Hip Hop, Soul, Funk barebulb sessions
Barebulb Sessions 008 - 10 Bob & Duncan Disorderly present Plastic Hip

Its that time of the year when the inevitable party or 3 has us all getting together with friends & family, looking back, & reminiscing about the the good old days.

Before the meteoric rise of Teesside's trendy micro-pubs, selfies & social media, download DJs, gin wankers, craft ale connoisseurs, & a new wave of re-edited soul, funk & disco that has since swept throughout a whole host of new venues, 2 DJs had already been quietly working away, getting their fingers dusty, honing their skills, & doing things, well... properly.

In 2004, 10 Bob & Duncan Disorderly, (Ben Forbes & Liam Dunning to their parents) had quietly slipped away from the then current crop of local House DJs to take things in an altogether more creative direction. Inspired by such cult figures as DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist (look up 'Brainfreeze') & the group side of the Technics/DMC World DJ Championships, their Sunday night 'Plastic Hip', held at 2-Zero-2 in Middlesbrough, would see them going back to the very roots of Hip-Hop & Turntablism.

Bringing along with them 4 turntables, 2 mixers, samplers, & even pushing the boundaries in experimenting with (what was then alien technology in a DJ booth) Stanton's 'Final Scratch', the first incarnation of DVS & the precursor to modern day Serato & Traktor Scratch, they took familiar records & used them like instruments, tellng a story with music. It was a forward-thinking take on presenting some of the finest Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop & whatever else they saw fit, cutting, scratching, juggling & reconstructing what you knew into something exciting, interspersed with perfectly placed acapellas, tongue-in-cheek humour & clever dialogue samples, all giving a cheeky nod to knowing exactly what they were doing.

What follows is a 'Plastic Hip' promotional mix thats been tirelessly compiled & mixed, with a tracklist far too extensive to list which was released a year later in 2005 - certainly ahead of its time for a smoggy industrial town in the North-East of England, & simply put, one of the best mixes you'll ever hear!