Been a bit lazy about posting this week, so here’s a sick obscure whitelabel to make up for it. Absolutely no idea about the artist behind it, but both sides smash it! Tracks have quite a few little changeups and combine a more techno hardcorey sound with quality breakbeats. Maybe not my typical favorite style…
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Hope & Dave – Rushing (aka Masquerade “Rushin”)
Here’s a tune that’s pretty much the opposite of what I posted on Wednesday, and not my typical favorite type of tune. However, this track has wormed itself into my head and just won’t leave! It’s a straightforward housey hardcore track from late 91/early 92, male vocals and all.. nothing crazy going on but solid…
Code 4 – Code 4
Here’s a great 4 track EP which was featured in a few mixes, including an Easygroove summer 92 mix that’s one of my favorites. The A side features 2 mixes of a track called “Ecstasy”, which uses that famous whispered “ecstasy” sample plus a Dune sample more famously used in Smart Systems’ “The Tingler”. Both…
DJ H – The Bass Project EP
Merry chrimbo, ya raving lunatics!!! Here’s your present: a track from the megarare DJ H “Bass Project” EP. I’ve seen people offer 100 pounds for this EP, and discogs hasn’t sold a copy since they started tracking sales. A lot of the rarest singles end up leaving you underwhelmed when you finally hear them –…
Hardcore D-Vision -???
I found this in a bargain bin in NYC this weekend. It’s one of those early hardcore/breakbeat techno singles that has 4 different mixes of the same track… not bad, not amazing, I can’t seem to find it on discogs though. If anyone has any info on who did it / where + when it’s…
Ionosphere – Hypertension EP
Here’s a reasonably well known white label from 1992. Part of what makes me like this EP is the variety in the tunes, as you’ll hear in the two representative tracks below – one is a deeper heavy track that stays pretty straightforward, while the other is a weird bouncy track that changes up every…
Zephania – Breathing Bass EP
Here’s one for the obscure white label crew. This EP definitely isn’t for everyone. The production on it is super low-fi (putting the “grimey” tolerance of even ardent oldskool obscurity fans to the test), however for some reason it sounds absolutely GREAT to me when blasted loud. It sounds like it was released around 91,…
Underground Maneuvers in the Dark – I Can’t Understand
Back to the obscurities… not much to say about this one. I think it has an Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark sample in it, but I don’t know that group well enough to say what track. Plus the classic “I can’t quite understand it” vocal which I don’t know the source for either, except that…
Insomnia – Raise the Roof
Someone wrote me on discogs a while back asking me to post this EP since it was so obscure… It’s a decent single, not really my style drumwise (I’ll take low-fi choppy breaks over more drum machine sounding beats, at least for hardcore stuff) but the music is pretty good. Also, this EP is definitely…
Bush Baby – Mathematics
According to Wikipedia: Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (meaning “little night monkeys” in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae). They are sometimes included as a subfamily within the Lorisidae or Loridae. According to some accounts, the name bush…