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Solid Steel - 25 years of The Broadest Beats

To celebrate 25 years of broadcasting, Solid Steel have commissioned exclusive mixes from iconic artists and DJs from around the world. These mixes will be broadcast throughout the year and will feature Four Tet, J Rocc, Skream, The Gaslamp Killer, Kirk DeGiorgio, Trevor Jackson, Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle, Toddla T, Benji B, Photek, Andy Votel, Z-Trip, Tom Middleton, Richard Dorfmeister, Greg Wilson, DJ Kentaro, James Lavelle, Gilles Peterson, Don Letts, Jack Dangers, Future Sound of London, Kid Koala, Luke Vibert, Laurent Garnier, Congo Natty, Andrew Weatherall, Francois Kevorkian, Fink, Ross Allen, Mixmaster Morris, Manasseh and the first guest to appear on Solid Steel back in 1988, Juan Atkins, plus many more to be announced.

Solid Steel represents where the DJ mix came from - and where it's going.

RELEASES

Various Artists - Solid Steel 1988-2008 : 20 Years Of The Broadest Beats

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Various Artists - Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK: Now, Listen Again!

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Various Artists - Solid Steel presents Bonobo: It Came From The Sea

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RADIO

Solid Steel Radio Show

United States of Audio, DK, Ghostbeard

Solid Steel (24th May) Following on from last year's treatment of 'Paul's Boutique' (by DJ Food, Cheeba and Moneyshot), United States of Audio does the same with De la Soul's groundbreaking album 3 Feet High and Rising. It's not just a mix, but more like an audio documentary about an album that is also about to celebrate it's 25th anniversary. In his own words;
'Several years in the making and including around 100 tracks, this is my personal tribute to De La Soul's '3 Feet High and Rising'. Using original sample sources, album tracks, interviews and rarities, 'How High's The Water Mama' tells the story of one of hip hop's most influential albums.
When De La Soul's debut album dropped in 1989 I was ten years old. Yet, by some stroke of amazing good fortune a cassette copy of '3 Feet High and Rising' found its way into my hands thanks to my best mate's older brother (though I'm pretty sure said brother had no idea of this fact!). The music was a revelation and had a significant influence in shaping my musical tastes - in fact I can't think of any other album that has had such a profound effect on me as this one. Thus '3 Feet High and Rising' holds a special place in my musical affections. Now, some twenty-five years after its original release, it's time to pay my respect to Pos, Dove, Mase, and Prince Paul...'

DK follows in Hour 2 with some more recent hip hop from The Underachievers on Brainfeeder, the return of Quasimoto on Stones Throw, Paul White featuring Danny Brown and Ty with 'Let's start', plus vintage Jeru the Damaja with the classic 'Come clean'. Omar is still delivering quality soul, followed by reissued tracks from Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou and Terry Garthwaite on the joint If Music and Ninja Tune compilation, before closing with King Midas Sound.
The mighty Ghostbeard returns with another fine reggae selection, this time from Japan. With music from Ken2-D Special, Fly-T, Dry & Heavy and Sly Mongoose, it sounds like they grew up on On U Sound classics. All this plus extra vocals dropped over the mix by Yellow Mouse (aka Kiki Hitomi from King Midas Sound).

