Kaos Theory 2 defined my musical tastes in 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcpMCly1IY

"Nightmare" - Kid Unknown

Blame vs Phuture Assassins for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrKZ9Po6aYA

"Evaopor-8 [inciner 8 mix]" - Altern 8

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

"Music takes you" (2 Bad Mice remix) - Blame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wfkVCHkIE&feature=PlayList&p=CA5016C2914A2AC2&index=0&playnext=1

"Injected with a poison" - Praga Khan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKduhUXa0rg

"Temple of dreams" - Messiah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujak1n8Meao

"It's just a feeling" - Terrorize

ha! yeah patience has never really been one of my virtues, so HI DERE is giving yall the straight dope on my behavior towards the second half of this.

i have this uh somewhere in my piles of cds, so ill listen to it again before i vote. weird urge to vote for Run Tings, but the Blame track and the Kid Unknown ones were also great so who knows?

xpost ok fuck forgot about the messiah track. this is going to be hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZXfzQyOW14

"Move your feet" (Fantasy UFO remix) - M D Emm

(btw this track here ^^^^^^^ holy shit I love this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLiZ_gKFoc4

"Fires burning" - Run Tings

wait wow was this really from '92? i thought it was earlier than that...lol i am old.

I wonder if those guys buying the Armoured Personnel Carrier remembered to check the altern8or? (sorry...)

i must have gotten this in those wonderful days where running a record store meant a world of at cost import purchasing. which in turn explains why i probably had a negative income for about 4 straight years o_O

"Take me away" - Dub Collective

;_; ;_; ;_; I can't find this which is a fucking tragedy because it's ridiculously awesome

Phuture Assassins very closely over "Temple of Dreams." I used to see this album for like $30 in Northern Lights and salivate over it, along with all those Red, Hot & White comps, all of which I later got from the Tower closing sale for like $4 each. Sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufp5UhPRra8

"Put the bassdrum on" - The Ascendant Masters

MASSIVE GINORMOUS SMILEY FACE

that praga khan video :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeZDEVjo3T8

"Future sound" - Phuture Assassins

(NOTE: this is NOT the 2 Bad Mice remix)

OH MAN I MISS NORTHERN LIGHTS SO FUCKING MUCH xxxpost

still angry that i never talked any of those dudes to give/sell me the awesome Happy Flowers poster they had up front, or the Foetus one for that matter with the babies getting crushed under a monster truck.

"Vinyl energy" - Rhythmatic

WTF I CAN'T FIND THIS EITHER WHICH IS A FUCKING CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_Cm3sLvsU

"Time to get ill" - 4 Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F4UYuh29dE

"Smokin' chalice" - Project One

"Invasion (the f-o-a-d remix)" - The Alcan Warriors

DAMMIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ18poOyAX4

"Feed the world" (cut the red tape mix) - Fantasy UFO

bah I can find the original version of "Invasion" but not the F/O/A/D remix

ok i like the Project One song a lot more than i remembered

haha IIRC you only ever listened to 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 and, aside from the Praga Kahn track, I had to play the other songs for you off of my mix tapes before you noticed them

"wow this track is great, what is it?"
"... I copied it off of THE CD YOU JUST LOANED ME"
"oh, really? wau it's good"

Sounds like me!

Ok btw this is setting a dangerous precedent for future polls I will do. To the long unlistened compilation pile!

Electronic body music volumes 1-3! The thin grey line!

do a Big Game Hunter poll (I will vote for Lies Incorporated)

OH SHIT

i think i might have to go with Tool And Die or Savage Aural Hotbed

ilx needs more polls that only you and i will vote in tbh

if i do a poll for Battlegrounds: the world of cyberpunk I'm not sure if I would even vote in it

hahahaha

the BGH poll would totally be a tossup between "Track 4" and "Big Arms" for me btw

shit or "TV Freak" or "Cookie Jar"

I kind of forgot how great that comp was, too; GO MN

a;-grumh ftw

Hell yeah! Kaos Theory 1, 2 & 3 were my proper introduction to hardcore. I still remember sitting around a boombox with my friends and listening to Krome & Time's "This Sound is for the Underground" on KT 3, and being like, "this is the shit!" And KT 1 had this classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6nzsNDHP8E

I remember at the time not getting KT1 because of the track overlap on XL 3.

What a stupid decision that was.

Holy shit, this tune on KT3 is bringing back memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDzeDuG7cI

So ridiculous, so awesome! Too bad back in 1992 I was 13, and couldn't go to clubs to actually dance to this stuff. When I did start to go to clubs it had already morphed to D&B, which was cool for the time, but in retrospect not half as fun as this shit!

Yeah it's kind of sacrilege but I feel the same way.

Although the cusp between hardcore and jungle that was all over 1993 and best represented by the first 3 Speed Limit 140+ BPM comps... THAT was really my sweet spot.

