Rave/Acid House/Jungle/Etc, ~87-93- Your reflections
Discussion
Like many of us, I consider myself quite deeply into music, particularly many genres of electronic/dance/hip hop. As an older Millenial (39), I feel like we hear endless amounts about the 60s and 70s which is great, but periods from the mid-80s onwards are much less talked about, perhaps partly because less time has elapsed to allow reflection, but also that demographically speaking, fewer people experienced their youth in these decades.
Was interested in hearing the experiences of anyone who was around/active in the rave and associated scenes at the time of '87-'93 or thereabouts, seeing the emergence/explosion of acid house, techno, rave, jungle, hardcore, trance and the rest. I d be interested in hearing about hip hop of the time too, as it is often seen as a golden period of that genre, with styles developing and changing fast. Would love to hear first hand experiences of the events (legal and illegal), music, music technology, culture, fashion, venues and so on.
Did music from this point develop in a way you expected at the time, or has it disappointed? How do you feel about the direction clubs and the culture around events and festivals has evolved from then? Has it moved forwards in terms of being bigger/better/more mainstream, or has it lost the essence of innovation/togetherness/spontaneity that may have been present originally? Do you feel like the period will ever repeat itself in a new form, or was it the last, fresh new youth movement in a world of commoditisation and increasing insularity? Finally, what are some of your favourite bangers?
Was interested in hearing the experiences of anyone who was around/active in the rave and associated scenes at the time of '87-'93 or thereabouts, seeing the emergence/explosion of acid house, techno, rave, jungle, hardcore, trance and the rest. I d be interested in hearing about hip hop of the time too, as it is often seen as a golden period of that genre, with styles developing and changing fast. Would love to hear first hand experiences of the events (legal and illegal), music, music technology, culture, fashion, venues and so on.
Did music from this point develop in a way you expected at the time, or has it disappointed? How do you feel about the direction clubs and the culture around events and festivals has evolved from then? Has it moved forwards in terms of being bigger/better/more mainstream, or has it lost the essence of innovation/togetherness/spontaneity that may have been present originally? Do you feel like the period will ever repeat itself in a new form, or was it the last, fresh new youth movement in a world of commoditisation and increasing insularity? Finally, what are some of your favourite bangers?
I wasnt much interested in proper dance music as was listening to lots of The Who/Zappa in my early teans / mid late 80s.
Asked a pal what this house/acid thing was so he played me 'Always on my mind / my house" from PSB Introspective album.
I quite liked that - so he went for broke and hit me with Stakker Humanoid.
Life was never quite the same again....
3 years later i was driving from Newcastle to Leeds Warehouse, 'sleeping' in the car parked nearby before heading home.
Asked a pal what this house/acid thing was so he played me 'Always on my mind / my house" from PSB Introspective album.
I quite liked that - so he went for broke and hit me with Stakker Humanoid.
Life was never quite the same again....
3 years later i was driving from Newcastle to Leeds Warehouse, 'sleeping' in the car parked nearby before heading home.
Edited by Chimune on Friday 27th June 09:19
I was born in '74 so that was very much my era of music. Acid house blew up as I was in my final years at school. I listened to Baby Ford and similar at that time but I didn't really get into the rave scene. I went from 80's pop music to listening to a lot of the hi-nrg music that was popular in the gay scene. I used to get tapes of sets that DJ's in Rockshots in Newcastle were playing. I think I supplied most of my high school with music in that time. Someone mentioned PSB and one of the records I bought at the time was the early dance mixes of one more chance.
I liked hip hop, trance but ultimately, I went down the madchester route of indie music after that. In terms of the scene at the time, the early 90's were just a time that I don't think we'll see again. A lot of our generation were on recreational drugs and as we had no mobile phones, music events were mainly people feeling loved up, in the moment and actually watching and listening to the music. Now it's more about Instagram pictures and concentrating on a phone screen instead of the people around you and the acts you are there to see.
In the early 90's, a lot of us were smoking a lot of dope so the paired back chillout electronica took over. Global Communication, The Future Sound of London, etc.
I liked hip hop, trance but ultimately, I went down the madchester route of indie music after that. In terms of the scene at the time, the early 90's were just a time that I don't think we'll see again. A lot of our generation were on recreational drugs and as we had no mobile phones, music events were mainly people feeling loved up, in the moment and actually watching and listening to the music. Now it's more about Instagram pictures and concentrating on a phone screen instead of the people around you and the acts you are there to see.
In the early 90's, a lot of us were smoking a lot of dope so the paired back chillout electronica took over. Global Communication, The Future Sound of London, etc.
Completely black room, smoke filled, and a single chocky's children green laser at one end with a wall of bass speakers.
Ears bleeding, and lungs vibrating, due to a very loud techno-trance by D Shake.
Come on...
https://youtu.be/LPtuEfYv0PE?si=Kp865yDL2UwCDchZ
Ears bleeding, and lungs vibrating, due to a very loud techno-trance by D Shake.
Come on...
https://youtu.be/LPtuEfYv0PE?si=Kp865yDL2UwCDchZ
Never got it at the time, remember going to some warehouse in Edmonton around '87 and nothing really happening and it was midnight. Would have been 20 then, so we all left bored.
The music sounded awful and was 'just for the kids with dummies in their gobs'.
Roll onto 1994 and going to Tenerife with my then long-term girlfriend.
She wanted to go to bed, but I fancied carrying on a bit so walked to a 'disco' and was offered a pill which I munched on and then it hit me. Oh my word! Danced all night and couldn't get the smile off my face. Danced at the slightest bit of music I heard for the rest of the holiday too.
