Been slacking on the posts the past week, I’m actually writing this one from a bus en route back from NYC! I’ll probably do another when I get back, in the meantime here’s a nice tune by Matt Quinn aka Optical of Ed Rush & Optical fame. “Losing My Feeling” sounds a bit proto-happy hardcore…
Tag: 1993
Oddysey – “Joy of Joy”
Here’s a real obscurity I doubt almost any oldskool fans have had a chance to hear. I’m always on the hunt for weird/out there sounding stuff, and during some recent “obscurity mining” I stumbled on a copy of this record: Odyssey – Joy Of Joy It’s a hardcore EP from 1993 featuring really off kilter…
Cool Hand Flex – Who’s That
Not much love for that last mega-obscurity, so here’s something more standard for the site – a classic cool hand flex tune from 93. Combining sick scratching, good breaks and pretty heavy sub content, this tune shows why Flex was absolutely killing it 92-93. Coolhand Flex – Whos Thatlink removed pending posting on hardcore junglism
Sonic Food – Ascend
Someone please explain to me how a tune this good is this cheap and low rated on discogs? I guess the B side is better than the A and the A side is pretty technoey for the time, but come on….. every track on the EP is pretty solid, yet I see loads of copies…
Vicious Crew – No Politics Vol. 2
Tonight’s tune is some seriously chopped hardcore/jungle from a crew of 3 producers, including someone related to the Ibiza/Noise Factory records camp: Big Vern aka Colin Biggerstaff. Colin also did EPs on Boogie Beat, Camden Tunes, World Bass, etc. I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the first Vicious Crew EP, it’s good but…
Mike De Underground & Cool Hand Flex – Day To Day
Back to another tune by one of my favorite under-appreciated oldskool acts, Cool Hand Flex. Definitely some pre-intelligent jungle vibes here, with a great buzzy breakbeat (I forget the break name but I used it in a recent track) and sparse percussion . Not a lot of sounds or changeups, but a nice well sequenced…
Spacework tunes on Soundcloud (free WAV downloads)
Just read about this on B2VOS… Spacework did some great tunes, I especially like the “aqua rhyme/cocaine problem smartass!” EP. Big respect to him for sharing them all on soundcloud! I’m not sure how long these will stay downloadable so grab them while you can. Latest tracks by Spacework
Adam F – Pressure
I hope I’m not pushing my luck posting this track up as the artist is obviously still huge (just saw him DJ a couple months ago) and Lucky Spin has a select few tracks by him sale digitally on sites like Dogs On Acid and Beatport… but this tune definitely isn’t for sale, and probably…
The Dok – Your Love
Discogs says this is a combination of the Jamie Principle song and the Candy Stanton vocal, however I’m 99% sure there was already a popular house bootleg around this time which was a combination of those two elements… so this could just be sampling that. I might even have that house track on wax, need…
Anthony Nathan – Life Goes On
Here’s another sick & cheap track that can be easily found on wax – a release on the Lucky Spin sublabel “Pure White”. It’s kind of surprising since almost all the releases on that sublabel are pretty in-demand, the only reason I can think of why this release isn’t as desirable is due to a…