Here’s another obscurity I dug up a while back, one for the jungle nerds (like me) looking to hear those last few records no one really knows. Since there wasn’t any audio of it on the net, I ripped the whole thing and posted it on youtube rather than just ripping one track for the…
Category: Tunes
DJ Gunshot – Wheel and Deal
I was about to post a less known DJ Gunshot tune, but I might as well post his big anthem. If you’ve listened to any decent amount of 94-95 jungle, there’s no way you’ve escaped hearing some mix of this tune. It kind of epitomizes the most crowd pleasing aspects of 94-95 jungle: r+b vocals,…
Sakana – Scream
Here’s a big tune by someone whose done quite a variety of hardcore related releases under a number of names…. starting with a couple EPs on Moving Shadow under the name DVUS, then doing several EPs under the Sakana name as well as DJ Mad Axe and Jimmy Fingers. According to his facebook page here,…
Omer & Crooks – Let There Be Love
If you like your pianos, this is the EP for you… it doesn’t get much more piano hardcore than, erm, “the Grand Piano” EP. Released on Strategy by Omer and Crooks (who I believe were two of the people running the label), this entire EP has the classic piano hardcore sound down to a T.…
Lion Dog Chester – Tap Dancing (Green Light Mix)
Here’s a quite obscure jungle tune I nabbed a while back which I’ve never heard absolutely anything about – in fact, the only version listed on discogs is the test-press, though my copy is a full label press. This tells me that maybe there’s a bunch of these stashed away somewhere unsold? But for whatever…
Detromental – It’s Detromental
Here’s a serious early tune by Detromental, of X amount of Respect fame. Unlike that 92 EP, this one is from a year earlier and still much more in the bleep/techno vein (no big surprise that these guys were from Sheffield), rather than full on hardcore. Aside from the aforementioned bleeps-n-bass, these tracks seem to…
Under Rhythm – Moving
Here’s a classic example of a tune I might not have appreciated as much were it not for its presence in a mix… in this case, Easygroove played this during his 93 Dance Planet / Pure Energy set, alongside other classic small label jams like Kanata “Soul”, White Sports, the Demons by Daylight ep, etc.…
T.H.C. – Sunshine (Jo Remix)
Having realised that it has been a while since I contributed to this place, I looked through my recent CD purchases to see what good tunes (that wouldn’t get the blog removed) I could post. This one was a good shout because it takes the original hardcore Roy Ayers sampling track by T.H.C. (Slipmatt &…
Bounty Killaz (Pulse and Wax Doctor) – Unreleased 93 Darkside tune
Here’s a big pre-xmas present from Creative Wax Recordings aka DJ Pulse of Bounty Killaz, 4 Mega, Dance Conspiracy, Inception etc etc. Bounty Killaz was a project between him and Wax Doctor which did some of the all-time great darkside jams like “Silent Voices” (my personal fav). The Bounty Killaz EPs are all great, with…
27th Parallel – Listen to Mommy and Daddy
One of these days I’ll follow through with my threat to do an entirely non-UK 91-95 oldskool mix. Until then, here’s another nifty not-made-in-England hardcore tune I’ve dug up over the years. Unfortunately I don’t have any info about the artist, but the label address says Miami,a nd “27th Parallel” is a latitude line intersecting…