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Mr E, Dillinja & Clarky - Steelers Anthem (1994)

Sidenote : "Clarky" here is the same Clarky who worked and DJ'd with Nicky Blackmarket and Ray Keith at Black Market Records in this exact period we're talking about. Any body who went there (along with MASH and Unity round the corner) will never forget the acoustic foam they had set up in the tiny basement, people dancing, requesting, chatting..it was basically the same as being in a club minus the lasers. Those to me personally were the best days for Drum & Bass: 92'-'96.


 
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Fallen Angels : Hello Lover - DJ Trace Remix (1994)

@AutoTripper I just know you gonna like the percussion.

"Hello Lover" sample from the film "The Evil Dead 2" (1987)

 
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Sergeant Absent said:
Mr E, Dillinja & Clarky - Steelers Anthem (1994)

Sidenote : "Clarky" here is the same Clarky who worked and DJ'd with Nicky Blackmarket and Ray Keith at Black Market Records in this exact period we're talking about. Any body who went there (along with MASH and Unity round the corner) will never forget the acoustic foam they had set up in the tiny basement, people dancing, requesting, chatting..it was basically the same as being in a club minus the lasers. Those to me personally were the best days for Drum & Bass: 92'-'96.


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I don't recall this one! This was my era too, the incredible thing about it, such a vault and cave of timeless classic gold to mine.

With DnB, it shone primely IN 96 just about before very quickly becoming nearly purely generic.

I have a double CD, bought fir cheap in charity shop before university in 1999.

The Promised Land Volune two.

I've never heard a compilation like it. It's crystal, Fokus tracks etc etc, best, mellowest, jazziest.

But as CD, it's like tuning right out of this reality.

It's hard to get now too. 50£ if you're lucky.

Volume one not a patch. LTJ Bukem with Conrad EgoCing over it, kills each awesom track CD1.

Including...(this is good. Way better musically for example than Warpdrive IMO but ymmv lol) I liked your track I replied to.

 
AutoTripper said:
I don't recall this one! This was my era too, the incredible thing about it, such a vault and cave of timeless classic gold to mine.

With DnB, it shone primely IN 96 just about before very quickly becoming nearly purely generic.

I have a double CD, bought fir cheap in charity shop before university in 1999.

The Promised Land Volune two.

I've never heard a compilation like it. It's crystal, Fokus tracks etc etc, best, mellowest, jazziest.

But as CD, it's like tuning right out of this reality.

It's hard to get now too. 50£ if you're lucky.

Volume one not a patch. LTJ Bukem with Conrad EgoCing over it, kills each awesom track CD1.

Including...(this is good. Way better musically for example than Warpdrive IMO but ymmv lol) I liked your track I replied to.

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I would say it shone 92-95, and of course some were a little generic with the amen (every crystl track used amen), but actually I think a lot of imagination and creativity went into those 92-95 tracks too, experimentation, exploration and intuition of the tech they had and the track writing abilities of Cubase and Apple magic...plus I was never bored of dark-side amen tracks I used to buzz off them. Then when it started fading into "intelligence" "tech-step" and obviously "UK garage" was coming along nicely and the whole thing, with some exceptions, basically went commercial/mainstream. That happened in 1996 onwards and that's when not only did I stop listening to it, or travelling round London and Essex (SubBase) to buy vinyl I also sold all the records I'd bought over 5 years as well to buy drugs. I didn't actually buy D&B CD's, I probably should have I might have some left today.
 
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AutoTripper said:
I don't recall this one! This was my era too, the incredible thing about it, such a vault and cave of timeless classic gold to mine.

With DnB, it shone primely IN 96 just about before very quickly becoming nearly purely generic.

I have a double CD, bought fir cheap in charity shop before university in 1999.

The Promised Land Volune two.

I've never heard a compilation like it. It's crystal, Fokus tracks etc etc, best, mellowest, jazziest.

But as CD, it's like tuning right out of this reality.

It's hard to get now too. 50£ if you're lucky.

Volume one not a patch. LTJ Bukem with Conrad EgoCing over it, kills each awesom track CD1.

Including...(this is good. Way better musically for example than Warpdrive IMO but ymmv lol) I liked your track I replied to.

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I also went to university to study sound engineering ( this was straight after my 2nd rehab) and I managed to complete it. But what I took from it was they had a sund synthesis module for 3 months of the 4 year course. So I left there with an interest, and this shifted my focus onto sound design, I at some point in the mid 90's I was in touch with what felt to me like more underground house (Sasha Digweed renaissance, and also Goa trance labels Platypus being a prime example) and so over time my electronic musical interests are those which involve a lot of creative sound design like forest Psychedelic trance (Atriohm and Krapul) some of the sound design is out of this world in such complex track arrangement too. So that's where my path kind of changed..
 
