electronica stuff

[RedfernMag 0]

 

yes mate. the remix is good too.

 

did you ever hear A Guy Called Gerald's essential mix from 95?

 

 

quality stuff.

[Alex 35095]

Too many to reply to in here - if I haven't it doesn't mean I didn't love the tune.

[Dr Gloom 21939]

Another classic that, Dr. G.

Remember this one by the delectable DJ Rap?

 

I was in love with her

 

sick tune by every dnb fanboy's wet dream tbh

 

while we're digging that far back, do you remember renegade snares?

 

 

high contrast did a sick remix of that one too

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucr2AmGFv84

[Alex 35095]

 

did you ever hear A Guy Called Gerald's essential mix from 95?

 

quality stuff.

That was class. DJ Ron did a really good one about the same time. As did Goldie and the Bukem one around that time was fucking brilliant as well.

Really like A Guy Called Gerald as a producer too. His Black Secret Technology album is great. Of course he was 808 State (and co-wrote it) when they did Pacific State.

Edited August 4, 2014 by Alex

[Dr Gloom 21939]

 

did you ever hear A Guy Called Gerald's essential mix from 95?

 

 

quality stuff.

 

no, but thanks for sharing. book marked for later.

 

voodoo ray is still probably my all time favourite dance tune ever.

[RedfernMag 0]

Anyone remember Klute?

 

 

bonkers to think this is him singing & playing drums 10 years earlier :-)

 

[Dr Gloom 21939]

Anyone remember Klute?

 

 

bonkers to think this is him singing & playing drums 10 years earlier :-)

 

 

yes mate, he actually played at a dnb night i used to put on in london back in the early noughties

 

this was my favourite tune he did, came a bit later.

 

[RedfernMag 0]

 

yes mate, he actually played at a dnb night i used to put on in london back in the early noughties

 

 

whereabouts?

[Dr Gloom 21939]

 

whereabouts?

 

brixton. the night was called roadblock.

[RedfernMag 0]

 

brixton. the night was called roadblock.

 

was that at the 414 on Coldharbour Lane? I used to venture over that way from the east occasionally :-)

[Dr Gloom 21939]

 

was that at the 414 on Coldharbour Lane? I used to venture over that way from the east occasionally :-)

 

no mate, the fridge bar. i remember the 414. that was another haunt, along with the dogstar weekly night dekefex.

 

used to put on nights in camberwell too.

 

those were the days!

[trophyshy 7083]

My mate Mash once spilled his lsd onto the floor in Dogstar, it gave me enormous pleasure to shout 'that's not how you drop acid man!'

[Alex 35095]

My mate Mash once spilled his lsd onto the floor in Dogstar, it gave me enormous pleasure to shout 'that's not how you drop acid man!'

Should've got him to go into business with you when you were making pies

Also, how long were you waiting to use that line? Years?

And as opposed to just tracks, what about people's favourites mixes? I know we touched on that with talk about DJs and Essential Mixes. I remember when you used to get those bootleg tapes loads and it seemed to take a while before record companies latched onto the idea of studio mixed CDs showcasing a DJ's talent (mixcloud, youtube, etc. have probably rendered these a bit obselete now). I suppose licensing would've been a nightmare with a lot of white labels and stuff as well in the early days. The one that really seemed to kick it all off big style was the first Sasha / Digweed Renaissance one:

http://www.discogs.com/Sasha-John-Digweed-Renaissance-The-Mix-Collection/release/100874

I thought I'd mention one at a time otherwise it just ends up being a catalogue of my CD collection.

[Dr Gloom 21939]

for me, this is still the best mix i've ever heard. unlike most sets it is an actually journey through music, taking in pretty much every genre and tempo you can think of. still sounds amazing all these years later

 

[Alex 35095]

I really like the Coldcut JDJ (a lot of the Journeys by DJ were good). That was one of those ones where you could tell they'd really thought about the mix and used the studio as opposed to just piecing together a club set. Like the bit where Plastikman's 'Fuk' has the sampled opening of James Brown's Get on the Good Foot:

Edited August 5, 2014 by Alex

[Dr Gloom 21939]

yeah, the justin robinson one was a goodun too. can't find it on youtube though

[Alex 35095]

yeah, the justin robinson one was a goodun too. can't find it on youtube though

The Paul Oakenfold one was good. Some great tracks on there from the time before he went shit. I like the Jay Chappell ones too who was the sort of JDJ 'resident'. He did a couple of good more uptempo house ones plus two classy 'After Hours' one which were still house but a bit more chilled. The Norman Jay / Giles Peterson ' JDJ Desert Island Mix' (which originally came out as a double CD before being reissued as two separate ones) was another good eclectic one (or two). I've got a few others as well in the series.

[RedfernMag 0]

Some Essential Mixes that still get played around here:

 

I wore my tape of this out, when I first passed my driving test it was my soundtrack to bombing up and down the coast road.

 

 

What I like about good mixes is a variety of stuff that takes you all over the place, Leftfield's mix from the same year was a classic.

