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.
quoted 6 lines Anyone else>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.