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Vinyl Is Better 2

Various — Vinyl Is Better 2, 2017. Verified release details and tracklist.

Label
Kniteforce Records
Catalog
KFCD03
Year
2017
Format
CDr

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Listening notes

Kniteforce Records released Vinyl Is Better 2 in 2017 under catalog number KFCD03. Despite its title's nod to analog formats, the release arrived as a CDr, a format commonly associated with small-run or label-direct distribution. Kniteforce Records is a label with roots in the early UK hardcore and rave scenes, and this compilation sits within that general tradition.

The release spans five genre categories as catalogued: Breakbeat, Electronic, Happy Hardcore, Hardcore, and Jungle. These overlapping labels reflect the kind of stylistic range that characterized compilations emerging from that extended scene, where tempo, texture, and energy shifted across tracks without cleanly resolving into a single subgenre.

Twelve tracks make up the running order, with individual durations ranging from four minutes and forty seconds to six minutes and forty-seven seconds. The tracklist includes what appear to be original cuts alongside remixed versions. Three tracks are identified as remixes: The Snowball carries a DJ Mannik Remix credit, Summer is presented as a Timespan Remix, and High Da Way appears in a Luna-C Remix. Luna-C is a name associated with Kniteforce Records itself, which may be of interest to collectors researching the label's internal production history.

Track titles across the compilation — Here Dis, A Feeling You Can't Understand, Lets Get Ill, Here Comes Da Feelin', Things Like This — carry phrasing consistent with the vernacular style common to UK hardcore and jungle releases of the 1990s and early 2000s, though no production dates for individual tracks are available from the data provided.

The total runtime, calculated from the listed track durations, comes to approximately one hour and five minutes. As a CDr release, Vinyl Is Better 2 would fall outside standard commercial pressing channels, though no edition size or distribution information is available to confirm the scope of its circulation.

Tracklist

On the record

  1. 1Here Dis
  2. 2A Feeling You Can't Understand
  3. 3The Snowball (Dj Mannik Remix)
  4. 4Lets Get Ill
  5. 5You Know What
  6. 6Echoes
  7. 7Technical Schmecnical
  8. 8Here Comes Da Feelin'
  9. 9Things Like This
  10. 10Summer (The Timespan Remix)
  11. 11You Take My Love
  12. 12High Da Way (Luna-C Remix)

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