London Identities; East, West, North, South.
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luka
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Yes, I remember it. Barty might interested to learn that as a little boy I loved to watch the breakers dance and listen to their electro. Also I think there was important club nights at the Africa Centre?
Feelfree, Kool FM June 1993.
Out to Mikus for the tape rip.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8j2zvych02vtb4y/AAB_LSqvXUssBGA9ce0zjqRZa?dl=0
Out to Mikus for the tape rip.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8j2zvych02vtb4y/AAB_LSqvXUssBGA9ce0zjqRZa?dl=0
luka
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Yeah sort of but suburban base alone counterbalances a lot
He's been tagging around where I live recently (including on the back of the door of the lift in the big storage locker) so presumably he lives round there. He must be in his early 50s now? Seems a bit sad to me, to have never given up the ghost with something like that. Ghosts of your adolescence still riding you. Mind you, I never gave myself 100% to anything in the way that he must've done for those few years.
Ha! Centre vs peripheral is an interesting one actually. Ties in with the multiculturalism thread. Black guys coming down from Forest Gate and fighting with white guys due to taking their women at the Rom skating rink.
luka
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You had music power in Ilford, Boogie Times in Romford,so this is a central market for buyers and producers. By the time you get to garage days the nightclubs there have become very important nodes on the circuit. Incubators of talent. places for second and third tier djs to make a name for themselves.
luka
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But it also gives you a global network. He can go anywhere in the world, and does, and have people to show him round and take him out.
luka
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Always remember on the 86 bus in grime days one lad saying to another "Romford, land of skets and eats"
Jifs in Chadwell Heath and another one whose name I've forgotten out in Upminster were both early soul boy/jazz funk outlets. Records only, not caught up with production, but weird to remember a time when just possession of a cultural product carried exclusivity. I remember when a mate turned up at mine with an Aleem 12", I was so impressed.
Yes, I guess so. Was reading an interview with She One from Brighton (was reminded of him 'cos Req has just put some tapes out) and he was saying similar, how graf has given him a globetrotting career.
My antipathy is probably tied up with my own ambivalent feelings out my teenage years. I've been trying to escape the scene of the crime ever since it happened.
luka
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And we're talking even Gants Hill here. Essex had the venues.
Yeah, I was. Got nicked in Loughton Yard, and in Barking, a couple of days apart. My Mum went fucking mental. Most of the hardcore graffers I knew had folks who were fundametally disinterested and uninvolved. I have to keep my tag secret though 'cos it was so lame.