Snakes Pass Cities

Time to round off the weekend with a couple of tracks picked from A.P.E's 1995 "Striplight" album.

Expect hip hop drum loops, guitar and harmonica with a dollop of jazz/dub/electronic noodling and all that kind of thing... perfectly inoffensive.

Cities and Snake's Pass, both from the vinyl L.P. If you wear a beard, now would be a good time to stroke it.

Back to the Hip Hop

As with the last post, minimum of waffle, plenty of wholesome vinyl hip hop goodness, enjoy...

Zhigge with "Toss It Up" and "Drop The Beat Salaam!" from the '92 Toss It Up 12".

Sid & B-Tonn - "Deathwish I" and "Deathwish II" from the 1990 Deathwish 12".

The Brotherhood - "Alphabetical Response" (12", 1995)

Scientists Of Sound - "Raise The Flag" from the 1992 Scientists Of Sound E.P.

L.R.S - "London Rhyme Syndicate" and "Armed And Extremely Dangerous" (12" 1988)

Remixes, Portishead, Portishead remixes.

Sticking with the Bristol theme for a little while, here's a few tracks with Bristolian connections... Not a lot of waffle, just the facts...

Tricky - "Pondersosa (Ultramagnetic's Terrorists Power Club Mix)" and "Ponderosa (Dobie Rub Part 1)", both on the 1994 US Ponderosa 12".

Tricky - "Black Steel (Been Caught Steeling Mix)", 1995 on the Black Steel 12".

Portishead - "Sour Times (A Lot More)", 1994 US 12".

Nine - "Whutcha Want (Portishead Remix)", 1995 on the Whutcha Want remix EP.

Primal Scream - "Give Out But Don't Give Up (Portishead Remix)", 1994 on the Cry Myself Blind 10".

Lords of the Underground vs The Pharcyde

Two well known US crews get re-visited now with five tracks that need to be acquired if you slept on them at the time....

Firstly, Lords Of The Underground with "Psycho" and "Sleep For Dinner"... Both tracks are from the Psycho 12" released in 92. The version of Psycho itself included here is the "Rubber Room Mix" and Sleep for Dinner is the L.P version (the chorus sports an obvious Biz Markie sample from "Pickin Boogers"... as they say - NOBODY beats the Biz).

Secondly, The Pharcyde with extended versions of "Runnin'" and "Drop". Surely there's no need to explain any further regarding The Pharcyde, quite simply, phresh as phuck.

And all that.

And then some.

P.S, almost forgot to add a little bonus, the Rae and Christian remix of "Runnin'" featuring Mark 1 and Funky Fresh Few.... enjoy!

Watch the scratch

Revisiting my first post here a few weeks ago, we have another track from Spacer - 1995's "Watch The Skies", an atmospheric mid-tempo, sci-fi infused head nodder.

Also today is something I meant to post a while ago... From 1996 we have Kitachi with "Scratch" , here for you remixed in a stomping dub hip-hop manner.

As a reminder, feel free to post a comment, all feedback is welcomed and is the best way of getting to hear more of what you want and less of what you don't.

Ninjas

A couple of nice Ninja Tune things now, Funki Porcini's "Dubble (Organ swell mix)" and DJ Food with "Spiral".

The Food track was on a single sided promo along with a Herbaliser track, the B-side was actually an etched Ninja Tune logo which was lovely but seemingly impossible to photograph using my phone.

Mind you, I do have fingers like pig's tits.

Earthling

Back to the UK hip hop for the moment and something a little less typical.

Earthling released Nefisa in 1995, a downtempo and dense production that I re-listened to this morning for the first time in years. Still sounds nice to me...

As a compare and contrast exercise, this is the Portishead remix from the B side of the 12".

B-Side wins again?

"If cocaine's a lady then freebasing's a bitch"

Well, according to the front cover of Ceasefire's Trickshot it is ... released on 12" in 1995, nice tight drums with a smattering of Tony Montana and lashings of geeetar.

Nice.