Malcom Catto

With the funk 45 epidemic as widespread as it is, you’d imagine that hip hop’s beat-digging elite have been raiding rare sevens for years. Not necessarily true – ask Malcom Catto, one of London’s foremost authorities on the matter. “In 1994, I went to the states with some copies of Third Guitar to play at the New York Fair,” Catto recalls of the hip hop-holy grail known to fetch over $1000 on eBay. “All these big named rappers and producers are hanging around, I said ‘Fuck it, let me play this brilliant piece of music.