#reprazent

[nando161mando]

Roni Size / Reprazent - New Forms Feat. Bahamadia

[mudwerks]

(via Roni Size, Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag (1997)

[maquina-semiotica]

Reprazent, "Enter As One" #NowPlaying

[ostberlinanalogue]

Roni Size and Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag"

[twunny20fission]

My thoughts on Pitchfork's 150 best albums of the 1990s; #130-121

Reminder: three completely subjective criteria. 1: do I like it, yes or no? (Basically, is this for me?) 2: Would I recommend it to anyone, yes or no? (is this for anyone else?) and 3: Is it better than STPs "Core"? (The lowest bar. Few things are better than "Purple," but Core should absolutely be in the top 150, so that's the bar.)

130: Maxwell: Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite (1996). Not my thing. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

129: Tom Petty: Wildflowers (1994). One of the very few immortal albums of the 1990s Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

128: Drexciya: Neptune’s Lair (1999). A revelation. I'd never even caught whiff of this artist. Phenomenal. Listen to "Surface Terrestrial Colonization" as soon as you can. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

127: Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990). She's great, the album is good. It's very hard to judge here. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": maybe?

126: Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). ODB was a real one. He's not as good as Wu-Tang together hitting their stride. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": no

125: Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (1997). I love Modest Mouse as much as the next middle-class, ealy-40s curmudgeon. Deserves to be higher. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

124: Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (1992). Tori Amos was of her time, and a hugely important artist. Do I enjoy listening to her? Not really. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": probably

123: Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand (1994). This is...not music. I guess it didn't say these had to be MUSIC ALBUMS, but this is too far. I don't get it, and I don't get why anyone would get it. *Cary-Grant_out.gif* Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

122: Roni Size / Reprazent: New Forms (1997). It was fine, but it didn't sink in very deep and all the songs sounded the same. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

121: Garbage: Garbage (1995). Hell. Yes. In my bubble, Garbage never got the esteem they deserved. They were both of their time and ahead of their time. No matter how many times I listen to this album, I never tire of it. Top-notch 1990s stuff here. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

[medullam]

Roni Size & Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag" [1997]

BBC Radio 1 30th Anniversary

[liliana-von-k]

[spilladabalia]

Roni Size, Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag

[sunsettsimss]

URL Song Tag

Rules of the game: link a song for each letter of your username

Better late than never, right?! 🥲 thanks luv @budgie2budgie for tagging meeeee 🫶🏽✨

Silent My Song - Lykke Li

Up The Hudson - The Dirty Projectors

New Forms (ft. Bahamadia) - Roni Size, Reprazent

Send It On - D’angelo

En bas (ft. Siboy) - 4Keus

Terminator - Asake

Toy - Young Fathers

Son Shine - Sault

Invaincu - Stromae

My Girls - Animal Collective

Sugar Water - Cibo Matto

Stay Flo - Solange

[randomvarious]

Today's mix:

Movement - Perpetual Drum & Bass Motion by Bryan Gee / Ray Keith 2000 Drum n Bass / Jungle

Whooo boy, this one here was absolute fire, folks! Back in 2000, Movement, one of the best club nights in the world for both drum n bass and jungle, decided that they were going to expand beyond the confines of their regular Bar Rumba venue in London and take their show out on the road. And in order to do that, they set up their own small label so they could release mixes, and used this super dope double-disc debut in particular to promote their upcoming inaugural tour.

So what we have here with this pretty slept-on release that I can't even find decent album art for (😩) are a pair of sets from consummate dnb legends: one from Bryan Gee, who along with Jumpin Jack Frost founded the stalwart V Recordings, and the other from Ray Keith, an early pioneer in the jungle and dnb scene too. Together, the two of them provide us with a glimpse of what a night at Movement sounded like, with Ray Keith laying down a more nostalgia-tinged 'classics' set, and Bryan Gee mixing up a slate of 'currents.'

