"ardcore? are you sure?"

ad for Music Power Records, Haringey!

and the full ad break from Pulse FM June 28th 1992 (half way through Adrian H & MJ)

via Deep Inside the Oldskool, which has the whole Adrian H & MJ set

also
via this cache of pirate tapes (c/o Mikus Musik)
a Pulse FM show by Chris Simon who co-ran Music Power Records

even more Pulse-ating power

rufige

sometimes think this is the greatest hardcore track of all time - dark, blissy, dubby, delirious



knew one of its sources was this excellent Sweet Exorcist album track



did not know another was this





also seems unlikely there is an EP that's better than that Rufige 4-tracker










mind you the Metalheads EP with "Terminator", "Knowledge", "Sinister" and "Kemistry" is pretty fucking stunning

the best three in a row in all of H-core? Darkrider EP, Terminator EP, Angel

the only ones close are Foul Play (Vol. 2, Finest Illusion, Vol.3) and Omni (Mystic Stepper, Renegade Snares, Vol. 4)

slaves

trope reached earlier (1991) than the famous and supreme example (1995)




other notable nuum slaves





bit of Grace there via the musique concrete-y psycho-acapella track on the Slave to the Rhythm album






have i ever heard this super long 12 inch version of 'Slave to the Rhythm'? I'm really not sure



any more notable "slaves" in the rave-dance-disco-house realm?


postscript 8/14 

Ian S in Comments points out these examples:







he mentions a "slave" thematic to this but I can't hear it

mashing up history

check the slogan on the label of this version of the original Jem 77 tune -
"Proper Bloodclaart Pirate Radio Bizness"




this other recent Rave 2 the Grave tune is better than the Jem 77/Cubic 22 one I think



of course there were tracks that were effectively mash-ups  -  aka rip-offs - happening in real-time back in the old skool days. i can't think of any examples off the top, but there were quite a few that were composites of existing killer tunes.

This Mickeybeam75 chappie is slinging this kind of thing up there, along with a lot of high-quality uploads of original-era tunes

this one - not a mash up but a new-old tune -  is quite devastating, beats and bass-wise. really like it




Here's the whole Wetman  EP on Vivid



Funny title

This is an earlier EP by Wetman