Part 1 + 2 - United States of Audio

Part 3 + 4 - DK + Ghostbeard

PLAYLIST — 24/5/2013

PART 1 — United States of Audio

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
United States Of Audio	De La Intro	Unknown
Average White Band	School Boy Crush	Atlantic
De La Soul	Intro	Tommy Boy
Bob Dorough	Three Is A Magic Number	Capitol
Double Dee & Steinski	Lesson 3 (history Of Hip Hop Mix)	Tommy Boy
Run Dmc	Here We Go (live At The Funhouse)	Profile
Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Columbia
Syl Johnson	Different Strokes	Bgp
James Brown	Funky Drummer	Harmless
De La Soul	The Magic Number (too Mad Mix)	Tommy Boy
Fatback	Is This The Future?	Spring
De La Soul	The Magic Number (1-2-3 Mix)	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	The Magic Number	Tommy Boy
The Monkees	"mary, Mary "	Rca
The Mad Lads	No Strings Attached	Volt
Cymande	Bra	Janus
The New Birth	Got To Get A Knut	Rca
De La Soul	Can U Keep A Secret	Tommy Boy
Maggie Thrett	Soupy	Dynovoice
De La Soul	Jenifa Taught Me (derwin's Revenge)	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	Derwin	Tommy Boy
Steve Miller Band	Take The Money And Run	Mercury
Liberace	Chopsticks	Columbia
De La Soul	Ghetto Thang	Tommy Boy
Kraftwerk	Trans Europe Express	Capitol
James Brown	Funky President	Polydor
The Blackbyrds	Rock Creek Park	Bgp
De La Soul	Eye Know (know It All Mix)	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	Eye Know	Tommy Boy
Steely Dan	Peg	Abc
Otis Redding	(sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay	Atlantic
The Mad Lads	Make This Young Lady Mine	Volt
De La Soul	Tread Water (squire Mix)	Flying International
De La Soul	Tread Water (mr Fish Mix)	Flying International
De La Soul	Tread Water	Tommy Boy
The People's Choice	I Likes To Do It	Mojo
The People's Choice	I Likes To Do It (extended Mix)	Jamie Record Co
De La Soul	What's More	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	A Little Bit Of Soap	Tommy Boy
The Jarmels	A Little Bit Of Soap	Laurie
Sly & The Family Stone	Poet	Epic
De La Soul	Description	Tommy Boy
Melvin Bliss	Synthetic Substitution	Sunburst
War	Magic Mountain	Abc
De La Soul	They Don't Know That The Soul Don't Go For That	Tommy Boy
Parliament	Little Ole Country Boy	Invictus
Barry White	I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby	20th Century

PART 2 — United States of Audio

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
United States Of Audio	A Cooler Breeze On The Rocks	Unknown
Richard Pryor	Crap Game	Laff
Vaughan Mason And Crew	"bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll "	Brunswick
Mc Lyte	Lyte As A Rock	Atlantic
Ashford & Simpson	Solid	Capitol
Fearless Four	Rockin' It	Enjoy
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force	Planet Rock (acapella)	Tommy Boy
Cutmaster D.c.	Brooklyn Rocks	Zakia
Run Dmc	Hit It Run	Profile
Beastie Boys	The New Style	Def Jam
Treacherous Three	Body Rock	Sugar Hill
The Real Roxanne	Bang Zoom	Cooltempo
Public Enemy	Night Of The Living Bassheads	Def Jam
L.l. Cool J	L.l. Cool J	Epic
The B-boys	Rock The House	Streetwave
Disco Dave	High Power Rap	Mike & Dave Records
Imperial Brothers	We Come To Rock	Streetwave
Wilson Pickett	Hey Jude	Atlantic
The Turtles	You Showed Me	White Whale
De La Soul	Plug Tunin'	Tommy Boy
The Invitations	Written On The Wall	Dynovoice
Billy Joel	Stiletto	Columbia
De La Soul	Buddy	Tommy Boy
Taana Gardner	Heartbeat	West End
De La Soul	Buddy (native Souls Instrumental)	Tommy Boy
The Commodores	"girl, I Think The World About You "	Motown
Eddie Harris	Get On Up And Dance	Atlantic
De La Soul	Take It Off	Tommy Boy
Funky 4 + 1	That's The Joint	Sugar Hill
The Turtles	I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (we're The Royal Macadamia Nuts)	White Whale
Detroit Emeralds	Baby Let Me Take You (in My Arms)	Westbound
Hall And Oates	I Can't Go For That (no Can Do)	Rca
De La Soul	Say No Go (bonus Beats	Tommy Boy
Sly Stone	Cross Word Puzzle	Epic
The Emotions	Best Of My Love	Cbs
De La Soul	Say No Go	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	Say No Go (unity Mix)	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	Me Myself And I (richie Rich Remix)	Tommy Boy
De La Soul	Me Myseld And I (instrumental)	Tommy Boy
Edwin Birdsong	Rapper Dapper	Salsoul
Funkadelic	Not Just Knee Deep	Warner Bros
Doug E. Fresh	The Original Human Beatbox	Vintertainment
Sequence	Funk You Up	Sugar Hill
De La Soul	This Is A Recording 4 Living In A Full Time Era (l.i.f.e.)	Tommy Boy
Magic Disco Machine	Scratchin'	Motown
Ohio Players	Funky Worm	Westbound
De La Soul	Ain't Hip To Be Labeled A Hippie	Tommy Boy
T-ski Valley	Catch The Beat	Grand Groove
The Rascals	My World	Atlantic
De La Soul	D.a.i.s.y. Age	Tommy Boy
Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Columbia

