{"id":3274,"date":"2011-12-05T08:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:38:22","slug":"echo-minott-weaponry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Echo Minott &#8211; Weaponry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice find from my London trip&#8230;as the comment on Discogs says, this is a classic ragga breakbeat track ala early Ragga Twins \/ Rebel MC \/ SUAD stuff.  A bit strange that the label says it&#8217;s from 1993, as it sounds more like &#8217;90, &#8217;91 to me. No matter though, it&#8217;s a great vibey tune, though pretty slow (it&#8217;s pitched up +8% here) and extremely stripped down. The main reason this one stuck out to me was the vocal, which was used in this 93 obscurity:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K1odYgwup34\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nNot necessarily a top favorite track of mine in of itself, but serious oldskoolers might recognize this from a certain classic Dreamscape mix, and if you&#8217;ve heard that mix more than a few times it&#8217;s pretty hard not to get that &#8220;murda bassline&#8221; part stuck in your head! <\/p>\n<p>Also, people might be more familiar with the Jungle version of this from 94, which is great but also ridiculously rare\/in-demand..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KanAo9wtvaE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the early version I got, seems pretty easy to find on wax so if you like classic 90-91 stuff, consider nabbing it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Echo-Minott-Murder-Weapon-Armshouse-Mix\/release\/2341980\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/echo_minott.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Echo Minott - Weaponry.mp3\">Echo Minott &#8211; Weaponry<\/a><Br><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3274-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Echo%20Minott%20-%20Weaponry.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Echo%20Minott%20-%20Weaponry.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Echo%20Minott%20-%20Weaponry.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice find from my London trip&#8230;as the comment on Discogs says, this is a classic ragga breakbeat track ala early Ragga Twins \/ Rebel MC \/ SUAD stuff. A bit strange that the label says it&#8217;s from 1993, as it sounds more like &#8217;90, &#8217;91 to me. No matter though, it&#8217;s a great vibey&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=3274\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Echo Minott &#8211; Weaponry<\/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":[16,15],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-16","tag-ragga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}