Here’s a tune Tim sent me for posting but never wrote up…. rather than harass him, I’m going to scoop him and do the writeup myself. You snooze, you lose Tim! Unlike most of what I post, I’d say this tune is far from obscure – in fact I’d class it as a pretty vital…
Tag: 1993
Secret Squirrel – Jungle Squirrel (Remix)
Here’s a fun Bogwoppa related track with an especially LOL-tastic intro swiped from the Monty Python album… for those who haven’t seen the other tracks I’ve posted by Secret Squirrel and assorted aliases, they’re actually by Julian Cobb aka hardcore don Hellfish. This release is in-line with a lot of the other Bogwoppa/Dance Bass releases…
ASC – Dreadlox
Here’s the extremely difficult to listen to track I mentioned recently… ASC’s “Dreadlox” on Bass Sphere. To be clear, this record is NOT by the leftfield + atmo dnb producer of the same name, though I know that producer was into oldskool back in these times.. rather, I think this EP was done as a…
Mad Dog – Secret Garden
So about this track: it’s a 1993 dark/mellow amen one, produced by Mad Dog a.k.a Shaun O’ Hara and Dave Wallace, who went on to become a member of famous trio Aquasky. But before that, him and Shaun were putting out tunes like My God, Fugitive (under the Fugitive alias), Rumbled, Control International and many…
Iain Clifton – Cosmic Twist
OK, back with this 92-93 whitelabel banger … Iain Clifton is a seriously underrated producer who did three releases on his label “Critical Rhythm” between 92 and 93. Every one of these is an absolute TUNE and worthy of owning. “New Sound By” is probably the best known of the three, but really there are…
Tango Interview
(Droid sez): Despite my outrageous truancy, Pete has given me another chance and generously allowed me back in to post this interview I did with Tango when he was in Dublin a couple of years ago. Big ups to the indomitable Ricky Force who allowed me to crash a production session in his mountaintop mansion for a couple of…
Abreaction – The Mind
Something a bit different here… I remember this tune being listed on some website a few years ago as “experimental hardcore.. for the deeper heads!” or something to that extent. Listening to the tune then I thought “I don’t get it, these beats are pretty straightforward/not that choppy? sounds pretty normal to me”. I guess…
DJ Senator & The Bagman – Tranqued
Here’s an interesting EP which took me a while to get fully into – it sounded promising when I heard it years ago, but when I finally got around to buying a copy, none of the tracks really resonated much and it kind of sat in the back of my collection. I just found it…
Black Widow – The Stalk
Here’s a weird EP I don’t see mentioned much… it’s on the New York label “Death Records” which otherwise focused on 4/4 hardcore and techno stuff (ala Industrial Strength). In fact, this EP is probably more “breakbeat techno” than it is breakbeat hardcore style – there’s breakbeats in it but the structure is much more…
Cool Hand Flex – Out Of Control
I’ve had Hashim’s “Primrose Path” stuck in my head lately, so here’s a hardcore tune that samples it… Cool Hand Flex’s “Out of Control”. Flex and co were really killing it around the time of this release. This tune might be a bit slow for 93 (sounds a bit more like 92), but it’s heavy…