I found this in a bargain bin in NYC this weekend. It’s one of those early hardcore/breakbeat techno singles that has 4 different mixes of the same track… not bad, not amazing, I can’t seem to find it on discogs though. If anyone has any info on who did it / where + when it’s…
The Anixus – Feel Good
Respect to RenegadeGenius for posting this on Youtube, this is one of those obscurities that I think took people quite a while to figure out since it wasn’t a UK tune (The label and the producers are from Italy). The Anixus – Feel Good (Love Mix) Oversky Records also put out another sick single in…
DJ Red Alert + Pepsi – Don Gorgon Sound
Here’s a great EP that’s not exactly rare, but still seems overlooked, especially given how popular Red Alert + Mike Slammer (aka Pepsi)’s subsequent releases on Slammin’ Vinyl were. This EP has a lot of the elements of those later singles in somewhat nascent form – tons of choice samples all in gloriously low fi…
Zero B – Lock Up (DJ Crystl Counterforce remix)
Here’s a somewhat unexpected track… I originally got this as part of “The Ultimate Jungle Collection” comp LP, one of those “80 tracks per side” jungle comps from back when jungle was really kicking off and thus every evil shifty compilation company wanted a piece of the action…. Despite this, this comp in particular ended…
Synchronome – Turn up The Strobe
Here’s a great single by Synchronome on the No Limit Label, which mostly released solid (if not amazing) wax by DJ Biz. The tracks on this EP are pretty fast and frantic for the time (near 170bpm), with lots of samples dropped in. The A side features some heavy cut up mentasms, but it’s the…
Acro – Sky Lab
Here’s some 93 goodness from Tech Itch & Decoder under the “Acro” alias. “Superpod” is the more well known tune on this, but I prefer this B-side track. “Sky Lab” features a lurvely rolling breakbeat which I wish I could ID.. I do know that this break was also used on N-JOI’s “Drumstruck”. In fact,…
X-Static – Ready 2 Go & Metropolis Remix
Thanks to Mark for pointing me to this single, I previously had bought an earlier EP by X-Static (Free) and, though it was good, it wasn’t a personal favorite or anything. This track is truly awesome though. All the usual crowd pleasing parts of a 92 tune (diva vocal + hiphop vocal + hardcore melody…
Ionosphere – Hypertension EP
Here’s a reasonably well known white label from 1992. Part of what makes me like this EP is the variety in the tunes, as you’ll hear in the two representative tracks below – one is a deeper heavy track that stays pretty straightforward, while the other is a weird bouncy track that changes up every…
94 Jungle Documentary
Thanks to DSP for posting this documentary, also to Hardscore and Nerbanite for posting it on their blogs. Wicked 94 documentary that shows shy fx in the studio, uk apache, shots of the lucky spin record shop (I want that Liquid Wax t-shirt!!) and stuff about the m-beat/general levy controversy.
Cool Runnings
Another good ragga jungle tune, this time from the Ibiza Records camp… I’d be curious to know what the intro is from. Even though the phrase “cool runnings” is jamaican slang, it always reminds me of that horrible 90’s movie about the Jamaican Bobsled team. I’d never actually seen it, so I started watching the…