{"id":9627,"date":"2019-05-25T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:09:12","slug":"unknown-artist-the-block-up-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9627","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Artist &#8211; The Block Up EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As mentioned previously, I&#8217;m going to try to get back into some tune posts here, focusing mostly on really obscure stuff&#8230; I just got back from another quick UK trip and I&#8217;d say this EP fits the bill. There&#8217;s no info about this EP on discogs (I just added it for the sake of this post), but I took a chance because it was in a pound bin (well, 50p) and totally had the look of a 90-92 hardcore whitelabel: the font, the track titles, the fact it&#8217;s a 4 tracker, it all screams ropey 91\/92 &#8220;not on label&#8221; release.  Probably goes without saying but, regardless of music, it&#8217;s quite a big vibe to still discover  EPs after all these years never listed on discogs, fleabay, etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to whether it&#8217;s all that good or not&#8230; err..I do like it a bit but can see why it&#8217;s escaped totally unknown until now. It&#8217;s not exactly a killer long lost classic. All 4 tunes are definitely on the slower side of things, mostly hovering around 130bpm.  There&#8217;s a couple with (slow looped 91 style) amens, a more technoey one, and this track &#8220;Pusuit&#8221; with a variety of classic breaks in it (Funky Mule, Think, etc) and acidy parts which I do like.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I could see this being one of those quirky releases which no one would have cared about back then but which a few people could get fixated on now, both for the obscureness and for the &#8220;so wrong it&#8217;s right&#8221; kludgy production.  Your mileage may vary though, so check it out and please comment below if you know anything about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yeah, while I definitely believe this to be a 90-92 EP, it&#8217;s also possible this is actually a newer release made to look like it&#8217;s from that era.  Honestly I can&#8217;t be bothered to really dig in and research further, but figured if I post it here, hopefully someone can appear and give some info into it.  Also, if it is a recreation \/ &#8220;new old&#8221;, then props to whoever did this as they made it quite convincing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Unknown-Artist-Block-Up-EP\/release\/13676177\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/images\/block up ep.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/audio\/Unknown Artist - Pursuit.mp3\">Unknown Artist &#8211; Pursuit<\/a>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/audio\/Unknown%20Artist%20-%20Pursuit.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, I&#8217;m going to try to get back into some tune posts here, focusing mostly on really obscure stuff&#8230; I just got back from another quick UK trip and I&#8217;d say this EP fits the bill. There&#8217;s no info about this EP on discogs (I just added it for the sake of this&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=9627\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unknown Artist &#8211; The Block Up EP<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}