{"id":1949,"date":"2010-02-19T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:30:36","slug":"jim-polo-phantasys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Jim Polo &#8211; Phantasy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice overlooked EP &#8211; serious deep + dark vibes on this one.   Jim Polo did a number of EPs between 93 and 94:  some solo, some with Neil Vass. He also co-ran the essential darkside label <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/Dark+Horse+Records+%282%29\">Dark Horse Records<\/a>.  The label&#8217;s biggest tune was probably  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Jim-Polo-Neil-Vass-Rolling-Energy-Underground-Feeling\/release\/1470063\">Rolling Energy<\/a>, though all the releases on Dark Horse I&#8217;ve heard are quality.  Dark Horse records is probably one of the biggest holes in my collection, for whatever reason I&#8217;ve never nabbed much of their stuff on vinyl despite it all being excellent darkside\/darkcore.  This is one of the easiest to find \/ cheaper EPs&#8230; not sure why that is, the only thing which lets this EP down a bit is the quality of the beats (for 93, they&#8217;re a bit low-fi and grimey, and not in a good way).   Still this EP is definitely worth checking out &#8211; as with a lot of their stuff, there&#8217;s some great moments of originally melodic and happy female vocal snippets being twisted into serious darkcore.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Jim-Polo-The-Interrelate-EP\/master\/82426\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/jim_polo.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Jim Polo - Phantasys.mp3\">Jim Polo &#8211; Phantasy&#8217;s<\/a><Br><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1949-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Jim%20Polo%20-%20Phantasys.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Jim%20Polo%20-%20Phantasys.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Jim%20Polo%20-%20Phantasys.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice overlooked EP &#8211; serious deep + dark vibes on this one. Jim Polo did a number of EPs between 93 and 94: some solo, some with Neil Vass. He also co-ran the essential darkside label Dark Horse Records. The label&#8217;s biggest tune was probably Rolling Energy, though all the releases on Dark&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1949\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Polo &#8211; Phantasy&#8217;s<\/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":[16,76,265],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-16","tag-dark","tag-dark-horse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","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=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}