Cipha Sounds on Hot 97 Throwback at Noon (2007)

Cipha Sounds with the classic selection on Hot 97's Throwback at Noon slot back in 2007...

Organized Konfusion – Stress 

GP Wu – Black On Black Crime 

Wu Tang Clan – Tearz 

Cocoa Brovaz ft Raekwon – Black Trump 

Styles P ft Pharoahe Monch – The Life 

Non Phixion – No Tomorrow 

Tragedy ft CNN & Mobb Deep – LA, LA 

DITC – The Enemy 

Gang Starr – All 4 The Cash 

Blackstar – Re:Definition 

Camp Lo – Luchini 

Jay Z – In My Lifetime 

Smooth Da Hustler – Broken Language 

Doo Wop – Da Bouncemaster 

Saukrates – Father Time 

Royal Flush – Worldwide 

Bash Ton – More Cheese 

Mos Def ft Ghostface – Ms Fat Booty part 2 

The Roots – The Lesson pt 1 

Wu Tang Clan – Wu Gambinos 

Natural Elements – Live It Up part 2 

Indelible MCs – The Fire In Which You Burn

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Stretch & Bobbito on WKCR (1991)

DJ Diablo - Friday Night Mixtape

The Grime & Lime forum is proving very handy for rare and unreleased late 90s - early 00s mixtape only tracks

Hip Hop Radio Archive is still popping off with new additions like this Radio 1 Rap Show 14.08.99 with Pharoahe Monch & Blak Twang

These episodes of the Reflections Of A DJ podcast are well worth a listen:

DJ Mighty Mi

Jon Shecter

Cipha Sounds

Radio 1 Rap Show 26.02.00 with Cipha Sounds & Tony Touch

Cipha Sounds in the mix for 3 hours. Tony Touch is in the studio promoting The Piecemaker and Xzibit and Beanie Sigel are on the phone. And there's obviously lots of Tunnel Bangers getting played.

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Radio 1 Rap Show 25.02.00 with Cipha Sounds & Noreaga

Good show this one. Cipha Sounds co-hosting with Tim for 3 hours, with a mix of golden era stuff and new joints. Lots of good tunes plus there's a phone interview with Noreaga (I still call him that because NORE looks weird when it's typed out) in the second half.

Radio 1 Rap Show 25.03.00 New York Live with DJ Premier & Sauce Money

Another New York Live show broadcast from Marley Marl's crib with Cipha Sounds holding down turntable duties. DJ Premier and Sauce Money (someone I've been listening to a lot recently) are in the studio on part two.



I actually posted some of this show back in 2009 but my recording stopped just as Premier appears, so it's nice to have the whole show.

The Westwood Archives mixcloud page is up and running so make sure you keep an eye on that as I might throw a few shows on there that don't make it to the blog. Figure it might be best to just drop the more notable shows and highlights (freestyles, mixes etc) otherwise it will end up being straight Westwood tape rips on here for the next 3 or 4 years.

Ya Heard! Volume 1 - The Penalty mixtape (1998)

Mixtape for Penalty Records with Cipha Sounds and Funk Flex holding down side A mixing up a bunch of stuff from Noreaga's debut with a few CNN joints and some other bits and pieces, like the promo only classic 'Calm Down' featuring Nas. The B side is just snippets with more Nore plus joints by Cardan, Crooked Lettaz and Skull Duggery...

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Been a bit quiet posting on here recently but there's some treats on the horizon. Stay tuned.

I'd rather be live at The Tunnel with Flex...

I'm not usually keen on promoting people who have more than enough resources to fend for themselves but I really enjoyed the recent Juan Epstein show with Funkmaster Flex. Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds did a good job of reigning it in and letting Flex talk for nearly 2 hours on how he came up in the game and the early days of NYC radio and clubs.Highly recommended...

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Flex's mixes have been a cornerstone of this blog since it started but I hadn't had access to any tapes of him for a while. Fortunately I've come across a few old Hot 97 shows online in the last week so here you go...

30th January 1993 (courtesy of Jesse Velazquez)

16th April 1993

22nd April 1995

16th December 1995

80s Classics mix from 1994

aswell as...

WBLS January 1990

and courtesy of Craig at Random Rap Radio:

Funkmaster Flex & Cipha Sounds - Big Dawg Volume 1 mixtape

Cipha Sounds - One FM (1999)

Here's Cipha Sounds in the mix on Tim Westwood's One FM Rap Show back in August 1999. The set includes tracks by The Beatnuts, Jay Z, Noreaga, Slick Rick & Nas, Jadakiss and more.



UPDATE 11/01/19 - Full 3 hour show now uploaded

Cipha Sounds - One FM (2000)

This is taken from a show Westwood co-hosted with Marley Marl in May 2000.
Cipha Sounds drops a nice mix of classics (Rakim, Ice Cube, Kane, LL) and newer stuff (Noreaga, Mobb Deep, Black Rob).

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At the end theres also an interview with DJ Premier who speaks on how Marley influenced him. Unfortunately the tape cuts out after a few minutes.