{"id":1610,"date":"2009-10-12T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2009-10-12T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:09:58","slug":"g-double-e-asylum-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"G Double E &#8211; Asylum Seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who buys a fair bit of oldschool has most likely seen the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/G+Double+E\">G Double E<\/a> around &#8211; their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/G-Double-E-B-Line-From-Hell\/release\/60947\">B-Line from Hell<\/a> single seems to turn up whenever I&#8217;m looking for hardcore EPs. I&#8217;ve got that EP, but aside from the cool artwork by a member of Genaside II, I far prefer this single. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asylum Seeker&#8221; is chock full of quality samples with a ton of different parts that seem to get thrown at you  every 8 or 16 bars for at least the first 3 minutes or so. The cut up hip hop vocals seem pretty ahead of their time, if this track was indeed released in 91 like discogs claims.  It&#8217;s a fairly long track, but the changing parts and numerous breakdowns mean there&#8217;s plenty of good points to mix out of.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this EP and &#8220;B-line from hell&#8221;, G Double E did a decent single on Jumpin and Pumpin, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/G-Double-E-When-Dubs-Cry\/release\/418658\">This somewhat strange Prince remix EP<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve got that EP, and even though it seemed promising on paper (obscure Prince hardcore remix single with one of the better track titles I&#8217;ve seen in ages?? count me in), it ended up not being that interesting or great. Plus, at 10 minutes for the vocal version and 8 minutes for the instrumental, both tunes seem to go on forever.  Strangely enough, Prince&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Prince-And-The-New-Power-Generation-My-Name-Is-Prince\/release\/154256\">My Name is Prince EP<\/a> featured several mixes with hardcore samples in them &#8211; the &#8220;Hard Core Mix&#8221; samples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/D-M-S-Exterminate\/release\/90095\">DMS &#8211; Exterminate<\/a>, and the &#8220;12&#8221; Club mix&#8221; samples <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=123\">Smart Systems &#8211; The Tingler<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/G-Double-E-Asylum-Seeker\/master\/12844\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/g_double_e.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/G Double E - Asylum Seeker.mp3\">G Double E &#8211; Asylum Seeker<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1610-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/G%20Double%20E%20-%20Asylum%20Seeker.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/G%20Double%20E%20-%20Asylum%20Seeker.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/G%20Double%20E%20-%20Asylum%20Seeker.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who buys a fair bit of oldschool has most likely seen the name G Double E around &#8211; their B-Line from Hell single seems to turn up whenever I&#8217;m looking for hardcore EPs. I&#8217;ve got that EP, but aside from the cool artwork by a member of Genaside II, I far prefer this single.&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1610\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G Double E &#8211; Asylum Seeker<\/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":[8,225],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-8","tag-g-double-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}