More JIVE Rhythm Trax
Ok, I recorded this entire album twice as I suffered a grand technical failure the first time around, and as such the evening is wasting away so I'm going to keep this short so I can make my rendesvous.
Many of you may be familiar with the popular dark electro classic '112 BPM' . It came from this album, More Jive Rhythm Trax, the follow up to the equally sought after (but not quite as deadly in my opinion) Jive Rhythm Trax. A series of albums produced by Jive records consisting of dark, dubby instrumental covers or 'versions' of popular electro and new wave tracks of the day. I have three albums in this series, one with a blue cover, this one with a red cover, and one with a yellow cover entitled something like Jive Scratch Trax. They were all intended to be used as DJ tools, and might be the first example of a mass produced record purely intended as a utility for DJ'ing. I find them all amazing.
If you can, try and spot the original inspirations for these instrumentals:
S.M.U.R.F. mp3
112 B.P.M. mp3
129 B.P.M. mp3
112 B.P.M. mp3
120 B.P.M. mp3
101 B.P.M. mp3
116 B.P.M. mp3
116 B.P.M. mp3
Posted by Black Shag | 11 comments
February 21, 2009 at 10:13 PM
112 bpm - walking on sunshine!
February 22, 2009 at 6:19 AM
Thanks!
February 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM
101 is the easy one (for me anyway) 'The Message' Grand Master Flash!!
February 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Good work. As per usual with BeatElectric trainspotting contests, come correct and spot them all in one go, get a BE t-shirt (which I'm yet to make) and mad respect from all corners of the globe. A couple of them are tricky.
February 23, 2009 at 5:42 PM
129 = dazz band - "let it whip"
February 26, 2009 at 6:29 AM
the other 112 bpm - legacy -word up
February 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM
120 Bpm - Space jam
March 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM
can't add to any of the trainspots but just wanted to say this is a great series. really love the 112 bpm (2nd version with the "phases" vocal.
April 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM
120 BPM is Jonzun Crew - Pac Jam (Tommy Boy Records)
May 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM
These are all fantastic! Especially 116 #1. Thanks.
May 15, 2013 at 1:53 AM
Fantastic! Thx so much for the d/l, been a huge fan of the 1st series!!!