Here’s 2 great tracks by 2 Da Core, best known for their “Rub a Dub” single. That main tune (which you might recognize from mix tapes, it’s that tune with the “I’m… just a rub-a-dub soldier…” sample) is great, but I prefer the B side which has some nasty squelchy synths.
2 Da Core’s other single is also choice, the A side “Na Touch” it features ragga vocals and heavy sampling of Success N Effect’s “Roll it Up” (Bass Kickin Beats). It’s pretty straightforward, but the frantic success and effect sampling part is amazing. Anyone know the ragga sources on either of these tracks? .
2 Da Core – Love thy Brother
2 Da Core – Na Touch It
The sample in “Love Thy Brother” is from Wailing Souls – “Fire House Rock” off the album of the same name. It was engineered (& probably produced as well) by Scientist, who did a dub of it on Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires as “The Mummy’s Shroud”. Killer tune.
That “I’m just a rub a dub soldier” sample is from a wicked early digital dancehall tune called, fittingly enough, “Rub a Dub Soldier” by Paul Blake & the Blood Fire Posse. What other jungle tunes use it? All I can think of right now is Chris Jay – “Junglist Soldier” but I’m sure there are a bunch more.
The vocal on Na Touch It is from Clement Irie’s 80s dancehall classic Koloko:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_hl3ZLUPc
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Always had a soft spot for this track even though the other side got played more.. Jealously guard my copy now..
This is the time when, hardcore was ending and jungle was just beginning.