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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (36 ratings)

Soul II Soul - Back To Life - 10-Feb-09 03:26 PM
"Biology" warehouse party early 1989 ,the sun has started to rise,
Grooverider has played his set and Cutmaster Jay is in full effect.
Suddenly the music stops and Jarvis (Cutmaster Jay) starts ranting on the mic
(which he was quite prone to do) ,a few good natured heckles and jeers are aimed at him.
He continues on undettered and moments later drops this tune,
the effect was devestating ,within seconds the whole party was rocking ,going crazy
to the sounds of Soul II Soul.I am not exaggerating but it got at least two rewinds.
A fantastic record from an amazing era,thanks to The Biology crew for some wicked times.

Johnny M.C. / Huggy G. Jam - Uno Get Rough / It's Going Off - 09-Feb-09 03:19 PM
I bought this record from the now defunct "City Sounds" of WC1 around 1990-92.
I cant remember the date exactly but as one of my pals graffitied the cover one
night after "Rage",this narrows the year down to about then.
I never had any ideas about the artist ,title or label and only recently refound it
in a long abandoned box ,after playing it again i was still clueless !
After thirty minutes of trying to decipher the shouts on the rap,i played the record at -8
and caught enough details to stick in a search.
Bingo , there it was !
All the titles made sense to the lyrics,i now knew the names but i still had never heard of them !
And there you have it ,an obscure,very ruff UK hip hop ep ,very bass heavy and rare as Fuck !

Ragga Twins, The - Ragga Trip / Hooligan 69 - 03-Feb-09 03:36 PM
Sometimes you find a tune and then your jaw drops as you see that no one has bothered reviewing it.

Hooligan 69 for me pretty much symbolises the start of Hardcore,a noticable change in the style and
attitudes of the clubbers at the time,from the loved up ,im your best mate friendly days to a much more sinister ,
coked up darker side.

The bass line is still one of the most amazing i think i have ever heard,it mashes up every dance floor ,causing chaos and destruction !
Prince is heavily sampled and why not,he had nt made a decent tune for a while and then the vocals,probably the most
known bit of MCing since Smiley Culture hit the charts !
A truely outstanding and groundbreaking fusion of Bass and Beats.

Big up Shut Up And Dance and also The Blapps Posse,the originators of a long lasting scene.

Judge Dread - 40 Big One's - 02-Feb-09 02:41 PM
Judge Dread was a seventies and eighties icon to many a mod,skin or rude boy.
Unlike the ridiculous Mega City One Judge from the comic book 2000AD,
the real Judge heralded from Kent.
Immortalising places such as Snodland with his imaginative and witty rhymes,
managing to talk himself out of tight spots and always trying to pull a bird
often with disasterous results,the man was a genius.

Judge Dread died on stage performing,this album contains 40 of his best songs,
check it out ,its made me laugh for almost thirty years.
Reggae from Kent "The Garden of England".

Judge Dread rest in peace.

Dave Charlesworth - Energizer 2 - 01-Feb-09 12:57 PM
This is by far my favourite hardcore record of all time, sampling all and sundry ,energetic ,driving ,demonic .
I have just pulled it out of a box and given it a spin for the first time in about fifteen years,
its like meeting an old friend ,fucking fantastic !
Crackles along ,need to clean it really but cant take it off the decks because it finishes off with cut002 ,why have i left you for so long ?
I will have to play the other three now !

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