Walkner.Möstl - Heaven Or Hell (2000 G-Stone)

The first and only album by Uwe Walkner & Karl Möstl appeared on Vienna's finest label G-Stone in time when this duo was already disfunctional (which seems to be a habit on this label owned by certain Kruder and Dorfmeister). Heaven Or Hell includes seven of the deepest shades of trip hop and electronic dub not far from the K&D / Tosca sound.

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Krust - Coded Language (1999 Talkin' Loud)

DJ Krust is a well known UK producer since the early days of jungle fever. His debut album brings more advanced drum'n'bass and breakbeat sound and includes two remarkable tracks; Re-arrange and the title track Coded Language flavoured with slam poetry vocal avalanche performed by Saul Williams.

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Juryman V Spacer - Mail Order Justice (1997 SSR)

Ian Simmonds AKA Juryman meets Luke Gordon AKA Spacer on this mixture of dark trip hop breakbeats and twisted electronica. Mail Order Justice will surely please fans of artists from Howie B to Photek.

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Grand Theft Data

So I woke up on the New Year's Day, refreshed all the panels I keep open in my browser and found that my 40GB Rapidshare account is nowhere to be found. Two years of work gone just like that. Apparently I was awarded The First Stolen Identity Of 2010 Prize. What? How could it happen? Shock! Panic! And then.. sheer depression.

Understand, I've been active in the music sharing "industry" for at least 10 years. I've been through the FTP trade, seen the golden days of Limewire, been a superpeer on Soulseek. Never ever somebody attempted to steal anything from me. This blog'n'storage thing is so different. Everything's outsourced so no one has really control over anything.

Back then it used to be me, my box and a mile-thick firewall to guard my files from the low men out there. Nowadays everything that guards me is a password. And there ain't nothing like unbreakable password. Not mentioning the fact that G**gle can shut down any of my blogs without a singe word, as it happened to my beloved Lemuria blog.

It took me a while to get all the paperwork for RS tech support together so I had some unpleasant time to contemplate. What if the files ain't coming back? What am I to do? Am I going to spend next two years uploading stuff back to satify 920.000 visitors of my blogs? Probably just to be robbed again in the near future?

Although the Rapidshare service was far from Swiss precission, I finally managed to get my account back. What a relief! Finally I realised it's hard to imagine life without daily feedback from you, my readers. I love to read your comments in the morning and I appreciate the donations that pay the RS bill like every third month. So.. we're good. Aren't we?

Groove Corporation - Co-Operation (1995 6x6 Records)

Groove Corporation evolved from Electribe 101 to become the most lively electronic dub project in the UK. Their debut album, released on Sony Music-owned 6x6 label, brought juicy blend of dub, trip hop and soul including the great Ghetto Prayer with vocals by Bim Sherman.

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Dread Zone - 360° (1993 Creation)

It would be easy to describe Dread Zone as Big Audio Dynamity minus Mick Jones plus sampler but there's much more to them. Their debut album 360° started the huge electronic dub scene in the 90's and, 17 years later, this mixture of cinematic sounds, heavy basslines and creative drumming still sounds pretty acceptable.

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