The partnership between Tenor Fly and Top Cat remains an iconic pairing.

Both born in South London, the two emcees started at around the same time in the late 1980s (one of Tenor Fly's earliest on-wax appearances was "Dancehall Clash" in '89 with Daddy Freddy no less), working first in reggae before switching to dancehall and late jungle and drum & bass.

Frequent collaborators and allies, their careers ran in parallel almost from the start. Both separately and as a pair, they worked with a lot of the same producers, artists and labels, including the Sir Coxone and Music Of Life labels right up to newer D&B heavyweights like Pendulum, Freestylers and Chase & Status.

Not surprisingly, they worked together on an album together, Two Veterans, as well as a bunch of singles and often paired up for live events. There are a bunch of pirate radio sets of the pair together, but there's something about this 1Xtra set that remains particularly special.

Recorded roughly a year before the tragic and all-too-sudden passing of Tenor Fly, it's a bittersweet one, knowing just how close Tenor was to the end of his life, but you wouldn't know it from his performance, which is as powerful and full-throated as he's ever been. From conscious rhymes to ganja talk to anti-violence missives, every line the pair delivered was delivered with a mastery of oration few others possess.