Just a quick post to mention that I’ll be adding video/mp3 clips to many of the old skool hardcore entries in discogs over the next few weeks. I spent some time trying to nail the quickest and easiest way to create individual vids for each track – and succeeded. With the addition of youtube’s bulk upload facility, it shouldn’t take long to get quite a few online and tagged on to the appropriate discogs entry. I did a trial run on 2 releases last night :
2 Men & A Man …

Hetzer on discogs suggested, “Computing a *relative* Score = Wanted By/Owned By, i.e. the higher this score is the more obscure is the release.” might throw up a nice list of obscure tunes … and he’s not wrong! So that’s the final list of ‘wanted’ tunes I’m going to run off. I’ll try and think of a few more useful things to do with this data. All suggestions gratefully received.
# IDArtistTitle
Owned By / Wanted By1.934292ReleaseThe Jungle / Musical MovementsDeep Seven5842.997404QDTRuff N’ Tuff EPKingsize Productions3493.1115271NarcSmall Hours EPBogwoppa3424.935517Unit-EThe Overdub E.P.Contagious4405.142669The ProdigyEarthbound …

Welcome to the next in my series of postings about the most wanted UK old skool hardcore releases. Here are the top 10’s for the other more obscure formats (who buys their hardcore on 7"!!) ordered by most wanted. Some interesting nuggets come to light here, like the ‘Waves Of Extinction (Hardcore Rebellion)’ by Orca and the Video EP by Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era.
Vinyl Album (LP)# IDArtistTitle
LabelOwned By / Wanted By1.26193The ProdigyExperienceXL Recordings10341732.310401VariousThe Joint LPSuburban Base1881043.236438TrueBloodRoots And Culture Mini LPRhythm Of Life56944.28777Altern 8Full On .. Mask HysteriaNetwork Records159825.91422Altern …

Listed below are the 100 most wanted UK hardcore / breakbeat 12″ releases (1991 to 1993) on discogs.com. When I created this data set I thought it didn’t really convey rareity … which I thought it would. As you’ll see. even though something is wanted by a lot of people, it doesn’t make it rare as it may just be a popular tune (like Prodigys ‘Out Of Space’ at #58). So in the next few days I’ll put up a list of wanted tunes that are ‘rare’ based on more …

Listed below are the 100 most owned UK hardcore / breakbeat 12″ releases (1991 to 1993) on discogs.com. I created this list from the full data export and a smattering of php to query the site pages. For those who are interested on how I parsed all the data, I’ll write more about how I achieved it sometime soon. Loads more lists to come. Stay tuned!
This list was created on the 4th of Feb, 2009. As discogs collection & wantlist data is constantly changing you’ll already see some changes in …