{"id":2196,"date":"2010-05-14T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2010-05-14T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T21:52:17","slug":"unknown-artist-zulu-records-hold-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Artist (Zulu Records) &#8211; Hold Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To contrast the essential but very early  track I posted by Leo Anibaldi yesterday, here&#8217;s a slick 94 jungle tune on a not-so-well known label.   After years of digging for tunes, I&#8217;ve definitely grown to like labels like Zulu Records &#8211; labels that got in and got out with just a handful of releases to their name. Not just a single one-off, but also not 20+ releases where half of them are disposable. <\/p>\n<p>\nOn to the track itself:  it features vocals as used in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Cloud-Nine-Vol-2-Back-To-Detroit-EP\/release\/249868\">Cloud 9 &#8220;hold me in your arms&#8221;<\/a> (though a smaller vocal sample than in that tune, where the 2nd vocal line resolves the melody of the first), and the Chuck&#8217;s Beats amen which is aka the Bizzy B amen,  the Demons Theme Amen, or whatever else you want to call that wicked  combo of &#8220;amen brother&#8221; and isaac hayes &#8211; &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; breakbeats.   The main music is just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/State-808-Pacific\/master\/33110\">808 State &#8220;Pacific State&#8221;<\/a> pitched way up&#8230; simple but effective.<BR>If anyone happens to know who this tune is by, please leave a comment here.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Unknown-Artist-Hold-Me-Give-A-Little\/release\/416034\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/zulu1.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Unknown Artist - Hold Me.mp3\">Unknown Artist (Zulu Records 1) &#8211; Hold Me<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2196-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Unknown%20Artist%20-%20Hold%20Me.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Unknown%20Artist%20-%20Hold%20Me.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Unknown%20Artist%20-%20Hold%20Me.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To contrast the essential but very early track I posted by Leo Anibaldi yesterday, here&#8217;s a slick 94 jungle tune on a not-so-well known label. After years of digging for tunes, I&#8217;ve definitely grown to like labels like Zulu Records &#8211; labels that got in and got out with just a handful of releases to&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2196\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unknown Artist (Zulu Records) &#8211; Hold Me<\/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":[10,5],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-10","tag-choppage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}