Gotta love those tracks that don’t immediately make too strong of an impression, but slowly grow on you from being in a mix… then when you finally get hooked and look them up, you find out they were hiding in your collection all along! Such is the way with this track, off Junk 05 which…
Tag: 1993
Chris Paul – Music Is My Life (Remix)
Here’s a nice track I picked up in Toronto maybe 6 or 7 years ago, by Chris Paul. Paul is quite well known in the rave scene for his work in Isotonik, whose track “Different Strokes” is a huge anthem. He also was promoter of the absolutely massive Orange raves of the early 90’s. Music-wise…
Smith Inc – Palamino
Here’s a tune I can’t imagine anyone taking issue with… maybe not known all that well by name, it was battered in seemingly ALL the mixtapes circa 93 by a decent cross-section of big DJs. Written by Simon Bassline Smith, the popularity of “Palamino” was probably down to how it stood out as a harbinger…
Secret Squirrel – Comming On Dark
Last of my Florida posts.. hope everyone had a good X-mas & Boxing Day! This Secret Squirrel (aka Julian Hellfish) tune is great, sort of a revamp of the Mu Venom/DDT EP, with much beefier layered breaks in a 93 style (crazy time streching/pitch shifting). It’s actually pretty simple like the original, a dutch sounding…
Naughty Naughty – Free
Here’s a great B-side I had on vinyl for years and never really appreciated, until hearing it at the start of this Fabio tape I was biking around to a lot this fall (thanks deep inside the oldskool for posting it!). Funny how listening to a track all those times can make it stick in…
Echo Minott – Weaponry
Another nice find from my London trip…as the comment on Discogs says, this is a classic ragga breakbeat track ala early Ragga Twins / Rebel MC / SUAD stuff. A bit strange that the label says it’s from 1993, as it sounds more like ’90, ’91 to me. No matter though, it’s a great vibey…
L Double – Love This Style
Posting this track up since I’ve had it stuck in my head since earlier in the week and played it on the ustream session wednesday. L Double is probably better known for his later releases on Flex Recordings as well as his dnb show on BBC Radio1, but he did some pretty mean early tunes…
Oz Beat – The Return of Oz Beat
OK back to something a bit less grimey. Aside from the tunes on its main label, Formation put out quite a few choice EPs on its offshoot label F PROJECT, run by Mark Yorath. A select few of those are quite in demand (Tango Project EP, Turbo Sound EP, Brainstorm Crew EP), but the vast…
Pascal & Sponge – Nosebleed EP
In honor of Halloween, here’s one of the top darkside tracks of all time: Pascal and Sponge’s Nosebleed. Probably best known for its Predator 2 sample (“I know you guys are trying to scare me… well… I’m scared now”!), though there’s also other sounds from the movie used throughout the track: the predator “homing in”…
Atomik – 1.0
OK, so I’m definitely still in the “posting less but higher quality” mode.. here’s a track that’s I’ve been spinning out a lot the past couple years. It’s probably one of my top go-to tracks if I want to throw a little oldschool in a non-oldschool focused set, without resorting to big anthems or a…