Various – Brit Hop And Amyl House

i want this. its sick as fuck. dont own it yet.

This mix, in no way, reflects anything remotly close to 'Brit Hop'. If you're interested in real British Hip-hop look at 'Gunshot', Hijack', 'Blade', Silver bULLET', 'London Possie', 'Rodney P', 'Roots Manuver' etc etc....

Cassette seems to be recorded from a CD version with delays between each track. Frustrating to listen to.

Very good mix. Played it to death back in the 90’s - particularly cycling through Spain of all things … h 🤔 💭

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The final flourish with Emmanuel top degenerating into Renegade Soundwave and Bomb the Bass is wicked. Girlfriend won’t have any of it. Says it’s too blokey… allegedly mixed by one half of the Chemical brothers - uncredited on sleeve

Couldn’t ever dance to stuff this slow though - tripped myself up. Maybe that’s why it’s called trip hop 🤭😆

Is the 2x12” mixed or unmixed? It’s probably mixed - of course - apologies in advance.

What's that sound? It's the sound of the death of an Attacking Mutant Camel seeking Revenge!

Uncredited DJ mix by the Chemical Brothers from 1996, containing some of the track combinations they were using in their DJ sets of the time. Whilst the Chemicals' "Live At The Social" mix from the same year is a more sophisticated and eclectic affair, it lacks the big beat thunder of the present mix.

The first half is strong, some tough instrumental hip hop (Sam Sever, Norman Cook) followed by the cream of the nascent big beat scene: Death In Vegas's "Dirt", Lionrock's "Don't Die Foolish", Depth Charge's "Shaolin Buddah Finger", and the Chemicals own funk-rock take on the genre ("Voodoo People" and "Leave Home"), all played at a higher tempo than usual to add to the energy.

Often disparaged for having limited turntable skills, the Chemicals do however show imagination and creativity in their mixing to turn this into more than just a compilation of songs: "The Real Shit" is judiciously rearranged, the Lionrock bassline cleverly matches the riff of the preceding Death In Vegas track, and "Voodoo People" elegantly emerges from "Shaolin Buddah Finger" before disappearing into "Leave Home".

The second half is patchier, with monotonous big beat from Fatboy Slim, tedious acid breaks from Jedi Knights and Josh Winx, and repetitive acid house from Emmanuel Top all devoid of melody. However, the dark dub-house of Leftfield's Renegade Soundwave remix and the Chemicals' own bollock-rocking mix of Bomb The Bass restore the quality towards the end. All in all, a fine distillation of the early big beat scene that the Chemicals did much to create. (8)

A genuine classic Big Beat mix and highly recommended; it features so many great tracks. An equally good Big Beat style mix is The Chemical Brothers Live At The Social Vol 1 mix. Worth checking that out to.

Whilst it has never been officially confirmed, this is of course a DJ mix by Tom Rowlands, one half of The Chemical Brothers. He mixed it for the record label (Concrete, an imprint of Deconstruction) that his girlfriend at the time, Vanessa Rand, was the label manager of ;-)

What a cool mix CD this is. From 1995, and introduced people to the world of the love-it-or-hate-it genre, known as Big Beat, pioneered by the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) and The Prodigy.

This CD dosen't just contain what became later known as "Big Beat", but also some Trip-Hop (The first two tracks, and the last two tracks), Acid (Tracks 11 and 12) and even an early Trance record (Track 13), that also shows the eclectic nature of the Big Beat era.

Unlike the later 1998-2001 Big Beat recordings, where a lot of the sample sources came from 60's Rock and Roll, Soul, Kitsch with 80's Rap, the earlier Big Beat had a very much a BritPop/Indie Rock meets Hip-Hop style, as heard in a lot of the Chemical Brothers and Prodigy's mid 90's work, and also on this CD contains the classic "Dust" Brothers remix of The Prodigy's "Voodoo People", and the Chemical's "Leave Home", Fatboy Slim's first single ("Santa Cruz"), and stuff by Lionrock, Death In Vegas, Wink, Monkey Mafia, Bomb The Bass, Leftfield and more.

It is Mostly well mixed, except for a small hiccup during Track 11, where you can hear Wink being cue-d up, but other than that, it is a very good CD, and great for those who remember Big Beat.

When this album came out I allready was into chemicalbeats music (that's how we called this kind of acid based breakbeatmusic in Netherlands). I gatherd a fair bit of chemicalbeats records but most of the tunes on this album blew them all away and I felt ashamed that I didn't know most of them allready. The album was constantly in my recordbag and I played songs from it wherever I could. I was so crazy about it that I now have almost all of them on original 12"... and they still do the job well! Timeless!