PART 3 — DK

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
The Underachievers	Land Of Lords (prod. Taleil Brown) (datpiff Exclusive)	Brainfeeder
Omar	The Man	Freestylerecords
Quasimoto	Planned Attack	Stones Throw
Jeru The Damaja	Come Clean	Payday
Terry Garthwaite	What More	Ninja Tune
Orchestre Poly-rythmo De Cotonou	Ecoutes Ma Melodie	Analog Africa
Ty	Let's Start	Tru Thoughts
Paul White	Street Lights Ft. Danny Brown (dabrye Remix)	Onehandedmusic
King Midas Sound	Funny Love	Ninja Tune

PART 4 — Ghostbeard

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Ken2-d Special	Sleng Teng In The U-g	Part2style
Ken2-d Special	Sunday Afternoon In The Presidents Room	Part2style
Ken2-d Special	Sleng Teng In The Umegaoka	Part2style
Fly-t	Dub	Unknown
Fly-t	Song	Unknown
Dry And Heavy	Private Plan Dub	Beat Records
Jiny A	Echo Soundsystem	Unknown
Dry And Heavy	Radical Dubber	Beat Records
Dry And Heavy	Run Away Dub	Beat Records
Dry And Heavy	Somebody Has Come	Beat Records
Sly Mongoose	El Bamba	Locarno Records
Dry And Heavy	Strictly Baby	Beat Records
Dry And Heavy	Treat-me-nt Dubbed	Beat Records

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VIDEOS

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Mr Armtone - Time Machine

Mr Armtone returns with his latest AV mix titled 'Time Machine' which expertly travels through quality selection of visuals and audio. As usual with Solid Steel video mixes, it's not just a collection of music videos, it's also about selecting exciting visuals to match the audio and edit into a well crafted video mixtape. We open with hip hop and beats from The Chemical Brothers, Haiku D'Etat, Jay Z and Tipper, moving on to our own Coldcut and The Herbaliser and up into TC and Cyantific. Then it's a brief old skool trip with Sir Mix-A-Lot and back again with Dizzie Rascal, Benga, Silkie and an appearance from Wiley. We close with Hexstatic, the excellent Breakage remix for Roots Manuva and a sublime ending with 'Time Machine' by Chocolate Milk.

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK - Part 1

DK returns with 'Cymatic Frequencies II' and as before it's another AV mix. This is Part 1 of 'Best of 2011', taking personal favourites from his mixes this year and adding suitable and sometimes breathtaking visuals to compliment the audio. This Video Mixtape includes a few of the artists Original video's but in most cases visuals have been sourced from animation, CGI, Short Films, archive footage and edited to each track in the mix. Some of the 2011 musical highlights include Africa Hitech, Machinedrum, Peverelist, Skream, Pearson Sound, Thundercat, Michael Kiwanuka and the Stepkids, plus there's a few dips into the archive with Wayne Smith, Tribe of Issachar, Herbie Hancock, Burial and Vangelis.

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK - Part 2

We continue with the second part of Cymatic Frequencies II by DK, the Video Mixtape reviewing some of his favourite mixes from 2011 with added visuals. Using more Original Videos from the artist this time and the quality of the music is equally as good as Part 1. It's a sombre start with Gil Scott-Heron RIP, followed by James Blake and hip hop from Paul White, Danny Brown and Shabazz Palaces. Ninja Tune feature with Mr Scruff, Toddla T, Raffertie and Fink, with Big Dada represented by Wiley & Offshore. There's 2 from Martyn on Brainfeeder, Zed Bias features 3 times and it's big club tracks from Joe Goddard, Julio Bashmore and Fourtet. Plus there's a few classics from Liquid Liquid, Radiohead and Har You Percussion group to close a visual feast.

MAILING LIST

INFO — CONTACT

Coldcut: myspace.com/coldcut
DJ Food: djfood.org
DK: twitter.com/DK_SolidSteel
Hexstatic: myspace.com/hexstatic
King Megatrip: megatrip.blogspot.com
Boom Monk Ben: mixedbizness.co.uk
DJ Moneyshot: djmoneyshot.co.uk
DJ Cheeba: djcheeba.com
Ruckus Roboticus: ruckusroboticus.com

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