There’s something about the name, the image up there, that conjurs up thoughts of Wish-era Nine Inch Nails adolescent angst leading, eventually, to an innate and strangely cathartic blow-up. “Hate”. With a name like that, there’s got to be ferocity-and what period, what style, embodies that concept more than seriously backward-thinking junglist Hardcore. Think of HATE like you’d think of those gaslight Dylan tapes or the Jeanius album, only in terms of rave culture: these are lost Jungle tracks that sound like it’s warehouse in the early 90’s somewhere, which is either fortunate or not depending on what you take aural pleasure in.
Notes from Boomkat, who, on their Modern Love label, are actually releasing the HATE recordings:
We can tell you f*ck-all about HATE, except for the following. The majority of the material on this label is previously unreleased, original junglist hardcore dating back to 1991-1994 from producers who wish to remain anonymous. A carload full of dubplates and DAT tapes full of unreleased material was handed over to the label at Sowerby bridge in Yorkshire sometime in 2008. The material (several hundred original tracks) has been gradually catalogued, with a few tracks already planned for release this year. HATE is a Modern Love project and the label might also feature occasional new versions from different producers. All HATE transmissions will be limited to 300 stamped copies. You’ve been warned…
Both of these tracks have some serious appeal to me beyond the nostalgia factor, which, much like J.T. Leroy’s credibility, should not really alter the impact of the releases. There’s some head-scratching, jaw-dropping, mindblowing work here, particularly in “Injustice” right around the first initial drop.
You be the judge.
