2025 has been another amazing year for vinyl releases. Whether you are into 90s drum & bass, jungle or hardcore, there have been countless releases this year that deserve your attention.
Our good friend Simon from 7th Storey Projects has picked five of his favourites that are currently available through his online shop.
See what he has to say about them below and if you want pick any of them up, you can check his shop here.
Tango & Fallout – Revelations (Creative Wax)
A don-daddy of a holy grail of an unreleased tune prior to April 2025 – as with most of these selections, there’s not much that can be said that hasn’t been said before about the original mix of ‘Revelations’ – suffice to say that it was 30 years overdue a release in physical-format, and all credit to the team at Creative Wax who did a bang-up job with this one – it looks, feels and sounds beautiful – backed up with EOA’s wicked remix, it’s a must for anyone who loves their beats very broken.
Thank you Tango (RIP) & Fallout :-)
FBD Project – The Core / Breakin’ Up (Bang-In Tunes)
You know the one, it’s really dark and goes ‘weeeee’ and ‘wooooo’ a lot, about half way through – yeah, you know the one.
Hardly a controversial or original statement, but this 12″ ranks highly amongst my favourites of all time – ‘The Core’ is deceptively simple, but in this case, simplicity touches on genius.
We’ve been hearing this played out for over 30 years – and it has NEVER lost it’s devastating impact on the dance, and likely never will.
I’d also always wondered why Breakin’ Up had never been re-issued, but that’s academic now, because here it is – it’s one of those rare tracks that clocks in at over 9 minutes, and never loses my undivided attention for a fraction of a second.
The repress sounds sharp as a tack, especially when compared to the charmingly muddy original press.
A foundational classic of proto-jungle, without a shadow of a doubt.
The overwhelming majority of Skanna’s back catalogue has seen represses over the last 10-15 years or so – but the ‘Heaven EP’ was a glaring exception, until October this year.
Three tracks of prime, trademark Skanna, by turns dark, haunting, beautiful and ruff as fuck.
Mega City 2 – Nightwalker (Kniteforce Records)
I could never put my finger on exactly why, but much of Mega City 2’s small-yet-perfectly-formed output has always sat very high atop my list of personal favourites, the intro to Nightwalker used to be my ringtone (remember them?) back in the day.
I don’t lose too much sleep over why that is, nor do I particularly care if anyone thinks it’s a bit weird!
Anyhoo – Kniteforce got their hands on MC2’s back catalogue and gave it a ruddy good re-release this year – on a 7-disc box set (Alien Zoo), and now available as singles.
Nightwalker is fractionally my favourite EP of them all (sorry Demons By Daylight) – but it’s great to see them all get a bit of 2020’s polish – and the retention of the original artwork is a nice touch too.
Essential, especially if, like me, you’re a bit weird.
DJ Fokus & DJ Stardust – The Theme / Disengaged (Vinyl Fanatiks)
Another huge personal favourite of mine (hence it’s inclusion on this list) – Fokus’ output in the early to mid 1990’s was (imo) hard to touch, and his partnership with Pete Parsons created countless formidable, and memorable tunes.
The standout here is ‘Disengaged’ – an insane seven minute ride that you can’t get off, even if you wanted to!
RIP DJ Stardust – thank you for the beats!
That’s yer lot – thank you for all your support in 2025, see you in 2026!
Simon
Two Hungry Ghosts 
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