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Total Chaos

I just posted some more hot shit at RAWKUS but I'll give you real heads a quick treat. Priority One only released this single to my knowledge and it's so frustrating because the instrumental of 'Showin' My Stuff' is totally different to the vocal version on the A side, not only is totally different but it's absolutely bananas. I'd kill for a full vocal version of this instrumental / dub. Don't get me wrong, the A side version is ill but this is iller. Peep it. Big up Ron Delight and Louie Louie, where are they now !

Priority One - Showin' My Stuff (Dub)













Here's the album which you should own and if you don't, cop it for stupid money on ebay, you won't regret it you new school herb !!

Why You Buggin'?

Just so you know I wasn't kidding about keeping this blog active I had to hit you with this little gem. There was a limited pressing of Run DMC Mary Mary with a bonus edit of the instrumental by Gail 'Sky' King. It totally flips the original and is just one of those quirky promo only releases that you have to track down.

Run DMC - Mary Mary (Gail 'Sky' King Re-Edit)

Coming In June

Wuddup peeps, I took a blog vacation but I'm back with some new posts HERE. I'm going to put most of my posts up there for a while but keep checking here because I'll put some extra special joints up to keep the fiends happy.

In the meantime, check for Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda - Unthugged II: Electric Boogaloo out in June. Check HERE for the low down.

PEAS

Lesson 4

As promised, here's a real gem. Shadow told me there were only 800 of these 12's made but many were destroyed by the record label at the time so who knows how many official copies are out there. It's been bootlegged since but the only way to tell if it's an original is it has the Lifers Group sticker on the sleeve. Anyway, in true Greenpeace style, Josh signed this for me and I attach the audio of the track for your listening pleasure. Enjoy (and if you like what you see please leave comments, it will encourage me to put more dope shit up here)

Interview With Shadow about Lesson 4
DJ Shadow - Lesson 4

The Lessons

Okay, here's a lesson and a bit of cross-promotion. If you check out www.rawkus.com you'll see the label scans for the Double Dee & Steinski 'Lessons' on Disconet with a little blurb. I thought I'd keep some treats for this blog too. If you've ever seen Fat Lace Magazine, that is the only place you will have seen these images before, taken from my personal collection. I've also added a bonus Disconet scan. (remember, feedback is always appreciated !!)

Here's some more info in Disconet CLICK

Rawkus.com

Yo Yo. I started a new blog at Rawkus.com, solely focussing on classic Hip Hop 12"s. Don't worry, this one isn't coming to an end.
www.rawkus.com

Never Dated (Classic Magazine Covers #3)

Time for a new shrine. Like all great artists, I'm sure Milk will reappear sometime soon. This usually annoys me though as I like to think of my icons chilling on a beach somewhere living large off their royalties, never to be seen again. I'll make an exception this time, the world needs Milk D.
So back in 2001 Milk, bizarrely enough, was in London promoting a neo-crooner called Jason Downs, just as you would expect any old-school rap legend to be doing. The All City Show at that time was little known. The original crew consisted of Whatever Man (Zane Lowe), DJ Touche (The Wiseguys) and me, Dan Greenpeace (Dan Greenpeace). We invited Milk in for an interview and what we got was an amazing live rendition of Top Billin'. We all just stood there and gawped at Milk performing his classic to a private audience of three people. Shout out to DJ Touche who provided the first and last beat that Milk rhymed on.
Before he came on the show, we'd already featured Milk on the cover of Fat Lace Issue 5 where he famously revealed '(DJ) Red Alert said Lyte sounded like a boy and I (Milk) sounded like a girl. He hated Top Billin'. Maybe if Milk had bought him some rims, he'd have played the record. Or is that Funk Master Flex?
Anyone reading this who has been steeped in hip-hop culture will be well aware of Milk's formative years in the group Audio Two, so to avoid cliche, I dug out some of releases after he dropped the 'D' from his name. If you dig a little deeper you'll find out Ad-Roc and Sway & Tech were also involved in this Milk project.

