Lazy Sundays: Howie B – Turn The Dark Off
Glasgow born producer Howie B has a list of production credits that place him behind the desk for some of the world’s biggest acts. His finest moment for me however was debut album “Turn The Dark Off”. Howie B – Fizzy In My Mouth / Your Mouth It’s a brilliant piece of work that managed [...]
4 Hero – Mr Kirk’s Nightmare
We’ve previously covered 4 Hero’s downtempo material in the Classics section of the site and today we’re taking a trip back to 1991 with this breakbeat classic from the duo. Kicking off with the creepy “your son is dead” sample and throwing ravey stabs over some classic breaks and a big truck full of sub [...]
Kid Unknown – Nightmare
Today’s classic sees us dive into the Warp back catalogue for this monster breakbeat number from Kid Unknown, released in 1992. Taking an Ice-T sample and chucking it into the mix alongside big doomy strings, a couple of classic breaks and a catchy bass hook, for me this is one of the standout tracks from [...]
Cloud 9 – You Got Me Burnin’
Today’s classic sees us wander into the back catalogue of perhaps the finest label to have ever graced drum n bass – Moving Shadow. Originally released in 1993, this track samples the sadly recently passed away Loleatta Holloway and throws her vocals into a hefty mix of chunky breakbeats, bendy sub bass and rave stabs [...]
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – How Far (The 2 Bears rmx) – free download
The 2 Bears (Raf Rundell and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard) recently turned The View’s “Friend” into an uplifting slice of house, no small task given the original. This wonderful feat of remixing further carved the bears into our psyche following their fantastic “Curious Nature EP” so we were delighted to hear they’d be taking on [...]
Acen – Trip II The Moon (Kaleidoscopiklimax)
We’re going in with some rave breakbeat goodness on today’s Friday Classic from Acen. This is one of my all time favourites and still never fails to bring a shiver to my spine on each listen. There were three versions of the track and the stand out version for me was Pt3 – the Kaleidoscopiklimax. [...]
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Blood Pressure Featuring Riko
The Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs really impressed us with their cracking remix of Wafa’s “Ewid Disco” and this brilliant chunk of wonkey/fidgety type goodness from their “All In Two Sixty Dancehalls EP” is a bit of a monster. Riko’s ragga-tastic vocals compliment a big chunky bassline, choppy old skool breaks and rave stabs, it’s got [...]
The Art of Noise – Instruments of Darkness (The Prodigy rmx)
I was a huge fan of The Prodigy back in The Experience days (and still am to this day) and for years I’d been told that I should really check out The Art of Noise. The Fon Mixes album then landed in my lap in late 91 and I immediately headed straight for the Prodigy [...]
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Breakage rmx) – free download
The Fat Club gave away this brilliant Breakage remix of Massive Attack today so we thought we’d share the love. Standing out as one of the best moments from the new album “Heligoland”, Breakage has done a rather fine job on the remix. It’s a bit dubsteppy it’s a bit housey it’s a bit good [...]
