1992 120515 The Way I Feel (Short) (320kbps)

Story:
This is not an era mix, this is a style mix. The style is UK 'Ardkore Jungle Music that didn't forget it's roots. Is that even a name for this? Roots Jungle music? Roots Drum and Bass music? I hope no one calls this oldskool because the only oldskool is a one room school house which has nothing to do with music of any kind.

My first exposure to Unit 1 "Love Me" was not from Unit 1 but rather Cause 4 Concern in their unofficial remix in 2001 called "Give it to em" on Renegade Hardware. That tune should have been called Unit 1 "Love Me (Cause 4 Concern 2001 Remix)" but I think they were afriad to call attention to the fact that they sampled a Basement Records tune. The rumor has it that Phil Wells, brother of basement records producer Ron Wells, was happy to go after anyone who sampled or uploaded the basement records back catalog. For this reason I'm assuming this is why Cause 4 Concern decided to call their remix Cause 4 Concern "Give it to em". This is likely the same reason why Dylan Hilsley called his remix of Wax Doctor "Another Direction", "The Enemy" instead of Wax Doctor "Another Direction (Dylan 2001 Remix)". For what it's worth, I actually like Cause 4 Concen's and Dylan's remixes of the two Basement Records better then the originals. At any rate the mix starts off with "Love Me" and is followed by a Steve "Digital" Carr track that I suspect also sampled the riff in Love Me, the same groaning synth is present in "Scandal" as is a more mutilated version of the main "Love Me" riff.

Another interesting tidbit is B-Key "Time Zone". This tune actually uses a sound from Hyper On Experience's "Disturbance". When I got this B-Key record home from the record store the week it came out I noticed this and went digging for my "Disturbance" tango remix. Sure enough, the two were ment to be married to each other. Even more interesting is that the Tango remix of Disturbance has that anolog synth sound from Terrorize "Such a feeling" just as every single Total Science record coming out in 2001 did. Fans new to Drum and Bass who didn't know the history could have been tricked into thinking the Tango remix of HOE's Disturbance was a brand new tune in 2001 and yet its from 1993, how cool is that?

I promissed myself I would make a new mix of Drum and Bass in this roots style since moving my record collection to easy to access Ikea shelving units. This is my second attempt at this mix. My first recording of this was long and maybe even boring. This version gets more to the point and finishes strong with one of the best new 1994 style jungle tracks I've ever heard. It is such a great number that I had to rewind it.

Speaking of rewinds, I started rewinding the last tune in recorded sets recently. I didn't used to like this practice but before I had the ability to record sets in high quality I would often mix and listen to these records in one off instances from 1999 - 2002. If I really liked a tune that I had just picked up from the record shop I would rewind it and listen to it from the beginning. Since I no longer do mix records "for fun" and not record them, I figure why not and recapture that moment of "Wow, I really love this record and I want to hear it from the beginning again because it's just that darn good!"

Good music shouldn't die off and I hope there is a resurgence of early 90s rave music again in the future. I'm quite sick of hearing this ultra polished snore fest dubstep music that's all the rage right now and THAT is the way I feel.





Tracklist:
01). Unit 1 "Love Me" (Creative Wax CW104) 1993
02). Digital "Scandal" (L-Plates 003) 2001
03). Stormtroopers "Mirage" (Penny Black 022) 2001
04). B-Key "Time Zone" (Cylon 006) 2001
05). Hyper On Experience "Disturbance (Tango Rmx)" (Moving Shadow 10.05) 1993-2000
06). DJ Ink & Jake W. "Dance of the Titanium Minds" (ARX008) 2001
07). Undercover Agent (Ellis Dee) "Boarderclash" (Juice 029) 2000
08). Total Science "Anasthsia" (Timeless 025) 2003
09). Tronic 100 "Reachin'" (Renegade 32) 2002
10). Digital "Archive" (Ingredient 041) 2014
11). Dillinja "Got To" (Prototype 004) 199?
12). Total Science "Jet Set" (Advanced 001) 2001 *autographed by both when I saw them in New Jersey*
13). Baron "Hellbilly" (CIA 013) 2003
14). Monkey & Large "Anti-life" (G2 Records 006) 2003
15). Digital "Red Hot" (Function 9622) 2005
16). LTJ Bukem "Music (Technicolor Rework)" (GLR 081W) 1993-2014
17). Total Science "Let it go" (Hospital NHSCS2) 200?
18). High Contrast "If We Ever" (Hospital NHS123) 2007