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Where DJ RichHybrid continues to share his love of music through his growing Vinyl collection and his extensive CD collection.

03/09/2026

Black Sabbath

Master Of Reality

1971

Tracks Of Choice: Sweet Leaf / After Forever / Children Of The Grave / Lord Of This World / Solitude / Into The Void

Swift bit of Black Sabbath this evening.

The iconic cover, the dark and heavy atmosphere, the masterful riffs, the dirty bass, the wild and inventive drum work and Ozzy make this a classic even among their back catalogue.

Hard to believe they'd only been releasing music for 18 months when this came out.

Superb.

I'd love an original Vertigo version of this at some point. A gatefold maybe if they exist. I really should get on it shouldn't I.

01/09/2026

Essenger

After Dark

2021

Tracks Of Choice: Shinigami / After Dark / Half-Life / Offworld (feat Pylot) / Downfall (feat Lexi Norton) / Empire Of Steel (feat Scandroid) / Lost Boys (feat Young Medicine)

Phew...managed to get through so many records. It's been a hell of a weekend of music that's for sure.

Back to new stuff. Or relatively new stuff.

I've been digging Essenger recently. Empire Of Steel was featured on a YouTube documentary about Cyberpunk literature, movies and games. And I was a little shocked I'd not heard of him or his music bearing in mind my love of Synthwave and Retrowave.

So I started listening and I basically binged his catalogue for days on end. So I thought I'd find some physical releases. The vinyl I found on Discogs was fairly reasonable but the seller wouldn't ship to the UK.

But I could get the CD through Essenger's Bandcamp! Win.

If you like the style of Gunship or Carpenter Brut I reckon you'd like this.

So here we go. Some Synthwave for a Tuesday!

31/08/2026

Pearl Jam

Ten

27th August 1991

Tracks Of Choice: Once / Even Flow / Alive / Why Go / Black / Jeremy / Oceans / Garden / Deep

Last week was the 35th anniversary of Pearl Jam debut album Ten.

In the great pantheon of Rock debut albums Ten is in the top 5, maybe even the top 3 of all time.

A level of perfection was achieved here that begs belief...it took a great deal of restraint not to list the whole album as my tracks of choice because I could have done easily.

I've been listening to this record since I was about 12 and I know it intimately. Every riff, drum crack, solo, ooo ohh and wail vocally and those bass lines.

While I love the bands following record Vs I've never quite got on with the bands other material. No idea why. Maybe for me they just broke themselves for me here and I'll never be able to hear anything by them ever again.

No loss to me as I genuinely think this is perfection.

And it's 35 years old. Incredible amount of time right?

31/08/2026

Bath Time Records Album Of The Month August 26.

Mastodon - Marrow Deep.

After listening to this album several times this weekend there could be no doubt that it has to be August's album of the month.

That said I've been loving Electric Callboy's Tanzneid since the beginning of the month. They just know how to nail a fun vibe despite having heard nearly half the album by the time of release.

Phoebe Bridges was nearly in with a shout as thr sonics on that record are amazing.

Chelsea Wolf has made the most beautifully dark but strangely accessible record she's ever made. Gorgeous gothic and beguiling.

I've also been listening to Czarface & Frankie Pulitzer (aka Tom Hardy). Fantastic old school style hip hop. Samples and beats weaved into great tracks.

And least of all Russian Circles have made a staggeringly good album. Once again proving instrumental post rock/metal can be powerful and emotional.

But come on. Mastodon have made their best record since Crack The Skye. Prog Metal and Prog Rock collide with Sludge Metal in the most dynamic set of songs they've ever done. All in thr shadow of Brent Hinds death. A stunning record. I imagine it'll be regarded as one of the bands best albums.

So that's August and with it summer done with. Bring on the autumn!

31/08/2026

American Head Charge

The War Of Art

28th August 2001

Tracks Of Choice: A Violent Reaction / Song For The Suspect / Never Get Caught / Self / Just So You Know / Shutdown / Breathe In Bleed Out / All Wrapped Up

It was the 25th anniversary of American Head Charge second album on Friday. And I am still in catch up mode so it's getting played today.

This was one of those wonderful Nu Metal records that came along in the wake of Slipknot. Record labels were more prepared to take a chance on bands with heavier edges, industrial soundscapes, weird imaginative looks and styles.

Produced by Rick Rubin in his so called Haunted Mansion where the Chili Peppers recorded Blood Sugar S*x Magic and later Mars Volta made Deloused and Slipknot would make Vol.3 this album had a big budget than most would ever get for an untried and untested band.

But they rose to it with a monstrous 16 track near 70 minutes Nu Metal, Groove Metal and Industrial influenced record that still stands tall to this day.

Unfortunately the band would never be able to rise to this level again because despite fantastic reviews and decent commercial performance and some high profile tours the band began to pull itself apart through drugs, rehab, arrests, label problems, death and waining interest in their sound.

They've never really come back. There has been albums and tours but it's never really brought them any level of critical or commercial success. Like many bands from the Nu Metal era they were over before they got started.

Shame because this is a phenomenal record. Happy 25th War Of Art.

30/08/2026

Iron Maiden

A Matter Of Life And Death

25th August 2006

Tracks Of Choice: These Colours Don't Run / Brighter Than A Thousand Suns / The Longest Day / For The Greater Good Of God / Lord Of Light

It was the 20th anniversary of Iron Maiden 14th album last week. This is a special one for me.

