To be frank with you, I actually don’t know that much about the background of this tune. It’s exclusively on the unmixed disc of the VIP Champagne Bash album & I can only assume based on the style & corresponding artist name that it’s produced by the same artist that made the Follow The Leader…
RIP Chris Savage aka Mr Sav
Sad news from Nebkins.. I was notified on my Facebook yesterday of the extremely sad news that Chris Savage passed away suddenly on Saturday 25th January. He was 34. For those that didn’t know of him, Chris ran the hugely influential “Sav’s Jungle Tekno Zone” website back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s which…
Alter – Ego? – Main Line
Here’s a nice tune off the Deep & Dark label… Deep & Dark is the type of record label which I’d be tempted to go on and on about as a “Criminally underrated label” since I rarely see their tunes in mixes, but I’ll be honest: while I like most of their releases, none of…
Question Mark – Volume 1
Been a while since I posted some happy hardcore stuff, so here’s a personal favorite. It’s the first in a series of cheeky mashup records by Red Alert and Mike Slammer, similar in style to the SMD records Slipmatt was making except with that Red Alert + Mike Slammer lowest-fi gritty amiga production. No big…
Wiz – Freak Sexy Style
Here’s a personal favorite of mine from the Absolute 2 label… only for fans of weird, dark, strange oldskool. No catchy anthem business here! This EP is far removed from the other Wiz EP on Detroit House, so much so it almost makes me wonder whether it’s by the same artist (Mike James). But James…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio January 12th 2014
Tonight’s Jungletrain show was really fun – I lost some listeners as it went on (probably because it was getting late in the UK/Europe), but I was definitely happy with the tunes played and thought it all went together well. Starting with 92 stuff, moving around between there and 95, playing mostly moody choppy stuff…
Aka Bu – Jungle Vibes
Here’s another obscurity I dug up a while back, one for the jungle nerds (like me) looking to hear those last few records no one really knows. Since there wasn’t any audio of it on the net, I ripped the whole thing and posted it on youtube rather than just ripping one track for the…
DJ Gunshot – Wheel and Deal
I was about to post a less known DJ Gunshot tune, but I might as well post his big anthem. If you’ve listened to any decent amount of 94-95 jungle, there’s no way you’ve escaped hearing some mix of this tune. It kind of epitomizes the most crowd pleasing aspects of 94-95 jungle: r+b vocals,…
Sakana – Scream
Here’s a big tune by someone whose done quite a variety of hardcore related releases under a number of names…. starting with a couple EPs on Moving Shadow under the name DVUS, then doing several EPs under the Sakana name as well as DJ Mad Axe and Jimmy Fingers. According to his facebook page here,…
Omer & Crooks – Let There Be Love
If you like your pianos, this is the EP for you… it doesn’t get much more piano hardcore than, erm, “the Grand Piano” EP. Released on Strategy by Omer and Crooks (who I believe were two of the people running the label), this entire EP has the classic piano hardcore sound down to a T.…