halloween beats -- nu-darkcore and horror garage

8205 Recordings and Back To the Old Skool blog present Darkside Compilation 2014  -  selection of tru-nu productions inna 93 stylee



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Jack Law aka Corpsey aka Dirtnap's piece on spooky and scary UK garage tracks (fueled partly by suggestions from a Dissensus thread)

I would have nominated this one, not strictly horror movie based, but well creepy -






That's Tracy Chapman, sampled - singing about hearing spouse-battery through the apartment walls - and failing to do anything about it, until too late.

nu tru bonanza - neojunglizm + retrojunglizm from Kloke to Rumbleton

Project Squared / Sub Squared label founder Paul Cooper drops a tasty mix of "new old" jungle tracks from the last few years. One of them is off Kloke's forthcoming "First Light" EP on Sub Squared. 

Tracklist 
01 Lee Gamble - Pandemonium Institute (Pan, 2013)

02 Hate - Darkcore (Hate, 2008)

03 Pearson Sound - Crimson (Beat Ritual Mix) (Hessle Audio, 2013)

04 Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me (Hessle Audio, 2010)

05 Pearson Sound - Blanked (Hessle Audio, 2010)

06 Shed - Fluid 67 (50Weapons, 2013)

07 Tessela - Nancy's Pantry (R&S, 2013)

08 Pev - Aztec Chant (Livity Sound, 2013)

09 Perc - Take Your Body Off (Tessela Remix) (Perc Trax, 2014)

10 Hate - Cunning Love (Hate, 2008)

11 Etch - Lost Methods (Keysound, 2013)

12 Andrea – You Still Got Me (Daphne, 2010)

13 Millie & Andrea – Ever Since You Came Down (Daphne, 2009)

14 SW. - Reminder (Burriddim Mix By DJ Sotofett) (SUED, 2013)

15 Anodyne - At The Gates Of Hell (Yellow Machines, 2014)

16 Hate - Submariner (Hate, 2009)

17 Sully - Blue (Logos Vapour Dub)(Keysound, 2014)

18 Kloke - Space & Time (Sub Squared, forthcoming late 2014)

Cooper's mix reminded me that Droid had pointed me towards a bunch of superior examples of the "tru nu" / rinse-retro-replica style, commenting that in his view "there is still a huge amount of potential in the jungle sound which hasn't been explored, potential that's there because of the massive amount of rhythmic and stylistic diversity of 93-95, which was shut down quite early - I see both amen and two-step as forms of consolidation."

Many of the producers deliberately revert to using old fashioned hardware - Akai, Amiga etc - to get the right vibe. 

What follows is a mega selection of wicked timewarp tunes, with Droid's comments in quotes.

"There's Ricky of course, who despite his amen addiction is still putting out great tunes in a metalheadz 96/97 kinda vibe"

"Dwarde is one of the Akai guys. Pretty young, but been around the scene for years. Hes got a great sensibility and ear. Reminds me a bit of the early Lucky Spin sound"

"Squatski/Phineus 2. Really high hopes for him. Another Akai/hardware dude."

"Some interesting stuff from the Amiga Akai YT crew"






"Dwarde put me onto this guy. [Earl Grey] Very diverse sound to his stuff"

"Reactiv - again, its more jungly d+B, but the quality shines through. Nebula along similar lines, both from the Sci-Wax stable."

"This guy [Anthony D] is all hardware and does some nice jungle and electronica crossover stuff. Really nice feel to his stuff"

And a couple more suggestions from Droid

Tim Reaper

And the splendidly named Rumbleton

breaksdown

a breakbeat breakdown



not sure if actually being able to identify them in tracks  is going to actually intensify my enjoyment of those tracks

but a good 32, 33 of them were as familiar to me as the face of old friend

more in-depth breakdown of jungle and drum + bass breaks, with the original creators identified and a famous example of a jungle/D+B track that used it, plus other specifications

[tip off from Droid]

mystery Moving Shadow act

Dem who?