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| Tykal - Artistic Vynal vs. Vinyl Addiction |
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Style: '94-'95 jungle
MC(s): none
Sound Quality: very good, excellent
Notes: 50 minutes; 256kbps; New York City, USA
"For mix number 9 in the series, I've finally enacted a concept I've been meaning to for some time now: take two minor, relatively obscure labels with roughly the same number of releases and pit them against each other in a mix, not so much in a competitive sense as in a representation of both how they might complement one another & how they might highlight one another's stylistic differences.
For today we have two labels with 4 jungle releases a piece, both spanning the years 1994-1995: Artistic Vynal & Vinyl Addiction. Both start off with a dirtier sounding production style & then clean it up in the middle two releases before ending with killer finales. Interestingly enough, I would rate the releases on both in the following order: 4,1,3,2.
Here's a few notes on each:
Artistic Vynal:
http://www.discogs.com/label/Artistic+Vinyl+Recordings
Based on what I can gather from discogs, it seems like Mind Therapy and Beats R Us are the same people, Eric L. and Chris L. The style of tunes seems similar enough for it to be the case, and considering that the first names & last initials are the same, that seems to be more than just a coincidence to me.
To try to describe the style, the word choppy comes to mind, as in there's a staccato dimension to the drumwork rather than the straightforward roll of your usual amens, but they manage to make it choppy without sacrificing cohesion. Something I think you have to hear to understand.
On a personal aside, AVR004 was the second jungle record I ever bought, and remains within my top ten to date, for much more than reasons of nostalgia. When you get to the end of the mix, you'll hear why.
Beginning with AVR03, the second part of Artistic Vynal's name was switched on the labels to Vinyl, hence the name change on the tracklist. Perhaps the mis-spelling was merely an oversight, but given that the discrepancy was repeated on two seperate releases, I'm not so sure. Artistic Vinyl did eventually have a fifth release in the early 2000s, but it was garage...needless to say, I refuse to play it.
Despite that, this might just be my favorite label ever...in any given day it's at the very least within the top three.
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Vinyl Addiction:
http://www.discogs.com/label/Vinyl+Addiction+(2)
Vinyl Addiction I came to through a thorough investigation of Love Dove Jay's work after hearing a couple of his tunes on other labels. I was quite pleased so I decided to give the rest ago & wasn't disappointed. Dillinja seems to have played a part in the label, engineering at least the second release, which has a Dillinja-esque quality to the timbre of the amens, something I'm not particularly fond of, but there's enough of a variation from an actual Dillinja tune to keep me interested. You can hear slight remnants of hardcore in the first release although the drumwork is quite unlike either hardcore or jungle. The third release is a nice slice of wax with atypical ragga samples. Not exactly a stand-out label in my mind, but a good contrast to AVR & definitely something worth giving a spin around the old beanpole every now & again, moreso in the case of the fourth & firth releases.
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Fans of the Artistic Vynal tunes who would like to delve further should check E3 recordings for some of Mind Therapy's earlier work. Fans of the Vinyl Addiction tunes should check Mask Records for a very similar roster of artists under the same names & pseudonyms."
http://www.discogs.com/label/Mask+Records+(2)
http://www.discogs.com/label/E3+Recordings+(2)
Track List:
01 (00:00) Beats R Us - Untitled A - Artistic Vynal 01
02 (03:40) DJ Bizz - Untitled B2 - Vinyl Addiction 01
03 (07:39) Beats R Us - Untitled AA - Artistic Vynal 01
04 (10:40) Ragu & Stalker - Raw Jungle - Vinyl Addiction 02
05 (14:49) Beats R Us - Natural Born Killers - Artistic Vynal 02
06 (18:07) Akustic Research - Back Against The Wall - Vinyl Addiction 03
07 (23:23) Mind Therapy - It Ain't Over - Artistic Vinyl 03
08 (27:16) Love Dove Jay - I Just Dream - Vinyl Addiction 04
09 (31:45) Mind Therapy - What Goes Around - Artistic Vinyl 03
10 (36:33) Love Dove Jay - Stick Em Up - Vinyl Addiction 04
11 (41:39) Beats R Us - Clear and Present Danger - Artistic Vinyl 04
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