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I'm thinking this is the last one I'm going to do of these for a while now. Feel the need to get in to something else for a bit....
Not that I'll stop listening to BBC6Music and picking my favourite tracks & artists and dropping them in a mix, but I just think it might be time to retire the Isolation Tapes and see what else is out there.
But if I'm going out, then I'm going with a bang!
Plenty of breaks, drums, and bass, from dancehall, drum & bass, electro, to old school 90's house, ska, blues, Latin jazz, soul, and some funky fresh hip hop. Plus, as usual, a few little snippets of something you can't really describe but it wouldn't be one of my mixes without them!
You on it yet or what then? Last chance and that, yeah?
Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats Volume 1
Various Artists
1998, Tommy Boy
The Tommy Boy catalogue has been endlessly repackaged over the years, but if you’re looking to score some of the classics on wax you could do worse than this late ‘90s double LP compilation. Tommy Boy had commemorated its first 15 years with a 2xCD/4xLP box set of the label’s “Greatest Beats,” but for the more cost-conscious consumer also broke the vinyl set out into individual volumes. Volume 1 sadly (sadly!) does not include anything by Coolio or House of Pain, for which you would have to splash out for Volume 2, but what is here’s pretty good: both Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” and “Renegades of Funk” (the latter in its full 12” glory); the 12” mix of De La Soul’s debut “Plug Tunin’ (Are You Ready for This”); early electro gem “Play at Your Own Risk” by Planet Patrol (likewise in 12” format); Stetsasonic, Naughty by Nature, Digital Underground and more.
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The selection admittedly feels a bit random without the accompanying Volume 2 (we get K7’s minor New Jack-dancehall hit “Move it Like This” rather than his smash “Come Baby Come” for example), and it’d be hard to argue fun but forgettable cuts like Choice MC’s instrumental b-side “Gordy’s Groove” or Bambaataa and James Brown collab “Unity” belong on a “hits” comp for a label of Tommy Boy’s magnitude. Not all of the actual hits are winners either—Club Nouveau’s Grammy-winning Kidz Bop version of Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” has aged like a Kidz Bop reunion tour. On balance though, the set does a good job of representing the label’s hip-hop, dance, electro, and R&B sides, delivering some of the most influential Black music of the past forty years, a heap of ‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia, and some sure-shot party fuel. Drop the needle and hit the floor.
‘‘This is the definitive compilation of the short-lived but extraordinary Illbient scene that rolled through NYC in the mid-90's; just about the time the name caught hold, everyone ran away from it. Though this album carries the work of four different groups/producers, it flows through like one long dark ride through the underworld, passing abbatoirs, reliquaries, catacombs, and long seas of gloom and lost souls. "Dancehall Malfunction" is one of the heaviest crushing basslines you'll ever hear. Fans of dubstep/grime might be surprised to find that much of it was already done ten years previously.‘‘