Mr Margaret Scratcher

Category: Mixes

  • MC Pitman . . . .

    Haaa… Whatever happened to Pitman?

  • ‘Rad Radio, Yo!’ show: 08th Oct 2011- ‘Lovely Drop’ ft Jonny Drop

    Another thrilling installment of the my bi-weekly radio show on Cambridge 105.

    The guest mix this time round is from Jonny Drop, who supplied an excellent selection of funk, strictly vinyl -which is refreshing in this day and age..

    [audio:http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/MargaretScratcherShow105fm-081011.mp3]

    Download here:

    http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/MargaretScratcherShow105fm-081011.mp3

    (Right click and ‘save as’)

    More from Jonny Drop here: http://soundcloud.com/jonnydrop

    FB page here: http://www.facebook.com/jonnydrops

    And website here: http://www.jonnydrop.com/

    The show goes out at 7pm every other Saturday, if you’re in the Cambridge area tune into 105fm, or you can listen online  here: http://cambridge105.fm

    On the alternate Saturday, you can catch me from 10pm with Captain Stearne, Mr Frosty and various other guests for the QVC radio show..

  • 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/

  • Hip Hop History by Eklips

    French beat box phenomenon EKLIPS performs a 4 minutes history of HIP HOP.. In one single take..

  • 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

  • “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 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.

  • Hasselhoff Burger mix for Cambridge 105

    Sunny day +  a couple of Henry Westons = a slight wobble and a burger that won’t stay together…

    This show went out on Cambridge 105 on the 9th April, 2011 ENJOY!

    [audio: http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/MrMargaretScratcherShow105fm-090411.mp3]

    Download it here (Right Click and ‘Save as’)

  • Crump’s HipHop History mix..

    One of Cambridge’s few remaining real hiphop torch-bearers has put together this wicked mix, a track from each year since his birth. Some proper classics in here…

    [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/crump-2/crumps-hip-hop-history-mix[/soundcloud]

    100% Vinyls in the mix

    Tracks:
    1979 Grandmaster Flash – Superappin
    1980 Disco Dave & The Crashcrew – High Power Rap
    1981 Treacherous Three – Feel The Heartbeat
    1982 Jimmy Spicer – Bubble Bunch
    1983 CD III – Get Tough
    1984 Fat Boys – Jail House Rap
    1985 Boogie Boys – A Fly Girl
    1986 Stetsasonic – Go Stetsa
    1987 Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud – Do Da James
    1988 LL Cool J – Jack The Ripper
    1989 Three Times Dope – Funky Dividends
    1990 King Tee – At Your Own Risk (Marley Marl Remix)
    1991 MC Breed – Aint No Future in Yo’ Frontin
    1992 Chi Ali – Funky Lemonade (Remix)
    1993 Ice Cube – Check Yo Self (Remix)
    1994 Da Bush Babees – We Run Things
    1995 Dr Dre – Keep Their Heads Ringin’
    1996 Large Professor – Ijustwannachill
    1997 Rampage – Wild For Da Night
    1998 Pete Rock – Tru Master
    1999 Naughty By Nature – Jamboree
    2000 Wu Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)
    2001 Mr Cheeks – Lights, Camera, Action!
    2002 Nas – Get Down
    2003 Freeway – What We Do
    2004 Timbaland & Magoo – Cop That Shit
    2005 The Game – Hate It Or Love It
    2006 Too Short – Blow The Whistle
    2007 Pharoahe Monch – Body Baby
    2008 Busta Rhymes – Don’t Touch Me
    2009 Blaq Poet – Ain’t Nuttin Changed
    2010 Big Boi – Shutterbugg

    HIP HOP FOREVER

    You can, and should, click the download button in the player and burn it permanently onto your mp3 player…

  • Live Set at Resurrection, Fez Club 06.01.2011

    Little mix I did for Resurrection, a proper hiphop night right here in Cambridge… All vinyl, for a change, no serato, effects units or other modern jiggerypokery, just plain old fashioned DJ skills…

    [audio:http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/mixes/Mr%20Margaret%20Scratcher%20@%20Resurrection%20Jan%202011.mp3]

    Download it here (right Click and save as)

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