Anyone well into their oldskool should know about Rhythm Section – they were a rave group featured Rennie Pilgrim (now better known for his breaks work and Thursday Club label), Ellis Dee, Nicholas Scott (aka Newton), and Richie T (aka MK13, who I posted a great track by a while ago). Between them, they did quite a few big EPs on their label Rhythm Section recordings. Most of those were catchy, melodic and pretty upfront /dancefloor friendly 91-92 tunes. This EP is the one exception – a promo-only release supposedly limited to 350 copies. The tunes on here are dark, fast and noisy, a far cry from earlier releases like “The Midsummer Madness EP”. The A side wins for me – featuring nasty synths and the “Assembly Line” break, possibly ripped from Eric B & Rakim’s “let the rhythm hit em” which layered an extra grunt on the 4th beat of the break + was sampled in Acen’s TTM3.
Absolutely love both sides of this EP. Was lucky enough to pick up a copy cheap a few months back.
Somehow I managed to miss this Rhythm Section release bitd. It’s truly recognizable as Rhythm Section-tune, although the sounds are “little bit” ruffer.. Really nice! 🙂
hey mate there seems to be something wrong with your recent rips , the volume in them has a wide range.maybe other people are noticing this? sounds like a recording problem.
cheers for the blog , hope you can fix these minor mishaps.
no idea what you mean by “wide range”, anybody got any idea what he’s talking about? I don’t do any post-recording compression so dynamic range should be similar to the original record, though it’s possible I’m recording them too loud. Right now I just de-noise and put a mild EQ on.
the volume goes from normal to loud and then back again
I just checked the Rhythm Section one and it’s recorded very loud / is almost a solid block of sound except for the intro and outro, I don’t see any volume variances except when parts drop in and out. If you’re hearing constant variance in the track / volume cutting in and out, you might want to check your speaker connection. As for the intro and outro/ more minor differences in volume in the track, that’s the way these records sound, these were produced 15-19 years ago long before the age of ubermaximized “solid block” mastering (though I tend to record them in very loud which squashes them down a bit).