{"id":81,"date":"2008-12-02T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-12-08T07:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T14:12:31","slug":"europe-trip-finds-vol-2-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Europe trip finds, vol 2 – Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last part of my trip in Europe, I stopped off to play a show in Edinburgh, Scotland. Great city, but unfortunately there weren’t many stores there with good oldschool stuff. The two stores I found which did have a decent selection of old stuff were clearly pricing direct off discogs (one store didn’t even bother to price their second-hand records, instead they waited until you brought them to counter at which point they’d look on discogs – boo!). So, I only picked up a couple of records there, mainly cheapo stuff like the Oral B ep<\/a>. This is an EP which ticks a lot of the “in-demand” boxes off – obscure small-label release, 6 tracker, colored vinyl, etc.. Unfortunately most of the tracks aren’t really anything to write home about. They’re OK but somewhat standard sounding – all the big rave sounds, but without any particularly inspired sequencing. Still, some of them are good enough, and for 6 pounds the price is right.
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Oral B – The Oral B EP
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One release I did find in a bargain bin there was a tight ragga jungle comp, “Fever In The Jungle 2”. At first I thought this was one of those dodgy comps w\/ mostly noname acts (ala the “Deep In The Jungle”<\/a> comp on Pandisc). However, it turns out this has some really nice cuts on it, from hard to find 94-95 ragga jungle singles. “If a Sound Test” has the classic “pass me a dubplate” ragga sample as used in Kemet 27<\/a>. Ganja Plant has some nicely chopped amens, and Haul & Pull is a decent deeper track. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the vinyl has the tracks in edited form, so they all fade out a bit early… meaning it’s probably way better to track down the CD version or the original singles these come from.
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\nG Reel – If a Sound Test<\/a>
\/blog\/audio\/g%20reel%20-%20if%20a%20sound%20test.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\nDread & The Bald Head – Ganja Plant<\/a>
\/blog\/audio\/dread%20and%20the%20bald%20head%20-%20ganja%20plant.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\nBrock Out Crew – Haul & Pull<\/a>
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For the last part of my trip in Europe, I stopped off to play a show in Edinburgh, Scotland. Great city, but unfortunately there weren’t many stores there with good oldschool stuff. The two stores I found which did have a decent selection of old stuff were clearly pricing direct off discogs (one store didn’t… <\/p>\n

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