It’s been a while since I’ve posted a US obscurity, so here’s a nice tune that I don’t think many people know about. “Break You Down” is one of those super simple tracks that just combines a couple of critical elements of other tracks, but to very nice effect. Here we get the breaks from…
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Bad Influence – Dance For Me
Here’s a B side gem from one of the Bad Influence (Pascal, Cobbler and Jack Horner) EPs. This EP is probably much better known for “Thoughts of an Innocent Mind”, the anthem-y A side track with easily identifiable “can’t stop this feeling… we are free” vocals. That’s certainly why I tracked the EP down initially.…
Silver Fox – Dread By Dawn EP
I think someone mentioned this EP in the comments of this site a few years back – it’s a really solid 4-tracker of darkside stuff, on a relatively small label (Three Scars only did one other EP, with DJ Pilgrim). While there’s nothing incredibly different going on here, all tracks have that nice combo of…
Ridger Racer OST
Just saw this posted on facebook… I’m definitely a fan of the intersection of early videogame and early hardcore/jungle stuff (either video game sounds in hardcore tracks, or videogame soundtracks that border on rave)… can’t say I was a huge Ridge Racer fan back in the day, but this soundtrack does a pretty good job…
Altern-8 – Activ8 and Evapor8 original demo versions
I guess Mark Archer posted some of the original demo versions of Altern-8 tracks a while back, but I didn’t notice at the time… here they are, sounding quite tight for demos!! Could definitely imagine these being released as-is on some white label back then, while not as poppy and polished as the final versions,…
Desire – The Feeling Within Me
Here’s a longtime secret track I grabbed super cheap a few years back. I held off posting it because, even though it was quite cheap, nobody had it for sale on discogs (though it was cheap on another site), also I never heard anyone talk about it… I almost considered buying up a bunch of…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio – December 5th 2012 (All Reinforced Special)
This week’s radio show was an all Reinforced Records + sublabels (mainly Tom + Jerry) special… starting with their first 2 releases, moving through the years up to their second wave in the late 90’s / early 00’s. All in all, I’m quite happy with the track selection on this – one of my needles…
DJ Deckjammer – Prince of Darkness
Everything is getting dark… here’s a real darkside gem that seems to be going for quite cheap these days? Pretty sure I played this (or perhaps the VIP) on my halloween darkside special back around Halloween. No idea who Deckjammer was, there’s 3 releases on this label though all of which are pretty good (though…
Secret Squirrel – D.D.T.
Serious 92 classic here… I already posted the later remix of this tune here, it’s only fair I post the original as well. Bogwoppa/Dance Bass was known for having rougher than usual tracks with loads of crazy samples. his track sort of shows the nascent sound of the label while being more stripped down than…
A-Sides / Cool Hand Flex / Uncle 22 live PA from 1992
thanks to A-sides for posting this on soundcloud… download is enabled so nab it while you can! This is a recording of a live P.A i used to perform back in 1992, The pre jungle days with Cool Hand Flex and Uncle 22 when we were all based out of De Underground Records in East…