It’s funny how, being in the States, there’s a lot of cool and ridiculously cheap tracks I end up missing out on because 1. I can’t find them here 2. I don’t make it to the UK much and 3. the cost to ship them over from the UK massively dwarfs the record cost itself.…
Unknown Artist – Atlas
Time for another obscurer-than-obscure jam, here’s a tune I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone else play? This one’s a bit interesting since it’s supposedly a US plate from 93, though it sounds more like something from the UK circa 91. There’s certainly no info on the release itself so I’m not sure where the…
Trek – Ultime Frontière
Here’s a hidden gem from 1995, a vibey jungle track which only featured on two different jungle comps (one on vinyl, one CD). No idea where the original artist was from, but it was mixed + engineered by Matt aka Optical of Ed Rush + optical fame. Definitely worth picking up as the comp it’s…
Jungle|Techno Mix (Jungletrain Aug 4th set rerecorded)
Here’s a set featuring tunes pulled for last Sunday’s Jungletrain show. The plugin I use to record the show crashed on Sunday night – kind of lucky for me since I wasn’t that into how the show turned out (better in idea than execution). Rather than rerecord as-is or give up on it, I spent…
Underground Frequency – Melodic Meltdown
Here’s an underrated track which has always gone for quite cheap, possibly due to the artist and label behind it not being hugely known. the “Melodic Meltdown” EP is a great 93 plate by the gents behind Hypno-Genesis, and as such is sort of the follow-up to their more well known “Induction of a Hypnotic…
Acen + The House Crew – live in Canada ’93 videos
The House Crew just posted a few wicked videos on facebook of a show they played in Canada in 1993. Wicked stuff! It’s great how early Toronto seemed to adopt hardcore/jungle, probably why the Jungle scene itself went on to be so utterly huge there. For more information about that early scene there, feel free…
Radio Frontline Set – Aug 3rd 2014
Here’s what was meant to roughly be my set from Radio Frontline on Sunday. Unfortunately, Mixlr seemed to have a site-wide outage right around the time the show started… checking a number of stations it seemed to be affecting all of them, at least for me and everyone else I asked. Service was restored about…
Original DJ Vibes – Grown In the Jungle
Here’s a great 94 jungle track by Original DJ Vibes, certainly one of the more underrated and prolific oldskool producers out there. Producing from the early 92 hardcore days (those first few EPs are quite crucial in my view), up through the 96 era, Original DJ Vibes (maybe named such due to the more happy…
KVA002 – Klute aka Supertouch Unreleased 93-94 EP
Great news from Will from Sublogic Recordings regarding an EP he’s putting out which is well worth supporting (I already ordered my copy!). Hello all! I’m proud to announce the next release on Keeping Vinyl Alive… Supertouch – The Dreams EP – KVA002 Much like the KVA001 release back in 2013, this is another highly…
Ross Phenallas – Aboriginal
I may be slacking on tune posts lately, but when I do post them I mean business… this tune is a personal favorite discovery of mine from recent time: totally underappreciated / unknown 91-92 style bleepy acidy breakbeat stuff. What makes this tune for me is the combination of aforementioned sounds with sinister pads, weird…