{"id":9588,"date":"2019-04-24T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:19:10","slug":"colin-b-price-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Colin B &#8211; Price of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wow, it&#8217;s been a year since I posted any individual tunes on blog to the oldskool.  In fact, it&#8217;s been so long that when I went back to do a post, I was faced with this annoying new blog editing UI and ended up losing this post not once but twice.  Hopefully 3rd time is the charm&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Before I start about the tune, for anyone curious why I haven&#8217;t posted any individual tunes as of the last 3-4 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/truantsblog.com\/2017\/truancy-volume-171-devnull\/\">this interview<\/a> tries to explain it a bit (3rd paragraph).  Despite this, some tunes like this one are just SO obscure, and don&#8217;t have any audio or info online, so I figure it can&#8217;t hurt to post a little bit about them, asking for info like I did with my last post a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, on to the track at hand. I included &#8220;Price of War&#8221; recently in my <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/devnull-dj\/ragga-hardcore-vol-1\">Ragga Hardcore Vol 1<\/a> mix, and someone asked me for an ID on it.  It&#8217;s definitely one of those tunes I&#8217;ve had for many years but have never ID&#8217;d since no one ever asked before. That&#8217;s a bit surprising to me, because I think this is a great little obscurity! Despite being in the top 1% of most unknown\/obscure hc\/jungle stuff, there&#8217;s nothing really ropey about this track. It&#8217;s just a nice vibey 92 style ragga hardcore number, with catchy vocals and music, plus some solid grimey breaks underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing to note about this release: I&#8217;m not entirely sure the A side is just by Colin B. Right now, it&#8217;s listed as being by him but the actual text on the label says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">PRICE OF WAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">PJCT UNKNOWN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">COLIN B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would make sense that it was by Colin B if the second track were called &#8220;Pjct Unknown&#8221;, as it is currently listed on discogs.  However, the second track seems to be just another version of &#8220;Price of War&#8221;. So, I&#8217;m not sure&#8230; was the second mix of &#8220;Price of War&#8221; named &#8220;Pjct Unknown&#8221;? Or maybe, is this EP actually by &#8220;Pjct Unknown &amp; Colin B&#8221;?  Hopefully someone who knows will see this and leave some info below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Colin-B-3-J-M-C-Productions-Price-Of-War\/release\/3920204\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/colin_b_150.jpg\"><\/a><br>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Colin B - Price of War.mp3\">Colin B &#8211; Price of War<\/a>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/audio\/Colin B - Price of War.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The B side track, &#8220;Bad Boy Taboo&#8221;, is OK but not as strong in my opinion. It&#8217;s by JMC Productions, a  cool mega-obscure hc production outfit (no idea if one person or more) who did a number of rare and obscure hardcore whitelabels I&#8217;ve got.  The breaks and piano are a lot looser in that track, dare I say a bit too ropey for my taste.  But this B side one is still a fun tune, and all the elements are decent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sm0jfdKsiFk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been a year since I posted any individual tunes on blog to the oldskool. In fact, it&#8217;s been so long that when I went back to do a post, I was faced with this annoying new blog editing UI and ended up losing this post not once but twice. Hopefully 3rd time is&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9588\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colin B &#8211; Price of War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,50],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-white-label","tag-whitelabel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}