1998 - Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman - Showcase

1998 - Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman - Showcase @320

The best of the best, 1998, compiling the first five, utterly foundational Burial Mix releases, 1996 - 1997, featuring Paul St. Hilaire fka Tikiman on vox plus all the versions, amounting to an hour of the most sub-heavy, softly contoured, emotionally and physically hard-hitting productions of the era.

A close travelling companion for so many of us since its 1998 release, ’Showcase’ rolls out in a classic dub reggae album style and pattern, vocal and version, plucking choicest numbers from the preceding Burial Mix 10” series. At the time the only way to hold them on digital format, the CD came to be understandably cherished as a night-ender, quite likely in sequence over the years with Rhythm & Sound’s eponymous CD session and ‘w/ The Artists’ / ‘The Versions’. Simply a go-to when little else will suffice.

In trio with St, Hilaire, Ernestus & Von Oswald would fully indulge their dub passions in an effectively groundbreaking form, distilling the OG Jamaican template according to minimal techno principles in ways never before heard to this extent. Our all-time percy ‘Ruff Way’ and its version are perhaps the strongest examples for their balance of driving 4/4 steppers pressure and mellifluous vox, punctuated by a St. Hilaire shriek that still send electric shivers down the spine, but in all fairness shake a stick and you’ll hit a gem anywhere you look across ‘Showcase’ - trust it’s 100% killer no filler! (Boomkat)

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