FZ
Forbidden Zone
Boomkat Product Review:
IYKYK!!! After DJ Fokus’ early jungle zingers, Fundamental Frequencies tick off the stunning hardcore body music obscurity of ‘Forbidden Zone’, a Nitzer Ebb and NWA-sampling, ’91 hardcore bullet utterly coveted by the fiends, and newly uncovered as the work of Floyd Dice, aka Production House and producer behind Baby D’s ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’.
Prized as a secret weapon by successive generations of DJs and ravers, ‘Forbidden Zone’ was snuck out on FZ, long confirmed as a sublabel of Production House, in 1991. It has since remained at the front of the best record boxes, adored for its euphoric/darkside switches and as a strange, atavistic vestige of the hardcore era, when UK fast rap was augmented by raving breakbeat science and pick ’n mix sampledelia.
We’re genuinely flabbergasted to see that it’s been legitimately reissued, and over the moon to see suspicions of its provenance confirmed to Floyd Dice, who produced absolute bangers as The Brothers Grimm and Nino, not to mention Baby D - but we’ve always heard similarities between his use of EBM/electro-style basslines on Nino’s stonker, ’The Gun’, and this one, so we’ll treat ourselves a pat on the back for lunch.
In three versions, ‘Forbidden Zone’ simply slays with a practically unprecedented alloy of body music styles. In the similar-sounding first and third mixes, a big ring synth fanfare gives way to fusions of Nitzer Ebb’s tendon-tuned EBM bassline from ‘Join in the Chant’ and rasping breaks, with the differences lying in-the-mix and its use of untreated and sped-up UK rap vox, that are squashed into a rugged but iced-out 2nd mix.
While early rave, rap and EBM clearly shared the intent to move bodies harder, they were practically, mutually exclusive bedfellows in ’91, which made FZ’s efforts stand out a mile, then and now. According to the UK’s deep sense of fractious tribalism, they would continue to dance around, but not with, each other ever since, and one can only imagine what may have come if FZ’s near-mythical 12” was made more widely available BITD.
Fundamental Frequencies are doing holy work, and now make it three out of three essentials with this reissue. What the fuck are they going to tick off the wants list next?!
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Boomkat Product Review:
IYKYK!!! After DJ Fokus’ early jungle zingers, Fundamental Frequencies tick off the stunning hardcore body music obscurity of ‘Forbidden Zone’, a Nitzer Ebb and NWA-sampling, ’91 hardcore bullet utterly coveted by the fiends, and newly uncovered as the work of Floyd Dice, aka Production House and producer behind Baby D’s ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’.
Prized as a secret weapon by successive generations of DJs and ravers, ‘Forbidden Zone’ was snuck out on FZ, long confirmed as a sublabel of Production House, in 1991. It has since remained at the front of the best record boxes, adored for its euphoric/darkside switches and as a strange, atavistic vestige of the hardcore era, when UK fast rap was augmented by raving breakbeat science and pick ’n mix sampledelia.
We’re genuinely flabbergasted to see that it’s been legitimately reissued, and over the moon to see suspicions of its provenance confirmed to Floyd Dice, who produced absolute bangers as The Brothers Grimm and Nino, not to mention Baby D - but we’ve always heard similarities between his use of EBM/electro-style basslines on Nino’s stonker, ’The Gun’, and this one, so we’ll treat ourselves a pat on the back for lunch.
In three versions, ‘Forbidden Zone’ simply slays with a practically unprecedented alloy of body music styles. In the similar-sounding first and third mixes, a big ring synth fanfare gives way to fusions of Nitzer Ebb’s tendon-tuned EBM bassline from ‘Join in the Chant’ and rasping breaks, with the differences lying in-the-mix and its use of untreated and sped-up UK rap vox, that are squashed into a rugged but iced-out 2nd mix.
While early rave, rap and EBM clearly shared the intent to move bodies harder, they were practically, mutually exclusive bedfellows in ’91, which made FZ’s efforts stand out a mile, then and now. According to the UK’s deep sense of fractious tribalism, they would continue to dance around, but not with, each other ever since, and one can only imagine what may have come if FZ’s near-mythical 12” was made more widely available BITD.
Fundamental Frequencies are doing holy work, and now make it three out of three essentials with this reissue. What the fuck are they going to tick off the wants list next?!
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