Posts Tagged ‘amen’

Anthony X-Cursa – Mind Control

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Here’s a great 95 tune which is reasonably easy/cheap to find. Choppy but sparse intro beats roll along with C+C Music Factory Vocals on top (the same acapella as “through the vibe”, though diced a lot more here). Finally massive amens bash their way in alongside subby bass, crash accents and a number of spacey incidental / synth sounds. Really a cool track in my opinion, big and choppy but still spacious with room for mixing. Also, the more laid back & spacey synths end up contrasing nicely with the manic drums. Rough Tone (a label actually run by a member of UB40) is probably better known for their earlier releases, like DJ Ron’s Crackman Remix and Ellis Dee & Swan-E “Ruffneck Bizznizz”. I previously posted two early ones, namely TNT “Last Sucker Drops” and MC Lenny – AJD. However, some of these later jungle EPs are real gems as well, and reasonably easy to find (I see DJ Fallout “Storm Warning” and the Nut Nut EP for sale quite often). Definitely worth checking out!


Anthony X-Cursa – Mind Control

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E.O.V. – Give It Up

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

Amen fans, today is your day… some serious 1995 choppy jungle here! No idea who wrote this EP, however I played the b side of this on one of my last jungletrain radio shows. that side is a great track for mixing, with a drop full of absurd pitched amen snare rolls… but the rest of the track doesn’t really live up to that first drop in my opinion, with the music sort of working it’s way down into more solid chopped breaks (good for mixing though). In contrast, this A side “Give it Up” is a bit more consistently crazy throughout. Mega chopped/delayed amen and cold sweat breakbeats fire away on top of some somewhat standard but still good atmospheric noises and vocal samples. A brooding synth drops in partway through, before it resolves back to the crazy breaks-plus sub combo. The track as a whole feels like it could use a lot more midrange (production-wise sounds a bit more 94 than 95), but it’s a serious tune and still sounds good enough when I blast it at home (haven’t heard it on a system).

EOV – EOV001a

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BV – Vision

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

This is one of those personal favorites I’m a little reticent to post since it’s not an easy/cheap tune to find and isn’t so widely known. Luckily for you guys, I ripped this a while back and am too sick/busy/lazy today to rip something else, so up it goes. “Vision” is a deep 95 amen smasher by Big Vern who also did the Vicious Crew – No Politics EPs along with quite a few other great jungle eps (check that link for a better writeup on him/his other tunes). While the beats are well done in this track, it’s all about the music and atmosphere for me… a lengthy intro with creepy bells and pads, the classic “bad bwoy” ragga vocal sample firing away ontop, some layered think/cold sweat breaks keeping things tidy until the amen madness finally kicks in around 1:20… those main amens here are a bit trebbly, but that leaves plenty of room for some BIG sub bass booming away underneath and for it to build to eventually layering in the think+coldsweat intro breaks alongside the amen. Actually, I kind of wish all the breaks dropped together at once for maximum effect right at 1:20, but the way it’s written gives the track room to progress so that by the end it’s going pretty damn insane (layers of breaks pitching up and down, etc). Definitely one to look for!


BV – Vision

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Darkman – It’s Driving Me

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Here’s another amen post… personally I’ve never really understood people who focus entirely on amen tracks, to the detriment of all other breaks. I mean, it’s a great break, but so are “Do the Do”, “Funky Mule”, “Kool is Back”, “In One Peace”, “Tighten Up”, etc. Still, for those serious amen heads, here’s a nice choppy tune from 95. “It’s Driving Me” combines aforementioned chopped amens with a vocal bit from Bel Biv Devoe’s “Poison” + piano + 808 bass. Nothing too shocking, I actually might even prefer the other side which has some nice time stretched bits… but Tim Reapah suggested I post this one and that kid knows his amens, so here you go.

This EP is the first release on Rinse Out, a sublabel of L Double’s Flex label. Rinse is better known for its jump up releases, like my personal favorite from 1999, Rinse Unlimited EP However there were some nice early jungle EPs on there (as well as plenty on its parent label Flex).


Darkman – Its Driving Me

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Sy-uss & Reality – Tribal Instinct (Justice’s Remix)

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Deep atmospheric 95 amens are on the plate for tonight’s entry – coupled with one of my favorite breaks (taken from Foul Play “Ricochet”) making this tune one to nab in my opinion Starting out doing some total hardcore anthems with Andrew Wright aka The Moog under the name “Justice + Mercy”, Justice did quite a bit of atmospheric / jazzy jungle in the mid to late 90′s, continuing to do quality dnb to this day on his label “Emotions With Intellect” album (done with Blame) is one of my picks for the top 10 best jungle albums ever, and is definitely a bit underappreciated. Also, his early moving shadow records seem to pop up fairly regularly on the cheap and are all quite good quality / worth checking out. This tune in particular goes for next to nothing – copy for sale now for 99p! In essence, this guy is an oldskool record hunter’s friend – lots of really nice slept-on releases ripe for the picking!


Sy-uss and Reality – Tribal Instinct

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Plasmic Life feat Alistar – Death Trip

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

On to some more serious dark stuff, here’s an early Tech Itch track from Brain Records… almost as dark and heavy as his later skullstep stuff. “Death Trip” includes some dialogue from a Steven Segal movie along with chopped amens and massive bass drops. Not too many elements, from the get-go Mark seemed to have a knack for making stuff hit as hard as possible, from the early T.I.C. singles through to his tech step stuff. Really though, the vocal sample makes the track and is what sticks in your head the most..


Plasmic Life Feat Alistair – Death Trip

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SDR & Subsonic – Martini

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Here’s a nice 94 tune by the crew that brought you Digital Pressure – Watch This Space. A decent melodic part that gives way to some seriously dark atmospherics and nasty amens, maybe not the sharpest beats out there but definitely something worth checking out for the 93-94 darkside fans. The vocal sample reminds me a bit of
Tango’s remix of On Remand’s “Controllin”, which I’m going to also post.

SDR & Subsonic – Martini

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Aftermath – Everything Starts Now

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Here’s an EP I have absolutely no recollection of purchasing… from the sticker on it, I gather that I got it from an MVE for 1 pound at some point. I can see why it’s not an in-demand single: despite being obscure, it’s got that 1994-95 proto-intelligent soundto it. While I like that style a lot, most of those records end up nowhere near as sought after as your average ’92 whitelabel. Still, it’s nice stuff, albeit pretty standard… the main reason I like it / am posting it is that it features a cut up “do the do” break layered with an amen, a great sounding combo I don’t think I’ve heard before much. I’m a big “do the do” fan so that helped make it stick out for me.

[DISCOGS]
Aftermath – Everything Starts Now

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N-Zo & DJ Invincible – Ease Yourself

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Here’s a nasty 94 amen smasher I nabbed recently… big synths lead off the track along with the vibettes humpty dump break (as used by Photek), before the “ease yourself into consciousness” vocal drops and massive chopped amens come crashing down. Great stuff, also a cheap and easy to find single.


N-Zo & DJ Invincible – Ease Yourself

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