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The other day, on a whim I picked up "S.U. Corporation Presents Dub Plate Selection" STHCCD15. (S.U. Corporation are the people that put out strictly hardcore and strictly undeground compilations). I picked it up at Reckless for $28.50 and I was thinking to myself, you are a complete ninny for paying this much for a single UK import CD. But then I got it home, and now I can't get it off my CD player. It's got a nice mix of really fast beats, fast sequencer trix (gating/ echoes/reverses etc) combined with dubby effects, people with jamaican accents saying things like "come selectah", occasional house diva vocals, and slow melodic/bass riffs. I guess you could call it jungle or drum&bass, except that most jungle bores the shit out of me -- this doesn't, because the dub factor makes it musically interesting. Bass-ically, it makes me want to dance around the house, turn it up to deafening volumes, and when I'm in my car, I tend to find myself driving over 90MPH when I listen to it. Track List (*'s denote my favorites): 1. (*) Selecter -- Gangster Sound (Dub Plate) 2. How Many Ways -- Just Intelligence (Dub Plate) 3. (*) We Come Back -- Drum & Bass (exclusive dub plate remix) 4. (*) Big Request -- Gangster Sound (Exclusive Dub plate remix) 5. Illusions -- A Sides (exclusive dub plate remix) 6. (*) Sax -- Jazz Vibes (exclusive dub plate remix) 7. Exclusive -- Xclusive (exclusive dub plate remix) 8. Volcano Style -- Urban Jungle (dub plate) 9. Fire -- BDP (dub plate) 10. (*) Feel Good -- The Dominion (dub plate) 11. (*) No War Business -- Xclusive (dub plate) 12. Searchin Hard -- Uncle 22 (dub plate) I actually like the tracks produced by Drum and Bass and Gangster Sound the best. #4 has some really outlandish mixing going on, stuff that I would never think would work together (really fast beats combined with a slow disco bop) slid together with niceness. #6 is acid jazzy with a twitchy beat; kinda strange/interesting... #11 is a harsh & noize laden onslaught of dub that rocks hard and then goes into this smooth piano riff that floats you away while the vocals have some guy in a jamaican accent talking gibberish about rude boys, wickedness, and "no war"... Where should I look for more trax by these artists?? Which DJs are likely to play this style of music in the bay area?? Other things I'd like to find on this label: * Illegal Pirate Radio volume 3 (STHC CD 9) * Intelligent Drum and Bass volume 2 (STHC CD 12, 13) * Ravelation live at Wembley "easter bank holiday '95" (STHC CD 11) Anybody seen these in the Bay Area? Where? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Niels Mayer http://www.cyborganic.com/People/niels mayer@netcom.com = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=