC Breakers in a breakdancing contest. I’ve already blogged about that before. So here are the NYC Breakers a few years later wearing tight trousers.

I don’t say much on this blog these days. I use the word this a lot too. I’m playing records like this one at Top Nice on Friday. It’s going to be wild.

DOMINATRIX – THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT