Here’s a quite obscure jungle tune I nabbed a while back which I’ve never heard absolutely anything about – in fact, the only version listed on discogs is the test-press, though my copy is a full label press. This tells me that maybe there’s a bunch of these stashed away somewhere unsold? But for whatever…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio Frontline December 20th 2013
Here’s my set from Radio Frontline on Friday. This is probably one of the better sets I’ve done in a while as far as jungly stuff goes: nothing super obscure or mega unreleased but a nice combination of styles… dark, uplifting, deep, tear out, little bit of everything without being too scattershot. Somehow some of…
Detromental – It’s Detromental
Here’s a serious early tune by Detromental, of X amount of Respect fame. Unlike that 92 EP, this one is from a year earlier and still much more in the bleep/techno vein (no big surprise that these guys were from Sheffield), rather than full on hardcore. Aside from the aforementioned bleeps-n-bass, these tracks seem to…
Tim Reaper’s All Liftin’ Spirit Mix For Blog To The Oldskool
Here’s a wicked mix by Tim Reaper featuring all tracks from the Liftin’ Spirit label. Set up in 94 by Ant Miles as a sort of sister label to RAM, Liftin’ Spirit put out loads of heavy jungle tunes in those early years. As with RAM, nothing I’ve heard from them was particularly weird, out-there,…
Under Rhythm – Moving
Here’s a classic example of a tune I might not have appreciated as much were it not for its presence in a mix… in this case, Easygroove played this during his 93 Dance Planet / Pure Energy set, alongside other classic small label jams like Kanata “Soul”, White Sports, the Demons by Daylight ep, etc.…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio December 8th 2013
Trying to catch back up with the last few radio shows… here’s one from about a week ago. Some good tunes in here, kind of later 92 up through 95. Mic input is still busted so I tried doing some shout-outs using a text to speech website, so apologies for the annoying robo-banter. Stay tuned…
T.H.C. – Sunshine (Jo Remix)
Having realised that it has been a while since I contributed to this place, I looked through my recent CD purchases to see what good tunes (that wouldn’t get the blog removed) I could post. This one was a good shout because it takes the original hardcore Roy Ayers sampling track by T.H.C. (Slipmatt &…
Bounty Killaz (Pulse and Wax Doctor) – Unreleased 93 Darkside tune
Here’s a big pre-xmas present from Creative Wax Recordings aka DJ Pulse of Bounty Killaz, 4 Mega, Dance Conspiracy, Inception etc etc. Bounty Killaz was a project between him and Wax Doctor which did some of the all-time great darkside jams like “Silent Voices” (my personal fav). The Bounty Killaz EPs are all great, with…
27th Parallel – Listen to Mommy and Daddy
One of these days I’ll follow through with my threat to do an entirely non-UK 91-95 oldskool mix. Until then, here’s another nifty not-made-in-England hardcore tune I’ve dug up over the years. Unfortunately I don’t have any info about the artist, but the label address says Miami,a nd “27th Parallel” is a latitude line intersecting…
Blacka T – Jungle Ina Mi Heart
Been a while since I posted something sufficiently rare that it’s not even listed on Discogs! Here’s a wicked little ragga jungle record which fits that bill. What makes this EP interesting, aside from the scarcity and format (not many jungle 45s out there), is that it seems more from the dancehall/ragga scene than from…