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Archive for the '1990s' Category
16th September, 2009 | 52 views
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One of the first pieces of vinyl that I bought, after deciding that the cassettes that I had been buying from this mail-order music retailer, didn’t cut the mustard any more. I like the wah-wah guitar and the psychedelic undercurrent with a hint of folk rock from the fiddle.
5th August, 2009 | 56 views
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I used to have quite a bit of drum’n'bass, perhaps around three hundred different pieces of vinyl… that was until an incident resulted with them all marinading for a few months in several inches of water; fusing them all together and providing a fertile ground for some mould to flourish with a rainbow of different coloured cultures. In the 1990s I used to buy a couple of monthly dance music magazines, back when they actually had something to say about dance culture. DJ Magazine was one of them and in 1997, it gave away a cassette with tracks from the Moving Shadow stable of record lables and sub-labels mixed together. Side B was on the harder side of drum’n'bass but the A side contained a lush sequence of tracks without being too ‘coffee table’; this was one of them. It would still be a very good track even without the sample of Derrick May quoted below but that is just the pièce de résistance.
It’s sad that in the twentieth century, in the 1990s we have to still go the same bullshit route… that other artists have had to go to get acceptance. If it wasn’t for the individuals… if wasn’t for the small little cities and the few little ghetto guys tryin’ to make music, it would never’ve happened. Some of these guys will never make a dime, some of these guys will be poor and die… alone; but in the process they’ve been the true renegades… and the true rebels always walk alone anyway.
14th July, 2009 | 33 views
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Deep brooding low frequency dub tone on this stand-out track from their 1999 album, Big World Small World, Bristol bass in the place. Head nodders of the green leaf, lay down your pipes and STEP UP!
*PLEASE NOTE* In order to gain the full flava of the bass, use headphones or hook your computer up to your stereo otherwise you just won’t “get” it.
25th February, 2009 | 31 views
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Must be about time for another acid techno track, crank up the hifi and shake off a few cobwebs whilst being reminded of darkened semi-legal parties in unusual areas of London back in the mid-nineties. One of many tracks from the acidic partnership of Damon Wild and Tim Taylor but probably the most popular and well known. A stomping beat for the feet and 303 b-lines for the head.
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24th February, 2009 | 30 views
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Unusual track that was popular way back in the day – another track I remember hearing first on Steve Jackson’s show on Kiss FM which I had recorded. I believe I wore that tape out from repeated plays – a track that had plenty of underground cachet.
Music please… just gimme some… music please
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