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…
Cool Hand Flex & Uncle 22 – Odd Ball EP
Here’s a slower track than I’ve posted lately.. Cool Hand Flex is one of the most prolific-yet-underrated early hardcore/jungle producers and engineers. A lot of his early tunes are split over De Underground and its numerous sublabels (Oddball, IE, Ruff Groove, U No Dat, In Touch etc), though he also did tracks on Brain and…
Spatts (The Criminal Minds) Interview
If you think you’re into oldskool but don’t know who The Criminal Minds are, you’re doing it wrong! These guys put out some of the best tunes to be released in oldschool’s heyday. Starting off as a hiphop act whose early releases now fetch princely sums of cash, The Criminal Minds transitioned into the rave…
Obviously High – Mistery Tour EP
Here’s a nice EP by Andrew Wright aka The Moog, done in conjunction with a few other people. The A-Side is OK, but I prefer these B-side tracks. “Inside My Head” uses some classic video game sounds in conjunction with the classic “happiness is just around the bend” acapella, as posted about here. The 3rd…
MC Jay J and Devious D – Sensational Jungalist
Here’s a favorite of mine from the not-incorrectly-titled Awesome Records label run by Slipmatt and Lime. “Time of Our Lives” was maybe the bigger track on this, and was previously released on another EP with another favorite tune of mine, “Drive Ya Crazy”. However, “Sensational Jungalist” is my pick on this release – great ragga…
Freddy Fuddpukker – Keep the Love Alive
Sorry for the delay in posting rips, been pretty busy lately. Trying to get going on these again though, so here’s a quality track to start things back up. Freddy Fudpukker is aka Cloud 9, who we all know for “Got me burnin’” and “Gonna be alright”. This tune isn’t as anthemy as those, instead…
More Amiga Jungle
I should have mentioned, the previous clip came from the cool Chipflip blog I just found. They also did an article on Octamed Jungle which includes a youtube video posted by Mulder of the original drums for a classic Aphrodite tune which I’m sure most of you know. He’s also got a rough version of…
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Luke Vibert – Hardcore Hip Hop mix 88-92 (Extended version)
I don’t know how many of you heard Luke Vibert’s UK Hardcore Hiphop 88-92 mix that Planet Mu Records posted a couple months ago, but it’s a great mix full of lots of britcore faves – tracks by Silver Bullet, Gunshot, Blade, etc. Recently, Vibert dug up an extended version of this mix, and passed…
Bill & Ted – Feel That Groove
Here’s a jungle single which seems pretty rare: right now I’m the only person listed as having it on discogs. I don’t know much about it, other than the artist behind it did one more single on the same label. The vocals and music are both a bit corny, but it’s got nice layered breaks…