A promo mix for a new night I'm hosting in one of my favourite local pubs.

'Cover(t) Mission' gives me a chance to dig out and plays some of the more unusual tracks in my collection. Each and every track each night is a cover version - I guess that much is obvious! - but the choice of artists is anything but. A pleasure to dig out some lesser known gems (and, er, let's be honest some covers that will always be lesser known for good reason!)

'Cover(t) Mission' takes place on the third Saturday of the month (occasionally) at Coopers Cask, on Farm Road in leafy Hove. 8pm - 1am. All vinyl, of course.

February 1989 three teenagers from Amity, New York known to their mums as Kelvin Mercer, Dave Jolicoeur and Vincent Mason dropped an album that changed the face of music.

Variously known as Plugs One, Two and Three or as Posdnuos, Trugoy The Dove and P.A. Pasemaster Mase and collectively as DE LA SOUL the three - together with producer and Stetsasonic don Prince Paul (and not forgetting the rest of the Native Tongues or their pubescent mate Jeff) - altered the face of hip hop and the pop charts with their eclectic sampling, day-glo videos and lyrics about this being a 'd.a.i.s.y. age' when rap music, with the likes of Ice T, NWA and Public Enemy breaking through to the , was getting increasing militant and aggressive.

Their first 12s, released in 1988 on US label Tommy Boy were pretty much like nothing that had been recorded before. Sampling Liberace, obscure artists such as Star Trek actress Maggie Thrett and dialogue from folks such as a Mayor of New York reading the comics of his day and Eddie Murphy, er, a comic from New York in his day. Their big break over here came when Me Myself and I hit the pop charts and when I got my copy of 3 Feet High and Rising, I'll be honest, it changed my life. Period.

Now, I know every groove on the record and it's as worn down as any record I've ever owned and De La (well Pos and Trugoy) are back with First Serve having had a career littered with solid gold hip hop classics and grammy awards (with Gorillaz) so I thought it might be time I attempted an edit. After all, I bought this Logic Express thingy a few years ago and have attempted to master a mix of 3 Feet originals with their source material on the decks several times and never quite got it right so, having rightly slaughtered the growing re-edit culture, I thought I'd re-imagine an entire album for my own listening pleasure. And maybe yours...

Right, now let's get to the game...

In March 2011 Chris King and I rolled up at Brighton's new warehouse space 'The Green Door Store' with a couple of bags of 7's and a whole lotta hope that the good folk of Brighton & Hove would fancy getting on the good foot.

They did.

A year on, following successive full houses and queues round the block for each session, we're looking towards celebrating our first birthday. To get the ball rolling I've pulled together this little selection of tracks that have gone down particularly well at the night. Some I've played religiously and some just the once but each of them has generated some serious noise on the dancefloor.

The STTB 1st Birthday at The Green Door Store will be on Saturday, March 3rd. It's free to get in too so if you fancy a night in Brighton, well, you know where to come.