the story of Goldie never ceases to amaze me

the story of what he did after this

and

the story of what he did and what happened to him before this

but in the end


this --and this and this and this and this -- and this and this and this and this -- are the Apex

even if only a relative few -- the "those who know" cru -- will ever hear them

hell, it's more of a legacy than almost any of us will achieve

digging-in-the-crates photoblog Dust & Grooves inspects the amazing record collection of deejay DB of NASA/Sm:)e/Breakbeat Science fame

this shit really is the son of ardkore

or grandson

like 93 darkside fueled by DMT rather than bad E

(via found objects)

labrynth footage

fragments of a night in what i'm guessing is 93

for full E-ffect of being there, click play for all 9 segments simultaneously




















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another night from a year later

late 94, by this point it had gone happy hardcore










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agree with that sentiment

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this one before my time, before Labrynth settled at the Four Aces in Dalston, when it was a peripatetic warehouse rave.

in 89 i was too busy listening to the bleedin' telescopes and stuff like that





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during 92-95 went to Bagleys a bunch of times but never to a Labrynth rave there i don't think, at one point the parties were called Double Dipped I think







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Tasco Warehouse?!?!









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never got to the Roller Express



or Innersense at the Lazerdrome

if only this were a real coffee table book!

the cover art of Reinforced Records

the record sleeves start out thrillingly stark and aberrant, get more fussed-over and convoluted, and then start to look pretty putrid

mirroring, i suspect

a/ technological advances

b/ what was happening with the music


(via blue lines revisited)