
If you’ve ever loved jungle, drum and bass, or happy hardcore, you’ve loved hardcore breakbeat. Hardcore is the solid trunk of early 90’s British electronica that spawned literally dozens of sub-genres, including 2-step garage, dubstep, and fidget.
Hardcore itself is a branch of earlier revolutions in dance music, fusing together shards of house, breakbeat, acid, reggae and hip-hop turned up to 45. The tempos eventually chased each other up into the 150 bmp range, at which point jungle nabbed the weed, warbly bass lines, and MCs to form drum and bass, happy hardcore stole away with the 4/4 beats and screaming piano divas, and gabber kept the distortion petals for a notorious affair with techno.
But once upon a time they were all one. Funky breaks, chimpmunked vocals, scratched rap samples, rasta MCs, and heavenly synth stabs all lived together in glorious unity. This mixtape is dedicated to the memory of that unity, and to all the DJs and producers who made it happen. Part of my Class of ’93 mixtape series.
Track list:
- Hardcore Math User – Hyper On Hardcore
- Wishdokta – Teknoschizo
- D’Cruze – World Within A World
- Gamer 3 – Acid For Blood
- Art Of Noise – Instruments Of Darkness (Prodigy Remix)
- Austin – Unity In Dub
- Blame – Music Takes You (2 Bad Mice Take You)
- SL2 – On A Ragga Tip
- Criminal Minds – Re-Baptised By Dub (Selector’s Revenge)
- Annie Lennox – Little Bird (NJoi Remix)
- Smart E’s – Sesame’s Treet (Krome & Time Remix)
- Altern 8 – Brutal-8-E (Jungle Brutalism Mix)
- Acen – Window In The Sky (Krome & Time Bad Up Remix)
- 80 AUM – Mindcontroller
- Nu-Matic – All Over Me
- 2 Bad Mice – Like It Deep
- Hackney Hardcore – Dance Hall Dangerous (Terrorize Mix)
- Nu-Matic – It’s Strange (Dances Are Changin’)
- Krome & Time – The Slammer
- Austin – Rude Boy
- Foul Play – Open Your Mind (Nookie Remix)
- Tom & Jerry – The One Reason
- Andy C – Something New Pt 1
- LA Style – I’m Raving
- Prodigy – Everybody In The Place (155 And Rising)
- Cuba Gooding vs Altern 8 – Happiness Is Just Around The Bend
- Mark One – Hoovers And Spraycans
- 808 State – Timebomb
- Altern 8 – Respect Is Due (Breakbeat Hysteria Mix)
- Tic Tac Toe – The Big Blue
- DJ Nex – DJ Nex’s Theme
- Atomizer – Time To Time
- Moby – Permanent Green
- Prodigy – Out Of Space (Celestial Bodies Mix)
- Praga Khan – Kick Back For The Rave Alarm
- Fat Controller – In Complete Darkness
- Messiah – 20,000 Hardcore Members
- Inner City – Let It Reign (Alternate Altern 8 Mix)
- Hardcore Math User – Hyphereoid
- MIDI Rain – Fire
- DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini – Never Try The Hippodrome
- 808 State – Colony
- Wishdokta – Whine You Bottom
- Manix – Hardcore Jungalism
- Foul Play – Finest Illusion (Legal Mix)
- Tom & Jerry – Nine Lives (Mind Out Tube Mice)
- DJ Doc Scott – Surgery (Ordinary Mix)
- Altern 8 – One For John (Strag-O-Late The Chicken Mix)
- Deee-Lite – Good Beat (Beatapella)
- Tom & Jerry – Baby Don’t Shout
- Phuture Assasins – Future Sounds (2 Bad Mice Remix)
- Third Mind – Beans And Barley
- SL2 – DJs Take Control (DJ Seduction Mix)
- Dance Conspiracy – Dub War
- Beyond The Future – Feel It
- Blow – This Is Called The Cutter (Altern-8-ive Hardcore Remix)
- Hyper On Experience – A Certain Emotion
- Criminal Minds – The Criminal
- Kaotic Chemistry – Space Cakes (2 Bad Mice Remix)
- Manix – Feel Real Good (Remix)
- Prodigy – Jericho
- DJ Hype – Weird Energy (Hells’ Bells Mix)
- Orbital – Chime (Ray Keith Mutation)
- Altern 8 – Hypnotic St-8 (St-8 Of Art Edit)
- Austin – I Get High (‘93 Remix)
- Bay B Kane – Bass Pump
- Inner City – Follow You Heart (Altern 8 Annihil 8 Mix)
Enjoy!
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