POO: Speed Limit 140+ BPM compilation

lol blast from the past where a bunch of us say almost exactly the same types of things

I had forgotten I'd come up with the phrase "drum n blouse"

lol blast from the past where a bunch of us say almost exactly the same types of things

Haha, yeah, I pretty much made the same comment about KT3 and Krome & Time on that thread as on this one.

haha i must have missed that thread

dudes, i have SO MANY of these comps, several of which are just terrible, but should still be polled.

the titles are killing me:

RAVIN' USA
ADRENALIN TECHNO RUSH

actually this United Stance of Techno one is kind of awesome:

1. Johnny L. - Hurt You So (I mix)
2. Acen - Trip II the Moon (kaleidoscopiklimax mix)
3. N.R.G. - I Need Your Lovin' (c.j. bolland mix)
4. The Prodigy - Out of Space (millenium mix)
5. Smart E's - Sesame's Treet (12" version)
6. Project 1 - Come My Selector (extended mix)
7. Felix feat. Jomanda - Don't You Want Me (hooj mix)
8. Nebula II - Peacemaker (extended mix)
9. Joey Beltram - Energy Flash (12" version)
10. Alpha Team - Go Speed Go (club mix)
11. The Complete Hypnotist - House is Mine (original mix)
12. Crazy Ivan - Mozart's Revenge (extended mix)

there are 2 tracks on that that i HATE WITH A FUCKING PASSION, i am curious to see if dan can guess which ones they are

(for added hilarity i have not gotten a chance to import them yet because i am in the middle of importing the 2 cd deluxe reissue of Dissection - Storm of the light's bane)

You're right, that does look awesome. (And I used to have Ravin' USA on cassette! I was buying everything I could from Moonshine for a while.)

I was on the Moonshine promo list for a while there -- and I'm forever grateful, really.

listening through kaos theory 2 right now (which is a testament to mac cd ripping, because due to my many uh questionable lifestyle decisions of 1992 this thing looks like i took a beltsander to it) and WOW the blame track is maybe even better than i remember (although tbf every 2 bad mice remix ive ever heard is kind of incredible)

other livebloggin reports - still not all that down w/altern 8, and terrorize is super badass in all the parts that dont have the soul singing sample (?), but those parts are so blando generic that its kind of ruining it for me. but whoa the blurry messy bass gritty section is SO GREAT quit putting yer substandard houseyness in the middle of my awesome jam u jerks.

M D EMM, you are weird

haha dub collective high sonar sound is 1000% "Sit On Acid" vocal riff wtf i can not take this seriously but i am trying

huh holy shit, this ascendent masters track is crazy

lonely guy just posting to himself, be here all night

so fast and weird!

My guesses:

5. Smart E's - Sesame's Treet (12" version)
10. Alpha Team - Go Speed Go (club mix)

ps you are so wrong about the "generic house" bits of "It's Just a Feeling", the whole point of the song is the ping-ponging back and forth between the house part and the mentasm part

however you are so so right about Ascendent Masters

hahahaa DING DING DING for dan on my hated tracks!

this rhythmatic track is sort of like having a really awesome seizure

sorry 4 hero, you are kind of meh

haha IIRC you only ever listened to 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12

btw based off of this relisten, how accurate/terrifying is my ability to recall incredibly trivial pieces of info?

pretty much dead on, and those are still by far the front runners. i am immutable.

fantasy ufo makes me want to nap kinda

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Artist vs Title!

The answer is almost certainly Phuture Assassins, but i owned the clear Messiah cassette & it served as such a soundtrack to my life for a while that i feel obligated to vote for "Temple of Dreams" which is also amazing.

Nearly missed this. Voted for Altern8 - you can take the boy out of Stafford etc etc

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Amazing. Haven't heard this stuff in years. Would have voted Messiah if I'd seen this - perfect mix of sweet hook, rave squelching and daft shouting. Reminds me of the lifechanging influence of a mate's boyfriend, known only as Gavin the Raver.

I want to bump this thread because this compilation is glorious and I'm trying to kickstart a Kid Unknown revival

I found Rhythmatic - "Vinyl Energy" on Youtube finally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7RKS39cmaQ

Alcan Warriors - "Invasion" (F/O/A/D remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfizkt4kpwY

Dub Collective - "Take Me Away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxFsBLYGv4A

btw THIS IS THE SHIT

Think this one was 3 or 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2kwyPguLjI

It was 3:

"Try to Love Me" - Manix
"Hypnotic St 8" - Altern 8
"Sesame's Treet" - Smart E's
"Rave Alert" - Praga Khan
"Trip II the Moon" - Acen
"Burn Cali Weed" - A Sides
"Gun" - Nino
"Work It Out" - F O A D
"This Is the Sound of the Underground" - Krome and Time
"The Wobbler" - Xenophobia
"Under Mi Sensi" - Barrington Levy
"Searchin' for My Rizla" - Ratpack
"Krisp Biscuit" - Ruffige Cru
"Brainstorm" - Brainstorm
"Braineater" - Danse City
"The Ice Cream Van from Hell" - Earth Leakage Trip

I remember thinking 3 was weak at the time but fuuuuuuuuuuck there are some stompers in that track list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaos_Theory <----- I need a 1-4 box set

Still got all the original cassettes (!) somewhere.

Think 4 had some progressive house on it