Mr Margaret Scratcher

Category: Funk

  • Holy Shit – DJ Format & Mr Thing



    ‘Holy Shit’ is a mix of religious breaks,beats & music discovered mostly in charity shops and bargain bins of record shops over a number of years. I had been planning to do a mix of some of my weird & wonderful religious records for years and when i got chatting with Mr Thing about a new exciting discovery i had just made in a Leeds charity shop,it turned out he too had recently discovered the same religious LP!
    We decided to team up and do a mix together and Holy Shit was the result. Although some of the music is top quality and was cut up in a B-boy style,the mix was definitely supposed to be fun..hence the Monty Python bits! It was released as a CD in 2009(?) and is now available for free download for the first time.
    The term ‘Religious Record’ could mean a religious artist on a religious record label that had an unusually funky moment or it could mean a regular artist or group (not usually associated with the religious genre) that do a cover version of a song about God or Jesus i.e. ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand’ is a religious song covered by many different artists and quite often has a nice open drum break at the start of the song.

    Keep an eye on this: http://soundcloud.com/djformat

    and http://www.djformat.com/

  • Leyton K Curtis – The Last Laugh

    To celebrate his last ever Radio 2 Breakfast show, Terry Wogan decides to get stoned before he goes on air. All is well until he has a sudden fit of the giggles and he can’t help but swear uncontrollably…………..Enjoy!

    Discovered this guy a few years ago on MySpace, forget Cassetteboy, what this guy does takes that puerile childish humour but goes one step further and edits the vocals in such a way that it’s not so obviously chopped around…

    While I try to track him down and coax some more material out of him, check out more of his stuff here:

    http://www.myspace.com/leytonfakecurtis

    And here:

    http://www.myspace.com/leytonkcurtis

  • Dj Format – Radio 1 session-with Abdominal,Chali 2na & Akil

    http://soundcloud.com/djformat/radio-1-session-with-abdominal

    Wicked session from a few years back, and a little birdie tells me there may well be a few new bits on the horizon…. Keep an eye on: http://soundcloud.com/djformat

  • Yokel Addicts

    A short documentary about a few friends from Swindon who enjoy collecting records.

  • “I’d give my left turntable to be able to mix” – show for Cambridge 105 30.07.11

    Not my best mix… In fact one of my worst, but hey – saves you having to think about what tunes to put on for a couple of hours right?

    This episode of Mr Margaret Scratcher’s “Rad Radio, Yo!” show was broadcast on Cambridge 105 of the 30th July 2011

    Listen here:

    [audio:http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/MargaretScratcherShow105fm-300711.mp3 ]

    Or download the show here, for future blackmail purposes:

    http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/MargaretScratcherShow105fm-300711.mp3 (Right click and ‘save as’)

  • DJ Riz – Biggie Winehouse

    Fellow Cambridge funk and hiphop head DJ Crump posted this on facebook yesterday, and I had to spread the word. Far from being a hasty bandwagon knockup, DJ Riz put this together 5 months ago, and Biggies verses fit perfectly.

    Regardless of her personal issues, you got to admit she had a hell of a voice, and backed by  The Dap Kings she introduced soul to a whole load of people which can never be a bad thing…

    [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/dj-riz/biggie-winehouse-unedited[/soundcloud]

    and for those of you who don’t like naughty words, here’s radio edit:

    [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/dj-riz/biggie-winehouse[/soundcloud]

    Download links are in the soundcloud players…

    Check out Crump’s blog here: http://juicenights.blogspot.com/

    And there’s more from DJ Riz here: http://soundcloud.com/dj-riz

  • Meadows in the Mountains 2011

    Just got back from playing at what must be my most memorable festival experience ever – Meadows in the Mountains is organised by a couple of friends of mine, and is held in the beautiful surroundings of the Rhodopian mountains in Bulgaria. This year, being the first ever one was relatively small, but I can’t see that being the case next year as everyone who was there this year is already looking forward to the next one, and everyone else who has seen the amazing photos and heard how good it was is green with envy. Definitely one to watch…

    Here’s a wee clip of me and my QVC partner in crime, Captain Stearne, smashing out the cosmic disco for all the mountaineers!

    [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYPM5Xdp1U[/tube]

    Check out http://www.facebook.com/MeadowsInTheMountainsFestival unless you want to miss out again next year!

  • Brother to Brother – Chance With You

    Thanks to Pistol pete for tipping me off to this one, an amazing little groover.  Whilst trying to find a decent mp3 of it i stumbled across the following little bootleg by Stickybuds and Jpod:

    [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/stickybuds/brother-2-brother-chance-with-you-stickypod-connection-boot[/soundcloud]

    And then eventually found a nice vinyl rip of the original 12″:

    http://www.4shared.com/file/l9yPuYpC/Brother_To_Brother_-_Chance_Wi.html

  • Danimalswainger – Blackman

    [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/danimalswainger[/soundcloud]

    Nice little edit I stumbled across on soundcloud, plenty more funk and disco niceness from this guy, check it out – http://soundcloud.com/danimalswainger

  • DJ Pogo Funk Mix

    I saw DJ Pogo at some music expo thing when I was about 17, and just starting to learn how to scratch, on a pair of belt drives (trying to copy what DJ SY, happy hardcore DJ mainly, was doing on this 3 cd, house, jungle and hardcore, compil…ation), I saw him doing his thing and was blown away, asked him what record he was scratching over, Toasted marshmallow Breaks. I came back and found that seeing someone do it first hand had helped me along enormously, I guess correlating the sounds I was hearing with what was going on with the fader and record movements. Suddenly i was ‘getting it’. I searched in various record shops for that record, to no avail, until I found in Virgin ‘The Breaks’ by none other than DJ Pogo. “Sweet, loads of hiphop beats to scratch over” I thought… I bought it, got it home and was a bit disappointed to find that it was a load of old songs. I recorded it to minidisc, as I did at the time, planning to take it back and swap it for something else. Luckily I didn’t, and instead realised where all these ‘hiphop beats’ I’d been after actually came from. So yeah, double thanks to Pogo for getting me scratching, and getting me into funk..

    (I got Toasted Marshmallow Breaks a couple of years back..)

    True Story.