gabber

1995 gabber documentary

(via blog to the old skool)

blast from the past

literally blasting -- Pearsall with a memorex mix of techstep classics

"here is a group trying to accomplish one thing - to get into the future" - sample on "Amtrak" by Trace + Nico

now, where is that sample from?

first two minutes of this, sublime

rest of it, pretty darn good too

France Joli, "I Wanna Take A Chance On Love", Prelude, 1982 - a David Stubbs Meltdown classic

and here's another

and another

and another

(met Gwen, you know, interviewed her -- never wrote it up, for shame)

and the "title track"

this one i found by myself (well with a little help from barney H and one of his NME singles column)

(yeah put that in yer pipe n smoke it Mr Kirk)

I grew up in Hertfordshire...  and strange to consider, but Herts (long after I'd moved away) was a bit of a hotbed of hardcore. More the Eastern end of the county (Stevenage and Hitchin etc) and the edge-of-London parts like St Albans -- as opposed to the Chilterns-y Western end where I grew up...  So the new town, London overspilly, not-unlike-Essex parts, basically would be where it thrived, logically enough.  But nonetheless, nonetheless: Herts is ardkore....

viz, this FACT TV interview with Herts boys 2 Bad Mice

Chill Records based out of Luton, Moving Shadow out of Stevenage, Omni Trio ran a record store in Hatfield or was it Hitchin or even Hertford itself... Nookie was from Hitchin

Even a pirate station, Perception FM, in Luton...