Our physical shop is now closed
We are halting website sales while we plan our next move
Follow us on social media for more information
You can still buy from us on Discogs
truck
Free Shipping on UK
Orders over £50
parcel
All vinyl in stock
No pre-orders
laptop
Click & Collect
in Bristol

Ratman - So In Love / Social Dub

  • So In Love
  • So In Love
  • Social Dub
  • Social Dub

City Road Records 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.

Rat 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 a bootleg of an evergreen pop classic of the era.

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 A side, 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.

 

 

Label: City Road Records
Cat No: 32A002
Media Type

1 x 12"

£11.99

In stock

Loading...