{"id":3323,"date":"2014-01-24T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2014-01-29T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T09:16:18","slug":"freeform-friday-unreleased-freeform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/freeform-friday-unreleased-freeform\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeform Friday: Unreleased Freeform"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3324\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewYorkCity-ALifeWorthEating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewYorkCity-ALifeWorthEating.jpg\" alt=\"New York City by night - photo by alifewortheating\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewYorkCity-ALifeWorthEating.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewYorkCity-ALifeWorthEating-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewYorkCity-ALifeWorthEating-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York City by night &#8211; photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/jigzMuA76G\/\">alifewortheating<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s edition of Freeform Friday is all about celebrating those classic bits of freeform that never saw wax, for whatever reason. Some have since emerged as free MP3&#8217;s (never quite the same thing), some remain in limbo, and some, well, seem to be lost forever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with two tracks from Sharkey&#8217;s mix on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Hixxy-Sharkey-Dougal-Bonkers-3-A-Journey-Into-Madness\/master\/126276\">Bonkers 3<\/a>, which was, imo, perhaps the single best edition in that hallowed series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_h3b005fHYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First up is the instrumental mix of <i>Sound Assassin<\/i> by Sharkey. It&#8217;s an absolutely massive tune, albeit one that will sadly never see the light of day, as to my understanding the original DAT was lost and all that was left were a few scratchy dubplates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqecj6zF87U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next up is another tune from the same album, <i>Ravechief<\/i> by Ramos &#038; UFO, who were two of the finest producers of early freeform\/trancecore. Sadly this tune was never released, even though Ramos was running RSR for many years and put out a large number of fine tunes on it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvxWSO8_NOk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bang The Future were Billy &#8216;Daniel&#8217; Bunter and Rob Vanden, and collectively they were the team behind super-influential label GBT, through which they released many of the best early trancecore tunes and helped set the pace for the scene to come. One tune that never made it to wax, however, was <i>Elek Tek<\/i>, an awesome rolling number that had only ever appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Hardcore-Explosion-2\/release\/353788\">Hardcore Explosion 2<\/a> compilation until Bunter released it as a free limited download last year. Quality tune.<\/p>\n<p>For you freeform lovers out there, any cool unreleased tunes I should have included?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at classic unreleased freeform from Sharkey, Ramos &#038; UFO, and Bang The Future<\/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":[181],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-freeform-friday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}