"138 Trek" is a song by

DJ Zinc Benjamin Pettit (born 12 March 1972), known professionally as DJ Zinc, is a British DJ and record producer. Zinc first became known for 1995's "Super Sharp Shooter", a hip hop music, hip hop/jungle music, jungle fusion, notably one of the pione ...

, released as a

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in 2000. The song peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the

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. DJ Zinc was one of the first

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producers to score a

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hit within the

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scene with this song. He then continued to release

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/garage productions under the alias Jammin. His 2004 release, "Kinda Funky/Go DJ", reached No. 80 in the UK. "138 Trek" samples the drum break from

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's "

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". ''

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'' listed "138 Trek" at number 7 in their list of "The best UK garage tracks - ranked!" in 2019. The track also features samples from the ''

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'' original series, including the re-use of samples of the communicator sound.

Chart performance

References

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