Dave Pearce - Fresh Start To The Week on Nite FM (May 88)

Before it was Greater London Radio, BBC Radio London broadcast it's specialist evening shows under the 'Nite FM' brand. Dave Pearce held down the Fresh Start To The Week rap show and here's 30 minutes from May '88. Salt N Pepa, Antoinette, Gang Starr, Run DMC and Hijack are on the playlist and Stetsasonic are the studio guests (except that isn't on the tape unfortunately). Nice to hear shout outs to the Farnborough crew what with that being the new OB4ZL HQ and all.

Shouts to Diablo for the tape and MK for the radio knowledge.

Mr Magic & Marley Marl on WBLS (1986)

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Big fun in the big town with Super Rockin Mr Magic and Marley Marl playing Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, Fat Boys, LL and UTFO amongst others. This is a recording that was re-broadcast on Dave Pearce's show on Radio London, so in that respect it's a something of a precursor to the Rap Exchange that Westwood would host with Marley and then Flex years later.

Dave mentions having details of tickets for UK Fresh which was 19th July '86 so I guess this must be from a month or 2 before that.

Dave Pearce's Friday Rap Show on GLR 94.9 FM (1989)

And so we have the first appearance on OB4ZL for Dave Pearce's rap show on Greater London Radio. Most people in the UK are familiar with Dave as he spent the latter part of the 90s and early 00s doing big things on the dance music side of things having moved to Radio 1 from Kiss FM. Prior to that his voice was immortalized on Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions...' - that's him on the album's intro introducing them at the Hammersmith Odeon - which is quite impressive in itself, but he was also involved with the premium rate phoneline that eventually gave birth to HHC magazine.
The selection on this tape is a mix of UK and US, with the hardcore/underground stuff like Schooly D, ATCQ and Gang Starr getting play alongside the likes of Wrecks N Effect and Redhead Kingpin. There's even a bit of Hip House by way of Tyree's Turn Up The Bass (Kool Rock Steady RIP). DJ Chin and DJ KCJ are on the mix and there's lots of shout outs on the phones and his regular MC competition where listeners could call in and show off their skills, or lack of, by doing a rap on a specific subject (this week: the environment). Bask in the innocence of a simpler time and speculate on what became of Rebel from Farnborough and his crew.
I left the news report in and tried to get a better idea of the date by googling the stories but no joy. If anyone can pin point it (consensus seems to be around July - September '89) or help me out the track list let me know.Shout to the DWG boys that helped fill in the blanks on the tracklist and to Robin in the mixcloud comment section who's putting the date at 11th August 1989.

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