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medal headz [G.B.D.F]

re: laps (roll with iD)

94/95 style Jungle track
classic soulful vocals, obscure instrument stabs, dreamy pads and loads of 808 boom.
Sequenced & arrangement on a tracker.
Polished up on a DAW.
Buy - https://garethmonks.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-dream

GARETH MONKS - I CAN'T DREAM (low quality preview)

Back in late 2019 I entered a competition for my old friends Paranoid Recordings with the winners getting a Vinyl release.

JMT was one of the winners and I asked if I could remix his track as it had blown me away.

This is my interpretation of his track Don't Need Your Love.

https://soundcloud.com/topdrawerdigital/jmt-dont-need-your-love-lucas-chills-his-boots-remix

You can grab the Vinyl & CD here : https://paranoidrecordingsuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-someday-ep

All profits going to Cancer Research.

I've also got another track on the CD Lucas P.A.R.A.N.O.I.D which was my competition entrance.

https://soundcloud.com/topdrawerdigital/lucas-paranoid-paranoid-recordings-better-late-than-never?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Check Paranoid our here : https://soundcloud.com/paranoidrecordings
and JMT here : https://soundcloud.com/user-133387914

JMT - Don't Need Your Love - Lucas Chills His Boots Remix

Nayim & Luffy - Hardtek

april 2022 - 5years mol - 10th release
Drop acid,bleeps and blops not bombs !!!!
The "All my friends are Machines" album by Coburn Neptune
incl remixes by Retape,Sk'p,Fxbip and Sibirsky Snickers
Enjoy be safe whereever you are - Peace

TTSH Fokker (Sibirsky Snickers Rmx)

This EP never came out on wax from 1994 when things were a bit more rugged
These were Drop Bass Files submissions

Laughter Is The Best Medicine unreleased 1994 analog MODULATOR

Monoconda - Roads

N F 5

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Nathan first got into music around 1987/1988 when he bought a Casio SK1 and started messing about on it. A couple of years later in 1990 he bought himself a Fostex X30 4 Track and actually started to make tracks, Acid House tracks to be precise, though he adds “If you heard some of them you wouldn’t want to hear more than 4 seconds!” It wasn’t till 1991 when his mate Jez Allen Smith bought himself an Amiga and together the two of them formed 'Pennywise The Profit', an early hardcore duo, creating bedroom demos and learning their trade and the limitations of an Amiga, when he started to make progress. By 1992 the band had disbanded and the Amiga was now on a two week rota with Jez having it for two weeks and Nathan for the following two weeks; this arrangement went on throughout 1992 until 1995.

By 1992 Nathan had settled on the name Ova Doce and had got himself set up at home. Alongside the aforementioned Amiga, which was pimped out with 2MB of RAM, he was running a sampling program called Techno Sound Turbo, alongside Octamed 4, bouncing down his ideas on cassette tape using his Fostex 4 Track. During 1992 and 1993 Nathan would go on to fill numerous cassette tapes with tracks, ideas and sketches which he has kept, which all had their own handmade cover. His first track by himself was ‘Feel The Rush (Reach For The Sky)’ which ended up being the lead track on his self-funded debut EP. The track actually samples Van Morrison tune called ‘Wavelength’. Nathan explains the story behind this unusual source of audio “My Dad loved Van Morrison, he was his favourite artist, so I decided to sample it to annoy him! My Dad wasn’t keen about the rave scene so I thought it would be funny to make a tune with Van Morrison in it to see how he would react”. “How did he react?” I ask, keen to know how this anarchy played out “My Dad found it funny actually; he just couldn’t understand how I got Van Morrison onto one of my tracks. It baffled him!” he replies.

“What about the ‘Feel The Rush’ sample, where is that from? It reminds me of an old tape I had back in the day” I ask. It takes Nathan a while to recall this bit of info, so he emails me after the interview “I'd totally forgotten about the MC I'd sampled for ‘Feel the Rush’. He was an MC at Shelley's that always rocked the party. He was an event organiser who picked up the mic to do some shoutouts and then stayed on the mic for the rest of the night. His name was MC Neville and a guy from a local record shop around my way said that Neville had heard the track and was furious, thought it was taking the piss and would like a word! The other guys behind the counter were laughing so I don't know how much truth there was in it and I've not tried to find out since”.

“So, it was coming up to my 21st birthday and I asked my parents for some money, so I could get a record pressed of my music. They gave me £300 towards it. I was constantly making tunes when it was my turn to have the Amiga, so by this point I had enough music to make an EP. Thing is, I didn’t have a DAT machine or know anyone who had one, so I went down to the cutting house with the Amiga and recorded the tracks down to DAT there. Anyway, when it came to doing ‘Feel The Rush’ I had filled up all the outputs on Octamed as there were only 4! We had brought a keyboard down with us, so I had to play the bassline to that tune live onto the master. The guys at the cutting house knew we were a bunch of amateurs, so they let us do what we want, thankfully!” 

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Ova Doce - 'Feel The Rush (Reach To The Sky)' - VFS017 - 192mp3 clip

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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Ova Doce - 'Feel The Rush (Reach To The Sky)' - VFS017 - 192mp3 clip

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