{"id":556,"date":"2009-01-28T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:40:55","slug":"turntable-symphony-instructions-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Turntable Symphony &#8211; Instructions Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most tunes I can easily break down and describe why I think they&#8217;re so great. Then there&#8217;s tunes like this one, which I really can&#8217;t say much about but which I still love to the core.  It&#8217;s just amazing uplifting 91 stuff.  One thing to note is the artists behind it: Turntable Symphony was aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Blapps+Posse%2C+The\">the Blapps Posse<\/a>, whose &#8220;Don&#8217;t Hold Back&#8221; single was supposedly very influential to the Baltimore breaks scene (pretty sure I&#8217;ve got that record stashed somewhere..). These two also went on to found <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Freestylers\">Freestylers<\/a>, which Aston is still a member of today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/69990\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/instructions_of_life.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable symphony - instructions of life.mp3\">Turntable Symphony &#8211; Instructions of Life<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-556-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>My copy of this next track comes off the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/393733\">Turntable Symphony mini album<\/a>, but I assume it&#8217;s the same as on the full single release:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/115092\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/instructions_of_life_rmx.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable symphony - instructions of life (blapps posse mix).mp3\">Turntable Symphony &#8211; Instructions of Life (Blapps Posse Remix)<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-556-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life%20(blapps%20posse%20mix).mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life%20(blapps%20posse%20mix).mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/turntable%20symphony%20-%20instructions%20of%20life%20(blapps%20posse%20mix).mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<br \/>\nIn addition to Turntable Symphony, Blapps Posse and Freestylers, Aston also did some excellent 93-94 hardcore jungle tunes w\/ DJ Rap as both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/DJ+Rap+%26+Aston\">DJ Rap and Aston<\/a> and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Engineers+Without+Fears\">Engineers Without Fears<\/a>. I&#8217;d especially recommend &#8220;Vertigo&#8221;, which is just a amazing slice of catchy hardcore with wicked remixes. Check the original below, and then go buy their tunes <a href=\"http:\/\/download.breakbeat.co.uk\/artists\/djrapandaston.aspx\">here<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/download.breakbeat.co.uk\/artists\/djrapandaston.aspx\">DJ Rap &#038; Aston &#8211; Vertigo<\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"25\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/41-QvponQjk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/41-QvponQjk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"25\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most tunes I can easily break down and describe why I think they&#8217;re so great. Then there&#8217;s tunes like this one, which I really can&#8217;t say much about but which I still love to the core. It&#8217;s just amazing uplifting 91 stuff. One thing to note is the artists behind it: Turntable Symphony was aka&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=556\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turntable Symphony &#8211; Instructions Of Life<\/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":[8],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}