Here’s a track I played in the last two blog to the oldskool streams, figure it’s time to post it. Absolute favorite as of late, not particularly good breaks but just a winning combo of Joe Smooth – Promised Land samples with a fast stacatto hardcore melody. I’m almost positive the “Defiance” linked to in…
Head Factor – Nuff Respect
More small label business here, in the form of a solid 91 style piano hardcore track. You get a classic piano part (not sure if original/sampled) plus the classic “RESPECT – KISSING” combo vocal as used in this later Origination track (making me think that maybe these both are in some other acapella together which…
Shag Syndicate – The Rush Express (Ram Raid Mix)
No idea about this one, some random promo I picked up on a whim a while back… cool 92 track, nothing too shocking or out-of-the-ordinary but a lot of familiar samples all combined together. Kind of interesting that it was released or promo’d by Polydor, maybe that means I shouldn’t post it? Scary lawyer people…
Redskins – Gun
Here’s some early ragga jungle stuff that’s probably not too well known. In my opinion this isn’t one of the strongest Kemet EPs (or the best by Redskins), but the nonstop frantic toasting throughout and the gunshot samples definitely make it well worth checking. Redskins – Gun
Ustreaming from 8-10pm EST tonight (Tuesday)
Gonna give this a go again in a few hours, last time was fun: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogtotheoldskool Even if you don’t join in, feel free to check that link join the crowd or follow @blog2oldskool on twitter for updates when I do this. Nothing planned or remotely coherent, prob going through some of the random vinyl that’s…
Harlequin – Mission Control
Here’s another test of the new ripping setup, lemme know if it sounds OK or if there’s any problems! This is a track off a split release on a label called “Moloko Plus”, no idea about it. Harlequin is probably better known for his EP on Corrosive Records with DJ Demo, though he did a…
Sorry for the screwed up rips…
see the comments in the post below, been tough for me to tell since everything sounds fine when I play the records back initially.. Will be reconfiguring stuff and looking to re-rip any affected rips. In the meantime, if anyone wants to send me a list of all the rips which they know have digital…
Capone (Dillinja) – Black Wax EP
Just got this recently, a great early Dillinja single from 93 under his Capone alias. Quite a lot of Dillinja’s early productions were amen smashers, and while there’s some good amen tracks on this EP, this is a darker tune with breaks similar to the intro of Edge of Darkness “Hellraiser”. As with the label…
House of Windsor – Squidgy (System Mix)
Here’s a track I overlooked for quite a while, until getting it stuck in my head from some pirate radio tape. It seems like this was basically a novelty hardcore record, based on a 1992 scandal involving some taped conversations between Princess Diana and a friend (referred to as Squidgygate). Some of the other mixes…
Kariya – Let Me Love You (Rebuilt)
Here’s an earlier track than I normally post… a house bootleg EP from 1989. I just nabbed a double of this while visiting New York to see the Industrial Strength 20th Anniversary show, figure it’d be interesting to post since supposedly this is the break source of 2 Bad Mice – Bombscare. You get a…