Here’s a nice single I picked up while in the UK recently – raging lowfi 93 ragga hardcore stuff. Pretty rough production for 93, but not to a complete fault, i.e. the beats still punch pretty hard. The Funky Dread Squad – Give Me
Tag: 1993
Count it off
Another theme post, i.e. a thinly veiled excuse to post a random smattering of tracks. This time, it’s tracks with some sort of counting in them. To start off, here’s one of my absolute favorite hiphop tracks ever – it’s fast and mixes perfectly well with earlier hardcore tunes. This version of “20 seconds to…
Assorted 93-94 Jungles
Here’s a few tracks of nice 93-94 choppy jungle.This first one I have no idea about – found it in a Bristol record shop and it was labelled as being by “slipmatt”, but I think that was just because it has the same catalog # as awesome records #1 (SL2 “the noise”), which is by…
Mega City 2
Here’s some qualty darkness for today… Mega City 2 are most well known for “Darker Side of Evil”, a track which heavily samples the movie Predator 2. They also did a nice 4 tracker called “Demons By Daylight”, which is an absolute horror movie / ominous synth sample-fest. The two tracks featured below are probably…
Something a little strange… (Weird Beard)
One of the strangest groups I’ve come across while looking for good oldskool stuff is WEIRD BEARD from Germany. Here’s my thoughts after getting a few of their records, on the strength of one track (which happened to be their least, erm, weird) I just got Weird Works I – III a day ago, and…
Entire Kniteforce & KF sublabels backcatalog online as free mp3s!!
what the ffffuuuuuuu…… http://www.kniteforcerevolution.com/music First 15 Kniteforce Records are absolutely ESSENTIAL, but there are plenty of dope ones sprinkled after that. Also some great stuff on the sub labels like remix records, 2 croozin etc. Also, all this bandwidth is probably going to cost him a lot, so click that donate button on the front…
Dopeski & Jakes
The weather has been pretty cold and shitty in Boston lately, so here’s some 93 darkness courtesy of Dopeski & Jakes. First up is the Snowstorm EP on Wardance Records. “Snowstorm” has all the trappings of a quality early darkside tune – twisted synths, chopped beats, screams, etc. “Cantankerous” is the lightest of the four…
Dave Charlesworth Obscurity + Nookie jam
Bit of a mixed bag again today, starting tommorow I’ll go back to more concept-based posts… with this giant pile of random new records at my feet, it’s tempting to keep throwing random quality tracks up. This first tune is on the After Dark sublabel Time Travel Records. Based on that fact, plus the heavy…
Europe Trip finds, vol 1 – London Bargain bins
Since I just got back from a 3 week vacation across Europe, I’ll probably be posting a lot about my various record finds from there over the next few weeks. First up is the UK.. Anybody into jungle who has been to UK record shops over the past few years knows that hardcore has gotten…
DJ Fokus
DJ Fokus is without a doubt one of my favorite of the lesser known 93-95 artists. Originally releasing on the label Blueprint Records, his first release “The Theme” bw “Disengaged” is an in-demand amen smasher, fetching high prices these days. He followed this EP up with a solo outing on the same label, before releasing…