Great 2 Step?

MrFence · Aug 19, 2009

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but this has to be one of the finest 2step tunes I've ever heard. It breaks both the No Groove Chronicles and No Locked On rules of the thread though.

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Needless to say the bass just isn't there on this rip, it's immense on vinyl.

I could only find a short clip of this one online, and it's not really 2step but with retrospect you can hear in tracks like this how 2step came about.

DJ Infinity - Wicked Sound

I've got a shelf of unusual 2step at home, I'll dig out some names later.

Blackdown · Aug 20, 2009

MrFence said:
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but this has to be one of the finest 2step tunes I've ever heard. It breaks both the No Groove Chronicles and No Locked On rules of the thread though.

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Needless to say the bass just isn't there on this rip, it's immense on vinyl.

yeah incredible tune. quite obscure given the various pressings of the other mixes of Anytime but an absolute belter.

that UV mix is nuts too. rolling it for the second time in a row now.

MrFence · Aug 20, 2009

This release is top notch:

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Fly Ladies by MC Juiceman on the A side is the best track on the record, but this is great. I love the deeper, bassier 2step that was coming out around this period that didn't get too dark and wasn't too breaks influence.

This is another classic

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Eric H And DJ Joseph - Upstate / The Task and the Madd Flex & Afta Hours Remix remix of Nitin Sawhney - Immigrant are tops too, though in an even more laid back style. I have a mix somewhere with all of these tracks mixed with a bit of pinch and burial, I shall endeavour to find it.

UFO over easy · Aug 20, 2009

been trying to find a reasonably priced copy of Crazy for ages, incredible tune

MrFence · Aug 20, 2009

UFO over easy said:
been trying to find a reasonably priced copy of Crazy for ages, incredible tune

I had no idea it was going for a lot these days, most of my DFL stuff is pretty ragged these days though.

Brotherhood deserve a mention too, their releases on Shelflife, Ride it Riddims and especially the K.C.A. - Spirit remix on Virtuoso are great.

David_M · Aug 20, 2009

Yeah, i've been tempted to pay a very big amount for Crazy a few times, won't ever forgive myself for sleeping on it! that and Oddz' Bump Dis, i know i'll end up paying an unreasonable price someday for one of those

btw Brotherhood's remix of Spirit is in stock at DnR in case anyone's interested.

While we are on a classics tip, I just dug out Groove Chronicles remix of N-Tyce's 'Telefunkin', which I always considered as a kind of a prequel to Stone Cold, with the same kind of monster dread bassline, the rnb vocals and almost jungle-ish beats

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... so sick

Ory · Aug 20, 2009

MrFence said:
Brotherhood ... K.C.A. - Spirit remix

I always hated harps (or whatever that sound is) in 2step, but it works quite well in this one.

"Crazy" is one of my favourite tunes of all time.

shiels · Aug 20, 2009

MrFence · Aug 26, 2009

franz · Sep 4, 2009

David_M said:
Thanks for these Ory.

Anyone knows what tune is at 10 minutes into part 3? right between his remix of "it's gonna be my way" and that "i refuse" tune

yea i've been caning this mix more consistently than just about anything for quite a while now.

i was wondering if i could get a few ids from you folk, probably all really obvious, but i just wasn't there at the time... so...

in the 3rd part right at the 15 minute mark... "i break down... and cry." does sound like a Gurley production, but i don't know it if so. love those washes the rip through. and the vocal work is pretty ridiculous at times too.

also in the 3rd part around the 31 min mark: "it's like a drug to me..."

from the 2nd part, coming in around the 14 mark... "baby not... too late"
runs in straight into Been Here Before by Zed Bias (did i already mention how great this mix is? simply on track selection alone).

franz · Sep 4, 2009

and would this be the place for me to belatedly big up Brackles remix of Heartbreaker by MSTRKRFT? is this the kind of thing that will never come out? it's pretty amazing.

Ory · Sep 4, 2009

franz said:
"i break down... and cry."

Allstars - Walk On By

yeah it's a gurley producky

Ory · Sep 4, 2009

franz said:
"baby not... too late"

Carroll Thompson - Too Late (DB + MJ Cole Remix)

Benny Bunter · Sep 4, 2009

Ory said:
Allstars - Walk On By

yeah it's a gurley producky

A VIP of this tune has just been released on the Groove Chronicles label. Very nice...

UFO over easy · Sep 4, 2009

franz said:
and would this be the place for me to belatedly big up Brackles remix of Heartbreaker by MSTRKRFT? is this the kind of thing that will never come out? it's pretty amazing.

it's an official remix, i don't know it's going to see vinyl but it was given away for free by discobelle - http://www.discobelle.net/2009/07/22/heartbreaker/

Colz · Sep 4, 2009

Brackles was commissioned to do a 'dubstep' remix and was a little apprehensive about what he presented to them in the end, but really...its a great piece of music. (I'm ignorant of the original though)

evanbbb · Sep 5, 2009

I've gone through the thread and picked out a few things to pick up but the concentration is on 12s and single songs. I don't know much about the 2-step canon - are there some albums that I should check out? Classics? Don't skip out on the obvious because when the whole 2-step thing went down, I was in a small American town listening to punk.

luka · Sep 5, 2009

no albums. full stop.

Ory · Sep 5, 2009

Sunship - Is This Real is a decent 2step album, but most of the good trax on it were released as singles anyway. then there's Phuturistix but that's bordering on jazzy broken beat stuff.

as luka says, stick to the 12"s...

owengriffiths · Sep 10, 2009

2-step didnt have (in my view) a definitive compilation like the 4/4 stuff did with the Locked On series. The Pure Garage series was always chock a block with filler, which was a pity because I'm sure EZ was a good club & radio DJ. These are two alright CD's:

Hype The Joint
http://www.sendspace.com/file/es6rs0
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hype-The-Joint-Vol-1/release/658039

Someone from Upfront FM mixed it, some obscure stuff on it.

Bassline Classics mixed by Dennis M-Dubs
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b0v2im
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Bassline-Classics/release/400947

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