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Member Since: Jun 21, 2006 Rank: 65 Average Vote Received: Needs Minor Changes (3.00, 1 votes) Rated 60 releases, average: 4.22 Location: Cambridgeshire Profile: DJMK1 @ Marks Trax Started DJ’ing in Southampton at the age of 14, did quite a bit in and around that area over the next 10 years or so before concentrating on a different career path, (Mainly because I wasn’t very good). I worked briefly in T2 and the Sound City record shops in Southampton,and flirted with music production for a while, although never really got anywhere near releasing anything! I played a range of different styles starting during the early rave scene and played a lot of Belgian Techno, followed by several years of Drum and Bass then on to Hard House and Trance. Always loved Breaks, and always loved Acid, my favourite producers include Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland, Frank De Wulf,Doc Scott, Roni Size, Andy C and more recently Tiesto and Ferry Corsten. Favourite Labels are R&S, Edge, Rabbit City, Pulse 8, Reinforced, Suburban Base, Nebula and far to many others. I just collect now, and try and do a bit of buying and selling when I can. I think my all time favourite place to be is a car boot sale with my nose in a box of vinyl hunting classics… | |
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MC Duke - I'm Riffin' (English Rasta) - 27-May-07 04:55 PM
This is probebly MC Dukes finest track, and most instantly recognisable. Maybe not for the actual record itself but mainly because the accapella was sampled to death during the early 90's most noteably by the Criminal Minds on Baptised by Dub "Cant beat the system, go with the flow". Various other snipets appeard on tracks right through the 90's. Smokin' Beats was also a well used break in the same period. This is well worth tracking down as a little piece of history of the UK breakbet scene.
In My Head - Shine Your Light - 15-Apr-07 08:31 PM
This is really underated little Gem. Back in 92 this wasn't really being played out all that much by the hardcore jocks, but it didnt half have an impact when it did. The production is superb for the time, there is a good blend synth and sample and a catchy vocal to boot. The mixes are all fairly similar but I usually played the mental mix, which has harder break patterns but retains the essence of the track.
All in all a great little track.
Doc Scott
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Rufige Kru - VIP Drumz / VIP Riders Ghost (The Origin) - 07-Apr-07 12:53 PM
This record is essentially a re-release of a previous 12" called Un-Released Metal (MH-001)released in 1994, which kicked off the lable "Metal Headz" VIP Riders Ghost is a remix of Ghosts of my life that was on the Ghosts EP on Reinforced and VIP Drumz is a remix of Nasty Habits "Here coms the Drums" on the Nasty as i wanna be EP. The strange thing about this 12" is that VIP Drumz is about -6 in speed on the 94 release and VIP Riders Ghost is +6 in speed on the 94 release. very odd really!!
DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer - You Are The One / Let's Do It - 18-Feb-07 01:34 PM
“You Are The One” samples Degrees of Motion - "Shine On" and “Lets Do It” is a mash up of Carl Cox’s Success In Effect, Electric Choc, Shock The Beat and vocals from Darryl Pandy Love Cant Turn Around.
The samples are all of a really poor quality sample rate, and most are poorly edited, with overruns and non looping loops. Really low quality production which was endemic of the type of breakbeat hardcore being produced at the time. Cheap quick easy rip offs of older dance tracks, even stuff that hadn’t been out very long was getting ripped off regularly.
I heard “You are the one” played in Kavos at a beech bar played at 33 RPM, the DJ was convinced that that was the speed and wouldn’t take it from me or anyone else that it wasn’t a remix of the Degrees record but a blatant rip off…caused a huge argument and almost a punch up!
Sci-Clone - Melt / O.D. - 17-Oct-06 12:35 AM
This is one of my favorite D tracks of all time. I never really got the whole Jazzy Jungle thing, but this is an absolute classic track, and sounds l;ike the soundtrack to some cool late 60's early 70's cop film, dirty harry or something like that. the instruments are so real, like a session band have come in and played a 5 piece combo jazz thing with a cool Break and Bassline rumbling on behind. In truth one of the two producers of the Track (Nathan Haines) plays the Sax, Alto and flute and the rest is synthesised. He is obviously very talented musician and that really comes accross in the arrangement. I still never got into Jazz d but I did love playing this as an opener to a much harder set.
