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Friday, June 13, 2014

James Lavelle: the 10 best tracks from this year's Meltdown

Ahead of his stint as curator at this year's London event, the Mo'Wax and Unkle founder picks his favourite tracks from artists playing the festival


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This record is one of the most defining moments in cultural musical history, as it pretty much started hip hop and DJ turntablism. It was also the beginning of everything for me. It defined my pre-teenage years. I would have been very young, about eight or nine when it came out and I was probably wearing something like a Tacchini tracksuit, probably obsessively trying to break dance and playing tapes on a boom box. That's how I started to DJ. We all went home and got on our parent's really nice hi-fis and fucked them up by trying to scratch with them. Scratching doesn't quite work on a Linn hi-fi.


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