Here’s two nice tunes for friday by TDK, someone who was strongly affiliated with Bizzy B / the Brain Records crew. The first track is from 93 but actually sounds much more like a 94 tune… decent atmospherics, choppy breaks, smooth without being corny, tasty and tasteful stuff. The second track (“Hype Time”), I finally…
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Andromeda – Buzz
This is basically an “Anasthasia” knockoff but with more prominent breaks and some samples about UK football thrown on top. The additional synthwork reminds me a bit of 786/Deja Vu, but that could just be because of the synths used and not anything to do with the personnel involved in making the tracks. Andromeda –…
Lory D & Leo Anibaldi on TV circa 1992
Thanks to Rocco for pointing me to this video.
We R 3 – Happiness
I just had a pretty rough night Saturday; finding this record on Sunday almost made up for it. “Happiness” is a dead-simple piano stormer, something which doesn’t share ANY of the characteristics which initially drew me to oldschool (those being the chopped and layered beats, crazy sample usage, etc). Instead, this track is just a…
Temporary Mash Up – Just Close Your Eyes
Here’s some early happy hardcore on the Burning Bush Communications label. This was a sublabel of Stormtrooper Recordings, which did the classic Brisk + Rebel Alliance “Somtimes”. This track is classic 94-95 style – chopped amens with 4beat underneath, plus a classic hardcore vocal (in this case the same vocal as used in Nookie “Gonna…
Sub Sequence – State of Mind
I recently bought a large amount of 94-95 stuff from a classic Boston DJ, and I’ll probably be posting a number of these records over the next few months… since they’re all relatively cheap/easy to find EPs, anything you hear and like you can probably nab on ebay or discogs for less than the cost…
DJ Producer – “Reminiscence” megamixes
Here’s some great megamixes by DJ Producer written between 1998-2000.. I believe only one was released on vinyl, all 3 are wicked though and rank up there with any other good megamix series (“Hit the Decks”, “Energizer”, etc). DJ Producer should need no introduction…. aside from being a great DJ from the original UK raves…
Dreamscape 20 Video
Sub Terra – Storm
Here’s another personal favorite from 92 – nice piano and female vocals, less anthemy and euphoric than other stuff I’ve posted lately. The drums are pretty low-fi and muted, but the vocals and music more than make up for it. According to discogs, Sub Terra was Jan Citadel of Kaos and Simon Carter (aka Crystal…
Mysteron (The Invisible Man) – You Don’t Know
Here’s a great deep number by Graham Mew aka The Invisible Man aka Mysteron. Aside from producing some of the most memorable jungle tunes ever (“The Bell tune”, “The Beginning”, “The End”, etc), he also engineered tracks for Legend Records for quite a while, including a track called “Champion Sound” that some of you have…