DJ Wrongspeed - "Pirate Flava"

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Has anyone managed to get a copy of this? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you??!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. No, but I emailed him, and it will be available through the Resonance site soon!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I know there are one or two occasional ILM posters who have it, though.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Woo hoo. Yeah I want to hear this.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Is DJ Wrongspeed like DJ Screw?

― PeterALopez, Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha adam i got really excited when i opened this, dammit.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(do you have that dice recordings thing on vinyl or mp3?)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Contact chris@resonancefm.com , make £12 donation to http://resonancefm.com and it's yours

― DJ Wrongspeed, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Great.

(Jess, I have the Dice Recordings up for sharing in the "New Stuff" folder on slsk. I also have the Target mix thing in there if you don't have it)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(hurrah!)

(and as soon as i get a $18 or so i will order the wrongspeed cd)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(also adam, by the end of the day i'll have the wiley lp, if you dont already.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

!!!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummm, Target isn't showing up right now for some reason, but it'll be in that New folder sometime very soon.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(if you can't wait that long, someone else we both know from ilx has it in his folder.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Hello everyone, i'll have the wiley cd by saturday. Just don't tell XL.

― sean g, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

It arrived today. It is wonderful, basically.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I want to hear that Erection Section thing so badly.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's brilliant. Half mixtape, half radio dérive. Here's what I wrote about it for my Critical Beats column in the Wire:

For anyone – like this reviewer – who’s far out of range of London’s tower-block pirate transmitters, DJ Wrongspeed’s Pirate Flava is an indispensable document of the UK’s unlicensed airwaves. Originally a weekly, 15-minute radio show on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM, DJ Wrongspeed’s carefully selected “best-of” broadcast was shut down after a mere 10 months in February, 2003 upon a formal complaint from the Radio Authority. Listening to this hour-long mix it’s hard to tell what the censors found so offensive – the Black Power tirades against whites? The homophobic invective? But it’s those incidental bits, sequenced between grime freestyles, blistering dancehall, and endless in-studio chatter, that give Pirate Flava its documentary edge. Far from Clear Channel’s ideology-free vacuum, pirate radio exists in the messy, contentious space of the city, and every blast of static on this mix underscores that point. The anonymously-issued CD-R includes the argument-defining “Megamix,” the ‘ardkore revival “Old Skool,” the bouncing, Garage-centric “UK Shed Mix,” and “Talk’n’Ads.” A chaotic collage of just that, “Talk’n’Ads” is a brilliant piece of radio art, a sonic urban sampling on par with Walker Evans' classic signage photographs.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i would feel guilty downloading this off slsk. a little.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you now?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really fantastic.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bjkghlugluiglg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you downloaded it, Jess?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant find it.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What's your favorite part, Alex?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Talk'n'Ads" is just incredible, but it's all great. I don't think there is a less than great tune on all four tracks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is occassionally a bad thing since it makes me want the song to play out a little more not END suddenly hahaha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It really is hard to imagine what censors found so objectionable. Most of this stuff is pretty tame for the States. Can you explain, @d@m?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess, I would sort you out but I am having some problems...you know. In time, everything will be as it was.

X-post I don't think it was a censorship issue, Alex. One second...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess, I'll see what I can do.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

More of a regulatory issue in that it "celebrates" illegal pirate radio.

Read Marcello here.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, reading that I guess it was somewhat of a censorship thing.

*shrugs*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

So you can't buy it anymore?

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! Right from the resonance site!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha apparently it's cheaper now. Only 10 pounds.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Although S&H is a brutal 5 POUNDS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

It's still good.

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to DJ Wrongspeed?

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, we really need to trade some more cds

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I owe you about 1500

I wonder what you would make of this one?

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss pirate radio advertisements. :(

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a bootleg song-ish Wrongspeed thing that was on /rupture's blog a while ago. Did you hear that, Adam?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The George Michael one, yes.

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

wrongspeed

― admrl, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't listened to this in years. I'll have to go looking for this CDR.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

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