OFF THE FLOOR OFF THE FLOOR PHAT BEATS SLIM’S PICKING Five milestone albums MARK VESSEY is a commercially savvy for Fatboy artist whose new work teams up with the patron saint of big beat, Brighton’s 01. Rolling Stones ‘Black & fi nest (beyond DJ Mag’s editor, Carl Blue’. “The fi rst album I ever Loben), Norman Cook. Mr Fatboy Slim bought.” holds the Guinness World Record for the 02. Malcolm McLaren ‘Duck most hits under various aliases, varying Rock’ “The album that from producing the seminal ‘Dub Be Good most infl uenced me as an To Me’ for Beats International, to The artist. White, middle-class Housemartins, Freak Power, Pizzaman, the eclectic man delves into Mighty Dub Katz, and far more. black music, sampling and Norman explains of the collaboration: musical rebellion with mixed “Once we started working together, Mark results.” and I realised we had similar obsessions 03. Shinehead ‘Jamaican In in collecting and collating, in preserving New York’ “The fi rst album I perfectly catalogued memories or cultural produced.” relics. Mark’s criteria were that they had 04. Various Artists ‘Super to be records that had touched me in some Disco Breaks’ “Ultra rare way. This means that I have either been compilation of the original heavily infl uenced, sampled them, been breakbeats that shaped my involved in making them, love them like a time as a hip-hop DJ.” brother or I have simply lost my virginity 05. The Mighty Tom Cats ‘Soul while they were playing.” Makossa’ “The inspiration •Mark Vessey pieces will be exhibited for the name of The Mighty later this year — but bids are available Dub Katz.” via Art Republic, or MarkVessey.com THE ULTIMATE SNEAKER BOOK SNEAKERS are the shoes of electronica, hip-hop, house — no one is gonna bounce across a dancefl oor without a fundamental understanding of a training shoe. Even Paris Hilton DJs in sneakers, doesn’t she? Off The Floor prefers a boot, or an Underground crepe, but that’s more about stacking up height than issues with bling Balenciagas or Kanye West. Really. But back in 2002, Simon 'Woody' Wood was dreaming schemes to get free sneaks. He started Sneaker Freaker fanzine as something, “funny, serious, meaningful and pointless at the same time”. He’s now scored a defi nitive GOLD tome on the 100 years of everything from your Y3s to your Pony. And it’s bang up-to-date, talking to Virgil Abloh, going into discussion of the current dad shoe (make that a ’90s father). Dominated by Nike, with hints of glory and innovation from Adidas, Vision Street Wear, Converse, New Balance, Puma, Dapper Dan... OFF THE FLOOR adore not only the fl y pictures and sumptuous glory of this BLAZING A TRAIL mega paean to ESSENTIAL insightful listening for all of those that wanna make roadwear, but it big in the music industry: Positiva and XL founder Nick Halkes the lyrics pulled joins Eddy Temple-Morris in a new series of podcasts, Trailblazers. by artists from Exclusively on Deezer, the format features interviews with, and Ice-T to Heavy tracks chosen D, Public Enemy by luminaries to Boogie Down such as Paul Productions. Oakenfold, We’ll close on David Master P: Rodigan, “6 ’n tha Stephen mornin’ police Mallinder at my do’/ (Wrangler/ Fresh Nikes Cabaret squeak across Voltaire), my bathroom Paul van fl o’…” Dyk and Tom Middleton. 130 DJMAG.COM DJ589.Reg-OffTheFloor.indd 130 12/12/2018 10:53.