AKO Arcade brings you two very personal plates from Stretch and the Reinforced 1995 archive.
The VIP’s to The Guyver’s first mini-album, ‘FEEL’ has a more dancefloor vibe to it and a lot more of the vocal before the switch halfway through that will have you doing the gun finger signal.
‘The Whip’ has been a personal tune to a lot of people and a track that has been requested for a repress so we went one better and agreed to let the VIP or alternative version that was close to being on the mini-album. We like you will enjoy the different take on it with additional breaks, edits and a different bassline.
AKO Arcade brings you two jungle tracks from the vault of DJ Stretch himself. Both are from the late 94′ era.
Dem Want It is a VIP and Ganja Dub are dubplate versions of tracks that never had a full vinyl release. Stretch would always do an alternative version for himself which normally ended up better than the original. After finally locating the DAT and getting them remastered to share with the AKO supporters. Both have lashing breaks and deep sub basslines and old sound tape vocals throughout. These will be limited like the other Arcade releases and once there gone that will be it. We hope you enjoy another piece of history.
Madcap makes his solo debut on AKO Beatz. Some may remember NEMA on Unknown Elements 2 which he co-produced with FBD Project.
Madcap delivers 2 beautiful tracks which we think you will love.
Out Of Reach is a beautiful 165bpm track that takes you on a journey with Melodic Pads, breaks and a warm baseline to compliment and bring it all together.
Sunshine Dub takes you straight back to 1994 with an R&B vocal, rolling breaks. This one is sure to have the dance floor jumping.
Look out for a beautiful transparent yellow 10" vinyl, Summer is here.
AKOB017 is the mighty Dub-One who has already featured on the label with his big remix of Dem Deh! This 3 track 12″ holds no punches and Dub-One brings his trademark break chopping, deep subs, pads you know the science. Combination Style – Dub-One teams up with Blatant to deliver what can only be described as one for the wall slapping crew!!
Enjoy makes his debut on AKO Beatz with a beautiful 12″ Enjoy aka Alessandro Corsini
A1) Just A Vibe Summer vibes to taste with a Mojito on a beach at sunset! Smooth beats, warm keys and that oldskool feel you always need on a dancefloor.
B1) Fragile ‘Yes…but she’s more fragile than she seems…she needs your help…and your love!’ That’s what this tune is all about: the fragility of us all, as we look like we’re strong and independent but we actually need each other to live free and in harmony. Unity makes us citizens of the universe, be kind and open minded.
‘Music is the basis of all our lives…celebrate life!’ Alessandro ‘Enjoy’ Corsini
HEADGEAR solo EP after his track with Threshold on AKOB007 –
Planet03 “One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. We are one planet.” – Carl Sagan
Dem Deh Guaranteed to mash up any dance and born from an impending sound clash – ‘Dem Deh’ was produced to battle friendly rival Threshold at a clash in HEADGEAR’s home town of Birmingham. Where the Birmingham cru Dem Deh?
Reach Out HEADGEAR’s militant take on a track originally released by Goosensei & Krytikal on Dubs Alive Records. While keeping the dubbed out vibe of the original, this mix switches up its attitude, making this version a different dance floor beast entirely.
AKO Beatz is about to go deep into the dark pits of the jungle with a new 3 track series called AKOism. AKOism takes no prisoners with these very respected producers in the scene on Vol 1.
This picture disc is packed with even more talent and explosive beatz. Debut releases from Mantra, Antidote and Verb returns with a fresh track for the headz.
This release sees the return of FBD Project known for many killer tracks including The Core.
This is the third AKO Beatz release; DJ Stretch has collected four of the highest pedigree, contemporary jungle and drum & bass producers to rework his heavyweight 1996 jump-up classic 'Hungry Tiger'.
London based Serum sets the ball rolling by overlaying the trademark kung-fu flick dialogue with stepping breaks, ominous horn sounds and fierce bass growls. Next up the Dublin junglist, Ricky Force provides a bass heavy, roller with lashings of chop-socky, fighting effects.
Foundation X label founder, Skitty drops his thundering amen led refix with elastic bass twinges and additional Reese throbs, while Tim Reaper closes things off with an tearingly intense amen-break workout with some serious choppage and spacey FX going on.
Altogether the 'Hungry Tiger Remixes' provides four essential drum & bass updates of a seminal piece of jungle history for 2015. Don't sleep on this one!
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