Chapter Ten
Roots ’n Future
14 records, in the order the book names them
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001
Original Nuttah
UK Apachi
UK Apachi, man of the moment with his Top Forty cracking ‘Original Nuttah’ seems to be doing PAs at most of them; we see him perform at least three times.
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002
Renegade Snares
Omni Trio
In Omni Trio’s classic ‘Renegade Snares’, the snare tattoo is the mnemonic, even more than the three-note, one-finger piano motif.
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003
Rush In The House
Xenophobia
Until mid-1992, the bassline in hardcore generally followed the 140 b.p.m.; on tracks like Xenophobia’s ‘Rush In The House’, the effect was as jittery as a shrew on the verge of a coronary, or, more to the point, a raver’s heartbeat after necking three E’s.
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004
Thunder Grip
Hyper-On Experience
On tracks like Hyper-On Experience’s ‘Thunder Grip’, like DJ Trax’s ‘Infinite Hype’ and ‘We Rock The Most’, breakbeats swerve and skid like the automobiles in Penelope Pitstop; melody-shrapnel whizzes hither and thither; every cranny of the mix is infested with hiccupping vocal-shards and rap chants sped up to sound like pixies.
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005
Infinite Hype
DJ Trax
On tracks like Hyper-On Experience’s ‘Thunder Grip’, like DJ Trax’s ‘Infinite Hype’ and ‘We Rock The Most’, breakbeats swerve and skid like the automobiles in Penelope Pitstop; melody-shrapnel whizzes hither and thither; every cranny of the mix is infested with hiccupping vocal-shards and rap chants sped up to sound like pixies.
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We Rock The Most
DJ Trax
On tracks like Hyper-On Experience’s ‘Thunder Grip’, like DJ Trax’s ‘Infinite Hype’ and ‘We Rock The Most’, breakbeats swerve and skid like the automobiles in Penelope Pitstop; melody-shrapnel whizzes hither and thither; every cranny of the mix is infested with hiccupping vocal-shards and rap chants sped up to sound like pixies.
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007
Music Takes You
Blame
Danny Breaks christened this ’ardkore sub-genre ‘scratchadelic’; a classic example is 2 Bad Mice’s remix of Blame’s ‘Music Takes You’, where a squelchy scratch-riff slots right next to the Morse Code keyboard-stab, piano-vamps and staccato blasts of hypergasmic diva (which sound like Minnie Mouse in the throes of coitus).
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008
Gangsta Kid
Shy FX
Shy FX’s ‘Original Nuttah’ and ‘Gangsta Kid’ both hijacked Ray Liotta monologues from Goodfellas: ‘as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangsta’; ‘Organized Crime’ by Naz Aka Naz sampled the sombre theme from The Godfather.
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009
Champion of Champions
Family Of Intelligence
Most chilling of the lot had to be Family Of Intelligence’s ‘Champion of Champions’: mid-track, the rhythm halts, and a gruff Yardie voice promises, in a grisly sing-song, to ‘murder ’im, kill ’im . . . full ’im up of copper, full ’im up of lead / ’cos me bad boy vicious’.
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010
London Sumtin
Code 071
This contraction was celebrated by such late 1992 tracks as Code 071’s ‘London Sumtin’ Dis’ and Bodysnatch’s ‘Just 4 U London’.
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Just 4 U London
Bodysnatch
This contraction was celebrated by such late 1992 tracks as Code 071’s ‘London Sumtin’ Dis’ and Bodysnatch’s ‘Just 4 U London’.
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012
Trip To Trumpton
Urban Hype
Following the spate of cutesy Prodigy-copyist hits in 1992 based on kids-TV theme tunes (‘Trip To Trumpton’, ‘Sesame’s Treet’ et al), dance-mags like Mixmag had proclaimed the death of rave and cold-shouldered hardcore into a long phase of media black-out.
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Sesame’s Treet
Smart E's
Following the spate of cutesy Prodigy-copyist hits in 1992 based on kids-TV theme tunes (‘Trip To Trumpton’, ‘Sesame’s Treet’ et al), dance-mags like Mixmag had proclaimed the death of rave and cold-shouldered hardcore into a long phase of media black-out.
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014
Incredible
M-Beat
An opportunist interloper from dancehall reggae, Levy provided the vocals to ‘Incredible’, a collaboration with jungle producer M-Beat; the track eventually became jungle’s first (and so far only) Top Ten hit.
ffrr/Paydaytrack Open ↗ YouTube
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