You know that I'm a fan of most 90's hardcore, so when you put a record on my radar that I've never listened to before, I'm gonna pay attention. That was the case when Marcus posted about the Ricochet record he'd picked up when he was in the States for a visit.
Initial Records was a label that I never paid much attention to. Outside of Falling Forward and the first Guilt 7 inch, the label never made much of an impact on me at the time, so it's no surprise that something like this Ricochet record was missed by me. However, reading the post from Marcus, and his description of it as a "a very early 90s sounding record" I knew that I needed to hear it. Surprisingly I found the songs available to download on Soulseek and so within minutes of reading his post, I was listening to the songs, and quickly knew that I was going to need the 7 inch in my hands.
Pressed on a dark purple colored vinyl and number out of 300. Funny how a few months ago, I'd never heard of this record, and now I'm thinking that I wouldn't mind owning a few different pressings for it.
Oh hell yeah, this is definitely an early 90's hardcore record. It has a very straight forward hardcore sound and plenty of groove. This is really good, and I can't believe that I'd never heard this band before... okay, that's a bit of a lie, because as I was writing this post, I discovered that Ricochet were actually on the Only The Strong 1993 comp, but alongside Resurrection, Snapcase, Strife and Black Train Jack, the Ricochet song was kind of forgettable at the time. Happy to discover them 30 years later though!
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If you think about it, in a way it took both of us 30+ years to find this purple vinyl version... which is crazy.
Next stop... This World Rejected, then Slugfest,
Somehow Soulseek sounds like the more out of time reference compared to this post being about a record from the 90s.
Two other bands that I need to check out soon!
Haha... I still use Soulseek almost daily!
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