Good work on the 'Best Of...' chaps
Choices 901-905 coming up but before them a few words about 891-900...
891-895 - H, old boy, there's not much I can say about that selection - they're all great tunes and I'm glad you love them. Really very glad.
896-900 - D, Immortal Technique & Sigur Ros need no words from me - I'm very happy you also love them. Guy J is very you - would expect you to mix with this; MJ - didn't really know the original and I'm not sure this is Nero's best work...; Emile Sande - this girl is class.
So, there you have it - short and sweet - here's 901-905;
Ok, as I explained to Duffy when we met in Brixton a while back - this DHS selection of mine has been a LONG TIME coming. I wanted to do a 'five-pick' that was simply tunes from 1983 ('ish) that are basically responsible for me being where I musically am now. It's taken a while 'cos unfortunately, great though it generally is, Spotify isn't as hot as it could be on early 80's underground New York electro.
However, sufficient have surfaced now to enable a worthwhile stab at it.
I don't remotely expect any of these to have anything like the impact on either of you as they did on me - I'd almost go so far as to say it'd be impossible. But bear with me - it's important to me that DHS gets the full breadth and depth of all of us so, without further ado; this is how I started...
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh - probably stood the test of time better than anything else - I still read now and again that this gets played today...
Newcleus - Computer Age - they at least two hits that resonated for longer than this one (Wikki-Wikki & Jam On It), but I went for this 'cos the 'futurism' of it totally enthralled me back in the day...
Information Society - Running - something of a cult record in recent years - I have the original 12" bought in import from Groove Records in Soho (in '84?) and I'm honestly not sure the purchase of a single record has ever given me greater satisfaction.
Man Parrish - Boogie Down Bronx - this is the fella that did THE best '83 Electro record ever (Hip Hop Be Bop - which is already on DHS) and this was the very different follow up - I can still rap 90% of this without thinking about it...
Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson 3 - as the title suggests this was the third, and what turned out to be final, 12" single in a series. Steinski basically took the template that Grandmaster Flash laid down with his 'Official Adventures Of...' release and went to town on it - basically set the template for MARRS/Coldcut/DJ Shadow/et al in terms of a bunch of samples all edited down into one cohesive whole. I was torn as to whether to do Lesson 1 (aka The Payoff Mix), Lesson 2 or go with 3 - obviously I've gone with 3 but the other two are on the same album as this track.
AND, as a bonus, I cannot highly enough recommend the hip-hop mix that is disc 2 of the release that the 'Lesson' tracks are on. It's fantastic.
There you have it chaps - eleven is up and running...
S
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