Here’s the session from last Sunday, rerecorded because I forgot to press “record” when it was live on the air… did this in one take before heading out to a party last night, no volume correction but I cut a couple of offending measures out of the mix before mp3-izing. Overall I’d say it’s a…
Facs – Journey Into Sound
Since I’ve been slack about rerecording the 96-98 set from Sunday, here’s one of my favorite tracks I played during it: a lesser known tune by Facs. This tune pretty much defines hardstep for me – a heavy steppy beat (based on that processed “Life Could” break which is all over 96-98 tracks), classic b-boy…
Funky T – The Guvnor
Here’s a fun 92 whitelabel I don’t hear much mention of, though Mickey Finn and Kenny Ken both used to play it. The artist behind this (DJ Funky T) went on to do a solid EP on No U Turn, but this one is a bit rougher / definitely 92 white label style. “The Guvnor”…
DJ Dextrous – Nice ‘N’ Slow
Always been a big fan of Dextrous, the way he manages to create a fine balance between jazz/funk inspired melodies & synthlines and ruff ragga vocals & basslines in his tunes, second to none pretty much. But this one is more leaning to the full on deeper side, starting off with a big rare groove…
Mr Mix & Terroreyes – Darkness
With the renewed interest in darkside lately, here’s a longtime favorite I don’t hear spun or talked about much… Mr Mix + Terroreyes (no idea about the people behind those alises) did three great singles: two on Face2Face (presumably their label) and one on Dove (whose other releases were similarly dark 93-94 type tunes). Both…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio – September 22nd, 2013
Here’s the jungletrain set from last Sunday – this show I had a lot of tunes left over from the last radio show, so rather than changing the style up drastically and pulling all-new records, I used a bunch of those leftovers records plus a few things I’ve bought down recently. Nice variety from later…
The Full S.P. – Raw Basics (Tango Remix)
Here’s a tune Tim sent me for posting but never wrote up…. rather than harass him, I’m going to scoop him and do the writeup myself. You snooze, you lose Tim! Unlike most of what I post, I’d say this tune is far from obscure – in fact I’d class it as a pretty vital…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio on Soundcloud and Mixcloud
Just a quick heads up that all past episodes of the radio show are now uploaded on Mixcloud, and most are slowly going onto Soundcloud (just a handful more to go!) The catch is that some mixes can’t go on SC because they contain DMCA-able tracks…So far I’ve run into 2 problem ones being blocked:…
Weekend Mixes – Sept 20th 2013
Up until recently I’ve posted mixes pretty sparingly, with the exception of my own radio shows… aside from the fact that there’s SO MANY mixes out there (especially now with mp3s opening dj’ing oldskool up to less, erm, oldskool djs) , there’s already a few sites which do great jobs posting classic oldskool mixes –…
Virtual Reality – Make Some Noise
I know 1991 stuff doesn’t seem to get as much of a response when I post it as 94-95 jungle does, but here’s a ravey 91 monster which is pretty undeniable in my opinion. “Make Some Noise” is on the 786 label (side label to Deja Vu, or was it the other way around?), and…