{"id":1125,"date":"2009-05-29T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2016-01-31T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T18:52:57","slug":"persian-prince-the-gorgon-wise-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Persian Prince &#8211; The Gorgon Wise EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea about this record, checked it out since I didn&#8217;t recognize the title and was not disappointed &#8211; weird and cool ragga jungle engineered by Bizzy B.  The timestretched vocal bit reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Formula-7-Timestretch-The-Bass-War-Cries\/release\/354499\">Formula 7 &#8220;Timestretch the Bass&#8221;<\/a>, and while I probably like that tune a bit more overall, this track has some great bits in it &#8211; massive breakdowns, crazy off-kilter choppy beats, and weird cut up vocals peaking through.<br \/>\nOriginally I had this down as being from 93 based on the Discogs page, but the artist mentioned it was actually recorded in 1991. Kind of surprising given what little I&#8217;ve heard from Bizzy B&#8217;s studio in 91 (basically just <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Rawtrax-USI-Raw-Trax\/master\/18155\">this EP<\/a> &#8211; these tunes seem way more advanced than that) but, as some records took ages to come out, it&#8217;s possible some of the craziest 92 stuff we know best from Bizzy actually was from back then&#8230; Regardless, quite cool lesser known single by an artist who is still doing big tunes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/persiansamepeopleproduct\">check his soundcloud for many newer tracks<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Persian-Prince-Budda-Q-The-Gorgon-Wise-EP\/release\/694746\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/persian_prince.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Persian Prince - Persianina Babylon.mp3\">Persian Prince -Persianina Babylon<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1125-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Persian%20Prince%20-%20Persianina%20Babylon.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Persian%20Prince%20-%20Persianina%20Babylon.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Persian%20Prince%20-%20Persianina%20Babylon.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea about this record, checked it out since I didn&#8217;t recognize the title and was not disappointed &#8211; weird and cool ragga jungle engineered by Bizzy B. The timestretched vocal bit reminds me of Formula 7 &#8220;Timestretch the Bass&#8221;, and while I probably like that tune a bit more overall, this track&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1125\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persian Prince &#8211; The Gorgon Wise EP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,5,420,15],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-8","tag-choppage","tag-persian-prince","tag-ragga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}