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On the Formation flex this is an even better 4 tracker. Both 'Source of all Evil' and 'Bells of Dawn' are wild, dark ravey intro tunes. 'On the Case' is a rough stepper into a dark breakdown before the rave claps and funk comes into play - used to drop this one the most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hzu0cF1zxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewWUPqFANaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw88aLHYdxg
https://www.discogs.com/Ratty-A-Taste-Of-Things-To-Come-EP/master/158898
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Nice. That’s a long one - I can’t remember if I just did it spontaneously one day or if that was on the radio. Can’t have planned it beyond pulling all the records as I’m sure I would have had a tracklist for it somewhere. For anyone else interested: https://hearthis.at/theorie/theorie-mix-formation-records-mix/
I really want to record some new mixes but, counterintuitively, lockdown is making it harder as I keep getting interrupted by my kid after a maximum of about 20 minutes, and he loves messing with the amp!
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I can't remember if I have put this one here before, but here goes
My decks have been in my twin boys' room, untouched (or so I thought) for the past 10 years or so. In lockdown boredom at the weekend, I connected everything together and cleaned off a thick layer of dust.
First record to hand was SUV, but it turns out my styli had both been mullered by kids. Shure M477s. Gutted. I found the spare set I thought I had, and managed to listen and have a mix.
Although the jack for my headphones is MIA so I had to do it by ear, next to the record. 10 yrs without having a mix doesn't do wonders for your beat matching, especially without headphones.
/Csb
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Haha. Like riding a bike though really ennit. After a while off, I found that the beat matching was the first thing to come back, then nailing phrasing without having to really think about it (I’m sure that it could just be luck, but it feels like I’m getting luckier) and the hardest of all I’m finding is just track selection - especially when I’m mixing out of Spotify rather than records, but that feels the best of all to get that right.
Suv is a great producer. Don’t know that one. Love War & Peace.
Damn, shame about the needles. I have many jack adaptors if you happen to be localish (E17) I can shove one through your letterbox on my next ride.
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Yeah, it's a decent event, only went on the Sunday last year though as on the Saturday we took it as meaning - have a party in your garden
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz5QjfEFI3L/?igshid=j2c5uap3v0n5
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Thanks for the offer, I am e10 so nearly neighbours.
Juno came through for me with a jack and two new styli on weds. I might power the decks up again in 2030!
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Ah cheers - I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, they are all on here: https://hearthis.at/theorie/
Anything that says 'Stress Factor' are live online radio recordings from a weekly show I did in around 2007-8, at least I think it was around then anyway.
Those ones will be older sounding hardcore and jungle for the most part. Excuse my lame radio voice - it was a requirement. They're all a bit different, though. This is a good one, if just for the start, as I was playing around with mixing some Prodigy tracks into some pretty classic hardcore/jungle tunes: https://hearthis.at/theorie/theorie-mix-stress-factor-radio-10/
The rest are mixes by sub genre or label, like the Formation one, Ram Records, dark stuff, jump-up, ragga. If you listen for a few tunes you'll get the idea as to whether you'll like the rest or not. The Ram Records ones were really fun. I vividly remember recording the first one and then burning it onto a CD in just enough time to listen to it in my then-girlfriend's mark II Fiesta (that was constantly getting nicked and randomly found on the street - no joke, both in Dulwich and in Dagenham) on a night drive to Brighton to stay with my sister who was in her second year of uni - and a load of mates who were in year three at Sussex. The same trip of which involved some drum and bass thing at Honey Club (?) in arches on the sea front. That must have been around 2003 or 2004. These tunes were already about ten years old then, and are nearly 30 years old now! My brain can't take it.
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I used to love the Honey Club when I lived near Gatwick. Formerly known as the Beachcomber I think.
Concorde2 was alright too. I remember the Valve sound system playing there one night, and the bass cabs made my heart shake when I stood in front of them. Weirdest feeling ever -
I think I went to some Valve thing at Fabric at one point. Ridiculous. What I always found a bit of a let down, though, is that the basslines of the tunes around the time - i.e early 2000s - seemed to often be mid-range chords rather than proper deep sub bass. I always wanted to hear the breakdown on this on a proper system.
