Come and have a go if you think you're 'Ardcore enough!
I was never a cheesy quaver but I make up for it nowadays by sitting on the sofa in my slippers throwing shapes to Ac-i-i-id.
The collected Illegal Rave Tapes (10 cassettes) amount to 133 tracks of brain-busting brilliance by John Lee Richardson under the alias Acrelid - no, not brilliant as in, you know, clever...or deep...or even highly inventive...just brilliant as in the most fun you can have with your trousers on - mebbe.
It's all here, Acid-Breakcore-Junglist (etc) braindance built to honour the hardcore ethos and go beyond to the point of retrospectively crashing every rave that ever happened by beating up the bouncer on the door (gate) and busting open the cassette recorder then remixing it all at home. Makes Aphex Twin sound like the hippy muso he secretly was - heh-heh. On that note, you can even detect something of AT in tracks like Flummox, but throughout it all everything is here, every familiar skittering percussive D&B break, bass, Acid Techno squiggle rearranged, recycled to make you dance in your head. Top marks.
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