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20/06/2010

Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums, which bought previously underground music onto Britain's high streets.

Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums which dominated UK dance music in the early 1980s. Started in 1982 by London based Streetwave Records as a way for people to get hold of expensive, rare dance and hip-hop 12 inch records only in available in the USA, Streetsounds compilation albums bought previously underground music onto Britain's high streets with a new album every three month. Street Sounds compilations soon became essential for anyone into hip hop, house, rare groove or electro music, at a time when the British charts were dominated by the New Romantic bands like Visage and Spandau Ballet.
Founder Morgan Khan licensed early tracks from Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaatta and The Fatback Back as well as opening the doors for US labels like Def Jam and Profile recordings, at a time when the UK music industry was still a closed shop for anyone but the traditional major labels. Morgan Khan joins Dave in the studio to tell the incredible story of how a Hong Kong-born Indian who grew up in 1970s London came to be so influential in the early days of dance music and how Street Sounds helped bring hip hop and electronic music to the mainstream. Dave and Morgan also play and talk about seminal tracks from the Street Sounds back catalogue including D-Train, Scott La Rock, Roy Ayers and Todd Terry.

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Sun 20 Jun 2010 20:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Raw Silk

    Do It To The Music (1982)

  • Roy Ayers

    Running Away (1983)

  • Candi Staton

    You Got The Love (1986)

  • Fatback

    I Found Lovin' (1987

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    White Lines (Don't Do It) (1984)

  • Masquerade

    Set It Off (1985)

  • Rose Royce

    Magic Touch (1984)

  • Chuck Brown

    Bustin' Loose (1978)

  • Hashim

    Al-Naafiysh (1983)

  • Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force

    Planet Rock

    • 1982.

  • Joe Smooth

    Promised Land (1988)

  • Todd Terry

    Bango (To The Batmobile) (1988)

  • Stakker

    Stakker Humanoid (1989)

  • DJ Scott La Rock

    South Bronx (1986)

  • The Egyptian Lover

    Do U Wanna Get Down [Deb's Duel Of Legends Mix](2010)

  • Dave's Street Sounds Mix

    • Dayton

      The Sound Of Music (1983)

    • Cheryl Lynn

      Encore

    • The Staple Singers

      Slippery People (1984)

    • Class Action

      Weekend (Larry Levan mix)(1983)

    • Aleem

      Get Loose (1984)

    • Peter Black

      My Love Is Free (1986)

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Jun 2010 20:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music