Carrier: Pre-Millennium Witchcraft mixtape
Deadly 70 minute session from UK club technician Carrier hailing his roots in mid-late ‘90s D&B with a ridiculously strong mixtape of pre-millennial, post-junglist rufige — 100% essential for fans of the golden era, the bruk out, Raime and Logos’ Reel Torque mixes.
‘Pre-Millennium Witchcraft (1995 — 1998)’ is Guy Brewer’s love note to his teenaged years, when older siblings and their mates introduced him to the hardcore jungle-derived phenomenon of D&B. Aged 16 in ’96, Brewer was perfectly placed to soak up the sound which had by then reached a critical velocity and was spreading beyond the usual big city hotspots to places such as his home in Cambridge. Too young to get into clubs, it was in cloud-chamber bedrooms that Brewer was bitten by the D&B bug, exposed to crucial tunes at the time they were produced and available in shops — long before you could pick up practically anything on 2nd hand sites — so long as you knew what you were looking for.
This mixtape speaks directly to his lived experience, locked-in to the sound at its purest and most deadly with 70 minutes of technical witchcraft and noirish dread often produced by artists who were relatively peripheral to the original early ‘90s jungle movement, but came into their own as the scene expanded and mutated into its D&B form as the decade quickly accelerated thru stylistic shifts.
Thanks to Carrier’s flawless selection and frankly ridiculous arrangement, ‘Pre — Millenium Witchcraft (1995 — 1998)’ ideally portrays the fundamental, rolling and stepping chronics and unique, sensual pressure of the sound at its most compelling. The advanced mechanisms of early breakbeat hardcore jungle are heard fine-tuned in motion, distilling its dark/light switches and irresistible aerodynamism in a seamless flux of cyberdub and technoid synths that animate limbs like electrodes.
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