Not much to say about this one as I don’t know who the artist is… it’s a classy mashup track combining the beats from “never try the hippodrome”, the accapella from Baby D – Daydreaming (which I’m sure will pop up in a new house/dubstep track any day now if it hasn’t already) , and…
Defender – Feel It (Bass)
Oh my gosh, what an anthem… can’t believe I’ve held out this long before posting this one. The title says it all really – nasty darkside with absolutely massive sinister bass omnipresent in the track, and with occasional vocal snippets and break layers dropping in and out to keep things interesting. Aside from this EP,…
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…
Oldskool Label/Record Shop Locations, part 1
This post is thanks to Mark N, aka the only crate digger I know serious enough to find an oldskool tune hiding in a local Boston record shop I’ve been going to for years and years but had never found. He mentioned to me a while back that he likes occasionally tracking down the original…
Reincarnation Rave footage (6 parts)
found this on B2VOS, some good footage here! 2 Bad Mice live PA around part 4
Rave Related Movies, pt 1: Vibrations
I figure it’s about time I posted about some movies tangentially related to oldskool/rave… Here’s one of my favorites. No film quite nails the origins, sound and soul of techno quite like “Vibrations”. Watching this movie is like doing a vulcan mind meld with Jeff Mills AND Juan Atkins at the same time. Here’s the…
Free Spirit – Optical Illusion
I’ve been kind of slow to upload lately since my main PC died, I can rip vinyl from my laptop but the software I wrote which auto-tags / labels /adds artwork to mp3s the way I like isn’t on this machine. So the ID3 tags are gonna be a bit weird for a while. Anyway,…
Shaka – 6 in the Morning
Sorry for the lack of updates, I was busy preparing for a DJ Set at an anime convention on Friday. Anyway, I’ve posted a couple of 92-93 tracks from Awesome so far, so here’s a later tune which is much more obscure but is a solid jam – jump up style hip hop samples with…
Xpando – Swarm
Since I’m based in the States, I’m always looking for those few breakbeat hardcore / jungle records that made it out of the US between 1992 and 95… one which has been on the top of my wants for a while is Xpando – Swarm. In case the discogs stats don’t make it clear, this…
SMF – Twisted Bungle
Here’s a pretty strange cool track by the guys who brought you “Guillotine”. This tune was featured in several big mixes including DJ Hype’s “Ruff Stuff Part 3” (a must-have if you haven’t heard it), Bukems Yamen studio mix #9, and a Gachet mix from 93. The breakproduction on this tune is a little bit…