{"id":5706,"date":"2013-10-02T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2020-11-03T06:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:22:03","slug":"facs-journey-into-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=5706","title":{"rendered":"Facs – Journey Into Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve been slack about rerecording the 96-98 set from Sunday, here’s one of my favorite tracks I played during it: a lesser known tune by Facs. This tune pretty much defines hardstep for me – a heavy steppy beat (based on that processed “Life Could” break which is all over 96-98 tracks), classic b-boy samples and vocal snippets, kinda stressed and moody music without being full on dark technoid-y techstep… nothing too frantic, but oozing vibes with every measure. Though it’s very much optimized for spinning, there’s good changeups throughout, including a pretty big breakdown halfway through where it almost sounds like the tune ends…keep listening for more steppy goodness though. Also, though certainly not sounding like frantically chopped jungle, there’s quite a bit going on with the breaks… multiple layers at points, and a nice retrigger\/delay effect on the edits.<\/p>\n

Facs is best known to me for his tunes with Dylan (which I bought the majority of back then), but he also did loads of nice tracks on his own in those days, including a bunch on Based on Bass, Smokers Inc and the oh-so-classic Droppin Science label (run by Danny Breaks, who was another master of this sound\/ quite possibly the don<\/i> when it came to b-boy jungle\/dnb in general).<\/p>\n

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Since I’ve been slack about rerecording the 96-98 set from Sunday, here’s one of my favorite tracks I played during it: a lesser known tune by Facs. This tune pretty much defines hardstep for me – a heavy steppy beat (based on that processed “Life Could” break which is all over 96-98 tracks), classic b-boy… <\/p>\n

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