there are certain "dubstep" labels I buy on sight
one is "KILLA SOUND"
in the post yesterday was KILLA SOUND 009
I'm so ahead of the curve there is no YouTube video
but both sides rely heavily on records I already I own
the A side samples from PRINCE HAMMER - BRIXTON TRIALS AND CROSSES
PRINCE HAMMER - BRIXTON TRIALS AND CROSSES
TL;DR
HAMMER is a MANCHESTER legend
when I was system administrator at the first ever Internet cafe in the UK (
@woops: not Cyberia, they were Johnny come lately chancers ) one rasta dude came in and I mentioned HAMMER and he was like "EVERYONE IN THE MOSS KNOWS HAMMER, he's a BADMAN!)
when I was playing records in public at a community BBQ I was hoping HAMMER would pop in so I could play this tune but he was probably in jail at the time, but the sister of the owner of the number one MANCHESTER WARRIOR SOUND jumped on the mic and all my friends fucked off because they thought "he is on a promise, he doesn't need our support and he is sort of grinding" and I destroyed the place with my roots and steppers selection plus her chat but then I had to keep a bottle of WRAY AND NEPHEW safe for the psycho dude who had tried to tax me 20 years earlier in the all night patty and taxi joint and then I sparked up a spiff of pure haze with no baccy and the
RENO VETERAN guy started playing MANCHESTER STREET SOUL classics and I might have whited out and totally blew my chances...but a few years later I got on a bus and some dude stared at me and said"do I know you?" and it was the owner of the WARRIOR SOUND and I was like "no, but I met your sister, she rocked the mic" and he showed me his bag of Augustus Pablo Hugh Mundell tunes and I reciprocated by showing him a bag of Joe Gibbs productions...another time I was buying some records off a prime mover on the MANCHESTER dancehall scene and he mentioned "I got my start chanting on the"WARRIOR SOUND" and I said"oh I know his sister" and he told me some sad news about another member of the family who I met when I was playing records at the community BBQ
but HAMMER
you may not heard of him but HAMMER may have been the guy in the yellow jumpsuit and red beret in the classic ROCKERS record shop scene
he had some moves
he moved to Manchester and cosplayed Dracula but maybe more renowned for his pimping skills
BRIXTON TRIALS AND CROSSES was a UK do-over of an EARL 16 tune
EARL 16 - TRIALS AND CROSSES
the other side of the KILLA SOUND 009 10" I received in the post yesterday samples a tune I was going to post to this thread the other night
THE MIGHTY THREES - RASTA BUSINESS
pure perfection, 3 part harmony on a par with EARTH & STONE
edit: I never mentioned about the time I played a KILLA SOUND 10" and one of the FULL CREW from the "free party sound system" leaned over and "pulled and hauled' and the place exploded