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The drop...
A club classic
Works great on the guitar too😛
@greatbeardedone - urban shakedown, how have i missed that! i remember loosing my mind to it a a raindance rave in Leicestershire i think it was
as we appear to of strayed off rave & hardcore into classics of the time - this was huge on the free party scene, beloved by ravers and crusties alike!
and a shelleys classic for friday afternoon
and one to keep the back line bouncing....
and if you didn't have a copy of this tape theres questioned to be asked if you were even there!
must stop now
I remember my sister heading to an all night rave years ago and she brought me back a mixtape from the night (I was too young to go so instead would listen to Pete Tong at the weekends while she went off clubbing and to raves). These are the only two tracks I remember from it.
Whilst I have concentrated on the apex of the sound "Hardcore" from around 1992, seems so quaint now! and is interchangeable with Breakbeat. Rave is all encompassing and all sorts got played at 90's raves.
For example:
Hip Hop at a rave
Early Trance derived from Techno before it went all supersaw, that Three Drives track above!
Is it House? Incidentally missed off the playlist because it appeared as a link not a video for some reason?!?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGNKdhSQ9Po
Defo Prog House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jR-TD8NWSE
Loads of Acid House throwbacks and early Jungle Hardcore crossover tracks.
It's all fair game IMO.
What about bleep? Had Breaks Bass & Bleeps on cassette, well played.
Piece on BC about it recently:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/uk-bleep-and-bass-feature
There was a few niches/placeholders. I'm sure there was one called 4-Beat, think it was what became Happy Hardcore. Less said about that unfortunate offshoot the better!
SMD#1 mashup walked that line reasonably well.....
Anyway nighty night beddy bye byes and we still haven't done moribund James Pond playing with knives.
@sofaboy73 Thank you for the ‘Sasha 1’ YT link.
So many good memories attached to that mixtape.
Check out the old school raver you tube channel, it’s full of classic mix tapes you’ll know inside out
Repressed:
Remix of Sooth My Soul. Pushing the remit a bit what with it being Jungle and not particularly proto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOm9t_5wlKk
Reminds me of a bit of trivia from about 10 years or so back. One of the big old-skool Jungle labels Moving Shadow were such obnoxious arses with people on YT, in the days before all the corporates and their handlers locked it down! To repay their arseyness someone posted their entire catalogue of HQ vinyl rips as a set of torrents for all who wanted it.
Had this stuck in my head since watching Spaced S1 ep6 this week.
There's more truth in the five mins or so of its club scene than any other screen depiction of club/rave culture.
Made me come over quite emotional, it did. Go and watch it if you have Netflix.
How's everybody feelin?
I booked DJ Rap at Manchester Academy back in the early noughties, fantastic DJ, played proper party sets as opposed to the 'product pushing', own label type of fare that was the habit of nearly every drum n' bass DJ by then.
Where it all began..
I remember being at the Hac the first time this was ever dropped by Mike Pickering.
A track from the current Paris/Berlin rave scene made it onto Radio 1 a few days ago:
Listening to this mix atm while listening to a training session.
Not there yet!
A few had cult status but were largely too repetitive to actually listen to now!
2 BOASTERS, A DIGESTIVE & A JAMMY DODGER - We Are About To Take LSD
Noise Factory - Who Are You
80 AUM - Mindcontroller (No Sense Version One)
Kromozone - The Rush (Sub Bass Mix)
Mate from college used to record london/essex pirate radio stations (cyndicut/pulse) that I'd listen to death to (Big shout out to Squid. Squid the fish.) Talking of Pulse... heard this on there along with Andy C up there.
I miss ABGT250 Seven Lions & Jason Ross
It was beyond amazing. Everyone there was a fan of anjuna everything. The movie night, the main night, the deep set. Camping.. Having people walk by and say hi. The loving vibes.
@sofaboy73 - That Sasha tape is such an all time classic.
I remember queuing at Lakota once to see him but never got in.
Did get to seen him at universe though.
Still some of my favourite sounds were from DiY, Circus Warp and Spiral Tribe because they all put on absolutely mental free parties.
Saturday nights were always calling the spiral tribe number from a phone box or meeting in a service station waiting for some info and then heading off to a party.
Bank holidays were the best because the news always told you where the 'new age travellers' had pitched up for an all weekend rave!
Some of the DiY and Spiral mixes from Castle moreton are my favourites because it was such a momentous turning point in popular culture and me and mates were there for 4 heavy days.
We never realised at the time that we were in a real moment in history.
The following week we met in Stroud to protest against the arrests and then onto a party on cleeve hill (if memory serves me).
Amazing times and probably never to be repeated. The tracking technology wasn't a thing back then so it was a real game of cat and mouse and more often than not the mouse won.
Something for the weekend.
Just came across this released last year... fits other than release date
Narrow Minds eh....
Been enjoying working my way through this thread, the tunes have brought back lots of happy memories which is surprising considering the altered states I used to get into, cheers all.
Heres something from Joris Voorn, A live session from his studio with Roland TB-303, TR-909, MC-202, JD-990 + FX, way too short at 10mins but well worth watching/listening to
I would love a 303