( BLNK 017 ) EARTH LEAKAGE TRIP - Psychotronic (12") Blank Mind

A genuine slab of history here, as Earth Leakage Trip's 1991 debut single - officially the first ever release on legendary hardcore and jungle label Moving Shadow - finally gets the reissue treatment. The three-tracker is one of the finest (not to mention heaviest) examples of the 'bleep & breaks' sound that combined the weighty bass and bleeps of turn-of-the-90s Yorkshire techno with the crunchy breakbeats associated with early London breakbeat hardcore. This edition changes the running order, opening with the hallucinatory heaviness, bubbly acid motifs and pulsing bleeps of 'Psychotronic', before dropping sub-heavy shuffler 'Over 92' and finally the ludicrously weighty, alien-sounding electro-bleep creepiness of 'No Idea'. In a word: essential.