Here’s a nice track I nabbed recently by Persian Prince, which I actually bought from Persian Prince (he has a number of his old releases for sale on discogs in unplayed condition no less). It’s always great to be able to buy copies of a record from the original artist, knowing the cash is going…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio March 10th, 2013
Here’s a re-recorded version of last Sunday’s Blog to the Oldskool Radio show on http://jungletrain.net. It was originally 2 hours long, but due to some server issues, the stream cut out a bunch of times. Rather than trying to stitch together a bunch of partial sets including random spinbacks / track startovers, I decided to…
Icons – Stop – Go – Celebrate
This is possibly the strangest oldskool track I’ve ever posted, and that’s saying a fair amount. The artist behind this (Icons) is not to be confused with the UK early atmospheric / jazzy dnb Icons (aka Blame and Justice), or Icon (a Bay B Kane alias). Rather, it’s a group from Germany who I think…
Cool Hand Flex – Out Of Control
I’ve had Hashim’s “Primrose Path” stuck in my head lately, so here’s a hardcore tune that samples it… Cool Hand Flex’s “Out of Control”. Flex and co were really killing it around the time of this release. This tune might be a bit slow for 93 (sounds a bit more like 92), but it’s heavy…
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M.A.D. – Drum Dance
Here’s a longtime favorite, not particularly hard to find or pricey but I can’t say I’ve ever heard it played. M.A.D. (Mental and Dangerous) did a lot of EPs spread over a few labels, including M.A.D. (his own label), Direct Force, Renk, and a nice jungle remix on Greensleeves. Some of his tunes are more…
The Witchdoctor – Drone
Here’s a tasty early hardcore track from the underrated Mutant Records label. Combining the KC and the Sunshine Gang “Let it Go” break (used most popularly in Zero B – Lock Up) with electro bleeps, this tune shows the stripped down earlier sound of hardcore, before bedroom producers started layering up a million mad breaks…
Area 39 – Attitude
Here’s an underrated 94 tune which I played on Sunday’s Radio show. Unlike the first couple EPs, some of the 94-95 Bear Necessities tunes are really excellent, especially ones Matt Quinn (aka Optical) was involved with: NUT-E 1 & Technarchy – Tuneful / You Cannot EP, Matt’s Head F.U.K. EP, Phat + Futuristic EP, and…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio – February 24th, 2013
Here’s the show from last night, really happy with this one! It’s pretty representative of what I spin at home and how I play oldskool when not doing my radio show, eg mixed with pitched up house, bmore, acid, etc. The only difference being that this set was 100% vinyl. I’ll probably do more shows…
Gang Related And Mask – Tear It Up
Normally this tune might have missed this website’s age cutoff by one year, but thanks to spinning Dara’s top notch 96 mix a bunch the past few days, I’m going to give it a pass. Here you have a wicked track by Gang Related and Mask, aka Roni Size and Krust of V Recordings fame.…