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Stumbled across this obscure thing yesterday and quickly snapped it up. Surprised it isn’t sold out already.
Never heard of the tune before, but I love the artist.
*Well known for their back-in-the-day classic "Darker Side of Evil", "Spice" is a bad slice of 94 jungle with choppy timestretched breaks and classic "Dune" samples. Originally lost to the ages (no DATS exist), a dubplate was discovered in 2012 in a hole in a wall behind a kitchen sink, where it had sat out of its sleeve on top of a pile of other dubs for 18 years. Because of those conditions, the plate was in terrible shape, crackly to the point of being unsalvageable. Despite this fact, the tune itself was a personal favorite at the time (posted on blog to the oldskool), and was something I'd hoped to release if a better quality copy ever turned up.
Fast forward to 2016: A second copy of "Spice" did show up, this time stashed in someone's china cabinet (“wrong type of ‘plate’...”). This copy was in much better shape, almost unplayed. Both dubs were shipped to a UK specialist who spent time restoring them, before sending them to another specialist to continue the work. In the end, the difference is like night and day: "Spice" sounds dynamic and fresh, with nary a click, crackle or pop. On the flip, "Ruffneck Murderer" is almost as clean - a rude little number with warp bass, toasting and "Goodfellas" samples.
After all this time, and all the work from multiple restoration specialists, we're proud to finally bring you these two long lost Mega City 2 tunes.*
http://8205.bandcamp.com/album/mega-city-2-spice
Hopefully some of the back catalogue gets repressed, although sucks the DATs are gone.
https://youtu.be/zMnvb7Lw-BA