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i wish they rereleased some of the old ID&T vinyls, they are such hard things to find these days.

I worked for the store that bought the overstock from ID&T in the end of the nineties. We sold most of the records on parties in The Netherlands, and Belgium in the years after. This release was also part of the overstock. I don't know how many we received as we didn't keep track of the numbers at the time :-) If I have to guess it should be 20 or 40 as the records were in packed in boxes of 20 and we didn't get many of these. In the middle of the zero's the remainder of this stock was sold on, I don't know to who bought it but it was around 7000/8000 pieces. Big chance that some of this release was still in the mix of the remaining records. It is a very nice Test Crash Recods release with 2 solid tracks on it, with This fucked up sound as the best one. They kept the best for last. A worthy ending to the Test Crash Records label.

ID&T NEVER intended to sell this one. As stated below, the hardcore hype was over. The artists to these labels still supplied tracks, but somehow it took ages for a release. This eventually ended in the cancellation of a release. Tracks got simply outdated.

Where as before some tracks were released a few months after they got on a Thunderdome compilation, it now took ages. This is why (fortuneately) much artists broke their contracts with ID&T and went their own way.

These "unreleased" white labels were available to people who had access to the ID&T office. One of the artists provided mine. Later, when ID&T pulled the plug I don't now what happened to their backstock.

Never played this at a party, to be honest, the quality of these cancelled records is pretty lame. With one or two exceptions.

Nowadays the style of hardcore can't be compared with the style in the 90's of the last century, but this record - old style - is still one of my favorites. In fact every track rocks my memory! 3 Steps Ahead did a very good remix job just as we expect from him and from Buzz Fuzz's style people have mostly that same expectation (quality)!

Only A3 is a bit a strange track on this record. Firsty because of the style and also because there is not any information about the producer/artist and title. I've verified with The Prophet by mail and he can't also tell more information. Maybe it's a commercial-stunt because it's a white-label since I think the compiler of this record must have information. I can't personally believe the fact that they put no artist and name on it.

But I am very happy to have this one ;) !

Ok this release is very rare. But it's not true that the records has kept stacked somewhere in a distribution-centre.
Because at our local record dealer there were sold at least 3 pieces of them around the same time (1996) that the thunderdome cd's came out where the tracks "out on the street" and "this fucked up sound" where on!
I had one and i know 2 friends of mine who have the record as well. So i don't even know for sure that there are only 50 copies. But that it is very hard to find is true!

However some very wellknown and highly appreciated tracks like "Out On The Streets" and "This Fucked Up Sound" had previously been selected and released on several Thunderdome compilations this release never made it to be an official release. It's has only been pressed in a very limited amount, probably no more than 100 pieces, and is a real collectors-item and very rare.

Each track has a unique The Prophet-flavour and can be described as a typical 96/97 hardcore and happy hardcore style. Unfortunatly this great release was also the last sign of life for Test Crash Records.

It was very common for the last releases on ID&T's hardcore sublabels that they have been pressed on a whitelabel only and they've never been released with artwork. In 1997 next to ID&T a lot of other hardcore labels were releasing and they did not all keep up with the standard. Also parties got very overcrowded and many of the first party people turned their back on hardcore because they felt that hardcore was no longer underground. In 1997 impopularity grew for hardcore and happy hardcore in special. At the end of 1997 record sales dropped radicaly and ID&T was forced to abandon most of it's hardcore sublabels but kept releasing on it's main label under the same name as the company. Many claimed hardcore was dead..

Around the year 2000 ID&T decided to aim it's new future on other electronic music such as trance. It sold it's catalogue rights to "Be Yourself Music" and sold it's complete (hardcore) stock to shops and other. One of these shops was Rige Entertainment. In 2005 we found 10-20 brand new copies at Rige Distribution lying in a box in backstock, together with a lot of other ID&T whitelabels (such as Pengo Records and Devil Records). These whitelabels were only recognizable by their catalogue engravings. These copies have never been offered in their online record-shop and we bought them for no more than €1. Rige was clearly unaware of the existance and growing worth of this release.

From source I know that ID&T sold the mayority of it's stock to one person within the Netherlands. It contained at least 15.000 ID&T releases, mostly whitelabels. It was stocked in a warehouse for almost a decade. Eventually it was sold to an online record store in The Netherlands in 2008. This pile contained a limited amount of Test Limiteds 002 also. Probably a few copies have actually reached stores after it was pressed.