{"id":2012,"date":"2010-03-09T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:23:12","slug":"rhythm-section-the-chainsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm Section &#8211; The Chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone well into their oldskool should know about Rhythm Section &#8211; they were a rave group featured Rennie Pilgrim (now better known for his breaks work and Thursday Club label), Ellis Dee, Nicholas Scott (aka Newton),  and Richie T (aka MK13, who I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=366\">posted a great track by a while ago<\/a>). Between them, they did quite a few big EPs on their label <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/Rhythm+Section+Recordings\">Rhythm Section recordings<\/a>.   Most of those were catchy, melodic and pretty upfront \/dancefloor friendly 91-92 tunes.  This EP is the one exception &#8211; a promo-only release supposedly limited to 350 copies.  The tunes on here are dark, fast and noisy, a far cry from earlier releases like &#8220;The Midsummer Madness EP&#8221;.   The A side  wins for me &#8211; featuring nasty synths and the &#8220;Assembly Line&#8221; break, possibly ripped from Eric B &#038; Rakim&#8217;s &#8220;let the rhythm hit em&#8221; which layered an extra grunt on the 4th beat of the break + was sampled in Acen&#8217;s TTM3.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/134286\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rhythm_section_2.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm Section - The Chainsaw.mp3\">Rhythm Section &#8211; The Chainsaw<\/a><Br><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2012-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Section%20-%20The%20Chainsaw.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Section%20-%20The%20Chainsaw.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Section%20-%20The%20Chainsaw.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone well into their oldskool should know about Rhythm Section &#8211; they were a rave group featured Rennie Pilgrim (now better known for his breaks work and Thursday Club label), Ellis Dee, Nicholas Scott (aka Newton), and Richie T (aka MK13, who I posted a great track by a while ago). Between them, they did&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2012\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhythm Section &#8211; The Chainsaw<\/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],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-16","tag-dark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}