Sometimes I have EPs on my wantlist for years, due to scarcity or cost, and once I finally track them down I can’t help but be underwhelmed and think… “I spent that much time/money/time and money for THIS???” “Hedgehog Affair IV” is not one of those EPs. I finally picked this EP up recently on the cheap, and knew as soon as I dropped the needle onto the first track that it was worth waiting for… The EP as a whole is really strong, so much so it’s hard to pick just one track to post. This first track is a bit less “Basement Records-y” than the others but is still catchy and rad, a straightahead no-nonsense great rave track. Some of these later non-Basement Ron Wells related releases are a bit hard to find and are really wicked, maybe a bit more melodic than the stuff on Basement while still having that driving “jungle techno” underpinning. There’s even a straight up 4/4 acid techno stomper on this EP.
Oh yeah, it sounds like my needles are going yet again so this rip is kinda noisy.
Rush Till Dawn presents the Hedgehog Affair – Come On
Found this a couple years ago at the sadly short lived play de vintage in toronto. Top.
woah, do you mean there was a separate Play De Record that only had vintage stuff (presumably stuff from their basement?) Sounds epic!! Did Gunns run that place?
Hedgehog affair does it again, top tune this, Part 3 “don’t just stand there” is still my favourite of this series though
@pete, I’m not sure who specifically from play de ran the place but yeah it was there for a couple years across the street and up the block a bit but it shut down 🙁
All 5 EPs now available for sensible money …. Remastered from original DAT master tapes, available at MPSVinyl: https://www.mpsvinyl.co.uk/collections/sound-entity-records/products/hedgehog-affair-volumes-1-5-remastered-5-disc-pre-order-12-vinyl