Mark Skelton (no relation to Les...so they claim haha!) a more technical DJ. I'm officially on a bittersweet Niche Nostalgia-fest...And it's led me to this gem of a tune I've been searching for at about 48:00 I only heard it 3 times in my life 1996-2000, whenever I asked it was "IGA feeling" or more informatively "White label" by "Unknown". I apologize for the sound quality in the others, this ain't bad & the Danny Walker mix sounds great .
Classic anthem by Bruno Sanchioni, â…“ of B.B.E ("7 Days and 1 Week"... which you can very easily tell if you play the 2 back2back)& Giuseppe Chierchia, a guy better known for that much sampled disco tune (the one in "Getting Jiggy With it" and "Don't call me Baby"... Ring a bell? Don't ask how I know that ... just... don't ok? ???).
Classed as *"the first trance tune ever made",* which it pretty much is, from way back in 1990. It sounded great then; great in 1992 when Jam & Spoon 's "Watch out for Stella" remix updated for the millions of new ravers (which I included because many ravers aren't aware that's not the original version), it's been great all the times it's been remixed, whether the old skool or the new versions (the only thing out of sync is the description of THIS Particular "age".
More "the age that needs love".
tracks:
Age of Love
1. Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella Mix
2. Sign of the Times remix.
3. OPM remix
4. Boeng remix
Two bangin hard house & eurotrance remixes of classic rave anthem, + Original Love Decade mix and & flute remix
I know (Unknown Hard 1997 House remix
Original Love Decade mix
"I know '99" Quake Vocal Remake.
"I Know" Flute Remix
This was gonna be last years 25th year anniversary edition of *Dig Your Own Hole,* but I've gone and saved the bonus material (Disc 2), on an unnamed file, among many-a-dozen unmarked freakin' files. So, that may or may not be in the immediate pipeline. Anyhoo, you know the score, the artists formerly known as The Dust Bros, the fathers of "Big Beat" (which Norman Cook seems to get credit for, which tbh I wouldn't be to miffed about, coz UNLIKE the vast majority of that circa '98 cringefest of "Sounds of the Wickedness" Big-beat, Chem Bros tunes are QUALITY! Rock yer Block off....
Block Rockin' Beats 5:13
Dig Your Own Hole 5:27
Elektrobank 8:18
Piku 4:55
Setting Sun 5:27
It Doesn't Matter 6:14
Don't Stop The Rock 4:49
Get Up On It Like This 2:45
Lost In The K-Hole 3:52
Where Do I Begin 6:56
The Private Psychedelic Reel 9:21
Depending on who you ask this or the 2 previous albums were the "First true Ozric Tentacles at max potential". I'd argue that Erpsong & Strangetude are just as good for their age and with what they had to work with (the ones prior were great efforts; but ultimately disjointed and basically demo tapes...even Erpsongs was released twice before it got the reworking it deserved). Strangetude is damn good but *Jurassic Shift,* is as the title more or less implies: A DINOSAUR SIZE SHIFT... In production, in arragement, in writing, synchronicity, in the immaculate arrangement of electronic & instrumental music...Most of all in the final confident delivery & recording which held so much promose of "We're 1 of those bands/musicians/artists/producers you're gonna want to watch out for!".
And they were right (even though it was technically only the voice in my head saying that ?).
Oh yeah this version has a recording of "Feng Shui" on the back to get a taster of how the Ozric's sound performance mode (spoiler alert:
Gucking Food).
Tracklist
Show Credits
1 Sunhair
5:43
2 Stretchy
6:51
3 Feng Shui
10:24
4 Half Light In Thillai
5:35
5 Jurassic Shift
11:04
6 Pteranodon
5:40
7 Train Oasis
2:45
8 Vita Voom
4:47
Bonus Track
9 Feng Shui Live
10:55
Wow! There's some wicked sets on We Are Hardcore podcasts since New Year. I strongly recomend the 1991 Deep Dive Mixes, & the newest Nu Skool show.
This is the best yet though, 1992-1994 was the Golden Age of underground music, especially this stylish hybridized Hardcore/Jungle Breakz, rushfest. Av it!