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
112 bpm - walking on sunshine!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDelete101 is the easy one (for me anyway) 'The Message' Grand Master Flash!!
ReplyDeleteGood 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.
ReplyDelete129 = dazz band - "let it whip"
ReplyDeletethe other 112 bpm - legacy -word up
ReplyDelete120 Bpm - Space jam
ReplyDeletecan'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.
ReplyDelete120 BPM is Jonzun Crew - Pac Jam (Tommy Boy Records)
ReplyDeleteThese are all fantastic! Especially 116 #1. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! Thx so much for the d/l, been a huge fan of the 1st series!!!
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