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Got me thinking about rough basslines now...
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Loved your ragga in the jungle mix while I cleaned the kitchen today. I’ll work my way through the rest in the next few weeks.
I’ve listened to very little jungle or D&B (I still don’t really know the difference) in the last few years until I heard Nasty Ways by Dilinja at a mate’s house recently and really enjoyed it. Now I can’t get enough.
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Nice! That’s one of my favourite mixes I did. I had a plan for another one and - related to your pick there of Nasty Ways, an all female-vocal jungle mix. In fact, I am going to start pulling all of those out and will share videos in here - will try my best to record the mix during lockdown.
Nasty Ways was huge. You’d probably like all of the Cybotron LP. I Told You How to Rock was massive in the clubs too, but pretty much every track got rinsed. Has aged pretty well, but a lot of the stuff that came after didn’t and still doesn’t do much for me. E.g. Twist ‘Em Out and Fast Car, they’d fall into a subgenre at the time that was disparagingly called ‘clown step’. As for jungle vs drum and bass, I’d say that all jungle is drum and bass, but not all drum and bass is jungle, if that makes sense. There’s always been debate and arguments about what constitutes what and all the naming and pigeonholing of it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass
Here’s the whole LP in one vid:
https://youtu.be/7ICf7ueKqpo
I Told You How to Rock.
https://youtu.be/9KGSdt0JFC0
I’m not getting into bashing these two and clown step in general, especially given that I could post 30 or more essentially perfect Dillinja tracks, but I just don’t get them. They would have worked in the clubs and there was obviously a market for it, it just does nothing for me personally.
Kind of related, I randomly heard a bit of this tune earlier. It is on one of Dillinja’s labels, along with Lemon D. I always loved it and it seems to be cheap, especially compared with Test 2. Atmospheric, futuristic amen rinse out.
Always forget how awesome Test 2 (Hard Noize) is. Prices have gone up and up and never got one. That might have to finally change.
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Here’s a bunch of female vocal tunes I’ve pulled out of the crates. So I’m not having a trainwreck of clashing vocals, I’ll need to mix them up with some that just have ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ and ‘baby’s in them - there are plenty!
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Yessss loving all the posts as normal 👍👍👍.
seeing that Hype reminded me of this
https://youtu.be/wnCiaBsOcYg
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Tune. Hype is such a great producer. Especially with the MCs. Rinse Out, Roll the Beats, Peace Love & Unity. All stand up today.
On that theme, I stumbled across this while looking through records last night and ended listening to it a few times and it’s stuck in my mind.
A bit odd - seems like there are four tunes on one record (this being one of them) that are all exclusives, the other plate is basically a compilation of some big tunes, like Thunder and Bukem’s ‘Music’. I guess the tactic was to try and promote the exclusives off the back of the big tunes. Not sure how well that worked as I’m not sure they’re revered, but there is something about this one. The sort of MC rap sounds very of its time, but I weirdly like it.
I’m going to tap up my mate Ornsman on this for more info - there are a couple of mixes on my page where we go back to back. Haven’t seen him in years and was supposed to be meeting up at the Clash Mouth record fayre in Waterloo this very weekend.
His essay about Lazerdrome in Peckham is well worth anyone’s time: https://www.hardscore.com/articles/lazerdrome/
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While digging for tunes on Saturday I was looking for this and started to shit it that I’d accidentally thrown it out with a mailer, but it had just fallen back on the shelf (csb).
Whole EP is insanely good, but the tune I keep going back to is Make U Feel Better (11:00 in the vid). The way the track builds and progresses and just rolls out. By the time the piano chords kick in, it’s got me going crazy.
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Anyone around when the Jungle was massive in the UK?
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Today's Discogs crate shake. The breakdown of this is incredible. I'd often think of what it would be like to come on with this tune to a big hyped up crowd. Then later comes the piano breakdown! Pure rave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVZcOUya2E4
Other tracks on there are worth checking out. Can't believe how cheap it is.
https://www.discogs.com/Sound-Of-The-Future-Fear-Of-The-Future-EP/release/48873