hardcore breaks - what's good?

cutups

Member
Huge fan of old hardcore breaks - 91-93 pre-jungle stuff,
(krome & time, acen, tango & ratty, etc.)
and have been checking out some of the newer folks
doing that sound. But it's not easy to get a grasp on it all,
especially being in the states.

Anybody have recommendations of new stuff?

I'm especially interested in things that touch
on the tropes of that era but also have updated
production quality and influences.
 

DigitalDjigit

Honky Tonk Woman
Some of the new labels are:
Enormous Mouse
Warehouse Wax
Sharkfin Records

http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk have a whole section devoted to this stuff. None of it strikes as particularly good. It's all too clean sounding and follows a pretty safe formula for how to make a rave tune. It's afraid to take chances which was the whole point of that era.

I will second Knitefoce Again though. Even though it's more of a '93-'94 happy hardcore revival thing, at least it's done well. Nothing groundbreaking but decent tunes if you like your cheese.
 

continuum

smugpolice
Heard this on Blackdown and Dusks show -
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Think it is great. Can anyone recommend anything new and similar?
Anyone have any info on J-Tek etc?
 

tyranny

Well-known member
is hardcore breaks different to pre-jungle hardkore then?


"Hardcore Breaks" is a revival scene - it's basically Nu School Breaks heads reengineering oldschool tunes...

J Tek is more of a revival scene based on the Jungle Techno sound as it was back then, but with less of an emphasis on sounding sonically "authentic"
 

gremino

Moster Sirphine
Check out Nu-rave site.

Nu-rave (not Klaxons!) is umbrella for rave breakz (nuskool breaks with oldskool samples and pianos), hardcore breaks (basically oldskool hardcore, some of it is aims to be very authentic) and new jungle techno/j-tek.

Nu-rave community has made new jungle techno before j-tek heads, and it seems j-tekkers doesn't recognize that. Nu-ravers's jungle techno is more ravey whereas j-tek is much more cleaner/technoy, and some of the tunes are straight slowed down dnb. It's a shame though j-tek heads are in their own bubble and doesn't seem to co-op that much with nu-rave crew, when nu-ravers are about uniting these revival styles.
 

continuum

smugpolice
the hardcore breaks scene should follow skream's lead and remix current stuff instead of trying to reproduce old tunes imo
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