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Hip Hop 120 was a weekly radio show which aired every Thursday night on the now defunct Kink FM in the Netherlands between 1999 and 2004 and Saturdays from 2001 and 2003. It was hosted by Craig Solo & Edzon (now co-owner of Patta).

This episode features J Rocc of the Beat Junkies and was prerecorded on Wednesday 15th October 2003. The show was normally live but as J Rocc had a show in Koln the following day we decided to prerecord the show.

Also joining Craig Solo was Ryan Sikorski formerly of Fat Beats Amsterdam and now of Lush Life, and Amir, who alongside his partner Kon, produced the On Track Mix Tape series.

We started recording this episode at around midnight; and as you probably will notice towards the end of the show everyone in the studio was pretty much wasted mainly from inhaling J Rocc’s blunts.

This show also features a Jaylib track which to this day has still not been released.

Enjoy!

Hip Hop 120 was a radio show broadcast in the Netherlands on the now defunct Kink FM. The show was produced by staff at Fat Beats Amsterdam.

Hosted by Craig Solo it featured DJ Edzon and later Lil Vic, now known as Vic Crezee, which in English translated to ‘crazy’. The show also included a weekly rap report from DJ Eclipse of the Halftime Show, Non Phixion and Fat Beats New York. Eclipse would also send us a European version of the Halftime Show which would air on the first Thursday of the month.

This episode which was broadcast live on Thursday December 4th 2003 and features DJ Eclipse’s Halftime Show and Mixes by DJ Edzon - the co-owner of Patta.

This is part 2 of 2 

Here’s another picture of the legendary me hosting my old Kink FM radio show. I left the Netherlands in 2006 but my nose stayed and has a very successful Dutch movie career.

BACK TO MY HOUSE W/ JOEY NEGRO, GRANT NELSON & CRAIG SOLO

A NIGHT FILLED WITH THE BEST IN HOUSE, SOUL, DISCO, UKG AND RARE GROOVES.

KICKING OFF THE NIGHT WILL BE CRAIG SOLO WHO WILL TAKE TO THE STAGE ARMED WITH NOTHING MORE THAN HIS BACK PACK OF TREASURES.

THEN WE HAVE GRANT NELSON, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF UK GARAGE DUE TO HIS NUMEROUS CLUB HITS ON HIS NICE ‘N’ RIPE LABEL IN THE EARLY 90’S. IT WAS HIS SOUND ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE THEN KNOWN AS ‘SUNDAY SCENE’ WHICH WENT ON TO BECOME UK GARAGE.

FINALLY JOEY NEGRO WILL BE CROWNING THE NIGHT OFF WITH COHESION OF SOUL MOVING JAMS. HE IS AN ESTABLISHED PRODUCER, DJ AND CONTRIBUTOR TO THE BOOGIE, FUNK, DISCO AND HOUSE SCENES. JOEY WILL BE LIFTING YOUR SPIRITS THE ONLY WAY HE KNOWS HOW.

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Above is a picture of myself with Slum Village and J Dilla taken outside of Fat Beats back in 2001 by Yomandu, a local photographer who says ‘puz’ a lot.

This is the flyer for the Fat Beats Amsterdam 7 year anniversary party which took place on Sunday October 12th 2003 at the Bitterzoet.

DJ’s on the night were J Rocc, Shortkut, Edzon, Victor Crezee (now of Patta who previously worked for Fat Beats) and myself.

Amir of On Track was also in the house alongside born again Christian DJ Jab.

Another dope party, however, following the gig myself, Jab and Amir got kicked out of a taxi back to my apartment after I got into a fight with the taxi driver over Dutch Hip Hop. If I’m correct he was bitching about Brainpower being a sellout for a record he made called ‘Daansplaat’. When I defended the MC he decided that I was being rude and forced us out. Jab wasn’t too happy as he had to carry a crate of 60 records for about a mile.

Great night though.

On June 23rd 2002 I organised an event featuring Madlib and Peanut Butter Wolf spinning at the now defunct Mazzo in Amsterdam for Fat Beats. It was Madlib’s first appearance in Amsterdam.

Madlib was cool but Wolf was moody. That may have had something to do with him expecting to stay at a hotel instead of my apartment or It may have had something to do with us taking a 13 strong crew out for a meal that was so bad that we skipped the bill.13 of us ran off in separate directions, however in the confusion I left the posters and flyers advertising the gig on the table at the restaurant. 

10 minutes later a group of police were standing outside of the Fat Beats record store. Luckily nothing came of it and the party was a massive sell out success.

Although it was a DJ only gig, after heavy persuasion and a few drinks, Madlib performed MHB’s from Quasimoto’s album ‘The Unseen’.

Later that evening back at my apartment I accidentally wallked in on Madlib whilst he was getting ready for bed. Luckily he still had his socks on.

Above is the flyer I designed for the event.