I’ve been meaning to save this EP for an article on early US breakbeat hardcore/rave, but it’s been a while since I posted any domestic obscurities. Despite a number of DJs playing oldskool here, very little bonafide 92/93 style tunes got released in the US, with most of the hardcore being more of the rave/techno…
Formula 7 – Voodoo
If you check this blog a lot, you’re probably aware how much I love tracks with lowfi choppy breakbeats layered up. This track by Formula 7 fits that description well – a resequenced kickback intro transitions into that beat combined with the terminator break, combined with simple sci-fi-esque pads and a repeating “I thought voodoo…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio – Sept 26 2012
Fun show, totally unorganized grab-bag as per usual, but it seemed to mostly center on 94-95 jungle and ragga stuff. Some definite gems in here which I don’t think I’ve played before on the radio show – jo – apollo, the eov record, formula 7, etc.
Krazy Kid & Uncle – Dick Turpin Remix
More crazy 92 sounds… De Underground and their associated labels did quite a few releases which as a whole are a bit underrated in comparison to other labels’ output at the time. Rather than going for simple cheesy piano anthems, a lot of their earliest tunes had strange sanmples, raw production, and in general are…
More Bass Than Fingers – Batfink
Here’s a fun 92 track released on the label J4M, who put out Nebula 2 Flatliners and a few of the good Bass Ballistics EPs among others. No idea about the artist, it’s a bit strange though… despite not being that rare in terms of pressing size or demand, I almost never see this EP…
BV – Vision
This is one of those personal favorites I’m a little reticent to post since it’s not an easy/cheap tune to find and isn’t so widely known. Luckily for you guys, I ripped this a while back and am too sick/busy/lazy today to rip something else, so up it goes. “Vision” is a deep 95 amen…
Industrial Espionage – 4 U 2 B In XTC EP
Big in-demand 92 whitelabel for today! “4 U 2 B In XTC” was an EP by Grant Nelson, the man behind Wishdokta / many of the great Kickin’ Records releases as well as one of UKG’s progenitors. This EP, done under the one-off “Industrial Espionage” alias, might be just a little bit rougher around the…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio Sept 12, 2012
Here’s this week’s radio show… I couldn’t be there when it happened because I was seeing Amon Tobin’s crazy ISAM show in Boston (also DJ’ing an afterparty he played at afterwards). Because of that, I pre-recorded a set and someone from jungletrain played it during the show’s regular slot. Apparently they started it 30 minutes…
Dillinja – Deep Deadly Subs
This track is probably a lot more well known than most stuff I post, but I’ve had it at the front of my crates for a while and it’s still a relatively small label release so up it goes. Before Dillinja helped spearhead the whole crazy tearout banger style of DNB, he did quite a…
Frankie Paul – Round and Round
It’s been a while since I posted some ragga jungle, here’s a pretty cool and obscure track from a ragga jungle comp by a label in Jamaica… I think it fits nicely with the comment a few days ago regarding those Mazaruni / King Tubby related Jungle records, where someone was mentioning real jungle artists…