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Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: 6 Mix [2010-06-20] – Dave Pearce (Street Sounds Special).zip
Broadcast on BBC 6 Music on the 20th June 2010.
“…Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums which dominated UK dance music in the early 1980s. Started in 1982 by London based Streetwave Records as a way for people to get hold of expensive, rare dance and hip-hop 12 inch records only in available in the USA, Streetsounds compilation albums bought previously underground music onto Britain’s high streets with a new album every three months. Street Sounds compilations soon became essential for anyone into hip hop, house, rare groove or electro music, at a time when the British charts were dominated by the New Romantic bands like Visage and Spandau Ballet. Founder Morgan Khan licensed early tracks from Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaatta and The Fatback Back as well as opening the doors for US labels like Def Jam and Profile recordings, at a time when the UK music industry was still a closed shop for anyone but the traditional major labels. Morgan Khan joins Dave in the studio to tell the incredible story of how a Hong Kong-born Indian who grew up in 1970s London came to be so influential in the early days of dance music and how Street Sounds helped bring hip hop and electronic music to the mainstream. Dave and Morgan also play and talk about seminal tracks from the Street Sounds back catalogue including D-Train, Scott La Rock, Roy Ayers and Todd Terry…”
Raw Silk – Do It To The Music
Roy Ayers – Running Away
Candi Staton – You Got The Love
Fatback Band – I Found Lovin’ (1987
The Sugarhill Gang – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
Masquerade – Set It Off
Rose Royce – Magic Touch
Chuck Brown – Bustin’ Loose
Hashim – Al-Naafiysh
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock
Joe Smooth – Promised Land
Todd Terry – Bango (To The Batmobile)
Stakker – Stakker Humanoid
DJ Scott La Rock – South Bronx
The Egyptian Lover – Do U Wanna Get Down [Deb’s Duel Of Legends Mix]
Dayton – The Sound Of Music
Cheryl Lynn – Encore
The Staple Singers – Slippery People
Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan mix)
Aleem – Get Loose
Peter Black – My Love Is Free
Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: 6 Mix [2010-06-20] – Dave Pearce (Street Sounds Special).zip
Broadcast on BBC 6 Music on the 20th June 2010.
“…Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums which dominated UK dance music in the early 1980s. Started in 1982 by London based Streetwave Records as a way for people to get hold of expensive, rare dance and hip-hop 12 inch records only in available in the USA, Streetsounds compilation albums bought previously underground music onto Britain’s high streets with a new album every three months. Street Sounds compilations soon became essential for anyone into hip hop, house, rare groove or electro music, at a time when the British charts were dominated by the New Romantic bands like Visage and Spandau Ballet. Founder Morgan Khan licensed early tracks from Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaatta and The Fatback Back as well as opening the doors for US labels like Def Jam and Profile recordings, at a time when the UK music industry was still a closed shop for anyone but the traditional major labels. Morgan Khan joins Dave in the studio to tell the incredible story of how a Hong Kong-born Indian who grew up in 1970s London came to be so influential in the early days of dance music and how Street Sounds helped bring hip hop and electronic music to the mainstream. Dave and Morgan also play and talk about seminal tracks from the Street Sounds back catalogue including D-Train, Scott La Rock, Roy Ayers and Todd Terry…”
Raw Silk – Do It To The Music
Roy Ayers – Running Away
Candi Staton – You Got The Love
Fatback Band – I Found Lovin’ (1987
The Sugarhill Gang – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
Masquerade – Set It Off
Rose Royce – Magic Touch
Chuck Brown – Bustin’ Loose
Hashim – Al-Naafiysh
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock
Joe Smooth – Promised Land
Todd Terry – Bango (To The Batmobile)
Stakker – Stakker Humanoid
DJ Scott La Rock – South Bronx
The Egyptian Lover – Do U Wanna Get Down [Deb’s Duel Of Legends Mix]
Dayton – The Sound Of Music
Cheryl Lynn – Encore
The Staple Singers – Slippery People
Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan mix)
Aleem – Get Loose
Peter Black – My Love Is Free
