One from the vaults... Digital - Wize Men - Chronic

[tyranny]

From 2000, on the flip of much more widely played "Ease Off", this is an absolutely mental tune, like a fantasy collab between Skeptical and Dillinja. A lot of the modern tribal sounding jams are quite minimal and clean whereas this is just utterly raw and wonky and clipped up to fuck. You will find a copy on Discogs for less than the price of a chocolate bar and I can almost guarantee you that no matter how fucked "Ease Off" sounds after years of second hand play there will be hardly a scratch on the "Wize Men" side because hardly anyone played it.

 

[rhythm]

absolutely love this one: Digital's tunes around this time were all gold

 

[tyranny]

Yeah man, teh more I think of it the more I get angry at the idea that anyone could believe he isn't the finest all round producer this music ever had.

 

[dambusters]

I do love Eaze Off though

 

[Merah]

Fresh, loving the break downs / fills, would be nice to have some rasta vocals over it

 

[tyranny]

I do love Eaze Off though

Same here! But this sounds like a completely different beast, and also sounds very like those mad percussive Skeptical jams, particularly like the sort of stuff he was doing around the time of his Commercial Suicide EP; if you are looking to build the tension and the weight up and get out of minimal stuff and into harder territory you could do worse than play Wise Men tbh.

 

[Mashuda]

i was all over this record at the time. I didn't even like ease off and found digital super hit and miss at the time. Nothing like it. That evolving beat is jusr nasty. I watched it going around on my turntable while listening to it maybe thousands of times. But yeah I put it on mixes or played it out and very few thought much of it, tho those who did thought it was mental too

 

[tyranny]

I see the powers that be have conspired to pull it off YouTube. Unreal tune, mix it with Skeptical - "Square Breathing" some time, you will want to punch yourself in the jaw, THAT'S how good it is.

Mad how certain tunes can just cast a spell on certain people, while others think it's just a barrage of noise, claps and kicks.

 

[TheNitwits]

uploaded again

 

[$pyto]

Great tune

Gotta love the early 00's when every word containing the letter 'S' got replaced with 'Z', because the underground can do what it wants...

 

[tyranny]

uploaded again

Yesssss - it's like all of Skeptical's most experimental cuts clipped to absolute fuckery through a Mackie desk. On a Jumpup label.

Digital is the king of doing whatever the fuck he wants.