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Haste

Producer, DJ, vinyl nut
Jungle, hardcore, UK garage, happy hardcore

Stan Bush – The Touch

Awesome piece of 80s cheese straight out of the Transformers movie. Got to link to Mark Wahlberg’s amazing version of it in Boogie Nights – it’s a massively impressive performance, it must have been pretty tricky to get it to sound that bad. This tune also came out on a totally awesome picture disc that a friend was kind enough to give me for my birthday a couple of years back. Too cool for school

Teedra Moses – Just Wanna Be Your Girl

Little bit of R&B here. Always liked the keys in this tune and the background vocals in the chorus. Vids got some nice shots of New York in too. You gotta love a song where the singer admits to having a little fiddle downstairs – “sometimes I even touch myself” – TMI?

Camp Lo – Luchini

Top tune from 1997. Big horns sample from Dynasty’s Adventures In The Land Of Music. Not much more to say than that…

Not so brief notes on a career in the music biz

Luna-C, main man behind the Smart-Es and Kniteforce Records has a lengthy history of his musical career up on the Kniteforce Revolution website.

I’d really recommend setting aside some time to read it if you’re at all a fan of UK hardcore music or, in fact, you just want to know about one man’s experiences in the weird world of the music biz. I found it to be a fascinating read and really shows an honest account of the good, bad and ugly things that happen in the murky underground dance scene.

Give it a go…

Luna-C’s history of Kniteforce (Part 1)

Plus look at the super cute kids on Top Of The Pops dancing along to Sesame’s Treet…awwwwwww!

Gibson guitars – Voodoo series

Gibson’s definitely my favourite make of guitar. I’ve always wanted to own a Les Paul and still hope that someday I’ll eventually have money spare to splash out on one. For now, I’m happy with my ’76 Explorer which I was lucky enough to pick up back in the late 90s for a pretty good price.

I spotted this lot recently, four of Gibson’s best looking guitars – The Les Paul, Explorer, Flying V and SG – all with a super awesome blackpaint job with a hint of deep red minimal red detailing across the rest of the guitar.

Here’s an image of all except the SG (never really liked them, personally) with a little close up of the skull on the fret board. Click the image for a bigger version…

Gibson Voodoo guitars

They don’t seem to make them any more as they were discontinued in 2003. Probably for the best as I can see my credit card trying to jump out of my wallet as I type this…