{"id":1688,"date":"2009-11-18T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:51:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T07:51:59","slug":"cool-hand-flex-lock-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Cool Hand Flex &#8211;  Lock Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great track by Cool Hand Flex, an artist who has got to be one of the most underrated from the pack of early 90&#8217;s hardcore\/jungle producers. This is especially true given how prolific he was, both in writing his own tunes as well as engineering tunes on his label.  This track in particular is one of his biggest, and was released on one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Kickin-Records-X-Pack\/release\/391165\">Kickin x-pack comps<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Hardcore-Leaders-Volume-2\/release\/41919\">Hardcore Leaders II<\/a> The nasty synth part in this tune is sampled from the techno classic <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Cybersonik-Technarchy\/master\/18356\">Cybersonik &#8211; Technarchy<\/a>, combined with a heavy break and a great main melody.  While this doesn&#8217;t have the crazy chopped breaks of some of Flex&#8217;s other early tunes, it&#8217;s a total classic in my opinion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Cool-Hand-Flex-Lock-Me-Up-I-Dont-No\/release\/300462\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/coolhandflex.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<del datetime=\"2014-02-27T07:48:23+00:00\">Cool Hand Flex &#8211; Lock Me Up<\/del><br \/><i>link removed pending posting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcorejunglism.com\/\">hardcore junglism<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great track by Cool Hand Flex, an artist who has got to be one of the most underrated from the pack of early 90&#8217;s hardcore\/jungle producers. This is especially true given how prolific he was, both in writing his own tunes as well as engineering tunes on his label. This track in particular&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1688\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cool Hand Flex &#8211;  Lock Me Up<\/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":[4,234,129],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-cool-hand-flex","tag-anthem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}