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Atari Dreams

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This ride is right on course

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The 4th release from Bring Back Records is dedicated to all selectors and dj's, who support vinyl and continue to help give to it new life every day.

The A-side is the title track of the record with a mysterious atmosphere, bells, voices and stretched amen-break in the best traditions of 93-94 jungle style.

The B-side contains two tunes with summer vibes, one is a 4/4 jungle tek tune with sweet vocals and a nod to early rave music, the other one has killer breakbeats, funky moods and references to gangsta rap.

Mastering & cutting by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven Mastering. 
Pressed by Record Industry.

A - Unknown Artist -  Night Selector  (BRINGBACK004 - Digital Preview Cut)

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Lavery - Ruff 'n Tuff

We're delighted to be able to welcome Scientific Wax head-honcho Equinox to 7th Storey Recollective, bringing with him three previously unreleased cuts from his 90's archives.

As one of the most respected DJ's and producers in Jungle & Drum n Bass, Equinox needs little introduction to those in the know, with a slew of releases spanning well over 25 years on Brain Records, Paradox Music, Inperspective Records, Bassbin, 8205 Recordings and his own Scientific Wax and off-shoot imprints to name just a few. 

Here, we travel back to 1996 to bring you three tracks made when Eqiunox was still only the tender age of 19, working tirelessly to hone the skills and sounds that we all know him for in 2020.

The opening track, 'Dark Territory' is a lo-fi 8-bit trip featuring many of the elements he would become beloved for, simply put; wildly chopped amens, dark brooding pads, and deadly sub-bass.

Flip to the B side, and first up you'll find 'Temperal Nexus', a glitched-out roller with customary manic drum edits, incredible atmospherics by turns industrial, dark and dreamlike.

Rounding off the EP is 'Trojan' - arguably a more polished production, but by no means less fierce! 

A huge thanks to Equinox for agreeing to provide the tracks for this release, and for all the hard work in getting them together :-)

Format: 12" Black Vinyl in full colour picture sleeve
Mastered and Cut by: Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven Mastering Ltd  
Pressed By: Record Industry 

Preorders start around 1st July

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When Sam Gordon was 7 years old he fell in love with vinyl. He can recall the very first time he went into a record shop at that age “I really loved Herbie Hancock’s tune ‘Rockit’ which was released when I was 7 and I have this vivid memory of my mum taking me into Our Price in Bromley and as I was so small, she had to lift me up at the counter so I could ask the shop assistant for it” It was this shopping trip that got a young Sam hooked on music and those electro beats of Herbie Hancock stuck in his head throughout his formative years. By the time he was 15 he first started producing – “Me and my mates were messing about with the UK hip hop and early house sound we were inspired by, just sampling loads and rapping over fast hip hop beats and hardcore sounds. This would have been 1991. I had a keyboard with 3 seconds of sample time on it, which meant you could only sample one element at a time, loop it and bounce our ideas down onto a 4-track. Our little crew was called ‘Youts On The Run’ which was a reference to the experiences we had growing up in 80’s and 90’s South East London where we were constantly looking over our shoulder. Our lyrics spoke about these experiences and the music drew on the melting pot of influences that were starting to converge into the UK hardcore/early jungle scene. The Group consisted of me as MC Firefly, a mate Lee who went by DJ Frontline and handled the musical side with me and two others; Kevin “Mad X” and Dene “Iron I”. Firefly was a short lived alias as I soon changed my name to DJ Shocker, leaving the mic behind and getting on the decks instead. And then not long after that I became Missing. These name changes all happened within a two year period!”. It wasn’t long before ‘Youts on The Run’ sent off a few demos and had a phone call from one label, Gangster Records, who released tracks by a UK hip hop group Dominant Force. The label boss liked their ideas and spoke about getting them in the studio but nothing came of it and the other band members lost interest but Sam definitely had the bug!

