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Victory lap


Does this qualify for the pantheon? My Singaporean mate brought a load of Todd Terry records back from a trip to New York in 1992 (went back with him in 1993), and I liked it, but doesn't have the upstart colour of UK at the time. But in a club anywhere it lights it up
 

Murphy

cat malogen
Tried to keep it brief = failed

Two choons associated with hot summer weekends, 92 was a wet summer overall after Castlemorton’s miraculous blue skies and glowing sun in May. If you see recovered vid footage of Castlmorton, chances are nearly all the audio is/was hardcore, DiY a lone steady transcendent 4/4 presence ..

Part One. Bumped into my kid brother and his mates at a motorway pit stop on the way home - his hardcore lot and various house crews both looking for supplies and more silliness post-sessions. Have a few battered photos of us hanging in and out of an open-backed truck, coalescing mates and gf’s and mates of gf’s all maniacally spiral-eyed, be fucked if that’s being posted!

You can see subtle differences in attire: hardcore combatants are noticeably younger with trackies, baggier jeans, odd bright bucket hat, short parkas, cropped hair. House crews are a hybrid re “is it Balearic?” and free-party long hairs/pony tails (The “Ponehs”, rip Twigger), bootcuts, boots, shirts, early-onset olive combat trousers all from terrace boys to students to older Paul Smith fashionistas to site party blow ins based in Nottingham ..

Without wanting to sound hypocritical, difficult articulating how heavy the e-gannet approach to fun was among hardcore devotees. Total sonic assault plus total chemical overload. Preferred a steadier sonic approach like a hug rather than a beating. Yet The Truth by Ragga Twins stuck - someone kept rewinding a tape due to temporary psychosis or epiphany. Only SUAD record kept after many years, one track I had to seek out once it had seeded itself

 

Murphy

cat malogen
Part Two. Another track framed in deeply drugged times, beyond caned, travelling in a shed of a Renault 5 GT turbo somewhere between Hayes and Burnham Beeches

Tree-lined lanes and dappled sunshine swooshing past, looking for a follow-on and address connecting Windsor, Slough, Maidenhead massive (rip Sheppy) on Doves so strong the car was like an aquarium full of floating fish. Bpm’s reflect accordingly

Choon reappeared after the sample came up during Covid and despite the o.g tape long gone (like any decent mix), Mega Drive’s “I got to be sure your intentions are puuuuuure” vocals branded their presence permanently because while listening, possessed, I couldn’t get the words out due to wankered shivery chattery teeth

4/4-y but c’mon, it is having it

 

luka

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always gave me shivers that as a child one of the most beautiful songs evver recorded
 

Benny Bunter

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Its way less advanced than a lot of the other stuff in this thread, i thought it might be 91, but it's just so innocent and gorgeous, like sweet harmony
 
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