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: darkside
Tim Reaper – Darkcore Guest Mix for Blog to the Oldskool
Here’s Tim Reaper’s guest mix for Sunday’s radio show. There’s some seriously nice tunage in here, nothing exceedingly nerdy but definitely not obvious choices by any means either. Tim even managed to fit a handful of tunes from the blog in, which I’ve linked below. Tim playing 4/4 Basement Records tracks…. never thought I’d see…
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…
Dev/Null – I Can’t Believe How Dark It Is (Fright Night Radio set March 21st 2013)
Here’s my set from the Fright Night radio show a few weeks ago. It took a while to post since I wanted to either rerecord it or at least cut out a few dodgey parts (record skips etc less than stellar transitions). I ended up doing the latter, so this is the exact set from…
Area 39 – Attitude
Here’s an underrated 94 tune which I played on Sunday’s Radio show. Unlike the first couple EPs, some of the 94-95 Bear Necessities tunes are really excellent, especially ones Matt Quinn (aka Optical) was involved with: NUT-E 1 & Technarchy – Tuneful / You Cannot EP, Matt’s Head F.U.K. EP, Phat + Futuristic EP, and…
Flat 47 – Rooftop EP
Here’s a moderately well known darkside EP, prob best known for one tune being included in a number of Kickin related jungle comps. The tune that usually shows up everywhere is “Hideaway”, which is a quite good darkside jam (with someber synths, matching female vox and cut up kickback breakbeat). I thought about posting that…
Silver Fox – Dread By Dawn EP
I think someone mentioned this EP in the comments of this site a few years back – it’s a really solid 4-tracker of darkside stuff, on a relatively small label (Three Scars only did one other EP, with DJ Pilgrim). While there’s nothing incredibly different going on here, all tracks have that nice combo of…
DJ Deckjammer – Prince of Darkness
Everything is getting dark… here’s a real darkside gem that seems to be going for quite cheap these days? Pretty sure I played this (or perhaps the VIP) on my halloween darkside special back around Halloween. No idea who Deckjammer was, there’s 3 releases on this label though all of which are pretty good (though…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio October 24th: Halloween Darkside Special
In honor of halloween, here’s the darkside set I did on my radio show last Wednesday. I was hoping to get a chance to rerecord this and get it really nice sounding for today, but I’ve been crazy busy as of late. Also, listening back it’s not that bad aside from overall level inconsistency and…
Essence of Aura – Never Trust Your Fantasy
Essence of Aura are pretty well known for their “Destiny” EP as well as the Distortion Crew remixes, however their other EPs are a bit slept on in my opinion. Case in point : “Never Trust Your Fantasy”. Pitch Shifted beats, ominous synths, reversed vocals and some time stretched who-knows-what sounds make for a simple…