From Jeffrey Burk Sent Thu, Nov 12th 1998, 00:46
A number of favorite titles in my record collection are from the early breakbeat/hardcore era including labels like Chill, Kickin' and Moving Shadow. I will include some artist info (doing it from memory). Moving Shadow. A number of the Moving Shadow titles were definitely way ahead of their time with a mixture of great breaks, storming builds and (especially on the MS label) those trademark krazy accelerated voice samples. Various artists on MS include: 2 Bad Mice, Blame, Cosmo & Dibs, Kaotic Chemistry, DJ Trax, Mashed, Mixrace, Tonedef. Chill. If you want to go further back to the roots of acid/breakbeat/hardcore try to find records put out on the Chill label ca. 1991. Various artists on Chill include: Dr. Caligari, NRG (had a slew of anthems including The Real Hardcore, The Terminator), Return of the Living Acid, Rotor. Pitched up a little bit you can find the same sort of pleasure in these records to this day. Early Chill output (TUV001 - TUV020) has an early hardcore acid sound which is stylistically different than the later Chill releases (>TUV020) which one record I can think by Incubus - The Siren is about 200 bpm+ rumbling and screaming fast acid. Not the kind of stuff you listen to every day. Kickin'. Kickin' put out a number of records called "Six Packs", 3/3 tracks, that are interesting. One of them I have has a <horrible> sped up Fleetwood Mac sample but from what I remember the rest of the records content redeems itself. Various artists on Kickin' included: The Scientist, The Messiah (whose 'There is No Law' - rap edit is a great track) and many others I can't think of right now. Jeffrey. >Anyone else >getting back into that not-quite-rave, not-quite-jungle hardcore on early >Suburban Base, Moving Shadow and Reinforced? Thoughts? Additional >listening suggestions? > >.John.