Sam continues –“By the time I was 17 I was really keen to get into a proper studio but back then it wasn’t easy to make music like it is today where practically anyone could access a DAW; and this was pre- internet so definitely no YouTube tutorials on how to chop an amen! These were the days of analogue studios and they weren’t cheap to rent. I was at Orpington College in Kent studying for A levels and a fellow student Ian, DJ Kingsize who was a DJ on Defection FM at the time, told me about a studio he had used for a demo track in Mottingham (also in South East London), run by a guy called Martin. He was in his 50’s and a chain-smoking Yorkshireman who liked his pints. He knew nothing about jungle but he charged a reasonable fee for a day’s session, about £100, and was a nice bloke and mostly a patient engineer when being asked to try all kinds of mad edits! He had a fairly basic set up with a Roland JV1080, a Mackie 24 channel desk, an Akai S1000 that was upgraded, so had about a minutes sample time, an Atari ST running the same cracked copy of Cubase everyone seemed to have and a few sample CDs. So when it came to my 18th Birthday and my parents asked me what I wanted, I asked for a day’s studio session”. His parents kindly agreed to his request, as they could see how much enthusiasm their son had for music, and a day’s studio hire was secured.

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Missing - 'A Stitch In Time' - VFS023 - 192mp3 clip

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DJH ‘Unfinished Biznizz EP’ 

DJH was 15 when he wrote his first EP back in 1993. That EP became a near mythic release within the hardcore vinyl collecting circles with a price tag of over £700 on Discogs! Vinyl Fanatiks tracked down Danny and organised its re-release back in 2019, with the release selling out rapidly.

Now DJH is back, 27 years later, in the studio recording his first hardcore tracks since the glory years, inspired by the love and support shown by all who bought his repress. So if that was you, thank you for making him return to his first love. And what a return it is. Four incredibly authentic hardcore tracks, recorded in 2020, including his smasher from the ‘Hardcore Lockdown’ album – ‘Hold Tight’. Not only that, but he has revisited his seminal tune ‘Petruccio’ and has remixed it.

I hope you show DJH your support and love and embrace him and this EP into your collection.

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Amen Brother Biog:

In the early weeks of Lockdown, around the end of March 2020, DJH called me up with an idea.  “I was thinking, it would be nice to give the Vinyl Fanatiks supporters a free tune as a thank you for backing my repress and as a little gift during these difficult times, something to cheer people up” he said. I liked the idea, I liked it a lot and it got me thinking; ‘Why don’t I approach all the artists I have worked with over the past 18 months and see if they too feel like getting into the studio and making a new tune, but for it to sound like it was made in the early 90s?’ A few phone calls and emails were made and within a week I had 14 producers and groups going into the studio, each writing a fresh track. The free album ‘Hardcore Lockdown’ was created and subsequently released in May 2020. I had no idea it would be as successful as it was, with over 5000 downloads in a few weeks, and many messages that it would be great if these tracks would appear on vinyl. Now that was music to my ears and it again got me thinking!

Rather than release the project as a triple vinyl piece, I thought it would be a great opportunity to get each artist and group to write an EP, which would include their track from the album, and to release these EPs on vinyl as well as digital. But I felt it wouldn’t be right for these to come out on Vinyl Fanatiks as it would be too confusing. Vinyl Fanatiks is a repress label; these were brand new tunes, made by the original wizards of the scene. I needed a new label! For the past year I had been mulling over starting a new label and had already come up with the name and the branding. I just didn’t have a direction for it yet. But now I did… Amen Brother was born.

Amen Brother is a label that continues the vibes of the early 90’s but comes correct with fresh music. The music needs to feel like it was made back in the day - it needs to have that connection, whether written by an original artist from that era, or a remix of music from that era. But with the bar being raised so high by Vinyl Fanatiks, I needed to be sure that Amen Brother continued with that level of quality, from the authenticity of the music, to the high levels of presentation that my customers expect from us.

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1. DJH - Hold Tight - AB-VFS001 - 192mp3 clip

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The second release on Amen Brother sees the return of another old school legend that only released one EP and vanished for the next 28 years! Lee X-Plode put out a self-funded EP in 1992 on a white label that became highly sort after in the vinyl collecting world, with copies changing hands for up to £250! Vinyl Fanatiks were lucky enough to be blessed with his permission to re-release this EP, which flew off the shelves.

