After six years of running this site, I’m breaking out of the strictly digital realm and starting a label called 8205 Recordings. The goal of 8205 is to unearth select hardcore/jungle tunes from 1991-1995 that never made it off dubplate or DAT, and press them to vinyl. Each release will be limited to between 100…
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Suburban Base Records – The History of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-1997
It looks like Suburban Base will be amping up their digital presence in a big way over the next few months. In March they’ll be releasing a fresh compilation called “SUBURBAN BASE RECORDS – THE HISTORY OF HARDCORE, JUNGLE, DRUM & BASS: 1991-1997”, including some of their strongest tracks from that era. Following that, they’ll…
RIP Chris Savage aka Mr Sav
Sad news from Nebkins.. I was notified on my Facebook yesterday of the extremely sad news that Chris Savage passed away suddenly on Saturday 25th January. He was 34. For those that didn’t know of him, Chris ran the hugely influential “Sav’s Jungle Tekno Zone” website back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s which…
Radio Frontline – new oldskool netradio station
For the past few months I’ve been seeing a bunch of posts about a new all-oldskool net radio station starting – there’s already a few stations which heavily feature oldskool such as Renegade Radio,
Blog to the Oldskool Radio on Soundcloud and Mixcloud
Just a quick heads up that all past episodes of the radio show are now uploaded on Mixcloud, and most are slowly going onto Soundcloud (just a handful more to go!) The catch is that some mixes can’t go on SC because they contain DMCA-able tracks…So far I’ve run into 2 problem ones being blocked:…
Manix – “Living in the Past” album preorder
Wow, just…. wow…. thanks to Law @ Drumtrip for pointing me to this on twitter. New Manix album in an oldskool style… including a vinyl picture disc version which is quite affordable (12 pounds including CD AND digital). Pick this up and support one of the originators and best artists in oldskool (just ordered my…
Mr Sav’s Jungle Techno and Gramophone Record Radio Show
Normally I don’t really post mixes here unless they’re specially done for the blog, but here’s a fun one I’ve enjoying lately. Thanks to Nebbers for pointing me to this and Mr Sav for making it! For those more, erm, oldskool of you online oldskool anoraks (mailing list / geocities / angelfire type site days),…
Woohoo!
Finally made it to 1000! Stay tuned to the FB page for a special treat posted there this weekend. I could probably try to code some premium content as an “app” page where you’re forced to like it, but… nah… can’t be bothered, so I’m putting you all on the honor system 🙂 I know…
Jungle invading this blog….
I’ve gone ahead and added Tim Reaper as a contributor to the blog… please stand by for way too many 94-95 amen tunes posted by someone who was possibly not born yet when these tunes were released.
Unreleased DJ DLux tunes
A year or two ago I hit up DJ DLux (Brain Records Crew back in the day, now a DJ on Deja Vu since years) and he mentioned having some unreleased tunes kicking around still… looks like he ripped them from DAT recently and posted them on his soundcloud! What’s more, they all have download…