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ageingpartyfiend said:
great little docu. from your peak jungle years @Sergeant Absent

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Nice mate, nice. there was a 10 year anniversary one on the other day from 2012 about repetitive beats and the body, which there's obviously something to. But I had to turn the tv off because the music examples they using were so cheesey, assuming and almost patronising I couldn't take the embarrasment that people were watching it and thinking Armin Van Burren or David Guetta represent modern dance music, or full-on/progressive psychedelic trance is so emotionally intense, to me that's just a fucking insult to people who are in the game but don't slice up cheese for their speaker.
 
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AutoTripper said:
I don't recall this one! This was my era too, the incredible thing about it, such a vault and cave of timeless classic gold to mine.

With DnB, it shone primely IN 96 just about before very quickly becoming nearly purely generic.

I have a double CD, bought fir cheap in charity shop before university in 1999.

The Promised Land Volune two.

I've never heard a compilation like it. It's crystal, Fokus tracks etc etc, best, mellowest, jazziest.

But as CD, it's like tuning right out of this reality.

It's hard to get now too. 50£ if you're lucky.

Volume one not a patch. LTJ Bukem with Conrad EgoCing over it, kills each awesom track CD1.

Including...(this is good. Way better musically for example than Warpdrive IMO but ymmv lol) I liked your track I replied to.

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See that track there for example, the one you time-stamped at 4 mins and something...sorry but this is when I started finding it boring. Kind of jazzo/intelligo background music while you're changing the fish-tank water know what I mean? D&B made me buzz from day 1, and now if it don't buzz me...it aint going on. Only my opinion of course, I'm glad you love the nostalgia and music you used to love you still love now, this is the main thing going down.
 
Sergeant Absent said:
See that track there for example, the one you time-stamped at 4 mins and something...sorry but this is when I started finding it boring. Kind of jazzo/intelligo background music while you're changing the fish-tank water know what I mean? D&B made me buzz from day 1, and now if it don't buzz me...it aint going on. Only my opinion of course, I'm glad you love the nostalgia and music you used to love you still love now, this is the main thing going down.
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I actually know what you mean.

This track does appear on a cd full of this exact tyoe of shite basically you rightly critically allure to IMO.

I agree. Except this one on a wicked high qual steroe lazy Sinday well stoned. I learnt to like it. On occasion.

So. Better ones, I feel.

I've always battled to feel this is not about the K hole too



This is unique. I saw it as breakbeat oldschool happy. But it fits between. Wicked tune.



I liked this too. Maybe it's dark trippyness.

 
Sergeant Absent said:
I would say it shone 92-95, and of course some were a little generic with the amen (every crystl track used amen), but actually I think a lot of imagination and creativity went into those 92-95 tracks too, experimentation, exploration and intuition of the the tech they had and the track writing abilities of cubse and apple magic...plus I was never bored of dark-side amen tracks).Then when it started fading into "intelligence" "tech-step" and obviously "UK garage" was coming along nicely and the whole thing, with some exceptions, basically went commercial/mainstream. That happened in 1996 onwards and that's when not only did I stop listening to it, or travelling round London and Essex (SubBase) to buy vinyl I also sold all the records I'd bought over 5 years as well to buy drugs. I didn't actually buy D&B CD's, I probably should have I might have some left today.
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I agree, it evolved from hardcore to jungle to happy hardcore in '96 the latter is utter tosh imo
 
AutoTripper said:
I actually know what you mean.

This track does appear on a cd full of this exact tyoe of shite basically you rightly critically allure to IMO.

I agree. Except this one on a wicked high qual steroe lazy Sinday well stoned. I learnt to like it. On occasion.

So. Better ones, I feel.

I've always battled to feel this is not about the K hole too



This is unique. I saw it as breakbeat oldschool happy. But it fits between. Wicked tune.



I liked this too. Maybe it's dark trippyness.

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I was gonna put the scottie one up haha couldn't remember if the original was better or not.

I bought hundreds and hundreds of records that were top tracks at the time and the whole lot went, you'd think I'd at least be able to put a track name to how it sounds but nope, memories bad mate. Just getting old.
Arnold said:
I agree, it evolved from hardcore to jungle to happy hardcore in '96 the latter is utter tosh imo
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The buzz stopped inside me, I got bored with it, I was already happily messing with different drugs but the music I loved had fucked up to huge levels, quite a few things stsrted changing round me then as it goes,
 


I bought this for 3.99 from Lucky Spin records in Chelsea, after playing it at home it got frisbee'd out of my bedroom window.There's now one for sale on Discogs for for £199.99, I'm not looking any more up fuck this.
 
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