Various - UR Battlepak Vol. 1

Here's a wee Ripped In Glasgow mp3 mixing competition, for the UR hardcore, heh heh.

"DJ Buzz "Bangin" Goree, UR's veteran hitman assembles and loops his favorite UR tracks! One minutes slices of the mysterious madness! These battlepaks are designed for daring DJ's on a mission! Not for the faint of heart!"

I must admit I hadn't heard of this bizarre UR record until I picked it up for the princely sum of £1.99 in the Rub-A-Dub sale the other day. You get two copies of the same record - each one featuring 16 loops that last exactly one minute. WTF?!?!?

There's a volume 2 as well, and no I've not got it. So, here's the challenge for when you get bored over Xmas - shove 'em into your mp3 DJ-ing software of choice and fire up the results. Easy! The prize? My copy of the double-pack of course...



Various - UR Battlepak Vol. 1
A1 - Underground Resistance - Nannytown
A2 - Suburban Knight - Maroon
A3 - Pervtech - Webcam Freakshow
A4 - Mad Mike - Moor Horseman On Bolarus 5
A5 - Underground Resistance - Electronic Warfare
A6 - The Aquanauts - Spawn
A7 - Underground Resistance - Message To The Majors
A8 - Underground Resistance - Riot
B1 - Mad Mike - The Actuator
B2 - Remote - Protecting My Hive
B3 - Underground Resistance - Twista (The Dance)
B4 - Underground Resistance - Soul Power
B5 - Mr. Bubble - Bubble Beats
B6 - Underground Resistance - Fiber Optic Commando
B7 - DJ Rolando - Mi Raza
B8 - Mad Mike - Soul Circuits

Don't buy it here, get it out RAD instead

The Martian - Star Dancer

You might have noticed I've had the painters in here at R-i-G Towers. This tune goes out to my main man DG who is responsible for the facelift. Not only is he a STAR, but he's a no bad wee DANCER when the mood takes him *cough*...

This, like the Cajmere one below, was one of the first ever *TUNE*s that I heard when I started clubbing, one of those ones where I just had to know what it was. "What the fuck's that flanged track?" was the question on all our lips.

Once I got my paws on it I took it round to a mate's house who (a) had decks and (b) had another copy of this (I didn't get my decks till my first proper pay packet in 1995). He'd figured that if you played two copies together the phasing would go nuts. Sure enough it does. If you have this record you should mix it to this mp3 and see for yourself. Even if not, try to play it on an mp3 mixing thing like VirtualDJ. Mental!


The Martian - Star Dancer
(new linky)

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Red Planet - Ghostdancer Double Pack

This stems from back in 1995 or so, when it was perfectly reasonable to pay £14.99 on a regular basis for a double-pack 12" single. I used to enjoy seeing how carefully I could slit down the shrink wrap so that it kept its shape and didn't shrivel up. What a sad cunt...

So - Red Planet. One-hit-wonders with Stardancer/Cosmic Movement? Surely not - I'd dare to say that as a collection, this is more than a match for that track, although it got a lot more 'playin out' at the likes of Pussypower and Pure. (Scroll a wee bit down here for more on Pure, including a wee mixtape)

7 tracks, which have taken fuckin ages to mp3 - hope some other bastard's not beaten me to it already.



A: Ghostdancer
B1: Medicine Man
B2: Marisian Probes Over Montana
C1: Starchild
C2: The Vanishing Race
D1: The Talking Rocks of Mars
D2: Windwalker

Rather than individual tracks this one's up as a ZIP on Sendspace.

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