BBC Radio 1 - The Breezeblock - Liam Howlett - Headline Set

Monday 12th >> Tuesday 13th October 1998
Monday midnight >> Tuesday 2am

Bitrate:  192kbps
Duration: 55m:17s

Setlist:

Dynamix II - Give The DJ A Break (White Label)
The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper (Parlaphone)
Hardnoise - Untitled (Music Of Life)
The Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats (Junior Boys Own)
Ultramagnetic MC's - Kool Keith Housing Things (Next Plateau)
Lightnin' Rod feat. Jalal - Sport (White Label)
Le Pregunta - Shangrila (White Label)
Ultramagnetic MC's - Give The Drummer Some (Next Plateau)
Time Zone - Wildstyle (Island)
Bomb The Bass - Bug Power Dust (Fourth And Broadway)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Pump Me Up (Sugarhill)
The Charlatans - How High (Beggars Banquet)
Jimi Hendrix - Little Miss Lover (Polydor)
Ghost Face Killer - Daytona 500 (Epic Street)
The Prodigy - Poison (XL Recordings)
Babe Ruth - The Mexican (White Label)
The B-Boys - Rock The House (Vinterainment)
The Chemical Brothers - Best Part Of Breaking Up (Virgin)
Word Of Mouth - King Kut (Ars Benelux)
Run DMC - Peter Piper (Profile)
Rueben Wilson - Got To Get Your Own (Charly/Red Dog Express)
DJ Mink/K.I.D. & Carruthers - Hey Can You Relate (Warp Records)
The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Warner Publishing)
Frankie Bones - Funky Acid Makossa (Underworld NY)
Frankie Bones - Shafted Off (Underworld NY)
Frankie Bones - And The Break Goes Again (Underworld NY)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon (Play It Again Sam)
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause (Def Jam)
Herbie Hancock - Rokit (Columbia)
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (XL Recordings)
Beastie Boys - It's The New Style (Def Jam)
45 King - 900 Number (Tuff City)
Propellerheads - Spy Break (Wall Of Sound)
Sex Pistols - New York (Virgin)
Medicine - I'm Sick (Next Century Label)
D.S.T - The Home Of Hip Hop (Celluloid)
Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz (Cold Chillin)
Beastie Boys - Time To Get I'll (Def Jam)
Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You A Little Bit More Baby (White Label)
Public Enemy - Public Ememy No. 1 (Def Jam)
JB's - Blow Your Head (White Label)
T-La-Rock - Breakin Bells (White Label)
LL Cool J - Get Down (Def Jam)
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance (Tommy Boy)
Uptown - Dope On Plastic (Tommy Boy)
Coldcut - Beats And Pieces (White Label)
London Funk Allstars - Sure Sho" (Ninja Tune)
West Street Mob - Breakdance Electric Boogie (Sugarhill)
Hijack - Doomsday Of Rap (Music Of Life)
Renegade Soundwave - Ozone Breakdown (Mute)
The Besinning Of The End - Funky Nassau (Alston Atlantic)
Jimmy Caster Bunch - It's Just Begun (RCA)



Here's the interview that was broadcast on the same night:

Mary Anne Hobbs: It's Radio One, It's Mary-Anne Hobbs, we're celebrating the launch of the new 'pure' 2 hour Breezeblock in the company of a very very special guest tonight, Liam Howlett and the Prodigy. Hello Liam!

Liam Howlett: Hello. How ya doin'?

MAH: Where are you calling from tonight?

LH: I'm actually in the studio at the moment, at home, I've actually got a studio in my own house.

MAH: I know you've been on the road for months and months on end, when did you actually crash back down onto Planet Essex then?

LH: Erm, well, more or less after we finished Reading, er, a few months ago, so since then I just been relaxing really.

MAH: Hmmm

LH: Just been in the studio a little bit, doing this mix, and kind of, er, just having a break, really.

MAH: Well, I can tell you there is a real sense of occasion about tonight's show, because I can't actually remember the last time you actually did something for Radio 1, but it's gotta be years ago now, hasn't it?

LH: Haha, yes, that's true, yes... I can't actually remember doing anything for Radio 1! Y'know, yeah

MAH: Why did you accept our humble invitation to put a mix together for this show then?

LH: Well, I dunno. Before the band started, I was really into sort of mixing and stuff, on a sort of more hip-hop level, and I kind of, always used to do that, sort of, every week I'd do a tape and stuff and give it to my mates and... I dunno, after you asked me to do a mix, I kinda thought "why not?" and sort of just experimenting a few
days doing it and kind of make it happen and you know, so yeah I thought I'd do it, yeah, do it.

MAH: Yeah, it's an absolutely fantastically sort of eclectic mix of everything, from Jimi Hendrix to the Ultramagnetic MCs, Bomb the Bass to Barry White, even!! Is that the way you used to mix as a DJ, I mean just, no rules?

LH: Yeah, basically, like, erm, the way I wanted to put this mix together was more, erm, on a sort of old skool tip rather than sort of a club tip, I mean, this mix isn't really for the clubbers, it's more for the b-boys and b-girls, its more from the roots of hip-hop, and... you talk about Barry White, but the record I used was like a kind of famous break, you know, which was used in... a Beastie Boys track and so I've stripped down some of the tracks down to the original breaks and mixed the original breaks into the mix, and I chucked Sex Pistols in there, because, y'know, you have to, don't you really?

MAH: haha!

LH: Just a mix-up of tunes really, just on the beats thing.

MAH: Well, as you probably know, a lot of stuff we do on this programme is live, but you asked if you could put this together for us in your own studio and I assume this is the reason why - because you've got banks and banks of humming machinery down there that could literally do backflips for ya?

LH: Erm, yeah, but to be honest with this mix, I did think about coming in live and doing it, I can mix, but I didn't think that erm, I think that I got a better result doing it in the studio... to be honest, I still only used like, erm, I used like, a sampler, two decks, and an A-DAT to put it together so I didn't use really any, too
much, y'know, too much equipment, so I basically put it together using that equipment. Yeah, I gotta lot of stuff in my studio, but I didn't use a lot of it for this mix.