Brett Domino and Steven Peavis performing ‘Rapper’s Delight’ – Sugar Hill Gang, ‘Jump Around’ – House of Pain and ‘Boom! Shake The Room’ – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (well 2/3 aint bad – note the word classics was used for the first two in this medley, not the Xenu-bothering t(h)urd).

Now I really want one of these. I’m guessing since they had it pre-release it’s a sort of viral ad for Stylophone Beatbox; but love the nerd rap in this (and it looks like a cool gadget AND only £10-15 quid…wow. I’m a sucker for musical toys!).

Of course you could also whip up a Devo cover with it, which might pop up anywhere or evenblow up virally. (see what I did there?)

(image created in part by Data Bending – like Circuit Bending or Data Moshing but taking the data of an image file and hacking it about to create interesting errors

Time to let the machines run the show, so this is DJ Charles IV (my iPod) choosing the playlist for this show, with a little Blue Peter style help from me, but it’s mostly his choices, I’m just tagging along for the ride!

He’ll be making the tea next (94Mb, 128Mins)

• Cee-Lo – Night Train (with the Goodie Mob – from Stray Bullets mixtape)
• Mos Def – The Embassy (from The Ecstatic)
• David Cain – May (from The Seasons)
• Dennis Alcapone – No.1 Station
• Goodie Mob – Cell Therapy
• B.o.B – Don’t Break My Heart
• Ian Dury – Don’t Ask Me
• Passion Pit – I’ve Got Your Number
• John Baker – Milky Way
• Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
• Sage Francis – The Best of Times (from LI(f)e)
• Goodie Mob – Free
• David Cain – July (from The Seasons)
• Horace Heidt & His Californians – Turn On The Heat
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood – One September Monday
• Link Wray & The Raymen – The Fuzz
• Mos Def – Casa Bey (from The Ecstatic)
• Ian Dury – Inbetweenies
• Justice + Cursive – Justified Bad Sex (eve massacre mix)
• Sir Mix-A-Lot – Swass
• The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom
• Goodie Mob – Guess Who
• Sage Francis – Slow Man
• Iron & Wine – Boy With A Coin
• Cee-Lo – I’ll Kill Her (feat. ME, LOnan the Destroyer - from Stray Bullets mixtape)
• Mark McGuire – Sun Shining Through The Open Barn Door
• Dolly Parton – Early Morning Breeze (Bent Remix with B.J.Cole)

Guru of Gangstarr dies aged 43. Far too young.

The ‘how many tunes can you cram into a mini?’ challenge continues – well this went out earlier in the year but I missed it – Jaguar Skills mixing 30 years of hiphop in one hour…it’s a total nostalgia fest for me, especially as my interest in bootlegs coincided with hiphop & RnB getting it’s act together after years of boring gangsta posturing and chin-stroking 70′s soul samples. This mix confirms what I’ve always thought – that the years 1997-99 were the worst in hiphop – I lost interest in all that 2Pac/Biggie shit and was frankly relieved when they were killed (I wonder if it was by music lovers? ).

May have made for headlines, books and films but made with a few exceptions (cohort Puffy, Dre’s California Love) for terrible introverted dirge-like music. A bit like crunk is now but with less ‘yeahs’. So I was happy when 1999 was the year that TUNES and FUN and ELECTRONICS came back, although 98 was a lot better than 97, the lowpoint. Thankfully it seems with Kanye, Lupe and Kid Cudi that the intelligent and POP is now again back in hiphop? Hope so…

Anyway you can find this mix here (it’s a radio rip, as you’d expect as it was only available on BBC Radio 1). Let me know if the link goes down and I’ll up it somewhere…deserves to be up, no way this could ever be put out legit as the rights on 538 tunes alone would take years to clear and probably hundreds to buy!

Beat This: A Hip Hop History BBC documentary from 1984 about the roots of hiphop – contains an interview with the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the father of hiphop…and Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McLaren, Arthur Baker and more.