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Title: Old School Hip Hop Vol.1
Artist: Various
Label: Seamless Recordings
Genre: Hip Hop
Price: £9.99
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Release Date: 6th August 2007
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Details: Seamless, the home of the highly acclaimed Bargrooves series unveil their brand new CD series Vintage Grooves.
I t ’s been nearly 25 years since the release of the original and first ‘Mastercuts’ album. A genre defining compilation
series compiled with absolute love and dedication. It’s with this same ethos that Seamless Recordings have called
upon the creator and original compiler of that series Ian Dewhirst, to work his magic once again. Drawing on Ian’s
impeccable knowledge of music, The Vintage Grooves series will be unearthing classic tracks and re-discovered
gems spanning genres including ‘70’s Funk’, ‘Balearic’, 80’s Electronic and ‘Disco’ among others, featuring full length
original 12” versions in all their glory. Kicking off the series, Ian dons his Beanie hat and takes us on a journey through
classic hip hop tracks with a fantastic 2 x CD package titled ‘Old School Hip-Hop Vol.1.’ With Hip-Hop being nearly
30 years young, there have been enough great rap records to fill 100 compilations, but in ‘Vintage Grooves: Old
School Hip Hop Vol. 1’ you’ll find a whistle stop tour through the highlights of hip-hop’s first ten magic years spliced
with more recent hits. This double album features old school nuggets from the original hip-hop masters including
Grandmaster Flash, The Sugarhill Gang, Doug E Fresh, De La Soul, Mantronix, NWA, Stetsasonic and many more,
a fantastic introduction to the Vintage Grooves series that will no doubt induce some serious shape throwing on
kitchen floors in homage to some of the greatest Hip-Hop music ever made!
With a music business career spanning nearly thirty years, Ian Dewhirst has been responsible not only for conceiving
the Mastercuts series in 1990, but also for the Simply Vinyl 12” releases in 1998, re-launching the Salsoul catalogue
in the UK through the Suss’d label in 2003, the ‘Original Selection’ series for Demon as well as winning the C.A.D.
award for the Most Creative Corporate Campaign whilst working at Warner. His DJ career started in 1971, and from
this point Ian began to play all over the North’s most respected Northern Soul venues including the legendary Wigan
Casino. A record collector prepared to cross all boundaries in search of rareities, In 1975 Ian moved to the U.S.A.
and started hunting for rare up-tempo Northern Soul records where he became involved in co-producing a Motown
medley disco record “Uptown Festival” by the new group Shalamar. Returning from the US , Ian became a dj on the
rapidly emerging Northern Jazz/Funk/Disco circuit alongside Colin Curtis, Ian Levine, Neil Rushton among others.
In 1979, Ian was invited to become resident DJ at the U.K.’s first U.S. style dance club – Leeds Warehouse. He was
taught to mix by U.S. DJ Greg James and with his new skills Ian started mixing more eclectic styles of music which
included Disco, Funk, Jazz-Funk, Electro and other styles from 1979-83.
Ian also introduced Soft Cell’s Marc Almond to Gloria Jones’ “ Tainted Love” which later went on to become a 34
million-selling worldwide hit for Soft Cell. In late 1983 Ian moved to London and commenced work with EMI Records
as Head Of Club Promotion/A&R signing acts such as Ashford & Simpson, Maze, Freddie Jackson, Lillo Thomas,
Tavares and Diana Ross. During this period Ian also introduced the Pet Shop Boys to EMI where they shortly scored
a worldwide No.1 hit with “West End Girls”. He then moved onto Serious Records where he compiled and oversaw
the Upfront and Best Of House series before moving to Island Records and overseeing Sly & Robbie’s hit with
“Boops (Here To Go)” and the signing of the Wild Bunch, who later mutated into Massive Attack and Soul 11 Soul.
As a result of the renewed interest in 1970’s and 80’s dance music, Ian started to DJ again with residencies at T h e
Salmon & Compass in Islington and The Medicine Bar in Shoreditch and assorted guest appearances at Turnmills
in Farringdon, Pop, Herbal, Cargo and The New Marquee in Central London as well as occasionally heading up
North to the Hi-Fi Club's 'Move On Up' New Years Eve do's. |
Choice Tracks:
CD1: 12. Run D.M.C. ‘It's Like That’
CD2: 07. The Jungle Brothers ‘Because I Got It Like That’
CD2: 12. House Of Pain ‘Jump Around’ |
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