Speaking of “overlooked tunes on well-rinsed EPs”, here’s an oft-missed song by Terrorize. Their tune “It’s just a Feeling” was a huge huge track that was basically a 92 mix of “Playing with Knives”: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It was released numerous times on different labels (Hamster,…
Orca – Jungle Vibes
Despite getting back into buying vinyl pretty heavily the past month or so, I haven’t been that excited to post any particular track(s) as of late. This tune changed my mind though – since it’s a great example of a slept-on B side on an otherwise well known release. So, I’m guessing most people know…
Industrial – Renegade (Remix)
OK feeling a bit better, so let me try this writeup again… here’s another good release on Kinetix, the label which did the Outrageous – Tech Kore” EP I already posted. Most releases on kinetix were more technoey, however these two had their own catalog numbers (KX versus KINT), so maybe they were meant to…
M.A.N.I.C. – I’m Coming Hardcore
Diverging from the obscurities for a bit of a classic here, though one a bit less known by name than your average Sub Base / Shadow hits M.A.N.I.C. did some great 91-93 singles, including earlier slower material like the “concept ep”, through the great “feel it / dreamer” EP which has got to be one…
Captain Codseyes – Headache
Captain Codseyes – Headache
The Beat Mash Crew – Favorite Cuts
Here’s a track to contrast “In Complete Darkness” which I posted a few days ago… not much in the way of big catchy melodies here, just great mad choppy breaks and sparse samples dropped on top. The scratching bit should sound familiar, as it’s the intro to Tango’s absolutely massive / essential / massively essential…
DJ Phantasy’s Mate – Edit Vol 1
I’ve had this for a while and still get a chuckle whenever I come across the title – given how prolific certain producers were BITD, I wish other producers had been as straightforward as on this EP and put out singles named like this. It’d be funny to come across loads of records with titles…
Fat Controller – In Complete Darkness
“In complete Darkness” is such a classic track, it’s a bit deflating when you hear all the original samples and realize all the music is sampled wholesale (except for the bassline probably). I mean, we all know that most of those classic piano and synth parts in hardcore tunes were sampled from some marginally earlier…
Darkman – Escape from the Planet of the Zombie Droids
Here’s a record I’ve actually had in my sell/trade pile for 3 years or more… heard it recently in a mix and thought “oh yeah, I’ve got that!” I can still understand why I put this EP aside to sell, as it’s far more stripped down and simple than I prefer oldschool tracks to be…
DJ DR J – Rock Me (Journey Mix 1)
Someone was asking me to post even more 92 stuff, so even though I think I’ve been posting plenty of that stuff lately (see: JBL + Bigga post), here’s a somewhat hard to come by EP from that year. DJ DR J was one of the people involved with the 3 Sample – “Streets of…