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Orbital 2 (aka The Brown Album) – Orbital – Various – Released 24th May 1993, FFRR Known to Orbital fans as the Browm Album, Orbital 2 is the follow-up to their 1991 debut, Orbital 1, aka The Green Album. Both albums were released on FFRR Records. Since I imagine that first sentence was as painful … Read more
Thunderdome III – Various Artists – Released 1993 Arcade/ ID&T Thunderdome III is the third in a long-running series of gabber compilations based around the ID&T gabber events of the same name. It’s a double disc compilation which includes tracks from Lenny Dee, Ramirez, Technohead, Force Mass Motion and, somewhat surprisingly, Moby. Teenage Headbangin’ Gabber! … Read more
What’s the best Nirvana album? Which Nirvana album’s the most overrated? How do you rank the various Nirvana albums? Is Incesticide actually an album? Are you really going to answer any of these questions or is this just more SEO wank to waste my time? This article will answer all these questions – and more. … Read more
Funky Worm – Ohio Players – Released January 16th, 1973 – Westbound Records Funky Worm is the first single release from the 1972 album Pleasure, by the Ohio Players. This hugely influential funk and soul band came to prominence in the 1970s releasing a string of platinum and gold records. Many seminal hiphop producers, would … Read more
Lethal Injection – Ice Cube – Released December 7th, 1993 In December 1993, west coast rapper, actor, director and all-round fucking legend Ice Cube released his fourth solo album, Lethal Injection. Ice Cube had already released three hit albums by the time his fellow NWA cohort, Dr Dre, released his debut, The Chronic, in December … Read more
Doggystyle – Snoop Doggy Dogg – Released on Death Row Records November 23rd 1993 Doggystyle is the 1993 debut album by west coast rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, or Snoop Dogg as he’s known today. Before Doggystyle, Snoop appeared on Dr Dre’s 1992 debut release The Chronic. Both albums were released on Death Row records. Although … Read more
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) – Wu Tang Clan – Released November 9th 1993 The debut album from the Wu Tang Clan, Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers), remains one of the most pivotal and inspirational hiphop albums of all time. This post celebrates its 30th anniversary. 2023 has seen many hiphop anniversaries, the first … Read more
Phylyps Trak EP by Basic Channel, released on Basic Channel records on October 1993 In 1993 Basic Channel rewrote the blueprint for techno with Phylyps Trak. In doing so they catalysed an infectious new genre purposely designed for the dark, dingy techno bunkers of Berlin. Dub techno changed everything. Gone was the lustrous sheen of … Read more
In Utero – Nirvana – Released September 21, 1993 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of In Utero, Nirvana’s third studio album which, as it happened, also turned out to be their last one before the death of Kurt Cobain just seven months later. Released two years after their breakout mainstream hit, Nevermind, … Read more
Judgment Night Soundtrack – Various Artists – Released September 14th 1993 Back when I was in school we didn’t have the pressures of social media. All we had to worry about was the constant threat of getting our heads kicked in based on what music we listened to. (Oops, sorry, trigger warnings and all that bollocks.) … Read more