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B-Real and Sen Dog jam at the front of the stage, while DJ Lord rips away at his turntable and Bobo beats up on the drums.

They’re led onstage and, once they all nod, an electrician blasts the space with fog, and suddenly they’re on a turntable, playing expressively from memory.

The brigade is using one of its 32m turntable ladders to help fight the fire from above.

We also get a broad, electrifying sampling of the era’s freedom jams, be they from our shore’s turntables and radios or the African rumba scene.

Hip-hop was a product of necessity, meaning they took the music program out of schools and in my generation, you had to get a drum machine or a turntable.