But what might be confusing here is that, if you didn't know any better, you might get these two discs confused, because while Bryan Gee's mix is chronologically the more contemporary one, it really doesn't sound like it! My man strings together a whole bunch of deliciously chaotic jungle jams from a then-present day, but being that jungle was a predecessor to drum n bass in the first place, his selections make his set feel a whole lot more vintage than it actually is. And what's more is that you might think that the 'classics' disc would be the better of the two as well—because, well, they're classics!—but the newer disc that sounds older is definitely the better one here, because while Ray Keith does a good job of keeping things steadily chugging with a slew of similarly constructed dnb selections until his final, far more intense leg, it's Bryan Gee who goes full-on bananas with his session by leaning far more heavily into that raw, atom-splitting, junglist bliss 🫨.

There are a total of 19 tracks in Bryan Gee's mix, and from its fifth one—Krust's "Kloakin Device"—to its fifteenth—The Pedge's "Whats Up Now Partner"—he manages to unleash an absolute, brain-battering barrage of mostly y2k jungle fury, sublimely putting on full display why Movement was one of the greatest club nights in all of dance music at the time. Ray Keith's contribution here is pretty damn good, but Bryan Gee is just on a whole different level with his disc; and part of the run that makes his set so incredible includes a banger from Ray Keith himself too! Gotta love that!

And for those who might be unfamiliar with the sonic differences between jungle and drum n bass—a topic that is perpetually up for debate in and of itself—here's a 90s jungle playlist post I did sometime ago where I tried to explain it as best I could 😅.

Listen to CD1 here. Listen to CD2 here.

Highlights:

CD1:

Breakbeat Era - "Ultra Obscene" Shy FX - "Bambaata" Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag" Marcus Intalex & ST Files - "How You Make Me Feel" Reprazent - "Watching Windows (DJ Die Mix)" Swift - "The One" Bad Company - "The Nine" Souljah - "Fade 2 Black" John B - "Salsa Remix" SS - "Lighter VIP 2000 AD" Renegade - "Terrorist (Dom & Roland Remix)" Digital & Spirit - "Phantom Force"

CD2:

Dragon - "Noodles" Q Project - "Champion Sound (Total Science Mix)" DJ Krust - "Kloakin Devices" Ray Keith - "LFO" Twisted Anger - "Dread Come 2 Conquer" Digital - "Ease Off" Phantom Audio - "Remote Control" Digital - "One Ton" Wots My Code - "Dub Plate (Total Science Mix)" Ram Trilogy - "Titan" Bad Company & DJ Trace - "Tumpa (Flashback)" The Pedge - "What's Up Now Partner" Supply & Demand - "Love the One You're With" J Majik Feat Kathy Brown - "Love Is Not a Game (Original Mix)" Solid State - "Just a Vision (Marcus Intalex & ST Files Mix)" Peshay - "Nu Jack Swing"

[maquina-semiotica]

Reprazent, "Enter As One"

[h0shidisk]

roni size + reprazent *new forms*

[koholint]

today’s playlist:

OuterWords feat. Yo-Ko - High-Speed Voyage

Magick A - Swingstar Overdrive

Yokota - Few

Cosmorama feat. Angie Brown - A New Beginning

Fantastic Explosion - Ride On

Zion I - Elevation

Ranran Suzuki - Bless My Stars

Roni Size & Reprazent - Electricks

Nobuyoshi Sano - Chika Heiki Souko ~ Geijutsu Noujou: BIODOME 1

Jacob’s Optical Stairway - The Fusion Formula

Voyager - Martian Chronics

Koda - Crisis

Minus 8 - Rita’s Song

Amazon II - Booyaaa!

Herbie Hancock - Black Gravity

Kid Loops - Sixes & Sevens

Rantoul - Default

MANYO & Hikaru Urata - RING of Genocide

Solar Twins - Better Life

Kid606 - Buckle Up

Amen Andrews - Junglebunny

Electrostatic - Temporal Flux

Mendelayev - 3 Emotions

Alex Cortex - Untitled

thanks for listening!