Dec 22, 2007

Rhotation, ( 11) Into BPM

Hello, its been one of those days..i was busy working at the pc when i started smelling melting plastic (?) then my pc switched off came back on and 2 min later out again..took the covers off cleaned it out but restarting didnt make it too the wallpaper.. Ouch. No change copying data. Now i got another system but that caused some troubles aswell, before i could work with it..silly stuff and i cant connect my trackball-of which ive been very fond of for 9 years now, i really dont understand why all of you are mousing along all the time. Well obviously all this cut into my preperation time so today..

In October 2000 React celebrated its 10th birthday, but it celebrated more than that. The history of the label tells the story of how acid house and club culture came of age. As React grew into one of the most successful and long-running independent dance labels in Britain, so did dance music. Nostalgics would tell you that club culture's days of innocence are gone, but, for all their success, React still believed in the same things they always have. Many dance labels rose and fell over the previous decade, but React continued to stay ahead of the pack.

Although React was enjoying its best period of turnover and profit for 5 years, the label was owed in excess of £1,000,000 in distributed income from 4am/Flute, part of the Beechwood Music group of companies that went into voluntary administration in June. Following Beechwood’s closure, React was unable to extract any monies due or trade out of such debts and as a result the label was forced into voluntary administration on 16th June 2004. In its place, a new company, Resist Music, has been set up by React's James Horrocks and Melissa Kemp and has since acquired the staff, rights and catalogue of React and is now officially open for business.

Here are two great Various Drum & Bass double albums released by the React . Artcore 3 & 4,  and in two flava's..

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Celebrating D n B as an expression of thought and feeling, from the height of idyllic opimism to the depths of inner turmoil. Feel the urban uniformity, the hope tinged with soulfull realism and the freestyle freshness...each track of this compilation communiquates a unique ideausing both simple and sophisticated techniques, food for the thoughtful..enjoy



VA - Artcore 3 (97 * 448mb)

1-01 - Bliss 'n' Tumble - The Journey (6:34)
1-02 - Ken Ishii - Stretch (Shogun Remix) (7:42)
1-03 - Underwolves, The - The Crossing Pt.II (Words) (6:14)
1-04 - Dave Wallace - Expressions Pt.2 (7:45)
1-05 - Icons - Electric Soul (6:16)
1-06 - Spirit - Solar Glide (7:36)
1-07 - Tribe Zero 2 - Death By Sax (7:06)
1-08 - Garbage - Milk (Goldie's VIP Trash Your Sh*t Mix) (7:43)
1-09 - Ed Rush - Skylab (6:19)
1-10 - Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing (7:58)

VA - Artcore 3-2  (flac 470mb)

2-01 - DJ Die - Reincarnation (6:08)
2-02 - Danny Breaks The Bear (7:50)
2-03 - Peshay - On The Nile (8:26)
2-04 - Larry Heard & Nookie - Mystical People (6:18)
2-05 - Saint Etienne - The Sea (PFM Remix) (9:36)
2-06 - Intense - Motions (VIP Mix) (7:33)
2-07 - Wayward Minds - Homeland X-Pressive Journey (8:35)
2-08 - Zed - Pulse (VIP Mix) (6:59)
2-09 - Adam F - F-Jam (7:23)
2-10 - A-Sides & Nathan Haines - Ave Maria (8:19)

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Artcore moves to a fourth dimensions following the progress, here selected are the cream of contemporary drum and bass . This volume focuses on a fresh wave of beat technology where state of the art drumprogramming as at the forefront of a more minimal sound, leaving your speakers plenty of space to breathe. A recurring techno theme ranging from raw analogue to more polished Detroit sound features as one of the newer flavas of this drum and bass collection..



VA - Artcore 4 - DnB Beat Technology (97* 459mb)

1-01 - Justice and Tertius - Essential 4 Life (6:35)
1-02 - A Forest Mighty Black - Tides (Peshay and Flytronix Remix) (6:25)
1-03 - Subject 13 - Mystical Flyte (7:22)
1-04 - Smoke Screen - Nu Breeze (6:40)
1-05 - Matrix - Fluid Motion (5:15)
1-06 - DJ Krust - Soul In Motion (11:04)
1-07 - Boymerang - Mind Control (8:31)
1-08 - Decoder - Vapour Rub (6:57)
1-09 - Optical - Cryogenesis (5:39)
1-10 - State Logik - Technologik (7:20)

VA - Artcore 4 - DnB Beat Technology 2  (flac  441mb)

2-01 - Dilemma - Spring Box (Matrix Vip Remix) (6:55)
2-02 - Andy C and Shimon - Genetix (5:50)
2-03 - Digital and Spirit - Shockwave (Vip Mix) (6:27)
2-04 - Jonny L - Piper (5:58)
2-05 - Future Passed - Searching For A Beat (6:14)
2-06 - Kitachi - Spirit (6:35)
2-07 - Spinback and Q Project - Led (Vip Mix) (7:02)
2-08 - Blu Mar Ten - The Fountain (11:04)
2-09 - Override - Pac 3 (6:54)
2-10 - Chicane - Sunstroke (Mission Control Remix) (6:45)

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All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Many thanks for this.On that time 1997/98 i moved to UK ,and i still have my Artcore tapes (Vol. 1, 3 and 4 )here now (in Portugal),if you have the chance to get Vol. 2 please post it ,cos i never listened it...
Your blog is one of the best!

Rho said...

Hello Axept, Thanks for the complimet, alas i have to dissapoint you i don't have Vol.2, but there will be more great DnB in upcoming posts.

Happy Holidays,

Rho

Miegman said...

Thanks for this. You know how long I've been looking for this.I still have the original artcore cd made in 1995. Now I have the same problem I don't have Artcore 2.Thanks again.

Anonymous said...

Hi Rho, any chance for another re-up?
Thank you!!

Giorgos

Anonymous said...

Haputmayut yeidiz.

Anonymous said...

Hi Rho, I think as we are more than a year I am OK to ask for a reup for the ArtCore releases?

Thanks for your blog