{"id":1249,"date":"2009-07-13T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-08-15T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:19:21","slug":"gbh-reach-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"GBH &#8211; Reach The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a single I bought years ago and forgot about until recently. In all that time, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever really listened to the B side.  Instead I stuck to the (admittedly strong) A side tune &#8220;Back to the Grave&#8221;, which combines an MC Duke vocal line, an assortment of heavy breakbeats (including the &#8220;give it up + turn it loose&#8221; and the &#8220;apache&#8221;), and a nice skank part.<br \/>\nRecently, someone suggested I check out the B side, and they were right &#8211; it&#8217;s an equally good tune. which starts full-force and doesn&#8217;t let up until the end of hte track.  Sample-wise, &#8220;Reach the Sky&#8221; features the Tongue N Cheek &#8220;Nobody&#8221; acapella as used in Acen Trip 2 the Moon (&#8220;take me higher&#8221;), plus the oft-used (in tracks by DJ Junk, Search + Destroy and many others) &#8220;we&#8217;ll keep climbing, till we reach the sky!&#8221; acapella line.  There&#8217;s also a bit that sounds like more MC Duke in there as well. <\/p>\n<p>As for who did this EP, I&#8217;ve got no idea &#8211; discogs claims it was released on a Boogie Times sublabel, and DJ Odi confirmed that he has a very similar looking sublabel release on Boogie Times, so it may indeed be from them. That still leaves the question open which artist produced the track though.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/GBH-Back-From-The-Grave\/release\/345031\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/GBH.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/GBH - Reach The Sky.mp3\">GBH &#8211; Reach the Sky<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1249-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/GBH%20-%20Reach%20The%20Sky.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/GBH%20-%20Reach%20The%20Sky.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/GBH%20-%20Reach%20The%20Sky.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a single I bought years ago and forgot about until recently. In all that time, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever really listened to the B side. Instead I stuck to the (admittedly strong) A side tune &#8220;Back to the Grave&#8221;, which combines an MC Duke vocal line, an assortment of heavy breakbeats (including the&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1249\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GBH &#8211; Reach The Sky<\/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":[4,15,22],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-ragga","tag-suburban-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}