One of the projects, that can never fail: Pressure Drop (aka the Blood Brothers: Justin Langlands and Dave Henley). Named after a Toots song, playing music influenced by such genres like Hip-Hop (Funkee Joint), Dancehall (Warrior Sound), Soul (Groove Me), Drum & Bass (Silently Bad Minded (Roni Size Radio Edit)), Dub (Metamorph (Pressure Drop Mix)), 2Step (Warrior Sound (Ed Case & Carl H Remix))and everything in between. They did DJ sets, did remixes for other artists and were remixed themselves, their tunes work on headphones or livingroom stereo equipments as well as on radioshows or sound systems. Always serious, sometimes a little bit dark and melancholic, everytime very intelligent, groovy music.
Pressure Drop present almost every style of London based black club music in the 1990s, last but not least showcased on their "London Underground" compilations (the Raw Stylus version of Bill Withers´"Use me" is one of my alltime favourite tracks).
So, here´s the playlist:
- Pressure Drop (1993) - Call to Service 00:00:00
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Got To Be For Real (Tipper Vocal Edit) 00:00:24
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Got To Be For Real (Tipper Dub) 00:03:54
- Pressure Drop Ft. Constantine Weir And Martin Fishley (1998) - Silently Bad Minded (Roni Size Radio Edit) 00:09:55
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Beyond Reason 00:13:30
- Pressure Drop (1992) - Groove Me 00:18:52
- Pressure Drop (1992) - I'm Your Fool 00:22:42
- Pressure Drop Soundsystem (2005) - Knok Knok (Soundsystem Version) 00:25:28
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Darkness 00:28:17
- Pressure Drop (2000) - Funkee Joint 00:33:46
- Pressure Drop (1992) - People Shall Govern 00:38:18
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Sounds Of Time 00:42:36
- Pressure Drop (2003) - Metamorph (Pressure Drop Mix) 00:47:28
- Pressure Drop Ft. Joanna Law (1992) - Big Noise On The Radio 00:53:36
- Pressure Drop (2000) - Warrior Sound (Radio Edit) 00:57:11
- Pressure Drop (2000) - Warrior Sound (Ed Case & Carl H Remix) 01:00:18
- Pressure Drop (2000) - Warrior Sound (Adam Freeland Mix) 01:04:44
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Alienation 01:15:03
- Pressure Drop (1997) - Souls Of The City (On The Front Row) 01:20:14
- Pressure Drop (2000) - Rhudeboy Rhapsody 01:24:25
- Pressure Drop (2003) - Part 13 (DJ Rocca Remix) 01:32:53
- Pressure Drop (2003) - Everything'll Be Alright Tomorrow (Black Grass Remix) 01:38:57
- Pressure Drop (1992) - Outro 01:43:11
Artwork and Selektion by Switch Docta. Made at Electric Lion´s Den. Berlin-Kreuzberg. Germany. April 2020. Artwork based on this picture.