Thanks to Mark for pointing me to this single, I previously had bought an earlier EP by X-Static (Free) and, though it was good, it wasn’t a personal favorite or anything. This track is truly awesome though. All the usual crowd pleasing parts of a 92 tune (diva vocal + hiphop vocal + hardcore melody…
Category: Tunes
Ionosphere – Hypertension EP
Here’s a reasonably well known white label from 1992. Part of what makes me like this EP is the variety in the tunes, as you’ll hear in the two representative tracks below – one is a deeper heavy track that stays pretty straightforward, while the other is a weird bouncy track that changes up every…
94 Jungle Documentary
Thanks to DSP for posting this documentary, also to Hardscore and Nerbanite for posting it on their blogs. Wicked 94 documentary that shows shy fx in the studio, uk apache, shots of the lucky spin record shop (I want that Liquid Wax t-shirt!!) and stuff about the m-beat/general levy controversy.
Cool Runnings
Another good ragga jungle tune, this time from the Ibiza Records camp… I’d be curious to know what the intro is from. Even though the phrase “cool runnings” is jamaican slang, it always reminds me of that horrible 90’s movie about the Jamaican Bobsled team. I’d never actually seen it, so I started watching the…
Chris Jay – Champion Sound (Devious D remix)
Here’s a wicked track I picked up recently. This is classic 94-95 ragga jungle stuff: mashed amens mixed with the beat used in “Helicopter tune” (I forget the name of it right now). multiple ragga vocal lines, the “ah!” sample as used in Ray Keith – Terrorist. My copy is a little bit worn down…
Zone – Ghosties
Here’s a classic 91 jam that’s been stuck in my head lately. The b side tracks are pretty good too, especially the second one. I’m still looking for the other Zone EP which I’ve never seen for sale… if anyone has a spare vinyl copy for sale (yeah right!) or even some mp3s so I…
Flytronix – Shadowlandz
Here’s a tune I was reminded of by a recent comment on here… it actually may not be the track referred to in the comment, but it’s a wicked tune/EP nonetheless. Flytronix aka Danny Demierre was one half of best-oldskool-group-ever Hyper-On Experience, in addition to doing some great singles of his own on Moving Shadow…
32 Troop – Old School Soldier
Here’s a solid Criminal Minds related tune… someone pointed out there’s not even a version of this on youtube, so I figure I’d post it here. The Criminal Minds are one of my all-time favorite hardcore acts, there’s countless great tunes from these guys on a number of labels. This EP is pretty good, I…
Zephania – Breathing Bass EP
Here’s one for the obscure white label crew. This EP definitely isn’t for everyone. The production on it is super low-fi (putting the “grimey” tolerance of even ardent oldskool obscurity fans to the test), however for some reason it sounds absolutely GREAT to me when blasted loud. It sounds like it was released around 91,…
3 Sample – High on Life… Rewind Come Again
3 Sample are best known for their tune Streets of Rage, which was on one of the Kaos Theory comps. I actually prefer this track, which is a secondary mix on the easier to find first EP on Output Level. It’s a dead simple tune – a female vocal sample, an eerie little piano melody…