Posts Tagged ‘basement’

Hedgehog Affair Presents Rush Till Dawn – Come On

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Sometimes I have EPs on my wantlist for years, due to scarcity or cost, and once I finally track them down I can’t help but be underwhelmed and think… “I spent that much time/money/time and money for THIS???” “Hedgehog Affair IV” is not one of those EPs. I finally picked this EP up recently on the cheap, and knew as soon as I dropped the needle onto the first track that it was worth waiting for… The EP as a whole is really strong, so much so it’s hard to pick just one track to post. This first track is a bit less “Basement Records-y” than the others but is still catchy and rad, a straightahead no-nonsense great rave track. Some of these later non-Basement Ron Wells related releases are a bit hard to find and are really wicked, maybe a bit more melodic than the stuff on Basement while still having that driving “jungle techno” underpinning. There’s even a straight up 4/4 acid techno stomper on this EP.

Oh yeah, it sounds like my needles are going yet again so this rip is kinda noisy.

Rush Till Dawn presents the Hedgehog Affair – Come On

S and A – Volume 1

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Here’s a favorite of mine from 92/93. I recently mentioned the label Homegrown Records on here, saying that even though it ended up being a mostly happy hardcore label, early releases were standout not-too-happy hardcore/jungle tracks. Here’s an excellent example of this – S and A Volume 1. Despite being on a primarily happy hardcore label, this tune owes a lot more to the Basement Records sound of 92-93 than it does to hhc of the time. There’s a brief hands-in-the-air piano respite midway through, but that soon crashes back into glorious stompy jungle techno. An awesome tune which seems to be less in demand now than it used to be (I think I paid $20 for this a number of years ago?)

S and A – Volume 1 (side a)