Here’s another nice 94-95 tune ripe for the nabbing. Not sure if it turns up in MVE’s and real-life stores as much, but I see this EP for sale a lot online for quite cheap. Like a fair number of jungle tunes at the time, “Rocking Out” effectively combines ragga vocals and slightly rougher amens…
Tag: 1994
DJ Rap – Digable Bass (Heaven Remix)
Here’s a remix by DJ Rap and Voyager (plus supposedly an uncredited contribution by Lennie De Ice) of a tune originally written by Rap and Aston for her Proper Talent label. While the original of “Digable Bass” is already great, this remix really builds it up to new heights. A lush half-tempo intro leads into…
DJ Infinity & Back to Basics – People of Paradise
I got caught up watching a Robocop marathon Saturday, which made me start searching for a particular tune I remembered that sampled it… turned out to be this one. In my mind, there’s three basic “cheat codes” to winning classic hardcore/jungle: 1. Sample Predator 2. Sample Aliens or 3. Sample Robocop. This track uses the…
Unreleased DJ DLux tunes
A year or two ago I hit up DJ DLux (Brain Records Crew back in the day, now a DJ on Deja Vu since years) and he mentioned having some unreleased tunes kicking around still… looks like he ripped them from DAT recently and posted them on his soundcloud! What’s more, they all have download…
Brock Out Crew – Hard Core Romance
Here’s one of my favorite track on the Slam!/FistToFist series of label, and ironically one of the ones which you can get for not too too much if you look long enough. As I mentioned in this previous post of a tune from Slam!, a lot of the tracks on there are super expensive and…
Pure Science – Give a Little Darkness
Here’s a moody jungle number from 94. The artist behind this (Helen T / Pure Science) collaborated with DJ Nut Nut on a couple nice singles which are similarly dark, and also did quite a few jungle EPs on her own label IDM (Integrated Digital Music, not Intelligent Dance Music!). This tune isn’t exactly the…
N-ZO & DJ Invincible – Just Do It
Here’s a bit more of a vibey tune, nothing too crazy or massively chopped… a nice simple melody with female vocals, leading into rolling hotpants with half timey hits and a couple more vocal snippets. This track is sort of partway in-between a more tough ragga-ish track and 94-95 GLR/Lucky spin style atmo stuff. You’ve…
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…
DJ D-Lux – Taking Me Higher
Here’s a nice choppy amen tune by Deja Vu FM Don DJ D-Lux. Not much to say about this one, though it’s produced and written by DJ D-Lux, it’s on a Brain Records related sublabel and definitely has that brain studio drum production. I remember finding this one when buying records at Bizzy B’s studio…
Wraggy and The Riggler – I’ll Give My Love To You
Here’s a fun early breakbeat happy hardcore track from 94 – if it was written in 92 or 93 it would have just been considered a normal oldskool track. But since it came out in 94, at which point the split into jungle and hhc was much more palpable, it’s clear which side of that…