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Cover of the 12inch version of Juice by Eric B. and Rakim
Song of the Day: After Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message, another hip-hop classic, varying the topic around the edges of violence, but this track tells the tale of a young man who falls off it
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I Monster
Song of the Day: To go with the flowering of British weather, let's dream to some electronic psychedelia by the Sheffield-based pair of Dean Holder and Jarrod Gosling from their 2003 album Neveroddoreven and its sampled origins
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From the cover of The Future Sound of London's debut album Accelerator
Song of the Day: After yesterday's 808 State track, we move to another influential number also forged in Manchester, this time in 1991 by Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans, pushing dance into further innovative and ambient territory
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808 State's Pacific State
Song of the Day: After our last song, Voodoo Ray, it had to be another 1989 dance classic written alongside Gerald's former Manchester bandmates, Graham Massey and Martin Price, featuring that distinctive bird call sample
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The 1990 cassette single
Song of the Day: A nimbus-rich 1990 song much loved by anyone of a certain age who went out during a particular era - the dance and club scene of the late 80s and onwards, but who are the voices and samples within it?
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The Goats … old-school political Philly hip hop
Song of the Day: Continuing our loose, four-legged bearded animal theme, a change of pace going back to 1992, and one of the forgotten and much under-rated hip hop bands of the period, a Philadelphia trio
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A Tribe Called Quest's original quartet
Song of the Day: Two superb tracks that span the career one of the genre's most revered groups, from 1991's album The Low End Theory to 2016's We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service
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De La Soul back in the day. They are still touring.
Song of the Day: The eclectic hip-hop connection continues with an upbeat look back to 1989, where the trio, who were high school friends, introduced their philosophy with quirky lyrics and samples
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Handsome Boy Modeling School, aka Dan the Automator and Prince Paul
Song of the Day: Monday's truth comes with another classic falling chord and bass line sampled from a 60s jazz piece, beautifully placed on a hip-hop producers' concept album and sung by Róisín Murphy
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