More recently, tracks like Sc@r's "Epiphany" (Sc@r - Do You Want More), Chaos & Fastraxx's "Let Me See You Dance" (ELEM034) and "Move Your Body" by Sc@r, Uplift & Marie Louise (ELEM035) have been essential. In addition there's a whole set of, as of this moment forthcoming, bangers: Sc@r's "Acid Porn Monkey", the Chaos remix of "Move Your Body", Sc@r & MC Supplier's "London City" and Sc@r's remix of Jimmy J & Cru-L-T's seminal classic "Take Me Away" (Jimmy J & Cru-L-T - Take Me Away / Ool Lortnoc).
"Acid Porn Monkey" deserves a special mention for being one of highlights of 2011. Massive track that has everything you could ever want in a hardcore tune: big acid breakdowns, huuuge breakbeat section in the buildup and a heavy, euphoric drop. I heard it played out by either Sc@r or Uplift, I think, a few weeks back and it certainly scales to epic proportions on a proper rig. I can't wait for the full release.
On a related tangent, I was disappointed with the recent Acid Porn Monkey remix competition (http://www.rawelements.net/news/117). There were a few considerably better entries than Sam B's "generic electrocore b2b original mix with added breakbeat" attempt and, besides, he was one of the higher profile artists to enter. I wouldn't actually care if it hadn't meant that more deserving and less well known artists lost a great opportunity. Oh well, I hope some of the other entrants get a chance to release theirs too and hopefully everyone will put them up for free download eventually anyway. (No, I'm not big on production and I didn't enter so I'm certainly not bitter :P)
Anyway, Raw Elements is one of my favourite UK hardcore labels and with good reason. To see what I mean, just grab a rip of the Sc@r & Uplift mix from earlier this year on Kutski's Radio 1 show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011870p) which kept me up long after I hoped to be in bed and outshone even Technikore's quality mix on the same show.
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More recently, tracks like Sc@r's "Epiphany" (Sc@r - Do You Want More), Chaos & Fastraxx's "Let Me See You Dance" (ELEM034) and "Move Your Body" by Sc@r, Uplift & Marie Louise (ELEM035) have been essential. In addition there's a whole set of, as of this moment forthcoming, bangers: Sc@r's "Acid Porn Monkey", the Chaos remix of "Move Your Body", Sc@r & MC Supplier's "London City" and Sc@r's remix of Jimmy J & Cru-L-T's seminal classic "Take Me Away" (Jimmy J & Cru-L-T - Take Me Away / Ool Lortnoc).
"Acid Porn Monkey" deserves a special mention for being one of highlights of 2011. Massive track that has everything you could ever want in a hardcore tune: big acid breakdowns, huuuge breakbeat section in the buildup and a heavy, euphoric drop. I heard it played out by either Sc@r or Uplift, I think, a few weeks back and it certainly scales to epic proportions on a proper rig. I can't wait for the full release.
On a related tangent, I was disappointed with the recent Acid Porn Monkey remix competition (http://www.rawelements.net/news/117). There were a few considerably better entries than Sam B's "generic electrocore b2b original mix with added breakbeat" attempt and, besides, he was one of the higher profile artists to enter. I wouldn't actually care if it hadn't meant that more deserving and less well known artists lost a great opportunity. Oh well, I hope some of the other entrants get a chance to release theirs too and hopefully everyone will put them up for free download eventually anyway. (No, I'm not big on production and I didn't enter so I'm certainly not bitter :P)
Anyway, Raw Elements is one of my favourite UK hardcore labels and with good reason. To see what I mean, just grab a rip of the Sc@r & Uplift mix from earlier this year on Kutski's Radio 1 show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011870p) which kept me up long after I hoped to be in bed and outshone even Technikore's quality mix on the same show.