{"id":4111,"date":"2012-08-13T06:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2012-08-21T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T19:03:30","slug":"eq-ghetto-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"EQ &#8211; Ghetto Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been slacking on the posts&#8230;been busy working on a crazy new mix. I&#8217;m aiming to make it up this week with at least 4 tunes being posted between now and Sunday&#8230; already got them ripped, just need to queue them up!<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s track is a pretty well known one which I believe used to go for a fair bit more than it doesnow. &#8220;Ghetto Boys&#8221; might not be quite as anthemy as EQ&#8217;s other EP on FX <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=173\">Drop the Bass<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still a really fun hardcore track with all the must-haves (hiphop vocal cut, catchy rave stabs, solid breaks). In fact, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more than a few people for whom &#8220;drop the bass&#8221; is a bit too hands-in-the-air where this track is preferable.<br \/>\nAs for the artist behind it,  I always assumed this EP and &#8220;Drop the Bass&#8221; were by Mark Yorath of Formation Records&#8230; but it now looks like Discogs is saying it&#8217;s actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/EQ+%2821%29\">some other guy<\/a> who did quite a bit of early 91-92 slightly more techno\/rave\/hardcorey stuff on Kinetix, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Industrial-Nitrous-KX1-EP\/release\/74966\">this doozey of a record<\/a> which I previously posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2546\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/EQ-True-Devotion-Ghetto-Boys\/master\/11163\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/images\/eq-ghettoboys.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/EQ - Ghetto Boys.mp3\">EQ &#8211; Ghetto Boys<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4111-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/EQ%20-%20Ghetto%20Boys.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/EQ%20-%20Ghetto%20Boys.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/EQ%20-%20Ghetto%20Boys.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been slacking on the posts&#8230;been busy working on a crazy new mix. I&#8217;m aiming to make it up this week with at least 4 tunes being posted between now and Sunday&#8230; already got them ripped, just need to queue them up! Today&#8217;s track is a pretty well known one which I believe used&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=4111\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EQ &#8211; Ghetto Boys<\/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":[4,96],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-eq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}