Remarc's "come-back" continues with another selection of his work from the golden age of jungle, 1994-1996. This time it's tracks that never saw full release for one reason or another and in case you didn't know, Remarc likes the Amen break. REALLY likes it and to be fair he's very skilled in manipulating it. Tracks of note here including his reworking of Prizna's classic "Fire" featuring Demolition Man on vocals, a VIP mix of "Ricky" and the vocal & dub versions of "Bad No Bloodclart".
remarc puts you in the middle of a warzone - any moment you might be blown away by anything from a landmine to an artillery shell - you may not make it, your only hope is the adrenalin pumping through your veins... your position on the battlefield changes from moment to moment:
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you're riding in a tank - you've been picked up, sole survivor of your platoon - metal walls clanging all round you, your body vibrates with the roar of the engine (the ...more
This collection of unreleased dub plates used by Remarc "back in the day" is another essential from the jungle DJ, although perhaps not quite as impressive as the collection released earlier this year on the Soundmurderer album (not to be confused with the artist Soundmurderer who's early drum and bass retrospective was released on Rephlex earlier this year). Tracks like Darkworld and Da Drums show Remarc at the pinnacle of dark drum and bass, whilst the two versions of ...more
I'm easily excited, but a CD with a dope gold graff styled tag on it with a sticker that says "a collection of never-before-heard dubplates of the most rinsing jungle from back in the day, by the Amen break's greatest practitioner," well that's gonna get my ass tingling. This CD is so fun they should prescribe it to miserable fucks instead of that gut rotting Prozac bullshit. Really good jungle could save the world, man. This is even more rinsing than I hoped. No ...more