DJ Heroes #1: No DJ Like Chuck
Here at Fat Lace we like to revere our heroes before they cark it. Not to say Chuck won’t live a long healthy life but after Mr Magic we don’t want to take any chances so we’re bringing you a precis of his work so you can get familiar. First up Chuck’s DJ skills popped up on the seminal ‘Two, Three, Break’ by the B Boys on Vincent Davis’ Vintertainment label, a minimal Electro classic and staple in any collection. The B Boys were also notable as one of the group members was a pre-Rhyme Syndicate member Donald D. Soon after that Chuck dropped his first solo record ‘Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1′, the first in a series which saw fellow Kiss FM DJ Red Alert make the follow up ‘Hip Hop On Wax Volume 2′. Under an alias of D.J. Born Supreme Allah, Chillout then made the sequel to ‘Two, Three, Break’, the unofficial ‘Part 3′ of the ‘Hip Hop On Wax’ series.
D.J. Born Supreme Allah – Two, Three, Break (Part II – The Sequel) (DOWNLOAD)
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D.J. Chuck Chillout – Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1 (DOWNLOAD)
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Then came a couple of key productions, firstly he was behind the classic Dismasters record ‘Small Time Hustler’, a record that propelled label Urban Rock into the spotlight. A couple more Dismasters singles surfaced which also helped establish them on the world circuit. Next Chuck produced another classic record from the 1988 golden era by Deuces Wild called ‘Five Times The Rhymer’. Interestingly enough one half of Deuces (Derek Keyes) later went under the alias of Nine, switched up his voice and released a string of singles and an album for Profile Records. Just before that back in 1991 Nine, or as he was then called Nine Double M recorded a single with Chuck Chillout’s young protege DJ Funkmaster Flex. If you want to dig even deeper, before Nine’s earlier incarnation, the two rappers in Deuces were known as Ricochet And Centipede, look out for their only release ‘Charlie Brown’.
Deuces Wild – Five Times The Rhymer (DOWNLOAD)
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With a string of classic singles under his belt and one of New York’s most important Hip-Hop radio jocks, Chuck Chillout was already established in Hip-Hop’s hall of fame. Recently we spotted a rare acetate of a Kiss FM radio ident recorded for Chuck by The Ultramagnetic MC’s go for $2,827.00. Peep the link HERE.
Ultramagnetic MC’s Radio ID (for Chuck Chillout) (DOWNLOAD)
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In ’89 Chuck teamed up with rapper Kool Chip to form a group which signed to Mercury. The ‘Masters Of The Rhythm’ album followed their first single ‘I’m Large’ taking the elements of the James Bond theme tune. The ‘Once In A Lifetime’ sampling ‘Rhythm Is The Master’ single followed although the sample had already made Talking Heads a hip-hop favourite after Sugar Bear sampled it on ‘Don’t Scandalize Mine’ a year before in ’88. Their album drew from the massive rise in popularity of house music which never washed particularly well with the hip-hop fraternity but Chuck Chillout’s pedigree was already established so he seemed to escape any serious negative criticism. And that, as they say, is his-story.
If you ever get to read this Chuck, holla at us, we’d love to do a full interview sometime.
DJ Chuck Chillout & Kool Chip ‘Masters Of Rhythm’ album (DOWNLOAD)
More Chuck Chillout Video after the jump….
Also props to Hot As Balls, as we were researching we realised they did a similar post back in 2008 which we missed at the time, but no harm in updating.
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11 Responses to "DJ Heroes #1: No DJ Like Chuck"
So HE was D.J. Born Supreme Allah?? I never knew that.
Your articles are always full of knowledge and that. Maybe you should, I dunno, make it into a magazine or something with real pages and stuff.
no harm, no harms at all gents
the EBay sale of a ‘broadcast dubplate’ is surely a bit of a left turn in the scheme of things for sale ont’ Bay
Ostensibly, this is the Chucky equivalent to Red Alerts’ BAIT, it’s a fair price [should one have the disposable income of a Hollywood starlet]…
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ta for the d/l link Fatlace !
never heard the Ultra track before….
Only got a clean copy of that DJ born Supreme Allah 12″ last year after 20+ years of searching it was always mad rare or if it turned up mad expensive or mad worn, but now the real well known classics have plummeted in price and the random stuff is the new pricey shi*t (and acetates for the mega rich) I managed to cop one at baragin price. Played it non stop on electro 10 back in the day and I feel truly priveledged to own the 12″ after 25 years. Never realised it was him until now either (thanks too for the knowledge), just love the music.
Remember that ultra track too of one of their unreleased/demo LP’s ‘chuck chucky….chuck chillout’ dope track.
I think if we’d have gone with ‘ocean magnetic’ and not changed it to ‘ultra’ at the last minute we would still be stadium fillers to this day. We coulda really cashed in on all the green movement and be doing tours with coldplay and sting. Bugger. I shouldna never let keith scribble it out.
Chalk me down as not knowing he was DJ Born Supreme Allah either.
If I didn’t already love Watermelon Man enough for the Dolly My Baby remix, Guy Mariano’s part in Girl’s Mouse video, and Pocket Full Of Furl by U.N.L.V & B.G, hearing that Ultras radio spot a couple of weeks back has pushed it into my top 5 breaks of all time.
Chuck’s Nike / Dapper Dan jacket is sick, I coulda sworn on the 12″ it was the reverse of that photo. Didn’t Kool Chip have a solo record out too?
Props as always.. Still need the Born Supreme single…
Rhythm is the master was the first single before the album and i used play it constantly.. Man that song hasn’t aged very well but still cool I guess.
hip hop on wax volume 3 was always my fave. chuck absolutley hammers the hell out of that commodores record. I looked around for that for ages before some clever chap informed me that chuck only did it for the essential electro box set bonus 12″. some one should boot it. i’d buy a copy.
did any of the fat lace crew win that bid on the ultra acetate?
I remember Westwood saying ‘no dj like chuck’ was his favourite track of all time.Probably say ‘green door’ by Shakin Stevens now…how times change
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