 

 

And the final FSOL mix was wacky as fuck.

 

[RedfernMag 0]

I think the first actual mix tape I bought was from a record fair in Newcastle around 90/91, a bootleg Frank De Wulf mix of new beat and early techno. The late 80's was for me mainly about Spacemen 3/Krautrock/Loop, so I didn't really get the bleepy stuff I was hearing being played by the likes of John Peel, It wasn't until I came across a sound system tucked away in a field at the 1990 Reading festival that it all suddenly made sense :-)

 

It did help ease my conscience when Spacemen 3 released this record the same year (still a classic):

 

[RedfernMag 0]

By about the start of 95 I was moving more into *house* sounds and... vocals! Probably to do with my mates at the time playing mostly Euro techno at +8, started doing my head in :-)

 

So thanks to the likes of DiY Soundsystem, Doc Martin & Derrick Carter for keeping my head together during that time.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2014 by RedfernMag

[RedfernMag 0]

final post :-)

 

This is a great selection spanning 22 years by Twitch (of Twitch & Brainstorm I mentioned earlier). All vinyl.

 

https://soundcloud.com/twitch/optimo-podcast-9-bass-and

[Alex 35095]

Some Essential Mixes that still get played around here:

 

I wore my tape of this out, when I first passed my driving test it was my soundtrack to bombing up and down the coast road.

 

 

What I like about good mixes is a variety of stuff that takes you all over the place, Leftfield's mix from the same year was a classic.

 

 

And the final FSOL mix was wacky as fuck.

 

I've not heard the Leftfield one but, like you I played the Dave Clarke 'the Baron of Techno' (sample of John Peel isn't it?) to death. I downloaded it fairly recently and, although it was still canny good, I was slightly disappointed as the second half of it wasn't as hard and fast as I remembered.

I remember the two FSOL ones from around 93/94. They used a lot of their own stuff (including that first Amorphous Androgenous disc I mentioned earlier). They had a bit of a feel of the KLF's Chill Out about them. You know - bits layered over the top as though you were tuning in and out of an AM radio station. I remember bits of Acker Bilk's Stranger on the Shore and Albatross by Fleetwood Mac being on it. Probably sounds shit to those who haven't heard it but it worked really well iyam.

[Alex 35095]

I think the first actual mix tape I bought was from a record fair in Newcastle around 90/91, a bootleg Frank De Wulf mix of new beat and early techno. The late 80's was for me mainly about Spacemen 3/Krautrock/Loop, so I didn't really get the bleepy stuff I was hearing being played by the likes of John Peel, It wasn't until I came across a sound system tucked away in a field at the 1990 Reading festival that it all suddenly made sense :-)

 

It did help ease my conscience when Spacemen 3 released this record the same year (still a classic):

I remember Frank de Wulf from that early Eurobeat sound too, particularly his mix of Human Resource's rave classic Dominator. Dated now but class. I think that was the record that introduced me to R&S. Funny Belgium being such a hotbed of techno

Me mate was a big fan of Spacemen 3. I remember hearing Recurring a lot. In the late 80s / early 90s it was acts like The Beloved (especially The Sun Rising) and New Order that started getting me into more dancey stuff.

[RedfernMag 0]

I've not heard the Leftfield one but, like you I played the Dave Clarke 'the Baron of Techno' (sample of John Peel isn't it?) to death. I downloaded it fairly recently and, although it was still canny good, I was slightly disappointed as the second half of it wasn't as hard and fast as I remembered.

I remember the two FSOL ones from around 93/94. They used a lot of their own stuff (including that first Amorphous Androgenous disc I mentioned earlier). They had a bit of a feel of the KLF's Chill Out about them. You know - bits layered over the top as though you were tuning in and out of an AM radio station. I remember bits of Acker Bilk's Stranger on the Shore and Albatross by Fleetwood Mac being on it. Probably sounds shit to those who haven't heard it but it worked really well iyam.

 

Yeah even back then Dave's self congratulatory John Peel samples annoyed me tbh, he was always a right twat though

 

That mix had two particular tunes I loved that took me yonks to find out what they were.

 

 

 

'Chill Out' was a great album (along with Space), I was listening to Gong a fair bit as well (hot knives & Gong was a good night in back then) it did lead me (through Steve Hillage) to The Orb & System 7 so all is forgiven.

[RedfernMag 0]

I remember Frank de Wulf from that early Eurobeat sound too, particularly his mix of Human Resource's rave classic Dominator. Dated now but class. I think that was the record that introduced me to R&S. Funny Belgium being such a hotbed of techno

Me mate was a big fan of Spacemen 3. I remember hearing Recurring a lot. In the late 80s / early 90s it was acts like The Beloved (especially The Sun Rising) and New Order that started getting me into more dancey stuff.

 

I think Frank was an old bugger back then :-)

 

I had a soft spot for The Beloved (check out the moves on Dance Energy).

 

 

My favourite mix of Sun Rising: (they did some good stuff as Adam & Eve as well)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKhHcFwbgtI

Edited August 6, 2014 by RedfernMag