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Vinyl Solution Volume 1 - Demented Spirit

Listening notes

Released in 1991 on the Quattro label under catalog number QTCY 2007, Vinyl Solution Volume 1 - Demented Spirit is a various artists compilation issued on CD. The release sits at a crossroads of several documented genres: Britcore, Electro, Electronic, Hip Hop, and Techno, a combination that reflects the range of sounds circulating in early 1990s UK underground scenes.

The compilation runs eight tracks with a total runtime that extends well past the forty-minute mark. Track durations lean long, with several cuts exceeding six minutes. "Bounty Killers" is the lengthiest at 7:23, followed closely by "Playing With Knives" at 6:49 and "Iron Orbit" at 6:48. "Crack Train" runs 6:04, while the title track "Demented Spirit" comes in at 5:50. "Spice" opens the release at 5:53, "Crime Story" follows at 5:20, and "White Light" closes the set as the shortest entry at 4:50. The decision to let tracks breathe across extended runtimes is a structural characteristic of the compilation as documented.

The Quattro label positioned this release as the first volume in what the title implies is a series, though any further volumes are not addressed by the information at hand. The compilation's title lends its name to the third track, a common enough practice on various artists releases of this period.

As a CD release catalogued under QTCY 2007, this sits within a documented moment when UK electronic and hip hop scenes were producing output that crossed genre lines in ways the multi-genre classification here confirms. Beyond what the tracklist, label, format, and genre tags establish, further details await verification.