Lopez / Syuss & Reality vinyl

Fans of Hessle Audio's weekly show on Rinse should be familiar with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based label 8205, with founder Pete DevNull making a recent standout guest appearance - do seek out the podcast!! To the uninitiated, 8205 is DevNull's outlet for putting his encyclopaedic knowledge of '90s era jungle and hardcore to good use with irregular vinyl and digital reissues of previously unheard productions. Paydirt is most certainly hit upon for this third 8205 transmission with a '97 era jungle cut from Lopez backed up by a collaboration between Syuss and Reality. Up top, "Beyond Fear" bristles with the sort of atmosphere that was rife in jungle at the time and its no surprise it was a secret weapon for the likes of Bukem and Subject 13. Only ever aired in abridged form on a Japanese import mix CD by Subject 13, 8205 score the full release of this deep cut some 19 years on. On the flip, Syuss and Reality's 1995 track "Missing Link" is stripped back jungle that hits you square in the gut with how futuristic it still sounds some two decades on.

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