Wild Pitch RFI

and

UMCs-Never Never Land

are my 2 faves. A lot's been reissued on a series of 12"s with sticker that say "When MC's had Skillz"

1. Gang Starr - 'Words I Manifest' Listen
2. Latee - 'No Tricks' Listen
3. The Coup - 'Dig It' Listen
4. Main Source - 'Looking At The Front Door' Listen
5. O.C. - 'Time's Up' Listen
6. U.M.C.'s - 'Blue Cheese' Listen
7. Main Source - 'Live At The Barbeque' Listen
8. Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - 'Funky Technician' Listen
9. Main Source With Large Professor - 'How My Man Went Down In The Game' Listen
10. Chill ROB G - 'Court Is Now Is Session' Listen
11. Ultramagnetic Mc's - 'Raise It Up' Listen
12. N-Tyce - 'Hush Hush Tip' Listen
13. Main Source - 'Fakin' The Funk' Listen
14. Latee - 'The Cut's Got Flavor' Listen
15. Jamose - 'The Rhymthologist' Listen
16. U.M.C.'s - 'One To Grow On'

fuck it, I'd be curious enough to investigate :)

I bought a New Beat compilation a while back... it were crap.

Kool D. & Technolo G-dance/go to work.12" (the b side is awesome).

Gang Starr-no more mr nice guy.lp (there's enough good stuff like "knowledge", "words i manifest" etc on here to make it worthwhile).

Lord Finesse-funky technician.lp (probably my favorite Wild Pitch release).

Main Source-breaking atoms.lp.

UMC's-fruits of nature.lp.

The Coup-kill my landlord.lp.

The Coup-genocide and juice.lp.

OC-word..life.lp.

I wouldn't bother with the pre-Primo Gang Starr cuts or "4 horsemen" by Ultramagnetic. Hard Knocks lp is alright but gets overrated simply on account of it being rare and oop.

i was obsessed with the wild pitch sound when it came out and would regularly do one hour wild pitch sets. i still think it is the best music in the world for doing a really great house music warm up. you can take people from head nodding to shrieking in a few minutes.

absolute classic wild pitch moments are -

photon inc. - generate power (the one that started it)
phuture - rise from your grave (this is cocaine speaking, again!)
phuture - inside out (not strictly wild pitch in the classic sense but a total monster of darkness and groove).
dj pierre - atom bomb (prog house label guerilla gets on the wild pitch)
dj pierre - masterblaster (this one is about 15 minutes long and has possibly the best build of any house record ever)
dj pierre - soundblaster
diy - hothead (piere's wild pitch mix)
dj pierre - muzik (funkiest 303 ever)
photon inc. - project blast (generate power revisited)
phuturescope - plastic ('plastic dreams' goes wild pitch)

then there was felix. i still think felix da housecat's finest work was done in this era. pierre was his mentor but he had his own take on the wild pitch sound.

felix da housecat - dawn (guerilla really started to run with the wild pitch sound)
sharkimaxx - clashback (best soma record ever? ultra dark)
thee housecat experience - life (a beautiful, beautiful record)
aphrohead - thee light
aphrohead - in the dark we live

I am so glad I wasn't here for the above confusion! Of course I meant the dance genre, DJ Pierre etc. It's just you read about it alot and never really hear any.

I actually started this thread cos "Photon Inc" has been repressed and I thought it was great and promptly ordered it, having never heard it before.

This song is really great.

9. Âme - Balandine (Innercityvisions)

This seems to be splitting people squarely down the middle; I know several DJs that aren't feeling it at all, and it's not working on every dancefloor (I nearly cleared Cookies with it on Tuesday night in fact - the wrong record for that party, dumb-ass). But deployed with a little care it's a really great new single and a welcome shift in emphasis as Âme take the nu-school Wild Pitch route that's been increasingly popular over the last 12 months (the fact that i haven't written this in ages means that you've been spared my "Wild Pitch is the secret thread linking all the current hits" thesis - from "Mouth to Mouth" to "The Glitch" to Jamie Jones' "Panic" i've been banging on about this for ages to all those unfortunates in ranting distance). Still immaculately produced, but altogether darker, dirtier and more intense with acid peals that are so Pierre they should be wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under their arm.

(from ewan pearson's blog)

that DIY track that stir mentions is fantastic btw, heard it in a vaguely wild pitch-themed segment on beats in space a few weeks back that climaxed with 'balandine'.