Smol rave

old skool hardcore

The grandaddy of Oldskool/hardcore/jungle

Acen

Trip To The Moon Box Set Part 1

Buy: https://link.hardcore.energy/VipEP

Coming at you straight from the centre of the universe, Doctor Jeep makes his debut on Hardcore Energy with the ‘VIP EP’. For this one, the Brazilian-American, Brooklyn-based DJ and producer has flipped three of his own productions, as well as teaming up with Cirrus for a brand new track. The result is 4 cutting edge club-ready bangers.

First up is ‘Vault of Glass VIP’ which builds on the dark and wobbly bassline, moody pads, and warbling synth FX of the original by adding snappier drums which bring a classic electro vibe to the track. Next up is a ravey rework of ‘Dissociate’ which is one of Doctor Jeep's most listened to tracks, this version abandons the halftime/dubstep flow of the original and goes all out 90s hardcore with punchy drum breaks, a bouncing bass line, and classic rave samples. The third track ‘Laff Trak VIP’ is a complete jungle flex out, with furious amens, a heavy low end, as well as the weird and wonderful alien FX from the original version. Last but not least is ‘No Water’, which sees Doctor Jeep and @CirrusDnB bring up the tempo slightly and lay down a rolling drum and bass banger with a morphing bassline, frenetic drum work and hyped up FX. This EP will have heads spinning with a slightly left field production but the tracks also pack more than enough dance energy to keep ravers moving until the morning.

Doctor Jeep - No Water (ft. Cirrus)

Local Group - Stand Up

Protect Ryan - Macro Beats for Micro Bois

Trip To The Moon Box Set Part 2

Trip To The Moon (Part 2) (Dubplate Mix)

Life And Times Of A Ruffneck (Pete Cannon Remix)

Life And Times Of A Ruffneck

Obsessed (Part 1) (Coco Bryce Remix)

Trip To The Moon (Part 3) Kaleidoscopiklimax

Obsessed (Part 2) Pictures Of Silence

Life And Times Of A Ruffneck (Phuture Assassins Remix)

Trip To The Moon (Part 1)

Monolith Volume Two

Thrilla (Ant To Be Remix)

Thrilla (Ray Keith Remix)

The Masterworks Remastered Volume 4

Re-Baptised By Dub (Selector's Revenge) (Remastered)

This is a song played in reverse. See if you can guess what it is!

I Think I Know This One

Trip To The Moon Remixes

Trip To The Moon (Ray Keith Remix)

Moondust

Moondust (Inside My Mind)

Trip II The Moon (Messiah Remix)

Z RO - MIKE DEAN PRODUCED TRACK MADE WHILE WATCHING TODAYS EVENTS UNFOLD ON THE NEWS. 

No Justice No Peace

Written and produced by 8 Channels
P&C Cinematic Recordings 2009

Loco Dice,Cocoon
Dope jam!

Franck Roger
Cerebro is the shit! Sr71 is dope too full heavy dub!

Ric McClelland (Scope)
Feelin It! will give it a spin in Istanbul.

Laurent Garnier
I will hammer those tracks everywhere!

Steve Parry
Cerebro is my fav!

Simbad
i luv it, propa house wid a dark edge & moody, dope dj tools indeed

Michael Stukes, Mystic Vybes  WHCR 90.3 FM
A great treat to  spin, dead on intensity.  8/10

DJ Deep, Paris
Cool release!

Neil Quigley, Urbantorque
'Cerebro and Astrotrain are excellent, full support'

Chris Nobles, Redroom
Astrotrain cained in sheffield this weekend, suitably dark and moody...fantastic percussion line and woodblock hits keep it very fresh - no doubt a stalwart track in my box for the winter season

Manoo, Rodamaal / Buzzin Fly
Wow sr71!! Chicago Style.Dope!

Rocco, Rodamaal
This Minimal house Ep is a winner for me, especially "Cerebro" .Great mental production i love to keep as a bullet in my set!


8 Channels - Sr71

Apollo Two — Atlantis (I Need You)(L.T.J. Bukem Remix)

old skool masters in the red corner Ratpack........

14. Bodysnatch - Just 4 U London

What can be said about Acen's legendary Trip II The Moon that hasn't already been said? 

It's a legendary tune, widely considered one of the best ever made. Arguments over which version is the best regularly almost come to blows. It charted for four weeks in the UK Top 40 (and unlike certain digital store charts where you only need to sell a couple dozen units to place high, that's a chart that means something). It influenced countless producers across innumerable genres over the years, from bedroom producers who never took the step to let people hear their material clear through to the absolute biggest names in music today. 

Even calling it legendary is doing it a disservice. There isn't a word in ANY language for how important Trip II The Moon in all its parts is to electronic music. Even now, doing this write-up, I feel like I'm not saying enough about it. I'm not sure I ever could. You could write a book, heck, a SERIES of books, on how it influenced electronic music in the many years since the first part came out in 1992, and still not cover it all. 

A bit of a personal story (hi everyone, Saiyan here, I do all the uploading on this account), I have a friend named Acen, whose parents named him that BECAUSE OF THIS TRACK. He's a good dude, by the way. Hi Acen, congratulations you've been immortalized in a Soundcloud write-up lol 

I could spend the next week touching on the importance of Trip II The Moon to music, but by then the boxed set would be up for preorder and I still wouldn't have posted these clips, so let's just call it here and get to the reason you're all here.

So here it is, perhaps the biggest release in Kniteforce history, the Acen - Trip II The Moon boxed set. Five vinyls, comprising all of the original versions and their b-sides, all lovingly remastered by CLSM, a host of new remixes by names like Danny Byrd, Pete Cannon, NRG, Scott Brown, Phuture Assassins, and more!

One entire vinyl is devoted to entirely new versions from Acen himself: Trip II The Moon 2092, Obsessed 2092 (Bite The Dust), Life and Crimes of A Ruffneck 2092, and an entirely new track called Rings Around The Moon (which I absolutely adore).

Oh, apologies, did I say five vinyls? Yeah about that, it's actually six. There's a sixth bonus COLOURED vinyl, featuring the previously unreleased dubplate mix of Trip II The Moon Part 2, the Omar Santana remix (which came to be known unofficially as Trip II The Moon Part 4), the D-Bridges Desire Mix of Obsessed, and something you don't see every day: Luna-C's infamous Rip To The Loon, upgraded to official remix status and pressed to vinyl for the very first time.

And that's STILL not all. The boxed set also includes a bonus CD with even more additional remixes (no clips for those, they're a surprise), AND a slipmat.

To be completely clear, the sixth bonus vinyl, the CD, and the slipmat are bonus items, only available to those who preorder through the Kniteforce website. If you don't snag a preorder, there is no guarantee that any of those items will still be available when we put any remaining copies up for general sale. If you want them (and you do), you HAVE to snag a preorder.

The Acen - Trip II The Moon boxed set goes up for preorder on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, exclusively through http://kniteforcerevolution.com 

Due to how potentially huge this release could be, we have decided to place our final order according to preorder numbers, so as long as you get an order in during the preorder window, you will get one. Preorders are expected to run until early December, so you have some time to avoid missing out.

One more time, preorders begin Monday, November 16th exclusively through http://kniteforcerevolution.com and will run through to early December.

Copyright 2020 Kniteforce Records 
Mastered by Jon Doe/CLSM Mastering 
Art by Ryan Cuggy/DJ Mannik

KF136B2 - Acen - The Life and Crimes of a Ruffneck (Phuture Assassins Remix)