The album is a solid Maiden album, songs based around war etc but I went to see the band on this tour which was good (playing the whole of the album may not have been the best idea but whatever) but more importantly I got the the t-shirt. Which I was wearing a few weeks later when my youngest daughter A L I C E was born, almost literally in to it.

I was the first person to hold her in my arms. All sticky and covered in all of the viscera that comes with birth. All over my new Maiden tee. And I couldn't have been happier.

Been a long time since I listened to the whole of this record in full. Many of the songs are long but it's a solid later period Maiden record...that is now 20 years old. See. Nuts isn't it.

Happy 20th.

30/08/2026

Lamb Of God

Sacrament

22nd August 2006

Tracks Of Choice: Walk With Me In Hell / Redneck / Foot To The Throat / Descending / Blacken The Cursed Sun / Requiem

Still very much in catch up mode. So I thought I'd knock a couple more records of the list today.

Starting with the 20th anniversary of Lamb Of Gods forth album Sacrament.

By this point they had perfected their sound. Big swinging riffs and grooves. Incredible dynamic drums, just enough melodies to hook you but the lacerating vocals of Randy to kill you with a thousand cuts.

Opening with Walk With Me In Hell was a masterstroke too as that has got to be one of the bands best ever songs. Redneck is a banger as well, with a particularly good video. The rest of the album is just as good with Descending and Blacken The Cursed Sun being a superb mid section that just slays.

They followed this with Wrath (2009) one of my favourites by the band but Sacrament is definitely where the bands first era started to grind various documented substance issues, Blythes arrest and subsequent acquittal that I think led to line up issues with the eventual departure of Chris Adler a few years later.

Not that anything after this and Wrath are bad but I reckon this is where peak LoG is. Can't quite believe it's 20 years old. These anniversaries really are boiling my head these days.

Anyway happy 20th Sacrament.

29/08/2026

Sonic Boom Six

The Ruff Guide To Genre Terrorism

23rd August 2006

Tracks Of Choice: Do It Today / Apathy Begins At Home / Piggy In The Middle / Northern Skies / Don't Say I Never Warned Ya / Shareena / A People's History Of The Future / Until The Sunlight Comes

Second up today is another 20th anniversary. Sonic Boom Six's debut album.

A proper melting pot of Ska, Reggae, Metal, Dub, Two Tone and Punk Rock. Only a band from the UK with our multicultural cities could a sound like this coalesce into this perfection.

When this was released it didn't take me long to realise that so many around me weren't getting on this. I tried so hard playing many of these tracks in DJ sets and while the band had some success, in my opinion they should have been huge.

Didn't happen. But they have a a hell of a run of records following this one.

But when all is said and done, this is still my favourite. Easily one of my favourite albums of all time.

Happy 20th anniversary Ruff Guide.

29/08/2026

J Dilla

The Shining

22nd August 2006

Tracks Of Choice: E=MC² / Love / So Far To Go / Body Movin' / Love Movin'

Going to bang out a couple of anniversaries this afternoon.

First up, it was the 20th anniversary of Official J Dilla The Shining last week.

Kind of the lyrical ying to the instrumental yang that is Donuts, The Shining was never released in Dilla's lifetime coming out many months after he'd passed away.

But all of his production wizardry is here, flipped, chopped, looped, slowed, sped up samples and beats with some superb vocalist over the top.

Common, Busta Rhymes, Madlib, D'Angelo and Black Thought are the highlights. But everyone shines here. I guess that was the point.

Even 20 years on these tracks are fire. What a loss to the hip hop world he was eh?

J. You are missed by so many. Happy 20th The Shining.

28/08/2026

Slipknot

Iowa

28th August 2001

Tracks Of Choice: People = S**t / Disasterpiece / My Plague / The Heritic Anthem / Left Behind / New Abortion / Iowa

Today is the 25th anniversary of a groundbreaking album. Without a doubt the heaviest album to ever make it to the Number 1 Album spot in here in the UK. It hit within the top 5 in most countries too.

But why? What made this masked bunch of metal lunatics so appealing, that this abrasive death metal adjacent record became the biggest selling record in the UK?

Nu Metal was big at the time. The fashion, the music, the hair, the wallet chains...I was there man. I was in the thick of it. I was DJing every week and it's all that some people wanted to hear. But after the pop hybrid of Linkin Park you'd think it wouldn't go this heavy or this dark.

Became this is a disgusting record. It's heavy yes but so is a lot of stuff out there. Slipknot were almost destroying themselves in real time as you listened to them. It's a chaotic listen that just about holds itself together and just about produced by Ross Robinson.

Themes of "misanthropy, solipsism, disgust, anger, disaffection, psychosis, and rejection" to quote Cory Taylor give this record a much bigger feel. This is deep dark stuff.

Ultimately I think they were the band that hit the heavier end of Nu Metal at the right time. And the buzz around them and their previous album and tours made this a do not miss moment in time. And it sold.

Personally it took me a long time to really gel with this one. I just didn't like the chaos of it. But I do appreciate it now. Still rather listen to the debut or Vol 3.

But there was a time when this cacophony was the biggest selling album in the UK. And that blows my mind.

Happy 25th anniversary Iowa.

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