187 / PRODUCERS SERIES #17 / LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY
Dr Rob goes in heavy on Lee “Scratch” Perry and can’t fail… When I was a youth, reggae was the thing. I was 15 in 1981 and the Brixton riots were just around the corner, instead of thirty years ago. While at school, we went from Two Tone to toasting pretty fast. UB40 quickly ditched...
176 / PRODUCERS SERIES #16 / HARRY HOSONO
Having been with Psyche rockers Apryl Fool and Folk rockers Happy End during the late 60s and early 70s, a then successful but still pretty conventional singer song-writer, Haroumi Hosono, famously put together the Yellow Magic Orchestra, recruiting session players Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, and in doing so changed the face of Japanese popular...
171 / PRODUCERS SERIES #15 / TREVOR HORN
A Trevor Horn record probably sits somewhere in your record collection or laptop so we decided he’d be the perfect producer to focus on in the first of our Producers Series for this year. Horn has had a very long career starting off working with disco acts Tina Charles and Biddu in his early days...
161 / Producers Series #14 / Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker was always pretty much there when we were kids. From the early days of trying to breakdance to ‘Planet Rock’ on a cadged piece of lino through to watching videos with best friends of him and New Order playing reels at the club that they’d just completed in the studio.
141 / Producers Series #13 / Martin Rushent
It seemed fitting for us to run Martin Rushent next in the Producers Series due to his untimely passing this week. For a lot of people he opened the door to electronic music by taking synths to Top Of The Pops and beyond, and was, in many eyes an out and out genius. Play loud....
136 / Producers Series #12 / Conny Plank
Right I am going to get many of my facts from Wikipedia on this one so any complaints on facts and them being incorrect we can blame the crowd sourced world of the internet. Konrad “Conny” Plank (frequently spelled Planck) was born on May 3, 1940. Born in Hütschenhausen, he was heavily involved in defining...
135 / Producers Series #11 / Adrian Sherwood / Part 2
We decided (well Dr Rob did) that Adrian Sherwood has too much good music to only do one compilation dedicated to him so here we go again. Round 2 and with a special funk reprise to boot. He really is flipping amazing on that desk. Hope to get up the road and interview him at...
107 / Producers Series #10 / Chris Blackwell
I should really have got Dr Rob to write the introduction to this compilation as he took care of the tracklisting but I forgot to ask so here I go. If I had to pick my favourite record label there would be no doubt it would be Island Records. The breadth of the music, the...
101 / Producers Series #9 / Bill Laswell
I love the thought of that New York period before hip hop became cemented into a predictable kick and snare sound and there was a whole melting pot of sounds going on. You had the dub disco records coming out of Compass Point and Bill Laswell producing everyone from Yellowman to Ryuichi Sakamoto. The influences...
095 / Producers Series #8 / Tony Thorpe
Tony Thorpe, one of the UK’s finest dance producers, steps up to the plate (well Dr Rob does it for him), with a selection of his finest productions to date. From raw house (‘Koro Koro’ is still sounding incredible) to the KLF and some rude boy business. He’s massively underrated, so here we go with...
084 / Producers Series #7 / Mad Professor
Neil Fraser, a.k.a The Mad Professor is one of the finest dub producers in the game. Nicknamed Mad Professor as a boy due to his fascination with electronics, he was originally born in Guyana and emigrated to London aged 13. His mix of synths and dub has created his particular take on the sound. If...
077 / Producers Series #6 / William Orbit
William Orbit is someone both myself and Phil Mison had the pleasure of working with in the mid-90s. William didn’t really know what to do so it was off to Fat Cat (London record store) with a wad of his money and a load of new records were bought. It was an exciting and eclectic...
064 / Producers Series #5 / Zeus B. Held
Number 5 in the Producers Series brings you Teutonic balearic beat courtesy of Zeus B. Held. Selected by Dr Rob. Download
052 / Producers Series #4 / Dennis Bovell
Number 4 in the Producers Series brings you the genius of Dennis Bovell. Great selection by Dr Rob. Download
050 / Producers Series #3 / Andrew Weatherall
Number three in our producers series focuses on some of the early work of Andrew Weatherall. There will be a further edition focusing on Weatherall’s early years at a later date as there is too much to cover in one sitting. So program three – it’s a mix of genres and noises blended together that...