Posts Tagged ‘liquid wax’

Liquid Aliens – Are You Sure We’ll Be OK?

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Liquid Wax is a relatively underrated labell in my opinion. Everyone knows “never try the hippodrome” (at least I hope they do), but a lot of their later tracks are relatively obscure. I guess it makes sense since most of these later tracks aren’t as “anthemy” as hippodrome, but they are great very well produced tracks nonetheless, a lot of which definitely grow on you after repeat listens. Case in point – this EP, which is one of the pricier of the liquid wax EPs. It’s a solid amen track, no aspects that really stand out immediately other than the absolutely filthy bass ala Tango + Ratty. However, listening to this in mixes (especially the Micky Finn “getting thin w/ the finn vol 2″ which is one of my favorites), it really grew on me over time. I managed to pick this up in a Baltimore bargain bin a couple of weeks ago, so my score is now yours for the downloading :)

Liquid Aliens – Are You Sure We’ll Be OK?

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DJ Phantasy & Gemini – Ruff Beats Producing Bass

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

This track is more well known than what I normally post, but I’m sure there’s a number of people who check this site who don’t know it. I actually had a super obscure tune queued up to post, but was listening to it and decided I don’t even like it that much… Even though I do want to try to focus on lots of lesser known tracks on here, a good tune is a good tune and obscurities-for-the-sake-of-obscurities get old after a while.

“Ruff Beats” is one of the bigger Phantasy & Gemini tracks, behind their classic “Never try the Hippodrome”. The chopped female vocal part 53 seconds in is undoubtbly one of my favorite hardcore melodies. This whole track, and more generally a lot of Liquid Wax stuff, reminds me what I like about oldskool hardcore to begin with: tunes which are catchy but also strange and mucked up in some way. No hands in the air piano style, just crazy jungle beats, tweaked melodies and catchy hiphop vocal cuts.

DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini – Ruff Beats Producing Bass

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