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Check it -

There was this wicked track dating from mid 1998 to 1999 that I was always positive was a Dillinja track. It had a lush chord intro (a little like the intro of "Light Years") and a grinding bassline and skippy beat.

 

Now the thing is that is is almost identical to "Test Time" (Test Blue #3) release - but not quite!

 

"Test Time" has the same beat as the song I am thinking of, a VERY similar bassline, and a very similar lush chord intro, but it is not the same track!

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unfortunately I never managed to tape it, I just remember it vividly. i could sing it to you...

 

Last two hears - Storm played it at (Sunday) Metalheadz @ Blue Note, Hoxton mid summer 1998. Then I heard it once on a london pirate radio, some obscure one, around May 1999. The rest of the show was rather dry with lots of 'also-ran' tunes being played, sloppy mixing... all of a sudden this one dropped, the MC went crazy!

 

What does this mean?

1. dubplate only, never properly released, with a revamped version being released as the Test Blue #3 release

2. maybe it is a much older tune than I think, poss. 1996-97, and that the TB#3 released "Test Time" is a remix in the same sense that the TB#1 tune "Weapon Of Choice" release is a remix of "Threshold"

3. the mysterious TB#3 mispress listed in the database is the one I am thinking of?

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If you heard it on an obscure pirate then I'd be tempted to say that it most likely did get released. Especially if the DJ was playing pretty standard tunes for the rest of his set.

 

It's cases like this where, although I'm not saying your information is oncorrect, I dont' want to enter this tune into the database as unreleased if it is not certain that it exists/did never come out

 

Weapon of choice was a remix of Threshold? I never knew that!

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I just listened to a clip of Test Time from chemical-records and unless its just the really low bit rate it doesn't sound much like this song I'm remembering. Maybe one day I'll hear a set or something with it in, until then...

 

really want a clip of this tune!!!

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lol! no, not that "Sliver Blade" mix... the tune I am thinking of is of his 1998 style, his early Test Recordings sound.

 

I may be able to get precise date of when Iheard it at Metalheads if I trawl through my email archives...

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I heard the 1st 50 copys had the wrong track incorrectly put on the bside "accurist" which never got released....

Thats Test #2, putting "Accurist" on the b-side of "Fluid", in place of "Hard Noize"

 

I'll get a clip of the tune I mean one day...

Posted

k Ornette! My soulseek name nik_itch

 

tb003 is..look path:

 

DRUM & BASS & RAGGA JUNGLE & JUNGLE/VALVE SOUND/DILLINJA & LEMON D/TEST BLEUE REC/[tb003] dillinja/

 

i've got mostly all old and nu dillinja so njoy m8 ;)

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