Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94
Various Artists
Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94
Boomkat Product Review:
Blank Mind herald the dark/light, ruff/sweet dualities of early UK breakbeat hardcore and techno with a killer haul of tunes from Skanna, Escape, Sleepwalker, The Invisible Man, DJ Mayhem and more
After previously hinting at their fascination in this arena with a 2022 reissue of Earth Leakage Trip’s ‘Psychotronic’ - the first Moving Shadow 12”, issued in 1991 - Sam Purcell’s label go all-in with eight properly licensed cuts of prime rave gear characterised by rushy fluxes of euphoria and melancholia, velocity and weightlessness, all from the period between 1991-1994.
The picks are properly on-point, chosen to depict the unique vitality and virtues of that hugely groundbreaking era, when the music urged dancers to move in new ways, and likewise feel and come to terms with the sensations of new drugs such as MDMA that flooded the market and their nerve receptors. This unprecedented fusion of technology and pharmacology would massively transcend its usual underground rhizome and laboratories to make an indelible impact with the mainstream on scale never before heard or felt, and the music surely still brims with a halcyon promise, but also a nervy uncertainty that’s made it to fascinating and affective on successive waves of ravers.
The set’s e-motive thrust can be summed up ideally in the twist of horror movie choral pads and wraithlike breakbeat torsion breaking down to helium diva bliss on DJ Mayhem’s glorious ‘Inesse’ (1993) for Pascal & Sponge’s Face Records, and felt to lip-smacking, pill-triggering effect in the face-freezing arps and breakbeat knife play to Escape’s ‘Escape (The Optical Mix)’, or the buoyant, air-borne fusion of new age promise and aerodynamic rufige in ‘The Flute Tune’ by The Invisible Man. There’s a proper jungle-tekno rush in Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Sleepwalker’s ‘Age of Aquarius (No Surrender, No Retreat)’ also neatly sums up the paradoxical state of ecstasy and dread with its insistent rolige, eyelid-flutter arps and light/dark switches.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Blank Mind herald the dark/light, ruff/sweet dualities of early UK breakbeat hardcore and techno with a killer haul of tunes from Skanna, Escape, Sleepwalker, The Invisible Man, DJ Mayhem and more
After previously hinting at their fascination in this arena with a 2022 reissue of Earth Leakage Trip’s ‘Psychotronic’ - the first Moving Shadow 12”, issued in 1991 - Sam Purcell’s label go all-in with eight properly licensed cuts of prime rave gear characterised by rushy fluxes of euphoria and melancholia, velocity and weightlessness, all from the period between 1991-1994.
The picks are properly on-point, chosen to depict the unique vitality and virtues of that hugely groundbreaking era, when the music urged dancers to move in new ways, and likewise feel and come to terms with the sensations of new drugs such as MDMA that flooded the market and their nerve receptors. This unprecedented fusion of technology and pharmacology would massively transcend its usual underground rhizome and laboratories to make an indelible impact with the mainstream on scale never before heard or felt, and the music surely still brims with a halcyon promise, but also a nervy uncertainty that’s made it to fascinating and affective on successive waves of ravers.
The set’s e-motive thrust can be summed up ideally in the twist of horror movie choral pads and wraithlike breakbeat torsion breaking down to helium diva bliss on DJ Mayhem’s glorious ‘Inesse’ (1993) for Pascal & Sponge’s Face Records, and felt to lip-smacking, pill-triggering effect in the face-freezing arps and breakbeat knife play to Escape’s ‘Escape (The Optical Mix)’, or the buoyant, air-borne fusion of new age promise and aerodynamic rufige in ‘The Flute Tune’ by The Invisible Man. There’s a proper jungle-tekno rush in Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Sleepwalker’s ‘Age of Aquarius (No Surrender, No Retreat)’ also neatly sums up the paradoxical state of ecstasy and dread with its insistent rolige, eyelid-flutter arps and light/dark switches.
Tip!
Boomkat Product Review:
Blank Mind herald the dark/light, ruff/sweet dualities of early UK breakbeat hardcore and techno with a killer haul of tunes from Skanna, Escape, Sleepwalker, The Invisible Man, DJ Mayhem and more
After previously hinting at their fascination in this arena with a 2022 reissue of Earth Leakage Trip’s ‘Psychotronic’ - the first Moving Shadow 12”, issued in 1991 - Sam Purcell’s label go all-in with eight properly licensed cuts of prime rave gear characterised by rushy fluxes of euphoria and melancholia, velocity and weightlessness, all from the period between 1991-1994.
The picks are properly on-point, chosen to depict the unique vitality and virtues of that hugely groundbreaking era, when the music urged dancers to move in new ways, and likewise feel and come to terms with the sensations of new drugs such as MDMA that flooded the market and their nerve receptors. This unprecedented fusion of technology and pharmacology would massively transcend its usual underground rhizome and laboratories to make an indelible impact with the mainstream on scale never before heard or felt, and the music surely still brims with a halcyon promise, but also a nervy uncertainty that’s made it to fascinating and affective on successive waves of ravers.
