Dynamix III
LABEL: Davy G
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: 80's U.K. Bootleg Mixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1987
CATALOGUE NO: DG-001
RUNOUT GROOVES: DG-001-A1 MT (Side A) DG-001-B1 MT (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: -
BELOW IS AN EXTRACT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVY G FROM THE BOOK 'MEGABLAST: THE TOP 100 UK RAP RECORDS 1987-1993' BY MARK MCDONALD (PUBLISHED IN 2024):
Recorded in 1987, both tracks on my first 12" were megamixes of the kind I loved to hear on the radio. I would send my mixes in every few weeks to Soul and Hip Hop DJ Louie Martin at our local radio station, Chiltern FM. I'd send him so many tapes that he nicknamed me Dave Greedy G because of my thirst for the limelight. In the end I decided to press up two of my best mixes.
Firstly, there was Dynamix III that was chiefly built around that massive Miami Bass Cut n' Paste monster, Give The DJ A Break by Dynamix II (hence the title), cutting loops and layering it up with my own samples and scratches from other big tunes out at the time. I threw in pieces of Nitro Deluxe's Let's Get Brutal into some Hanson & Davis, Egyptian Lover, World Class Wreckin' Cru. It was a real tribute to Electro-Funk as 1987 was a kind of last hurrah for that whole sound, especially in the UK. I used a Fostex X-30 4-Track recorder and pieced it together bit by bit in my home-studio. Dynamix Ill got a lot of radio play by Louie Martin; I suspect that he liked it so much as it contains his voice saying, "What a brilliant, brilliant mix.' near the end.
The megamix on the flipside wasn't given a title, so it's just known as The B-Side to Dynamix III. Whereas the A-side was largely Electro-Funk flavoured, this mix was Hip Hop and Soul orientated. It had bits of Schoolly D, Fresh Gordon, Stock Aitken & Waterman, Eric B & Rakim, Roxanne Shante, Derek B, Alexander O'Neal, Levert, Public Enemy, and about a dozen others. My favourite section is where I blend Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book with Coldcut's Beats + Pieces.
There's also a section where I trick Rebel Without A Pause by Public Enemy. No other Rap tune was bigger at the time and it's probably the dopest track of 1987. I guess I mainly chose these for their popularity at the time in the UK plus I added one or two things that you wouldn't necessarily have known of. I tried to release Dynamix III by myself. I mastered it but when I took it to the pressing plant they refused to manufacture it due to copyright issues. I asked for the metal plate but they returned it in pieces. However, I still had a master tape and when my friends at Bluebird heard about what happened they offered to help me put it out as a bootleg. It sold around 100 copies from the Luton shop
and I was very happy with that. I made a few hundred pounds out of the deal and was given a few boxes of records to distribute myself, which I did.
SIDE A MIX: DYNAMIX III
MIXED BY: Davy G
LENGTH: 06:00
GENRE: Electro/House/Funk/Soul/Hip Hop/Freestyle
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) (1983); Dynamix II featuring Too Tough Tee - Just Give The D.J. A Break (1987); Nitro Deluxe - Let’s Get Brutal (1986); Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (1982); Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Looking For The Perfect Beat (1983); James Brown - Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud (1968); Whispers - And The Beat Goes On (1979); Salt-N-Pepa - My Mike Sounds Nice (1986); Beastie Boys - It's The New Style (1986); B Boys - Rock The House (1983); Danny Krivit - Rock The House (1987); Prince & The Revolution - Kiss (1986); Egyptian Lover - What Is A D.J. If He Can't Scratch? (1984); Force M.D.'s - Itchin' For A Scratch (1985); Hanson & Davis - I'll Take You On (1986); Hanson & Davis - Hungry For Your Love (1986); World Class Wreckin' Cru - Juice (1985); B Boys - Two, Three, Break (1983); Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Scorpio (1982); Herman Kelly & Life - Dance To The Drummer's Beat (1978); Original Concept - Pump That Bass/Live (Get A Little Stupid... Ho!) (1986); Criminal Element Orchestra - Put The Needle To The Record (1987); Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (1987); Original Concept - Can You Feel It? (1986); Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (1986)
SIDE B MIX: UNTITLED
MIXED BY: Davy G
LENGTH: 08:26
GENRE: Hip Hop/Funk/Soul
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Coldcut featuring Floormaster Squeeze - Beats + Pieces (1987); Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (1987); Schoolly-D - Saturday Night (1986); Kid 'N Play - Last Night (1987); Fresh Gordon - I Believe In Music (1987); Stock, Aitken, Waterman - Roadblock (1987); Roxanne Shante - Have A Nice Day (1987); Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause (1987); Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight (1973); C.J. Mackintosh & Einstein - The Tables Are Turnin' (1987); Derek B - Get Down (1987); Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay (1987); Norwood – Should Have Been Us Together (1987); Levert - Casanova (1987)
