{"id":2203,"date":"2010-05-18T22:22:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2010-05-18T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:22:21","slug":"va-malcolm-x-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"v\/a &#8220;Malcolm X&#8221; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted any random US stuff in a while, so here&#8217;s a Belgian  single with some US oldskool tracks on it. The first side is taken up by several mixes of the track &#8220;the truth&#8221;, which is OK but nothing mindblowing. If I remember it right, it has a bunch of Malcolm X samples, which explains the title of this comp record.  The B side is a bit better\/more varied in my opinion. It starts with Xpando&#8217;s  &#8220;Technorasta&#8221;, a tune which may be familiar to US blog readers from the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Ravin-USA\/master\/228593\">Ravin&#8217; USA<\/a> comp on Moonshine. This was the comp which preceded the &#8220;Speed Limit 140bpm&#8221; series &#8211; it might not have had as insane of a tracklisting as those comps,  but it still had a couple of great tunes on it (&#8220;Never Lost his Hardcore&#8221;,&#8221;Never Felt This Way&#8221;, etc).  The vocals in this track are so craptacular they will absolutely worm their way into your head no matter how dumb you think they are.  Sorry, but that&#8217;s just the way it is. \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\nIn addition to &#8220;Techno rasta&#8221;, there&#8217;s two other tracks on the B side.  the second tune (also posted here) is &#8220;Fuel &#8211; Ride&#8221;b -a solid hoovery number.  No idea who did this, though it&#8217;s interesting to note that there&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Fuel-Ride-Roc-Da-House\/release\/79728\">a house single with the same name<\/a>  from a couple years after this release,  but it seems unlikely that the two releases are connected. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Untitled\/release\/1250815\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/malcolm_x.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Xpando - Techno Rasta.mp3\">Xpando &#8211; Techno Rasta<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2203-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Xpando%20-%20Techno%20Rasta.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Xpando%20-%20Techno%20Rasta.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Xpando%20-%20Techno%20Rasta.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Ride - Fuel.mp3\">Ride &#8211; Fuel<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2203-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Ride%20-%20Fuel.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Ride%20-%20Fuel.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Ride%20-%20Fuel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted any random US stuff in a while, so here&#8217;s a Belgian single with some US oldskool tracks on it. The first side is taken up by several mixes of the track &#8220;the truth&#8221;, which is OK but nothing mindblowing. If I remember it right, it has a bunch of Malcolm X samples,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2203\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">v\/a &#8220;Malcolm X&#8221; EP<\/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":[4,80],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}