Manix mix of reinforced golden era classics plus news of forthcoming manix lp in a "new old" style, two tracks from which appear in the mix:

"I wanted to mark our 20th year as a label with a special release so originally I was gonna do a 4 track EP but as I got into doing it the memories inspired a 12 track album. I dug out the Akia S950 sampler, my Atari ST1040 and a box of old breaks and focused on the real feel good factor, the 150BPM hardcore/rave sound of Reinforced and Manix. I also did two tracks inspired by the earlier Chicago house sound"



[this is actually the later - 94? - remix on Enforcers vol something or other - done by rufige cru i i rc]

two contenders for the "when i was a yout" source:



now that one has the melody alright, but this one has "the when i was a yout i used to bun collie weed in a rizzla" bit (coming in quite late in the song, around the 3 minute 10 second mark)



cheers to john eden, ed torpey and craig allen for droppin knowledge

as for the jungalistic hardcore tune that sampled it, various contenders here --
Nu-Matic's "Hard Times", Prodigy's "Fire", A-Sides's "Burn Cali Weed", but I think this one, Order 2 Move, "Rizla Bass" on the Boogie Beat label is the one I'm thinking of, although in my memory it's more skanky 'n' rootical and less rushy (perhaps a different, later remix?)

from retro-rave to jungle-nostalgia



tip courtesy Matos

now which roots reggae classic does that "when I was a yout'" bit come from? Something about "smoke collie weed inna" something or other. Lynval Thompson? And what was the early jungle tune based around a sample of it?

"this geezer's a nutter i'm telling ya"

FMB Crew on Lightning FM February 12 1993

part one

part two

part three

part four aka THE WARM UP

part five aka THE MADNESS

(part five as partially transcribed in the pirate radio chapter of Energy Flash)

"crispy like a crouton"