2 Bad Mice - "Strip Search"

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Of late, I've become obsessed with this track. The porno beginning that segues into the half-speed drum loop and scratch section is possibly one of the best things ever committed to wax, but when the loop kicks up to full tempo and the samples start flying willy-nilly (especially that piano riff!), I just want to leap out of my seat and BOOGIE.

Required listening for all, I think. What do you think? How does it compare to the rest of their output/their contemporaries/the current music scene? If you were in a club and this came on, would you dance? Because I SURE AS HELL WOULD.

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is indeed a choon! I love evry single 2 Bad Mice tune I've heard - i reckon there's a pretty good case for them being the best of the early jungle / hardcore bunch. Has anyone released a compilation of their stuff? If not, it must be about time...

Robin, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

wow this thread was unsuccessful

Anyway I'm listening to this track again and it is FUCKING MASSIVE and AMAZING

HI DERE, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

ysi? i have a few 2 Bad Mice tunes but never heard this.

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvLXtpmU3s";>2 Bad Mice - Strip Search (on YouTube)</a> - not a video, just the track with, uh, their logo.

re: Has anyone released a compilation of their stuff?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-64131-001.jpg

01. 2 Bad Mice - "2 Bad Mice" (6:02)
02. Kaotic Chemistry - "Drum Trip" (3:29)
03. 2 Bad Mice - "Hold It Down" (5:16)
04. 2 Bad Mice - "Bombscare (UXB Mix)" (5:19)
05. 2 Bad Mice - "Waremouse" (5:06)
06. Kaotic Chemistry - "Space Cakes" (4:45)
07. Kaotic Chemistry - "Illegal Subs (Krome & Time Remix)" (5:54)
08. Kaotic Chemistry - "Drum Trip II" (4:35)
09. 2 Bad Mice - "Bombscare (Original Version)" (5:21)
10. 2 Bad Mice - "Underworld" (6:03)
11. 2 Bad Mice - "Tribal Revival" (6:21)
12. 2 Bad Mice - "Mass Confusion" (5:38)
13. Blame - "Music Takes You (2 Bad Mice Take You)" (5:53)
14. Kaotic Chemistry - "Strip Search" (5:25)
15. 2 Bad Mice - "Bombscare ('94 US Mix)" (3:42)

etc, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 08:05 (seventeen years ago)

FFS, BBCode.

2 Bad Mice - Strip Search (on YouTube)

etc, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 08:06 (seventeen years ago)

Great act. Their eponymous single, Bombscare and Music Takes You all massive as well.

chap, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

i have that comp - easily one of the best designed CD packages ever

moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

currently playing: "Bombscare"

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

Solid gold classic tune, that.

Bill A, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

Man, how could i not have known that 2 Bad Mice and Kaotic Chemistry were the same people? That's wild! I have such fond memories of giant old techno parties (both in SF in a warehouse and at Trade in London) where I heard "DrumTrip II" and it just blew the house down. "Bombscare" is also untouchable.

twice boiled cabbage is death, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

btw also fucking awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN42uY9idNc

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

MASSIVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYU3csKkeQ&feature=related

I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYee65E4ss

2... Bad... MICE

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

^^ the piano break at 3:57 is my ringtone

goole, Monday, 16 November 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

oh man, that remix of Blame is colossal too. That was one of the tunes that got me into jungle back then, remember the pirates round manchester and brum absolutely caning it = love love love.

Bill A, Monday, 16 November 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

thx to neil s - http://www.factmag.com/2011/05/23/fact-mix-2-bad-mice/

just sayin, Monday, 23 May 2011 13:29 (fourteen years ago)

wow, cool!

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 May 2011 13:32 (fourteen years ago)

okay yes

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

it's really, really good

Neil S, Monday, 23 May 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

Bombscare = proto-Shackleton style. Big white noise breakdowns.

broodje kroket (dog latin), Monday, 23 May 2011 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

O_Owesome

blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Monday, 23 May 2011 14:44 (fourteen years ago)

okay when it segues from "Bombscare" to "The Bouncer"... YES

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

this mix is so fun

just sayin, Monday, 23 May 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

I'm so downloading this.

Kind of freakily, I mixed the Bouncer into Bombscare as the only two old skool tracks I played as part of my set on Friday - that's a bit spooky.

broodje kroket (dog latin), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

well that's not THAT scary, those tracks were both massive and they flow pretty naturally into each other

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

Hardcore is kind of awesome in that every track flows pretty naturally into every other track, though

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)

haha fair point

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)

xxpost Yeah I know, but the rest of the mix isn't hardcore stuff, I just more or less picked these two tracks par hasard, kind of "these'll do" and then two days later this comes out. Link if you care - http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/the-africa-drug-mix - last few tracks.

broodje kroket (dog latin), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)

Awww yes. Awesome. Thank you for link!

Possibly my favourite 2 Bad Mice track is "Hold It Down", which I thought I'd mention since it has no love on this thread so far. But... they're all my favourites, whenever I hear them.

(and my personal YES moment on this mix is "DJs Unite" because I hadn't heard it for so long, what a fine tune)

russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

I keep forgetting how much I love "Space Cakes", that track is like drum perfection

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)


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