Spikey Tee and DJ Frostie feature in Scientific Sound Asia Radio Podcast 217, a guest mix in which Frostie provides the second hour. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency and promoter with a music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
The guest mix coincided with the release of Spikey Tee's album, Between Wake and Sleep, on Tokyo Dawn Records. A lyricist and producer, he began his musical work as a pioneer of UK Hip Hop and founding member of The Sindecut, and in what was then his 30th year as a singer, artist, producer and DJ had worked with industry favourites across numerous genres.
Spikey Tees Between Wake and Sleep Album Cover
His album 'Between Wake and Sleep' draws on 30 years of work across genres and sub-genres, with Spikey Tee using the term “Patois Soul” for its musical roots. Touring with Soul II Soul, later fronting Jah Wobble with his dulcet singing tones, and collaborations with artists including Roots Manuva and Morcheeba have all shaped his work.
His drum 'n' bass grounding began with an appearance on DJ Hype's Ganja label on Hands Up, his first vocal drum 'n' bass outing. DJ Hype then introduced him to Potential Bad Boy, with whom he recorded Submission, released as an AA-sided single with Show Me, while his vocal also appeared on True Playaz artist Crystal Clear's Blaze.
The album addresses themes including not fighting fire with fire, breaking society's glass ceilings and managing modern-day relationships, alongside further concerns from Spikey Tee's career. Spikey Tee has performed for Scientific Sound Asia's event management company many times, and the station welcomed him for his first radio show while wishing him well with the album. Bunny Wailer
Guest DJ (second hour) Frostie.
The second hour of Spikey Tee's guest mix is by DJ Frostie, whose real name is Marcus Cobham and who is an old-school friend of Scientific Sound Asia's C.E.O Tariq Azam (DJ Psycho-UK). As teenagers, the pair practised regularly on each other's turntables, with turntablism and scratching central to their styles, while Frostie's cousin is the British Soul singer Omar.
During the early nineties, Frostie and DJ Psycho played together across many genres at underground parties in London's East End and later in Manchester, where Frostie attended university. At the time of publication, Frostie worked professionally while his DJ skills were still evident in this guest mix.
Spikey Tee and Frostie's Podcast 217 guest mix opens with Okee's Dream Journeys In Hypersleep Mode on Kriterion Recordings, establishing a Drum and Bass direction before Black Barrel's Elevate with Me, featuring KSR, arrives through Metalheadz. Chris Inperspective's Tulse Pill follows on his own label, while Jem One's Transpose returns to Metalheadz.
Total Science and War bring Cool & Deadly from Computer Integrated Audio into Kastro's Who We Are on Serial Killaz. Beat Merchants' Mbe Mbe on V Recordings then leads into Breakage's Tape Bubbler Spesh from Index.
Drumsound & Bassline Smith's Levela remix of Body Pump appears on Technique Recordings, followed by Kenny Ken's Drumsound & Bassline Smith remix of EVERYMAN on War On Silence. L-Side and Sl8r's Look At U on Chronic gives way to Krust's L-Side remix of Not Necessarily A Man on V Recordings.
Simplification and nCamargo's Reminisce on All Street Recordings precedes Total Science and War's What Now? from Computer Integrated Audio. Beat Merchants return with Mandelah on V Recordings, before Kings Of The Rollers' S.P.Y remix of You Got Me arrives via Hospital Records.
Aries' Benny Page remix of Herbsmoke on Sub Slayers and Todd Terry's Serum remix of Bounce To The Beat on Hospital Records keep the pace brisk. Mat Zo's Games on UKF, The Sauce's self-titled track on The Sauce Recordings, Klinical's Around Me on Overview Music and M-Zine's Scrutinise on Sofa Sound extend the selection.
Roni Size's Dayz on V Recordings, Villem and Mcleod's Let It Breathe, featuring Leo Wood, on Spearhead Records, Command Strange's Rockin on V Recordings and Document One's Vibration on Shogun Audio lead towards the final stretch. Psychic TV's L.I.E.S. on Temple Records introduces Acid House, Fleet Foxes' White Winter Hymnal on Sub Pop Records brings Rock into the sequence, and Particle's Air Force on Critical Music precedes Monty and Visages' Black Shield.
Spikey Tee Between Wake and Sleep guest Mix 4th March 2020
Spikey Tee (first hour)
Okee - Dream Journeys In Hypersleep Mode (Original Mix)
Greek Boy - So Free
Black Barrel - Elevate with Me feat. KSR (Original Mix)
Chris Inperspective - Tulse Pill
Veak and Bungle - Blazing (Bungle Remix)
Jem One - Transpose (Original Mix)
EVABEE, TMNMS & Altosounds - Unconditional (feat. DRS) (feat. DRS)
Total Science & War - Cool & Deadly (Original Mix)
Original Sin - Real Junglist (Original Mix)
Kastro - Who We Are
Riddim Punks - Stranger in Town (Original Mix)
Beat Merchants - Mbe Mbe
Friction - For This (feat. Liam Bailey)
Breakage - Tape Bubbler Spesh
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Body Pump (Levela Remix)
Kenny Ken - EVERYMAN (DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH REMIX)
L-Side & Sl8r - Look At U
DJ Krust - Not Necessarily A Man (L-Side Remix)
Simplification & nCamargo - Reminisce
YT - England Story feat. S.P.Y (Original Mix)
Total Science & War - What Now? (Original Mix)
Beat Merchants - Mandelah
Trex feat. Fox - What I Say (Jaybee Remix) Master
Frostie (second hour)
Kings Of The Rollers - You Got Me (S.P.Y Remix)
Aries - Herbsmoke (Benny Page Remix)
Todd Terry - Bounce To The Beat (Serum Remix)
Mat Zo - Games
The Sauce - The Sauce (Original Mix)
Klinical - Around Me
M Zine - Scrutinise
Unknown - Walk All
Roni Size - Dayz
Villem & Mcleod - Let It Breathe (feat. Leo Wood)
Zero T & Beta 2 - In My Head
Randall & DJ Die - Skeematics (Original Mix)
Ben Snow - Pressure
Zero T & Beta 2 - Exiles
Command Strange - Rockin
Document One - Vibration
Dr Meaker - Fighter (ft. Lorna King) (S.P.Y VIP)
Psychic TV - L.I.E.S.
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Particle - Air Force
Monty & Visages - Black Shield
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