Here’s a bit of a hidden gem, a low-fi dark 93 tune lurking on an EP of otherwise happy piano stuff. Tuch Wood is best known for putting out Johnny L “hurt u so”, and the rest of this EP sounds like it was meant to be along those lines… big melodies, female vocals, etc.…
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A Thief, A Terrorist and a Lunatic – Track Two
This track is pretty atypical for Luna C (of Smart ees/Kniteforce Recs fame), but not entirely without precedent since he also did the “Snowball” EP which was a pretty damn dark record. This EP is three tracks of really solid 93 darkcore type stuff – one tune samples Meng Syndicate “Carpe Diem”, one Predator 2,…
DJ Panik – Panik’s Revenge
Here’s another good 94 EP, one that’s easier to find than the Junglist EP I posted yesterday. Hyper Records put out some nice early EPs like The X Men “My Sound Rule” EP I posted last year. This is one of my favorites on the label, a 4 tracker with decent variety between the tracks.…
Mystical Units – Positively Evil
Happy Halloween! Mystical Units – Positively Evil (Original Mix)
Emanuel – Internal Mind
Way back when I started this blog, one of the first EPs I featured was by Nick Ball. While I don’t know who this EP is by (no idea who Emanuel is), Nick Ball is listed as one of the producers on it. Both sides of this EP are strong tracks, with this side being…
Love Dove Jay – The Hitchcock Storey
I’ve been slack on posting releases lately, to make up for it here’s a darkside fav. Choppy beats, classic horror movie samples, and a nasty timestretched breakdown at 4:15 which is one of the sickest this side of Grooverider’s Sinister (Influence Mix) or DJ SS’s Nightstalker remix. Clocking in at over 8 minutes counting the…
Count Zero – Inner Fury
Here’s yet another heavily under-appreciated gem: Count Zero’s “Inner Fury” EP on SDI. Written by DJ Massive under a one-off alias (perhaps because it’s a bit of a stylistic departure for him), this 4 tracker has got great sinister catchy synth lines, nice hiphop vocals cuts (MC Duke in this track), and beats which are…
Dexxtrous – Something Out There
It amazes me that as many years as I’ve been collecting oldskool and as nerdy as I’ve been about it , I still find plenty of crazy tracks that I never had any idea about. Not just obscure white label stuff either, but tracks on relatively big labels, or by well known artist. Not sure…
Clarky & Dillinja – Dark Science
It’s been a while since I posted something proper rare, so here’s a hard-to-find one-sided EP by Dillinja and Clarky. Dillinja needs no introduction, Clarky is actually one member of Defender who I posted a track by a few days ago.. “Dark Science” does what it says on the label, and is a solid slice…
Jack Horner EP
Jack Horner is one of those great forgotten artists from the 92-95 period with only a handful of releases, but where every release is great. Aside from doing an EP with Bad Influence which is good and very in demand, he did the great Summer in the south EP which is For sale on Digital…