A few that will always remind me of Mike Allen.
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Didn’t realise you’d posted this too. Preview was missing. The NEST mix was a blinder too. Early Louie Vega business.
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This is my copy of Electro 7, its the first Electro that I owned on wax.
I was on holiday at Butlins in Minehead and from a Breakin perspective its was nuts, it was proper Breakin fever! The first day my mum and I arrived we walked into the area where they have a Disco at night and there were a load of kids Breakin. I made friends with a couple of lads from Nottingham and spent the rest of the holiday with them, my mum still jokes that i abandoned her for the whole holiday.
So on a walk into Minehead town center (with my mum so she wasn’t completely abandoned) I spotted this Electro 7 (the latest in the Electro series) in WH Smiths, so got my mum to buy it for me, my first Electro.
The guys I meet from Nottingham also gave me a (dubbed) copy of Electro 6 that I also didn’t have (and hadn’t even heard) at that point.
I took my copy of Electro 7 to the Butlins Disco one evening and the DJ played Girls off it.
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I’d forgotten what an absolutley fantastic video this is - a total time capsule - from Trouble at the start, the BMX’s, the ghetto blaster with Dread at the Control graphic - just brilliant throughout
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Proper time capsule that vid. Bit earlier than I recall it too.
London streets/school buildings as I remember them.
Also features a death trap roundabout that I would have been flung off at the time approaching Warp speed 9
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You can’t have Nunk and not follow with Light Years…
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Need a high quality tee with that prism graphic, such a great label design
Soul tees has one but it’s more blocky
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The best days. BMX, Nike windcheaters, watching the breakers in Covent Garden etc etc, not a care in the world.
Captain Rock was my guy…‘shake shake shake and party hearty’
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Love that Greatest Beats Megamix, but think I love this more.
Had the bootleg, then managed to get the original Tommy Boy promo with all three lessons. An important record.
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Amazing. Yes, I can’t listen to the original without thinking “Soul Power” after each bass bar! Great tracks, and yes very influential. Never seemed to get released beyond promo back then, radio only?? Prob took till 2000 to clear all the samples! From Wikipedia:
“In 83, Tommy Boy Records held a promotional contest in which entrants were asked to remix the single “Play That Beat, Mr. D.J.” by G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid. Double Dee & Steinski entered with “Lesson 1” & the jury awarded them first prize. Tommy Boy promo released it with “Lesson 2 & 3” in 85.”
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Steinski reminded me of this, ‘gorgeous, pretty fine girls, tourists from around the world, executives in the business suits, Texans in the cowboy boots…’
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Steinski has all the Lessons on his BC page btw if anyone’s interested, $1 a pop.
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Only ever promo / self released / bootleg on vinyl.
The first official looking non promo release I’m aware of is this from 2008:
https://www.discogs.com/master/190740-Steinski-What-Does-It-All-Mean-1983-2006-Retrospective
I was very happy to find this bootleg back in the day. Before that all I had was a tape from Westwood’s LWR show:
https://www.discogs.com/master/176699-DDS-History-Of-Hip-Hop
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I first heard The Lessons after after my mate Stuart (or Pro-ski ask he was know then) taped them off the John Peel show.
Years latter I found a bootleg of them in the Soul II Soul shop.
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