Today’s track is on the often overlooked Boogie Beat label, which put out a slew of releases including a couple of gems. Aside from producing a few nice EPs on the label, Ben Intellect (aka Intellect) also engineered a huge amount of Boogie Beat’s other releases. Intellect – Stimulation
Year: 2009
Mixrace & Proton Iso-Space – Kings
Here’s an underrated EP written some of my all-time favorite jungle producers: Mixrace (Dev Paradox & DJ Trax) and Hyper-on Experience . With that kind of talent you can guess the quality of the beats, and this single doesn’t dissapoint. This track is a bit more recent (96), so the music is a bit more…
Digital Pressure – Watch Dis Space
I’m back! still getting stuff sorted in my new place, but intronets is on and I have a stack of records staring at me dying to be listened to / ripped. Speaking of which… If anyone has any suggestions how to best dampen vibrations under a crappy belt drive turntable, I now have a separate…
DJ Massive – Massive Overload (last post for a week)
I’m about to move, won’t have internet for most of the week and might not be set up to rip tracks for a while after that.. In the meantime, here’s an awesome track to tide you over. It’s by one of my favorite prolific-yet-underrated producers, DJ Massive. Slick production (especially for 91), choice vocal snippets…
E.K.U.D.C.M. – Dub Plate Business 2
I did a pretty lengthy post a while back on MC Duke, who did some great early hiphop on Music Of Life plus some excellent jungle tracks. Here’s one of the EPs I didn’t post, Dubplate Business Part 2. The other tracks on this EP don’t stand out that much, but this first track has…
XTRO – Toys
As mentioned in a previous comment, here’s an obscure Juice Box Records EP that I love, but which not many people have heard. This release was by David Campbell, who did tracks under countless aliases as well as engineering several Klute albums . “Toys” features a breakbeat track on side A (though it’s programmed in…
Twinhead – Twinhead EP
Here’s a wicked EP I scored for 10p after digging an entire cutout bin basement… great record, too bad it took half a day to find along w/ 1-2 other nice bits in thousands and thousands and thousands of less exciting records. Most people prefer the “U Said U” track, which I already had on…
MA1 – The Switch/Ruffige (Remix) – Formation 39
Compared to some of the stuff that Pete’s been uploading, these tunes are hardly obscurities, but I reckon that Formation are one of the most under appreciated of the prolific hardcore/jungle labels. I’ve always thought of them as one of the ‘big four’ alongside Shadow, Subbase and Reinforced – not that there weren’t plenty of…
Smooth But Hazzardous – Push up the Levels
Here’s an ace Ron Wells track currently too rich for my wallet on original press, thankfully it was repressed on both the remix EP plus this excellent comp, both of which I have on vinyl. The tune has all the trademark elements of a Ron Wells / Jack Smooth production (aka “that early Basement sound”),…
Josh Kay (Global, Phoenicia) Interview
The main purpose of this site isn’t to rehash info about all the well known oldschool artists out there, but to shine some light on quality lesser known artists / scenes. It’s with that in mind that I hit up Josh Kay of the Texas breakbeat hardcore act Global with some interview questions. Yes, I…