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Review: A rare, reissued addition to the E-Lustrious repertoire of ragga jungle comes released through Megablast Recordings, a new imprint and possible splinter sect of one M.O.S. Records, who were in turn once thought to be a Ministry Of Sound offshoot (but weren't), and were in fact a real-deal pusher of proper ragga foundation musics during the early 90s. 'On The Ragga Tip' obviously takes its name from the SL2 song of a very similar name released a year earlier; the cultural impact of the song is illumined as clearly as day here, with MC Shine shining brightly over a tune that otherwise sounds nothing like the SL2 bit. Instrumentally, the infamous hardcore "vamp" sound is heard as clearly as day here and a halfstep breakbeat is cleverly sequenced to faint reggaesque effect. The proverbial Ragga Tip is not a flimsy felt tip, but a sturdy iceberg, whose subsurface history is much bigger than it would seem when seen above water.