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So In Love / Social Dub

by Ratman

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** THIS IS A VINYL ONLY RELEASE - THE DIGITAL HERE IS JUST A REFERENCE - YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE THIS CLIP IF PURCHASED **

City Road is proud to present two unearthed garage productions from Ratman. They originate from around the turn of the millennium, when UKG was hitting its stride but hadn’t quite found a footing in Bristol.

Ratty and a friend were at St Paul’s Carnival somewhere around 1996 when they happened upon a small soundsystem playing out of the back of someone’s car. The minimal, swung 2-step rhythms sounded completely alien to them, and set them off on a quest into the burgeoning garage sound, resulting in Rat producing these.

Rat was a well established part of Bristol’s underground music community with a smattering of jungle-oriented singles behind him and the odd remix commission. Around the same time he made the bootleg, he was approached about remixing a track on a major label. While it went down a storm amongst his peers, Ratty's’bass-heavy version wasn’t a match for the label’s vision and so the remix sat gathering dust for some 20 years.

Now both these misfit, quintessentially Bristolian twists on the UKG sound get a fresh airing on a label based just round the corner from where that car soundsystem was rinsing out mystery garage rollers all those years before.

For shops interested in stocking the vinyl our distributor Unearthed Sounds has a few copies left.

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released August 7, 2022

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City Road Records Bristol, UK

City Road Records is a label from UK based record shop Idle Hands. It is aimed squarely at DJs and the dancefloor.
It will releasing the type of music we like to hear in the rave, dance, pub or wherever we can turn it up.

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