I guess if I'm going to do this I need to be thorough, so here's Milk's catalogue, just on Rick Rubin's American Recordings:

SPOILED MILK Milk 'Spoiled Milk' (nice touch with the Yellow Vinyl)*
AM-3021 Milk 'Never Dated' LP (Picture Sleeve)**
AM 9 43005-1 Milk 'Never Dated' CD (with extra tracks)
AM-1993-0 Milk 'Spam' 12" (Picture Sleeve - you gotta love that swine head)*
AM-146 Milk 'Get Off My Log' (Picture Sleeve - subtle phallic imagery, hilarious)
AM-135-PRO Milk 'Get Off My Log' (White Vinyl - the colour of milk, clever)
AM-140-PRO Milk 'Get Off My Log' Jazzy Fat Woody Remix (White Vinyl)

* I think this was pressed by American but not 100% sure
** Has anyone seen a promo or test pressing of these? Hit me up.


Click to hear Milk D on the All City Show circa 2001 (if you like the audio, please say 'what's up' and leave a comment)

Click to watch Milk 'Get Off My Log' video (if you like the audio, please say 'what's up' and leave a comment)

No Vaseline

I'm reading this book at the moment. It's a pretty good insight and a frank recollection of the events leading up to the inception of Ruthless Records through to it's ultimate demise when Eazy died of AIDS. Jerry Heller formed Ruthless with Eazy and introduced the world to groups like N.W.A. as well as artists such as Michel'le and the D.O.C. It seems he didn't have the greatest relationship with Ice Cube who left N.W.A. shortly after their debut album was released. Cube called Heller out on one of his later recordings 'No Vaseline' which you should dig out.
I'd never met any of the original members of N.W.A. until recently when Ice Cube released his album 'Laugh Now, Cry Later' and came on my show for an interview (I'll archive that at a later date). Before this book came out, I knew he was never the best of friends with Heller but I didn't know the severity of his beef with Ruthless. When Cube came in for the interview I thought I'd wear my Ruthless Records T Shirt for the purposes of nostalgia. It was only when I read the book soon after that I realised I must have been rubbing his nose right in it.
As ever, I got him to sign a few records, although his hand writing is obviously not the best. He seemed impressed that I had 12" copies of all his early singles when he was a member of the group C.I.A..

Click Here for The C.I.A. "My Posse" (if you like the audio, please say 'what's up' and leave a comment)

Classic Magazine Covers #2

This magazine is probably the most classic out there. Maybe I'm bias. Down the line I'll talk a whole lot more about Fat Lace but let me break down the story behind this particular cover first. So Eminem was blowing up around '99/'00. Me and the crew were totally aware of Em before most people caught on after we discovered his early 12" releases. Paul Rosenberg, Em's manager used to manage a group called The High & Mighty. A friend of mine Jon Shecter also knew Paul, so between the two connections we did a phone interview with Em for Fat Lace. This was the first magazine cover Em ever got, before Stress had him dressed as Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, later copied by Spin Magazine. I used the same interview for a feature in HHC down the line but this was the first. At the time, he had beef with Cage, so he talked about that a lot.
The next year I got invited to interview Em before his show at the Manchester Nynex Arena. I was the only radio DJ to be invited. Zane Lowe was the only TV presenter allowed. That interview was a little more interesting as his fame levels had risen by then. He'd become a world-wide phenomenon by 2001. The interview I did with him in Manchester was used on his European Tour DVD, there I was, clearly speaking to Em about Mark The 45 King producing 'Stan'. He seemed pretty impressed by that. I'll archive that footage later.
Before I started on XFM, and a few months before the Manchester interview, Westwood had heard one of my mixtapes called 'Jiggy Free'. It was actually Jon Shecter that told him about it. I used to visit Jon at the office for Game Records / Game Girls in New York and always took him copies of my tapes and the latest Fat Lace issue. Westwood called me up. I thought it was a hoax. He asked me to come on the show and do a guest mix. Me and Andrew Emery aka Drew Huge went to the Radio 1 studio. I did a 20 minute mix of the latest Independent classics which went down well. So who walks in the studio for his first appearance on Westwood? You guessed it, Marshall Mathers III, Paul Rosenberg and the whole entourage. That was a really classic show which I'll archive at some point. That's when I got Em to sign Fat Lace Issue 3 and his 2nd 12" release which also includes my press pass from the Nynex show.