hardcore classics

Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
This


Dance Bass (later to become Bogwoppa Records).......Hard to know where to start really......A label that literally took the baton from where labels like Shut up & Dance left off.......High velocity sped up Hip Hop breaks, over weighted sub bass --- Bedroom style ruff, rugged and raw uk breakbeat hardcore........the 1st few releases were pressed on white labels and literally "sold out of the boot of a car round the record shops like drug dealers" (i quote).......These records were pretty mysterious, and with artist names like Secret Squirrell, Undercover Elephant, AJ Flex....we still were really none the wiser, but those records were almost veiwed as "dj weapons" -- the breaks to be pulled when you wanted to murderize other dj's (thats how me & my freinds veiwed them anyway...).........Funny how things come to pass........as years later (about 4 to be precise)......it turns ouyt the label was run by a Julian Cobb........better known to you lot as Hellfish.............so....it seems our link was intrinsic before we had even ever met...........True Creators??? Definitly.............."You Say Your style's hardcore???"............well.......for 22 years this year..........goddamned right :) HISTORY LESSONS CONTINUED!!!!
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Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
Prodigy Experience is out 20 years today. The memories attached to that LP.

52 minutes of hype, whatever about the years after.

Spent the last two years of school scribbling the logo on everything in black biro. The early 90s Howlett was built on a 12 second sample time. [gat decor rejigged into Everybody In The Place, and all the breaks etc etc]

One Festival we had twelve batteries and one tape for the whole weekend. Monday morning & Weather Experience playing about six times too slow. The intro went on for forty-five minutes, horrible pitch bent strings soundtracking 50,000 zombies limping to the gates


'fiiiiiiirrrrre' The mother used to say it was like someone caught in a gate. (probably worth a thread)


and one of the best rave sing a'longs and video (ostrich stampede, Leroy dancing)


Good times
 
firefinga

firefinga

Well-known member
not a classic in the strict sense

This isn't a "classic" in the strict sense meaning it didn't get played out day in day out by all the top djs back i nthe day (nor it is super-obscure).

But nevertheless, a superb tune which is - to me at least - a timeless piece of elegance. Especially astonishing, the supreme production for it's time, since that track came out late 1992.

Utomica "Rok a Bye"

 
firefinga

firefinga

Well-known member
Now this IS a classic

This on the other hand WAS played by any DJ and was on any playlist at the same time, meaning autumn/fall 1992. And boy what a floorsmasher:

Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track

 
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mrfaucet

The Ideas Train
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Can anyone do me a massive favour and ID the two tunes at 14 minutes and 27 mins 30 secs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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datwun

Well-known member
Bay B Kane - If You Believe

The whole album's getting released on iTunes around the end of the month!
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
You don't get more classic than this beauty, which I remember well from school discos:

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craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Kodwo Eshun is a big fan of that track. There was a whole paragraph in 'More Brilliant than the Sun' about it, sadly edited out of the final manuscript. It will reappear in the Director's Cut re-print slated for Spring 2015.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Another much-loved track. With every extra year of shit music, this stuff sounds more miraculous than ever:

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This remix is better than the original, tighter, more imaginative, and vulgar and lovely.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Almost sounds like speed garage now, after we've all been frazzled by history:

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craner

craner

Beast of Burden
This is a fascinating insight into the rave / new age traveller crossover. I am the same age as this girl, and remember watching this when it was first broadcast (1992) and being very envious of her life. I'm not now, but I was then.

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craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Can anyone ID the track starting at 32.30? Always wanted to know what it was, ever since 1992, and have never found out.
 
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