The set’s e-motive thrust can be summed up ideally in the twist of horror movie choral pads and wraithlike breakbeat torsion breaking down to helium diva bliss on DJ Mayhem’s glorious ‘Inesse’ (1993) for Pascal & Sponge’s Face Records, and felt to lip-smacking, pill-triggering effect in the face-freezing arps and breakbeat knife play to Escape’s ‘Escape (The Optical Mix)’, or the buoyant, air-borne fusion of new age promise and aerodynamic rufige in ‘The Flute Tune’ by The Invisible Man. There’s a proper jungle-tekno rush in Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Sleepwalker’s ‘Age of Aquarius (No Surrender, No Retreat)’ also neatly sums up the paradoxical state of ecstasy and dread with its insistent rolige, eyelid-flutter arps and light/dark switches.
Tip!
Boomkat Product Review:
Blank Mind herald the dark/light, ruff/sweet dualities of early UK breakbeat hardcore and techno with a killer haul of tunes from Skanna, Escape, Sleepwalker, The Invisible Man, DJ Mayhem and more
After previously hinting at their fascination in this arena with a 2022 reissue of Earth Leakage Trip’s ‘Psychotronic’ - the first Moving Shadow 12”, issued in 1991 - Sam Purcell’s label go all-in with eight properly licensed cuts of prime rave gear characterised by rushy fluxes of euphoria and melancholia, velocity and weightlessness, all from the period between 1991-1994.
The picks are properly on-point, chosen to depict the unique vitality and virtues of that hugely groundbreaking era, when the music urged dancers to move in new ways, and likewise feel and come to terms with the sensations of new drugs such as MDMA that flooded the market and their nerve receptors. This unprecedented fusion of technology and pharmacology would massively transcend its usual underground rhizome and laboratories to make an indelible impact with the mainstream on scale never before heard or felt, and the music surely still brims with a halcyon promise, but also a nervy uncertainty that’s made it to fascinating and affective on successive waves of ravers.
The set’s e-motive thrust can be summed up ideally in the twist of horror movie choral pads and wraithlike breakbeat torsion breaking down to helium diva bliss on DJ Mayhem’s glorious ‘Inesse’ (1993) for Pascal & Sponge’s Face Records, and felt to lip-smacking, pill-triggering effect in the face-freezing arps and breakbeat knife play to Escape’s ‘Escape (The Optical Mix)’, or the buoyant, air-borne fusion of new age promise and aerodynamic rufige in ‘The Flute Tune’ by The Invisible Man. There’s a proper jungle-tekno rush in Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Sleepwalker’s ‘Age of Aquarius (No Surrender, No Retreat)’ also neatly sums up the paradoxical state of ecstasy and dread with its insistent rolige, eyelid-flutter arps and light/dark switches.
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Back in stock - All tracks remastered from original DATs, with the exception of Sleepwalker (A1) which has been professionally ripped and cleaned
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Boomkat Product Review:
Blank Mind herald the dark/light, ruff/sweet dualities of early UK breakbeat hardcore and techno with a killer haul of tunes from Skanna, Escape, Sleepwalker, The Invisible Man, DJ Mayhem and more
After previously hinting at their fascination in this arena with a 2022 reissue of Earth Leakage Trip’s ‘Psychotronic’ - the first Moving Shadow 12”, issued in 1991 - Sam Purcell’s label go all-in with eight properly licensed cuts of prime rave gear characterised by rushy fluxes of euphoria and melancholia, velocity and weightlessness, all from the period between 1991-1994.
The picks are properly on-point, chosen to depict the unique vitality and virtues of that hugely groundbreaking era, when the music urged dancers to move in new ways, and likewise feel and come to terms with the sensations of new drugs such as MDMA that flooded the market and their nerve receptors. This unprecedented fusion of technology and pharmacology would massively transcend its usual underground rhizome and laboratories to make an indelible impact with the mainstream on scale never before heard or felt, and the music surely still brims with a halcyon promise, but also a nervy uncertainty that’s made it to fascinating and affective on successive waves of ravers.
The set’s e-motive thrust can be summed up ideally in the twist of horror movie choral pads and wraithlike breakbeat torsion breaking down to helium diva bliss on DJ Mayhem’s glorious ‘Inesse’ (1993) for Pascal & Sponge’s Face Records, and felt to lip-smacking, pill-triggering effect in the face-freezing arps and breakbeat knife play to Escape’s ‘Escape (The Optical Mix)’, or the buoyant, air-borne fusion of new age promise and aerodynamic rufige in ‘The Flute Tune’ by The Invisible Man. There’s a proper jungle-tekno rush in Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Sleepwalker’s ‘Age of Aquarius (No Surrender, No Retreat)’ also neatly sums up the paradoxical state of ecstasy and dread with its insistent rolige, eyelid-flutter arps and light/dark switches.
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