I'm looking to ID a dance/ techno track that I have no name / artist
for. (Early 90's it is) It's one of those tunes with loads of sub
bass, its an instrumental, and quite rare which makes it hard!
I also don't have a recording of it, but what I DO have is a sample of
ME playing it on a keyboard from my memory. The percussion is way out,
but the actual tune I rekon is accurate.

http://www.datsunworld.com/av/unknown1.MP3 

The year would have been around 1992. I heard this on a compilation CD
that I borrowed once from someone here in UK who I lost touch with years ago. Need
to ID so I can ask for this track in a record shop!

Happy to pay for the correct answer, I have been asking around about
this track for years!

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Request for Question Clarification by darrel-ga on 28 Nov 2002 13:27 PST

Hello--

You don't by chance remember any other tracks on this compilation CD
do you? Or any other information you can remember about the CD?

Thanks,

darrel-ga

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Clarification of Question by willdatsun-ga on 29 Nov 2002 05:11 PST

I remember nothing about the CD. For a while I thought it was Thin Ice
II - the second shiver but since finding that CD, I rekon it must have
been off something else. I had taken selected tracks from a handful of
CDs including Thin Ice II and put them on a tape. The tape was lent to
a friend and it got stolen when his car  got broken into.

The Main feature of this track was that heavy sawtooth sound bassline,
This skipped towards the end of the phrase, like someone pulling the
stylus across the grooves.

The rhythm was far more underground than it sounds on my rendition!
There wa some kind of muffled speech sample in the track which was
very hard to make out, but something sounding like a bloke
occasionally shouting "rock with me" in time to the beat .

I have listened to a lot of music in the last 10 years, on radio ,
pirate stations, and from peoples collections, and i have never heard
this track since, all I know is that it was on some kind of
compilation CD that would have been on general release in the early
90's.

Hello willdatsun-ga
It sounds familar... (something which found its way onto TV, played as
a music track to hip trendy youth programs/club documentaries?) Or is
it more 'niche' and 'underground' than that. Sounds more commercial to
me, but you do say it's more rare.. so probably I'm thinking of the
wrong tune.
I tried www.shazam.com and it identified it as
Radioactive Man "Uranium" or George Pillikaris performing "Natural
Being" hmmm
regards
lot-ga

Thanks Lot, but its neither of those. In fact, nothing remotely like
them I'm afraid. Anyone else? Anyone who had that CD should recognise
the track no problemo. I listened to it so much and cranked it up so
loud in the car that the bassline melody is still in my head 10 years
on.

Surprised Shazam did anything, as it didnt when i tried, as surely it
has to be from an original source?

Will

Hello willdatsun-ga
Maybe remix your composition to exclude the percussion as you say it
is way out, and you might get a more accurate guess from shazam?
regards
lot-ga

Surely google can only recognise original music? It's comparing
waveforms and no matter how I do it, its not going to recognise it.
This is going to take some human intervention! Thanks for the
suggestion though.

Hi. Im from the UK, and I reckon the tune youre looking for is:

Eskimo's & Egypt - Welcome to the Future, and the Compilation you may
be remembering is "Breaks Bass & Bleeps 4".

I have this tune on a whitelabel promo copy, but I dont have the
Breaks Bass and Bleeps albulm to confirm which mix youre after - as I
think there was a few different mixes at the time.
 Mines pretty 'solid' and pumping and grinding. The gritty synth sound
you used on the keyboards is VERY similar to that on the record,
however, my promo 12" does not have all the mixes on and doesnt have
much of the piano in it, but does have a floaty 'twinkly' break -
which if youre going off memory could be what youre playing :). Hope
you understand what Im blithering on about :).

 Im pretty certain its the one youre after though bud. Its on One
Little Indian records (uk) from 1991/1992 and heres a link, but youd
better find some good soundclips to check it out first. If Im wrong
then hey, no harm done. But check it out.....


http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eskimos_-_Egypt


See ya, 

Sirius.

Ps. This ones for the ID Crew at OldSkoolAnthemz.co.uk if I get it
right :). Dont want payin' either buddy. (sorry to everyone else)

Note: Unknown1.mp3  file re-recorded 16.12.02 some sounds changed etc.

Thanks Sirius, listend to samples of the track you mentioned, its not
that.

I am confident that that the tune I played is extremely close to the
original, it is engrained in my brain. Anyone who has the track should
recognise it.
The question is still open..
please ask around any old skool/ rave music fans that you know folks!
Will