Post-depression diagnosis, I have noticed this place being a great source of random outpouring. My writing's now going out to other places, after a long, tedious hiatus away from it all. That leaves this space open for anything really; musings a fair distance from the grime scene are possible but likely few and far between. I'll probably cover what vinyls I pick up out and about and try my utmost not to mix in anything political. I'm still around regardless. Send it out to JP, keeping me busy elsewhere, generously.
The highlights of the past week both feature Slimzee. Tuesday nights show with Blacks (and Fuda Guy toward the tail end) is worth a revisit - once again an incredible dub-after-dub assault. Friday saw the legendary DJ guesting on Uncle Dugs' regular Rinse show and the brief interview was pretty compelling.
Dugs's Rinse show is one I've followed from the absolute start. I can't confess to knowing much about him prior to his immensely popular 'RunComeFollowFriday' slot besides the fact he once ran the station - think Dagenham days, the latter days of Pay As You Go and the early days of Raskit. I caught his show by accident and like most shows I enjoy it turned out to be ritual-like listening for a while. I was at college, enrolled for painting and decorating - a stop-gap course, albeit necessary underpinning for my current career - the show would wind the clock down unbelievably. Mainly, however, the show helped me put names to some of the classics I'd heard growing up with a young mother who adored everything '88 to '92 and my (later to be) estranged father who would also dabble in Jungle. I'd collected Acid and Chicago records, so identifying them was easy, but Dugs put a name to the records I'd never really bothered to browse through - a couple of examples below.
The highlights of the past week both feature Slimzee. Tuesday nights show with Blacks (and Fuda Guy toward the tail end) is worth a revisit - once again an incredible dub-after-dub assault. Friday saw the legendary DJ guesting on Uncle Dugs' regular Rinse show and the brief interview was pretty compelling.
Dugs's Rinse show is one I've followed from the absolute start. I can't confess to knowing much about him prior to his immensely popular 'RunComeFollowFriday' slot besides the fact he once ran the station - think Dagenham days, the latter days of Pay As You Go and the early days of Raskit. I caught his show by accident and like most shows I enjoy it turned out to be ritual-like listening for a while. I was at college, enrolled for painting and decorating - a stop-gap course, albeit necessary underpinning for my current career - the show would wind the clock down unbelievably. Mainly, however, the show helped me put names to some of the classics I'd heard growing up with a young mother who adored everything '88 to '92 and my (later to be) estranged father who would also dabble in Jungle. I'd collected Acid and Chicago records, so identifying them was easy, but Dugs put a name to the records I'd never really bothered to browse through - a couple of examples below.
Thankfully I'm eternally indebted to my actual father for giving me Garage. As written previously, it was the gateway to pirate radio for me, aged around 11/12. Besides So Solid on Freeze and Delight, anything Slimzee, tape packs included, was probably what I listened to most frequently.
Dugs' quick chat with the man himself wasn't as in-depth as he might go with his normal guests (mostly people who were in and around the hardcore/jungle scene) but it was brilliant all the same. It's more of a chat between two old mates, really. Some highlights:
- Slim drives round to Madonna. He doesn't reveal which ones, but I'd like to think it's 'Lucky Star'. (Only because it seemed to be on a loop recently on a holiday to Benalmadena, of which I spent most of my time not remembering where on earth I was).
- Wiley used to wander aimlessly around Southend.
- Rinse has been located nearly everywhere in East London: Whitechapel, Cable Street, Tower Hamlets, Dagenham - possibly three flats (Crossways Estate) as well?
- DJ names evolve: Bogroll - Slimfast - Slimzee.
- You can be booted off of radio for being too good.
- we've both got 'I'm Raving I'm Raving' on white label.
- A Plus started off playing Garage, which prompts me to go back and search for sets, as I don't recall that. Maybe I just completely missed him, until Practice Hours, obviously.
There's a lot more but I'll let you listen for yourselves, it starts roughly around the hour and half mark. The interview concludes with Slim running down ten of his favourite rave anthems, the first of which is also one of my absolute all time classics via Ragga Twins. For more in-depth and less fanboy-style Slimzee focus, have a look here and here. Big up Uncle Dugs!
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