Never Mind The Filthy Lucre: Here's the Sex Pistols

LABEL: Suck My Filthy Dot COM Records Beyaaatch
RELEASE DATE: January 14, 1998
RELEASE #: 01
CATALOG #: n/a
FORMAT: CD

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Although not a Hip Hop Slam title, this limited edition (999 copies made), long out of print, benefit CD (Shanti Project & Free Radio Defense Fund) was the first release distributed by Hip Hop Slam. Released on Jan 14th 1998, it marked, to the day, the twentieth anniversary of the legendary breakup of the Sex Pistols when they played their final show at Winterland in San Francisco. This 60 minute CD is an even mix of that raw performance and the radio interviews conducted earlier that day with Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, and Steve Jones on local radio. And it is because of their often hilarious on-air banter that it was filed under "comedy or punk."

The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Vol. 5

LABEL: Hip Hop Slam
RELEASE #: 02
RELEASE DATE: May, 1998
CATALOG #: HHS 001
FORMAT: CD

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Live turntable orchestration session starring the now-defunct Invisibl Skratch Piklz at their peak when the lineup was QBert, Disk, Apollo, Mixmaster Mike, Shortkut, Shiggar Fraggar, and emcee UB40. Recorded live in May 1996 at Hip Hop Slam in Oakland, CA as part of the Pirate Fuckin Radio series. "What's most amazing is that it was all done live. Pure brilliance!" is what PAPER magazine wrote of this release that was recorded live with absolutely no overdubs or studio trickery. Note that originally these sessions, which were 90 minute mix-tapes/radio shows, were both distributed by Hip Hop Slam to about a dozen pirate radio stations around the USA and by the Piklz as mix-tapes.

The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Vol. 5

LABEL: Hip Hop Slam
RELEASE #: 03
RELEASE DATE: May, 1998
CATALOG #: HHS 002
FORMAT: VHS

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This video version of Vol. 5, which is almost identical to the CD version, offers the bonus of being able to visually experience the amazing dexterity of the legendary DJ crew prompting Jeff Chang to write in the Bay Guardian: "What really separates the Skratch Piklz from the ordinary is their invitingly idiosyncratic mix of hard-cored B-boy credentials, post-adolescent awkwardness, and goofy, cartoon/animal/alien/inamimate object cosmology." Meanwhile URB magazine wrote of this release: "Rare examples of turntable purity... an underground classic that's all about the Bay."

The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Vol. 4

LABEL: Hip Hop Slam
RELEASE #: 04
RELEASE DATE: January, 1999
CATALOG #: HHS 003
FORMAT: CD

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Recorded in January, 1996 at Hip Hop Slam as part of the Pirate Fuckin Radio series this live turntable orchestration features DJs Qbert, Disk, Shortkut, Flare, and Shiggar Fraggar. It was remastered and slightly edited for this CD release. Wrote PULSE magazine: "When the Smithsonian wises up and opens a hip hop wing, The Shiggar Fraggar Show will make a great intro to turntable madness in the 90's."

The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Vol. 4

LABEL: Hip Hop Slam
RELEASE #: 05
RELEASE DATE: January, 1999
CATALOG #: HHS 004
FORMAT: VHS

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This complimentary video version to The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Vol. 4 CD visually captures the raw display of turntable virtuosity flexed on the ones and twos by Qbert, Disk, Shortkut, Flare, and Shiggar Fraggar in full living color.