Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes (Vol. 2)

Continuing the series, here we have Volume Two which, as convention dictates, comes swiftly in the slipstream of Volume One and should hopefully be followed by Volume Three, depending on whether I actually do any work today.

Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes Vol. 2 >>

C.I.A. - Ill-Legal
RICHARD THOMPSON - New St. George
MARTIN MOLE - Straight Talk About The Blues
SUGAR MINOTT - Bubbly
HOT COLD SWEAT -  Move Like That
ADMIRAL BAILEY - Big Belly Man
WITCH DOCTOR & THE 3 DOMINATING MCs - Kicking It Live
HAZEL DICKENS - Coal Mining Woman
THE CYNICS - No Way
SCHOOLLY D - Dedication To All B-Boys
ROSCOE ROBINSON - Let Me Know
LORD BEGINNER - Election

Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes (Vol. 1)

Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes >>

Back in the 1980s, when I was very poor, I used to sit at home recording loads of stuff off the radio, and make pause button tapes of the best music. Now, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, this can be enjoyed at home by anyone, made plausible and even possible via the generosity of the internet. Much of this was originally taped from the John Peel show, which was for me, like many who were trapped in shit towns in the UK, a window into a world of fantastic music, music that I couldn't really afford, save for the occasional splash on a Streetsounds compilation.

The music on here is wildly diverse, as it should be, in my view. Recorded in the first half of 1987 It's what I was digging 23 years ago. The editing is hilariously bad, but then everything was hilariously bad in the 80s (check out those haircuts baby). Hope you dig it. Tracklist below (I was a trainspotter even then, see.)

RAPPIN' REVEREND -  I Ain't Into That
DUANE & CO. - JB In Heat
ERIC B & RAKIM -  I Know You've Got Soul
THE GO-BETWEENS - Don't Call Me Gone
MICHELLE SHOCKED -  Contest Coming
WAILING SOULS - Dog Bite
BOSCA - Together
BUTCH HANCOCK - You've Never Seen Me Cry
GEORGE JONES - Good Year For The Roses
THE TIMES - David Jones Is On His Way
DAVID BOWIE - Fame
MIAMI - Chicken Yellow

DJ History Podcast #69: Desert Island Disco - Dave Lee

After a bigger delay than I wanted, we've finally got the Dave Lee Desert Island Disco live. Hope it was worth the wait. Dave Lee, for those of you actually living on a desert island for the 20 years, is the man behind Joey Negro, Akabu, Raven Maize, Sunburst Band, Hed Boys and myriad other guises. As the owner of Zedd Records, he's also released several brilliant disco and boogie compilations, including the just out Back Street Britfunk >>

On a personal level, he's someone I've known for 20 years, having first met him when he moved into a room I was moving out of in a flat in Islington. We've been friends ever since and I can't think of anyone else who has turned me on to as many great records (especially disco) as he has.


Tracklisting:

THE HUMAN LEAGUE - The Sound Of The Crowd
CHICAGO - Woman Don't Want To Love Me
LOGG - You've Got That Something
STARSHIP ORCHESTRA - New York New York
TECH TRAX INC - Tech Trax Inc



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Chicken Lips remix competition! Yeah, baby, let's go!

I love a bit of Chicken Lips, me. And Emperor Machine for that matter. White Light Circus too. Bizarre Inc? Yeah, why not. 

Anyhow, to celebrate the massive expansion of our spangly new download store (details coming soon) we're giving budding remixers the opportunity to rework a track by one of the UK's leading producers, Chicken Lips. The tune is Sweet Cow, taken from 2006's Making Faces album, and the winner of the competition will have their tune on sale in the new DJhistory download store, alongside all the other classic Lips' shizzle.

Competition ends on August 31st 2010.

Please submit your entry in MP3 320 format and email it to Bill here >>
Please put Chicken Lips Competition in the subject box. 


Download parts here >>


Let's go. 

DJ History Podcast #68

Whoops. Meant to post this on Friday as soon as I'd done the show, but totally slipped my mind, then the weekend intervened. I was distracted slightly by the World Cup, plus I was DJing on Saturday with Ray Mang, so I spent the evening raiding the green room with Raj while getting whoozy on V&Ts. Twas good, though less so when the kids climbed into my bed at 7.30am on Sunday.... Ouch.

Tracklisting:

ANDREA TRIANA - Draw The Stars (Ninja Tune)
KM EDITION - Feelings of Ecstasy (KM)
KODE9 - You Don't Wash (Dub) (DJ-Kicks)
AZYMUTH - Os Cara La (Rabotnik Mix) (Far Out)
LAURENT GARNIER - Gnanmankoudji (Emperor Machine Mix)
PENGUIN PRISON - A Funny Thing (Gold Dust Retweak) (CD-R)
HOT LUNCH - Inside Of You (PPF)
BODI BILL - Tip Toe Walk (Siriusmo Remix) (Sinnbus)
KIRSTY ALMEIDA - Spider (Mr Scruff Mix) (Decca)
LEO GANDELMAN - Abertura (Far Out)

Yeah kids, our new book The Record Players is now on pre-sale. It's a collection of all of our bestest interviews from the past 20 years or so with DJing's revolutionaries, similar to the ones we host on DJHistory.com but many more and most never seen before by human eyes (except me and Frank). There are also loads of charts and discographies in there, unpublished photos, memorabilia etc etc. It's ticketyboo.

Download sampler here >>

If you order it now through DJH, you'll get an exclusive CD containing Frank's legendary encounter with Francis Grasso in a Brooklyn bar at 10am in the morning (the Bud's were on Frank). You will also receive this book weeks before Amazon or book stores. If you are buying in the UK it's also free P+P (only £5 overseas).

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DJ History Podcast #67

Well, it's a right proper scorcher and no mistake. And the weather's not too shabby either.

Low Life tomorrow kids, if you can make it. It's at CAMP, ya know, then there's an afterparty at Cosmobar in Clerkenwell Road.

Here's the tracklist for this week's show.

TELESPAZIO - Closer Space (Milky Disco 3) (Lo Recordings)
BEN SUN - Salty Tears (Voyeurhythm)
JAMES YUILL - On Your Own (Moshi Moshi)
SPENCER DAVIS GROUP - I'm A Man (Pilooski Dub) (Island)
STETSASONIC - 4 Ever My Beat (Beat Bongo Mix) (Strut)
KILLER WHALE - Tell You Today (Leo Zero Mix)
ILIJA RUDMAN - Time and Time (Electric Minds)
MOCK & TOOF - Lovehearts (Tiny Sticks)
AVENUE B BOOGIE BAND - Bumper To Bumper (Disco Discharge/Diggin' Deeper) (Harmless)