The Introduction to Technology

 

A rare, goes-for-a-lot hardcore EP from '92 that I never heard of or even seen before, until I spied it on the wall at Reckless in Berwick Street last week. 

Toiling Goblins mix - love the title

Appears to be a one-off  - the label's solitary release - with most of its perpetrators having no discernible prior history in music nor indeed any active afterlife.  Apart from this fellow. 

Perhaps all the artist names are just alter-egos for this one person.

I'm sure the bods at Reckless know the going rate for this kind of thing, but on a sonic level I would value this at more like 15 quid than 150 quid. (Discogs has it at a penny cheaper!) 

And I'd much rather have scooped it up for a fiver in '95, back when second-hand 'core was still going cheap and I was scavenging the stuff in bulk. 

(Still have lots of 12's in a box I never got around to listening to, third-div tunes in ugly color-graphic sleeves or generic blank ones, foraged in a frenzy from Music & Video Exchange bargain basements or similar grotshops)

Five quid seems like the right price for a VG quality copy with six fairly generic grist-to-the-deejay-mill-at-that-time type tunes. Five quid - or let's say six, making it an even pound per tune. 

  That said, first rack "Meow-ophone" is amusing with its Charly-says style feline sounds. 

Nice joke with the artist name too - RSPCA. 

And the track comes with a "Whiskas Mix" too.

Track 1½

 

Listening again to this fun  DJ SS track from '92, "Respect to the Following"  - a tribute rollcall to scene luminaries each deemed "hard-core", the word delivered in a sing-songy tone-drone presumably by SS himself - I noticed a little detail on the label. On the first side of the EP, "Respect to the Following" is followed by a brief extension titled "A Little More Respect" -  so brief it is marked not as track 2 but track 1½ !

"A Little More Respect" is not to be found on YouTube, but I had vague memories of hearing it, or a bit of it, in a mix. Sure enough, here it is, at the start of a Mumdance mix. 

Below I have extracted it for a vidclip - it appears to be a composite of the intro to "Respect to the Following" and some unknown portion of a "A Little More Respect". 

YouTube has several postings of "Respect to the Following" 

 

But "A Little More Respect" is disrespected by the ardkore archivists, who clearly regard it as a trifle too trivial for preservation and dissemination. Oddly discriminating, giving the amount of absolute garbage piled up there for posterity. 

Now I have the vinyl of the EP (DJ SS  Breakbeat Pressure Vol. 1) on which these tunes appear but it's stowed in storage far out of my reach. So if anyone happens to have the whole (small) extent of "A Little More Respect" handy and shareable, I would love to hear it. 

Perhaps even release it into the wild. Even a half-a-track deserves its moment. 

Another funny little stubby bit of a 1/2 track - but in this case it is given full status as Track 3 of The Psycho EP

Stop press  - mixologist supreme Selectabwoy comes through with the whole track! I don't think it's much longer than what Mumdance used - here it is, though, for posterity's sake.

new-old-kore

 https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/memories-of-the-parazone-parallax-album-promo-mix

Man like Pearsall he say: 

"On July 1st 2021 my good friend Vali NME Click is dropping the pre-orders for the epic 'Message from the Parazone' on @parallaxrecordings, a monster four disc album featuring the best and brightest artists from the modern breakbeat hardcore / jungle scene. To celebrate this momentous event, Vali asked me to put together a retrospective of the label so far, so I've come up with this mix, which picks out at least one track from each of the releases so far, covering both the old skool re-releases as well as the new skool exclusives. Enjoy!"

taste for the compilation:

https://parallaxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/departure-to-the-parazone

"Eyes to the horizon...it´s getting closer! This is the 12" sampler that will advance the 4x12" 'Message To The Parazone' album to celebrate the 5th birthday and 10th release of Parallax Recordings.

"The 4-tracker gives an insight into what to expect from the album and offers a wide range of styles: It opens with the dark and mystic 170-groover 'Horizons' by ScanOne. It´s followed by the raw, dubby, Amen-led Dead Man´s Chest Remix of 'Rhodiola'. Originally part of the Subaquatic EP by Tim Reaper it was a collabo with dutch Yorobi and is turning heads in various sets at the moment. On the flip InnerCore slaps us with 'Turbo Sound', an alarming ravey Hardcore beast that will make you jump off your seat and bust shapes in your bedroom. The dark lord FX rounds off the EP in his trademark dark style that only he can do so easily. 'Dark Shadows' is a pitch-black monster with racing, relentless Amens and the evilest mentasms. You don´t want to miss this. "

mind explosions

"this is a mind explosion" source =




an it soun ruff

Knightmares On Wax (tune going out to the Man like Phil)

nostalgie de la vitesse

Rinse FM's old skool don Uncle Dugs, while playing Crystal Waters's "Gypsy Woman": "You know what, it’s funny, how much our music changed – within a year of this tune being out, this wouldn’t have fitted in in any of the raves. It's funny isn’t it – music was changing so rapid in these days. Bpms were flying through the roof."

sets adrift on memorE bliss

a treasury of old skool -- Uncle Dugs shows for Rinse FM archived -  including guest sets and chats with hardcore luminaries like 2 Bad Mice, Frost, and Guy Called Gerald.

"Proper oral history" says the Man like Droid.


Particularly enjoyed this one, featuring "lovely bloke" Nicky Blackmarket and themed around 1991 (responding to a request for LFO, Dugs says "Not in the bag mate, that's 1990. Bit of a shtickler I am"), that being the year when Dugs went to his first rave