It was a great scene before records were made specifically for it.
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As is often the way 
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This still sounds good:
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Same with Trip Hop really
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Football punditry from ex-Man U players. We get it that Fergie was a cunt, we really do but Jesus surely there are people who can tell us stories about different managers. Rio is the worst, literally has nothing else to say. Dullard.
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I booked him for a tour of South Africa years ago. Was utter carnage and a good laugh. We didn’t make a penny but loads of memories.
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Thought the Skint stuff aged quite badly, listened to the Lo Fi Allstars album recently & bar Battleflag which still bangs, it was poor.
The Chems when they were still the Dust Brothers were Big Beat, the records they were buying off Moonboots at Eastern Bloc & playing out.
AV8 stuff was played by the Big Beat DJs, Ragga Twins, Schooly D…it was fun & more eclectic than it’s given credit for but then like lots of scenes it had it’s time i guess
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Used to really like him as a DJ, his Essential Mix with Richard Fearless was good, but then he started making shitty House as Junior Cartier.
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Just had a listen to a junior Cartier tune, very glad I missed that phase!
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I always love that ‘proto’ era of any new music scene, that’s where the creativity lives, people making a sound that doesn’t exist yet
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I still like the Lo Fi’s first album! Kool Roc Bass and Vision Incision. The second album after the OG singer left was dire however
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Rap before there were rap records must’ve been so exciting. Same with disco, techno, everything. Gimme a choice of time and place to be 18 gotta be nyc in '73
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House wasn’t as cool in 2013 as it is now at least 
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We had it good in 88 but NYC in 73 would have been 
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Man, I’d like to just read about your stories in hip hop. I was in a prominent early uk crew, so was exposed to a little of the madness, but it seems very taboo to criticise anything hip hop within the scene. I criticise anything and everything, so found it all very stifling.
There must be endless stories, where’s the book?
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Lived in Brighton through the 90s. Gareth’s early Big Beat Boutique parties at the old Concorde were a lot of fun. Probably more so because I was in my 20s without a care in the world. The hazy memories of the parties are better than the music sounds now.
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I’ll second that. We need a book!
I’ve just done an extensive interview for a friend’s very important/worthwhile forthcoming book on hip hop and I spent half my time editing my interview to remove anything that could possibly offend anyone or even get construed as sharing private information. I think it highlighted for me why my former business partner and I have tabled occasional plans to do a book or documentary- sadly the New York rap scene is not a peaceful or harmonious place. I’m also a little burnt because I did a great and exhaustive interview for another book and it wasn’t included (basically neither was any other interview that didn’t directly focus on the accomplishments of the author of the book)- when that book came out with all of my flyers in it I was super excited still because it felt like it enshrined my place in the history of nyc nightlife to an extent but I was really bummed that the words I took so much time to consider were discarded.
I know Dante Ross is going to release a book next year and based on his insane life story and sharp brain I know it was will be amazing (as was the beastie book) and that it will inspire more people to memorialize their time in the trenches.
The other complication in my particular instance is that my former partner who gave me my start has lived an almost unbelievable movie-quality wild life but he’s also successfully on a healing path and I’m not sure that digging up all the trauma of his formative years is healthy for him. We saw a lot of really sad and scary shit out in those clubs and many people we loved (and people we despised) have passed away under pretty harsh circumstances.
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The Grammys & the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame
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Comedians on TV. Have they always been this bland and unfunny?
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