After a bit of digging you can see the release of Bad Company’s “Forgotten” here Bad Company & DJ Trace – Inside The Machine :: Bad Company Recordings :: VDBCRLP001 at RollDaBeats
The proper press of it. Not saying that dub you have isn’t legit or rare, just it has been released I’m sorry to say.
I often find White Labels and Acetates are seldom as good as the later released versions, as they normally are on lesser quality material, and have been rush-mastered to get them to the dance floor faster. In saying that, when you actually can’t get a tune anywhere else before it’s been released it’s such a buzz getting it first, but if it’s been out years, personally I want the proper press. Although in saying that I’ve had some really cheaply made full releases of stuff before, but these are normally from smaller record labels with less capital. The Virus recordings presses for example used to be chunky as fuck normally. I can see the appeal of rare dub plates tho as it is a collectors thing.
But buyer beware, it’s not as hard to copy vinyl as you think, especially onto cheap material like acetate (what a dub plate is made out of). The whole reason they were first put out on this format was because it was the cheapest way to do a few tunes and test the water see if they would get played. No point spending out tons on high quality shit if no one ends up playing it right? HTFR used to do this afaik, I’m pretty sure I’d get some dodgy as fuck reprints off them from time to time.
On that note, that “forgotten” tune was probably released in that massive EP as people weren’t playing it much when the dub plate came out, so rather then releasing it as a single that wouldn’t of done so well, they most likely chucked it on that big EP with some more decent tunes like Nitrous and Brain Scan to carry the sales of the other tunes. It was made at the same time as skin tag (according to that dub plate you’re selling) which was released the year before (7-8 months to be precise) on Virus as a B side to a rather sick tune called “Seizure” (so most likely the preferred tune off the dub plate). This was also part of an EP, but it was only a four tune, two part EP with 2 sets of artists, one per record; BC on one and Optical and Ryme Time on the other http://www.rolldabeats.com/release/13104/virus_recordings/vrs006). It would of been a much bigger release due to the hype from “Seizure”, hence why you may of “forgotten” about that tune hidden away amongst 9 other tunes in that huge ep. 😉
Anyway, enough “buzz word” fighting for today, I must retire to the land of nod.