Lee just loves the early 90’s rave scene and is an avid collector of any rave footage from this era. He is so tuned in to this period of music that when he started producing again in 2020, his tracks sounded like they had all been made back then, 100% authentic with 100% vibes. So when we approached Lee about writing an EP for our newly-founded Amen Brother label, he jumped at the chance and gave us four amazing anthems. This EP includes his track ‘Shock Out’ from the ‘Hardcore Lockdown’ album as well as an incredible revamp of his reggae tinged classic ‘Watch This Go’ which was on his one and only release back in 1992.

All vinyl purchases via our webstore will come with a link to download the MP3s.

Amen Brother biog:

In the early weeks of Lockdown, around the end of March 2020, DJH called me up with an idea.  “I was thinking, it would be nice to give the Vinyl Fanatiks supporters a free tune as a thank you for backing my repress and as a little gift during these difficult times, something to cheer people up” he said. I liked the idea, I liked it a lot and it got me thinking; ‘Why don’t I approach all the artists I have worked with over the past 18 months and see if they too feel like getting into the studio and making a new tune, but for it to sound like it was made in the early 90s?’ A few phone calls and emails were made and within a week I had 14 producers and groups going into the studio, each writing a fresh track. The free album ‘Hardcore Lockdown’ was created and subsequently released in May 2020. I had no idea it would be as successful as it was, with over 5000 downloads in a few weeks, and many messages that it would be great if these tracks would appear on vinyl. Now that was music to my ears and it again got me thinking!

Rather than release the project as a triple vinyl piece, I thought it would be a great opportunity to get each artist and group to write an EP, which would include their track from the album, and to release these EPs on vinyl as well as digital. But I felt it wouldn’t be right for these to come out on Vinyl Fanatiks as it would be too confusing. Vinyl Fanatiks is a repress label; these were brand new tunes, made by the original wizards of the scene. I needed a new label! For the past year I had been mulling over starting a new label and had already come up with the name and the branding. I just didn’t have a direction for it yet. But now I did… Amen Brother was born.

Amen Brother is a label that continues the vibes of the early 90’s but comes correct with fresh music. The music needs to feel like it was made back in the day - it needs to have that connection, whether written by an original artist from that era, or a remix of music from that era. But with the bar being raised so high by Vinyl Fanatiks, I needed to be sure that Amen Brother continued with that level of quality, from the authenticity of the music, to the high levels of presentation that my customers expect from us.

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2. X-Plode 'Rock The House' - AB-VFS002 - 192mp3 clip

Brand new forthcoming material on Deadbeat Records! :-O

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The label was established in 2018 as a means to release the back catalogue of renowned Jungle Techno label Underdog Recordings, which ran from 1993-1995. It quickly expanded from beyond the original goal and now reissues sought after, rare and classic records from the Jungle, Rave, Bleep House, Techno and Jungle Techno genres.

The Vinyl Fanatiks aim is to track down and work with the original artists from the early 1990’s, to reissue their music on vinyl only, and to support the record hunters and vinyl diggers from around the world with quality pressings and superb mastering; a way to show respect and share the story of those that created these incredible records.

The vision is not to focus on the obvious artists of that time but to dig a little deeper and find those that came and went but their legacy still holds true to this day. Some of these producers only released one record and vanished soon after but their music still resonates into the 21st century, accumulating new audiences across the globe, far beyond the catchment of the UK pirate radios and muddy fields of 25 years ago. What happened to these artists? Its Vinyl Fanatik’s mission to find out!

Each record captures a moment in time, a vibe that was true and innocent from a period when music was far more synonymous with rebellion and anarchy than today’s finely polished productions and conformist club pop. This music itself bred on the outskirts of society, fuelled by the passion of the rave, its lineage stemming from the Acid House era of 1988. Often produced on minimal equipment, with minimal skills and knowledge, its audio blueprint transcends to new generations, a rawness that no expensive audio plug in could ever create in this present day.

Vinyl Fanatiks wants to pay homage to these young producers who forged the foundations of the multi-million pound EDM scene we have now. Each of these artists has their own tale to tell, their own memories to share. Limited by their own geographical status within the UK, they somehow still all managed to connect and influence each other, years before the internet, mobile phones and social media that we have today. But the music knew no limits and had no boundaries, transcending generations to this day.

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