Karl K - Dubplate Selection (Who Run Tings?) (1995)

Throughout most of 1995, I, along with a good chunk of the Philly rave scene, regularly attended the dark, cavernous confines of the basement known as Club Fever, specifically the Thursday night weekly New World parties. This tape hails from that time period, as it was not only acquired from Karl K at one of those parties but a good chunk of what's on this tape is stuff he regularly dropped in his sets at the time. This mix was a fixture in my walkman, cassette deck, and any car I was riding in, and remains of of my favorite mixes to this day.

It's a blistering weave of ragga, techstep, hardstep, jump up, rnb & hip-hop vocal samples, and jazzy atmospherics combined with Karl's usual cutting and scratching - it's, in a word: jungle. And it's awesome. Look out for the brief appearance of MC Dub 2 in the second half. Below is a partial track list, if anyone is willing to fill in the blanks please do in the comments :)

Karl K - Dubplate Selection (Who Run Tings?) (Side 1)


Tonic - The Mack
Ed Rush - Gun Check
T Power - The Mutant (DJ Trace Remix)
Eternal Bass - One Movement
Roni Size - Timestretch (Origin Unknown Remix)
DJ Krust - Set Speed
???
Ray Keith - Sing Time
DJ SS & Mental Power - Blue
Funki Porcini - King Ashabanapal (Dillinja Remix)
Shy FX - This Style
Babylonian - Ball Of Fire
MTS - Baad Boy Sound
Therapy? - Loose (Photek Remix)
Q Project & Spinback - Riker's Island (Dream Mix)

Karl K - Dubplate Selection (Who Run Tings?) (Side 2)


???
JMJ & Richie - Free La Funk
Shogun - Reflex
The Mack - Hip To The Hoppa
Desired State - Here & Now
???
Splash - Babylon (DJ Trace Remix)
Dillinja - You Don't Know (Remix)
Photek - Complex
???
Roger Johnson - The Drifter
Jack Ruby - Another World

Keep in mind these are ripped from very old cassette tapes, the sound quality is not the best! Click the play button to stream, or to download: just click on the "divshare" logo. On that next page, click the "download" button. You'll get a 15 second countdown, then it takes you to the same "download" screen again. Click "download" again, it will prompt you to open or save. Save and import into itunes, winamp, etc, and viola! Whatever way you do it, enjoy!

Welcome to drumskool215!

Hey everyone! Hope this blog finds you well. (This blogging thing is actually getting out of control at this point, I'm writing for like 5 of them - even though I don't write anything cause I'm a lazy procrastinator, lol.)

Recently I was given (from my amazingly awesome and beautiful better half) this nifty little iKey M3 digital recorder, so now begins the massive effort to digitally encode all my old cassette tapes (and records), mostly of Philly jungle and drum and bass sets by likes of DJ Trace, Karl K, Kaos, Boy Blue, J. Smooth, Magin Boo, Art Cuebik, Armen, myself, among others.... we'll see what we can get permission to post here! ;)

I'm also looking for contributors, so if you've got some old mixes or tracks you'd like to share please send them my way. Or if you're an old skool DJ and have some old sets you'd like us to post please get in touch! And bookmark us! And tell your friends!

To start things off, I'm posting the first episode of the official Drumskool215 podcast, mixed by yours truly. The podcast will soon be available to download and subscribe to on iTunes, but until then you can enjoy a direct download, extra special thanks to Dennis @ selektarecordings.com for hosting the mix!

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Aphrodite – Raw Motion (Aphrodite, 1992)
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