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for years i have had the FSUK 3 mix by BRA. while the BRA stuff is cliched their mix is by far one of the best ever. completely off the wall tracklisting and great fun. today i found FSUK 4 without any prior knowledge to its existance. with full glorious colour Pete Fowler cover. its not as diverse as BRA - tis a lot more big beat/hiphop breakbeat type of stuff (no jefferson airplane ..) but its still superb.
i am aware of the FReestylers mix that is on my list of wants. but damn this is one fine mix series. especially for a bland corp such as MOS. so .. the Q is .. were there any others in this series that i should look out for ? or is FSUK 4 the final straw before the Suits realised that they could milk the tacky dance market for a lot more moolah ?

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

well i've owned all of these at one time or another.

fsuk 1 - the reason people started making fun of big beat. ok not the mix but the tracks on there. just endless, pointless sampled hiphop breaks and "wacky" noises, frantic basslines and directionless propulsion. it's a horrible mess, not cool at all.

fsuk 2 - much much much better. waaay harder to find. narrows the focus down to really corny 80s hiphop-centric electro and urban takeover styled d+b and triangulates all the big beat points between. the best part of both discs is where they break out from straight big beat into electro or jump-up. they could have made it 1000x better by focusing on electro and jump-up and just leaving out the big beat middle ground.

fsuk 3 - obviously the best in the series.

fsuk 4 - the first disc is pretty good, isn't it?? the second disc is let down by the big block of nu skool breaks in the middle, though. he should've just kept playing house anthems until the d+b bit at the end.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh. lovely a full and quality answer. glad to see that BRA gets the best of deal. not cracked onto the second disc of Cuts yet .. ta for the info.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

FSUK 2 has the best cover art (it's really amazing). It's also fun to listen to, but I haven't broke it out in ages...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

have to disagree .. the pete fowler designed fsuk 4 is gorgeous. full on monsterism art. lovely. though i suspect that he did this prior to the whole monsterism stuff. any ILM'ers collect that stuff ? damn its expensive. struggling artists? hmmmm
onwards !

os. if anyone has a 'spare' fsuk 2 on cd then i would be interested etc etc ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen the art for '4' (except the front cover which is unremarkable). The art for '2' has fighter planes and muscle cars!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

damn ! 30 quid for freestylers
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=fsuk

looks like others are getting the FSUK3 demand, as i have seen this go for £1 in previous auctions.

still loving this mix series i have to admit for when i just want beats/noise/loops to work to. of course, vahids breakdown is spot on.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

FSUK3 = still brilliant.

― mark e, Friday, 4 October 2013 18:51 (twelve years ago)

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