P-SCRATCH ALLSTARS ON LWR
Sometime in 1985 the tuner was locked into London pirate radio station LWR for the Tuesday night hip hop show. Here Tim Westwood plays ‘DKC1IXX’, a mixtape from the P-Scratch Allstars, comprising of DJ Jeeves on turntable and Sir Funky Lord of the Beatbox on percussion programming. The Sony HF90 cassette starts with a severely wonky azimuth and we lose the high frequency, which may be caused by Westwood’s original cassette, or my cassette, or a combination of both. Thankfully the tape sorts itself out at 4’30” and treble returns.
This recording includes Westwood’s customary comical comments, plus he dispatches a few double-def dedications and special Zulu Hello’s to:
Highway
Wakey
Wild & Turtle
The Turtle Master of England
The Metro Wreckers (Peace & Unity unless provoked)
and King Cut Fast Cut King Fast – The Bi-Pod (known by his mum as Andrew Teltham).
Tracklist: Here Comes That Beat – Pumpkin and the Profile Allstars, Sucker DJs – Run DMC, Jam Master Jay – Run DMC, Cosmic Blast (Dub) – Captain Rock.
“DJ Undercover is looking worried, wiping some sweat off his brow”
December 2, 2018 @ 12:42 am
It was Good Friday 1985. I’d just come back from Good Friday mass where I’d been bored out of my mind and went straight to my radio and started searching around and stubbled upon this very mix playing on LWR. I’d never heard Westwood’s show before and my mind was blown. I found a tape and started recording. I lost that tape many years ago, it’s awesome that this mix is up now, thanks so very much! Gonna search this site for other mixes from that era F