"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
recreativity - the darkcore chapter
two re-takes on the classic Boogie Times Tribe "The Dark Stranger"
from the '93 Remix Project - fan remakes and reproductions of hardcore tunes
following the same approach more or less as Kniteforce man Luna C's reconstructions of ardkore classics - i.e. finding new and cleaner sources for the constitutent samples.... but less tied to exact reproduction
this one is excellent i think...
ah here is Luna C getting the same treatment he dealt out
Takes some steelclad bollocks to risk taking on this sacred text!
done a really good job though
another case of "classic, meet temerity"
rather faithfully treated, that one - bit kidglove. seems to be going for exact reproduction with superclean sample-sources?
ooh gosh, i almost don't want to hear what's been done to this personal ab fav
it's more boppy and bouncy but the atmosphere isn't there - and the diva ain't right. bold effort though. beats get interesting in the middle part.
another Big Tune, taken on
ooh and another personal fave - as featured on the Energy Flash CD
this next a liberal interpretation, not wholly lovable
and the mighty Helicopter Tune, retrofitted
Simon Harris I think having the biggest success rate here overall...
Criminy cripes, there's a project for '92 too
http://soundcloud.com/groups/the-92-project/tracks
have to explore that one on a less busy day...
ooh some ruff 'n' weird bonus beats
While the originals remain untouchable, these remix jobs are way more enjoyable than the classics-remix wave from the 2000s (around 2003,2004 especially)
ReplyDeleteMan I remember downloading shedloads of these "20 Year Anniversary" remixes from SoundCloud many years ago. Some great amateur reworkings and some not so. Interesting fact that the then, very prolific Simon Harris that you featured did an obscure 1992 EP on B-Hive Records, which he was very self depreciative on speaking about on the old forums. I reckon it was great, albeit very lo-fi.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.discogs.com/artist/1031213-Simon-Harris-5