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Mega City 2 - Spice

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Roy Apron Great tracks, great restoration project and all for a good cause. Well done Pete and all involved!

Sideways I'm not too sure about the origin of this record. It sounds more experimental that what I'm used to hearing from jungle in general. Tons for drum breaks put in reverse, fat gliding basslines, stretched hot pants breaks, and much more from the first tune. The time and effort that has been put into restoring this track must've been excruciating. The second track sound way more accurate to modern day jungle. A more rolling break but with a very interesting verity in bass tones. Much love!

scotteboi What a couple of tunes on there!!! Brilliant job to get this one out there, what a gem!!!! Favorite track: Spice.

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Available in either Orange Marbled ("Melange"), Blue Marbled ("Eyes of Ibad") or Black ("colour vinyl doesn't sound as good etc etc")

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	1.	Spice 06:20		buy track
	2.	Ruff Neck Murderer 06:31		buy track

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Well known for their back-in-the-day classic "Darker Side of Evil", "Spice" is a bad slice of 94 jungle with choppy timestretched breaks and classic "Dune" samples. Originally lost to the ages (no DATS exist), a dubplate was discovered in 2012 in a hole in a wall behind a kitchen sink, where it had sat out of its sleeve on top of a pile of other dubs for 18 years. Because of those conditions, the plate was in terrible shape, crackly to the point of being unsalvageable. Despite this fact, the tune itself was a personal favorite at the time (posted on blog to the oldskool), and was something I'd hoped to release if a better quality copy ever turned up.

Fast forward to 2016: A second copy of "Spice" did show up, this time stashed in someone's china cabinet (“wrong type of ‘plate’...”). This copy was in much better shape, almost unplayed. Both dubs were shipped to a UK specialist who spent time restoring them, before sending them to another specialist to continue the work. In the end, the difference is like night and day: "Spice" sounds dynamic and fresh, with nary a click, crackle or pop. On the flip, "Ruffneck Murderer" is almost as clean - a rude little number with warp bass, toasting and "Goodfellas" samples.

After all this time, and all the work from multiple restoration specialists, we're proud to finally bring you these two long lost Mega City 2 tunes.

“Spice” will be released June 5th through 8205 Bandcamp on limited vinyl (10" pressed on 12" with a blank outer ring) as well as digital.

This is a benefit release - 100% of all profits are being split between the artist and a nonprofit they chose at the start of the project.

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released June 5, 2020

Pressing - Simon UVM
Mastering - Bob Macc @ Subvert Mastering

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