{"id":3135,"date":"2013-10-23T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2013-10-23T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T10:57:42","slug":"tuesday-ok-wednesday-time-machine-fat-stacks-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/tuesday-ok-wednesday-time-machine-fat-stacks-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday (OK, Wednesday) Time Machine: Fat Stacks Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc3\/1380145_10151652254096927_712360432_n.jpg\" alt=\"Currywurst\"><br \/>\n<i><font size=\"1\">A Berlin classic: Currywurst from Zur Bratpfanne on Schloss Strasse<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ok, this should have been posted yesterday, but such is life!<\/p>\n<p>If you saw <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/getting-back-on-my-feet-in-berlin\/\">Mondayday&#8217;s post<\/a> you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;m currently sorting through my records in our new Berlin flat. So, for today&#8217;s edition of the (very occasional) Tuesday Time Machine, here&#8217;s a look at all nine of the tunes that are nestled (somewhat precariously) on top of the stacks in the picture. I have a big collection, so there are even more tunes out of view!<\/p>\n<p>First up, let&#8217;s jog your memory with the pic again:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc3\/1381395_10151654731666927_1971345320_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8JyV2X7L9MM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Working clockwise from the top left, first up is Liquid Art&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Liquid-Art-Liquid-Art-EP\/release\/70069\">first release on Hook Recordings<\/a>. My pick of the tunes on this release is Xplorer, a classy piece of driving hard trance that was a favorite of Mark EG and M-Zone&#8217;s back in the day. If you want to hear this tune in the mix, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/pearsall-presents-rampage-archives-3\/\">Rampage Archives 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ybBMCtrvMM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On an entirely different tip, to the right of that on the top of my UK Bass pile (most is still in a box, though) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Trusta-Hypnotic-Feel-So\/release\/3657322\">Hypnotic<\/a> by Trusta, a fine slice of, er, hypnotic electro-bass released last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pma9u7OrFJA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the top right-hand corner is my London acid techno pile, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci--Solar-Quest-Bombay-Aloo-Acid-Air-Raid-Remix\/release\/179594\">the awesome Choci &#038; Geezer remix of &#8216;Acid Air Raid&#8217; by Solar Quest<\/a> sitting right on top. As one of the comments on YouTube says, this is &#8220;an absolute belter of a track, if ever there was a poster child for the? facemelting acid sound, you could do a lot worse than this. A track that could transform exhausted dancefloors into wrything seas of jelly at any time of the night.&#8221; A total acid monster which, bizarrely, I have never featured on a mix. This is something that needs to be rectified! In the meantime, if you are looking for acid, how about <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/new-london-acid-techno-mix-7d\/\">my mix for 7D The Seven Dimensions of Euphoria<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqVDulqMouo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the right-hand side we have the first of two piles of European hard trance. For clarity&#8217;s sake, I split them by speed (roughly) with the faster stuff on the left-hand side and the slower stuff on the right. As you can see, I have more slow than fast tunes, and the top record on this pile is Mandala&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Mandala-Remixperience\/release\/42116\">Remixperience EP<\/a> on the almighty Noom Records. This was a special remix EP of Mandala&#8217;s Astralia EP, and it featured remixes from Brainstorm, Commander Tom, and, as featured above, acid trance superhero Cores (aka Michael Kores). Again, this is yet another tune I&#8217;ve not featured on a mix &#8230; even with all of these dozens of mixes, I still have loads of tunes I&#8217;ve never used!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMX6X-uNk98\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the bottom right-hand corner you have one of my dubstep piles (the other is just to the right, out of view), with Kryptic Minds&#8217; awesome album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Kryptic-Minds-One-Of-Us\/release\/2314189\">One Of Us<\/a> on top. Originally released on Swamp 81 in 2010, this is now farcically expensive (at least judging from prices on Discogs), so maybe I should sell it &#8230; Anyways, if you like the &#8216;pure&#8217; halfstep sound, then you can&#8217;t really outdo this album, which is deep, dark atmospheric dubstep, bathed in oceans of sub-bass. Basically, if you like the kinds of nights where the bass is so powerful it makes your nostrils flap like a flag in a hurricane, then you&#8217;ll recognize cuts like Three Views of a Secret (above) or Generation Dub.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csfZB61oARg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Right on the bottom is a tune that I actually featured pretty recently &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coolhand-Flex-Mercy-Mercy-Legal-Rights\/release\/74803\">Mercy Mercy<\/a> by jungle legend Cool Hand Flex, which was the opener on last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/pearsall-dark-side-of-the-nuum-raggajungle\/\">Dark Side of the Nuum<\/a> mix. That&#8217;s the jungle pile right there, so you know there are some serious goodies stacked up!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nw2fpQOHcEs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is cheating slightly, but in the bottom left corner you can see a little sliver of orange. What&#8217;s that? It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Gang-Related-Mask-Concentration-Follow-None\/release\/65203\">Concentration<\/a> by Gang Related and Mask on top of my jump-up drum n&#8217; bass pile. Gang Related and Mask are the aliases used by DJ Krust and Roni Size for their jump-up expeditions on the almighty Dope Dragon label. Sick tune &#8211; <i>and<\/i> featured on a certain mix called <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/pearsall-presents-urban-takedown-new\/\">Urban Shakedown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wh6wrLwRUt8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, I have two piles of European hard trance, and on the left hand side you will find my pile of fast stuff (155 bpm+), with one of the greatest hard trancers of them all sitting pretty on the top &#8211; the infamous hoover monster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Commander-Tom-Volume-One\/release\/22913\">Are Am Eye?<\/a> by the one and only Commander Tom! A tune that absolutely <i>annihilated<\/i> dancefloors upon its release in the mid-90&#8217;s, it features one of the greatest breakdowns ever made, twinkling pianos leading into an industrial grade mentasm fest. 100% classic. As featured on my own <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/pearsall-presents-rampage-audio-2\/\">Rampage Audio 2<\/a> mix.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FF2i5rJhPC4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last but very much not least, right in the middle you find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/LTJ-Bukem-Earth-Volume-One\/release\/23946\">Earth Volume One<\/a>, a compilation of drum n&#8217; bass and downtempo tunes from a number of different producers, as collated by LTJ Bukem. I was actually planning on putting up my fave tune from the comp, &#8216;Tokyo Dawn&#8217; by Doc Scott, but for some (inexplicable) reason, there is no proper full length version of it on YouTube. You can hear it on <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-1\/\">Drop The Hammer 1<\/a> however! So, instead I&#8217;ve put up &#8216;Above And Beyond&#8217; by Funky Technicians (aka Total Science) and PHD, which is a rather lovely atmospheric drum n&#8217; bass tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine tunes to brighten up your Tuesday, from Hard Trance to Jungle to UK Bass to Dubstep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[146,212,12],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tuesday-time-machine","tag-other-stuff","tag-tuesday-time-machine","tag-waffle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}