Started going to places like Bagleys and The Cross in King's Cross on a Friday just to get dancing.
Soon moved out from my long-term girlfriend, all of a sudden we were world's apart.
Then I discovered the free party scene, and the music which was much more my thing, away from the Digweed/Renaissance stuff and more darker and harder. The London Acid Techno scene and it's DJs had been discovered. The Liberators, Zebedee, Chiba City Soundsystem and a tonne of other people playing crazy squatted venues around East and South London.
A crazy new girlfriend who had a fantastic pad in Olympia added to the madness of every drug-fuelled escapist weekend.
Burn-out was inevitable. Had to get away in 1996 and headed off to a kibbutz after a mate recommended it, to try and sort my head out.
I ended up at a 'hippy' kibbutz in the Arava Desert and weekly trips into Eilat meant meeting up with some of the Bedhouins who knew a lot of the rave organisers on the outskirts of Eilat.
Lots of LSD and PsyTrance!
Got out of the 'scene' on my return after seeing that Ketamine had now become the rave drug and everything had turned to s
t.
Got married a few years later but still went to some of the 'retro' raves organised by 'people on the internet' They were good, in decent locations, with decent toilets and none of the bad attitudes that the scene had at the end of the '90s.
I'm 58 now and do look back at those times fondly, the same as all the Punk gigs at the end of the '70s through to the mid '80s.
Nothing like that buzz of being at some rave and getting into that beat and dancing like a techno viking.
The music sounded awful and was 'just for the kids with dummies in their gobs'.
Roll onto 1994 and going to Tenerife with my then long-term girlfriend.
She wanted to go to bed, but I fancied carrying on a bit so walked to a 'disco' and was offered a pill which I munched on and then it hit me. Oh my word! Danced all night and couldn't get the smile off my face. Danced at the slightest bit of music I heard for the rest of the holiday too.
Started going to places like Bagleys and The Cross in King's Cross on a Friday just to get dancing.
Soon moved out from my long-term girlfriend, all of a sudden we were world's apart.
Then I discovered the free party scene, and the music which was much more my thing, away from the Digweed/Renaissance stuff and more darker and harder. The London Acid Techno scene and it's DJs had been discovered. The Liberators, Zebedee, Chiba City Soundsystem and a tonne of other people playing crazy squatted venues around East and South London.
A crazy new girlfriend who had a fantastic pad in Olympia added to the madness of every drug-fuelled escapist weekend.
Burn-out was inevitable. Had to get away in 1996 and headed off to a kibbutz after a mate recommended it, to try and sort my head out.
I ended up at a 'hippy' kibbutz in the Arava Desert and weekly trips into Eilat meant meeting up with some of the Bedhouins who knew a lot of the rave organisers on the outskirts of Eilat.
Lots of LSD and PsyTrance!
Got out of the 'scene' on my return after seeing that Ketamine had now become the rave drug and everything had turned to s
t. Got married a few years later but still went to some of the 'retro' raves organised by 'people on the internet' They were good, in decent locations, with decent toilets and none of the bad attitudes that the scene had at the end of the '90s.
I'm 58 now and do look back at those times fondly, the same as all the Punk gigs at the end of the '70s through to the mid '80s.
Nothing like that buzz of being at some rave and getting into that beat and dancing like a techno viking.
I was in my mid-late 20s and living in London when it all exploded. It started with all the pirate radio stations (what arethey playing??) then the occasional random nutters setting up a mini rave on a Sunday afternoon on Blackheath Common and so on. I couldn't be arsed standing in a field off the M25 but happily got onboard when the music finally hit the London clubs.
The clubbing part for me started in the Fridge in Brixton and from there all sorts of places; in no particular order SW1, Club UK, the Paradise, Ministry, Cafe de Paris, the Leisure Lounge and, of course, Bagleys and the Cross. Criss crossing London in the middle of the night in mini cabs listening to Girls FM.
It was enormous fun and, for me and my mates, pretty much totally replaced going to gigs which we'd previously done all the time.
There's still loads of new house music being produced and I still listen to it old and new (funky soulful house in my case). My son mucks about with decks these days and he and I swap tracks, artists and playlists.
So many of the iconic venues are sadly gone which is sad but the spirit lives on. During Covid I found of bunch of blokes my age who follow the same football team and who were also huge house heads. We met on a message board, jumped onto a WhatsApp group and we've become actual mates. We meet up at games and go to the odd gig. Two of them still do a bit of DJing; mainly online.
It was quite a time when it all kicked off though. Really quite something.
The clubbing part for me started in the Fridge in Brixton and from there all sorts of places; in no particular order SW1, Club UK, the Paradise, Ministry, Cafe de Paris, the Leisure Lounge and, of course, Bagleys and the Cross. Criss crossing London in the middle of the night in mini cabs listening to Girls FM.
It was enormous fun and, for me and my mates, pretty much totally replaced going to gigs which we'd previously done all the time.
There's still loads of new house music being produced and I still listen to it old and new (funky soulful house in my case). My son mucks about with decks these days and he and I swap tracks, artists and playlists.
So many of the iconic venues are sadly gone which is sad but the spirit lives on. During Covid I found of bunch of blokes my age who follow the same football team and who were also huge house heads. We met on a message board, jumped onto a WhatsApp group and we've become actual mates. We meet up at games and go to the odd gig. Two of them still do a bit of DJing; mainly online.
It was quite a time when it all kicked off though. Really quite something.
I guess I was bang on the right age for this as was 20 in 1988, was very much a Post Punk/Indie kid up until then although my mates and I were all windsurfers so were on the beach a lot and generally into that "lifestyle" around work obviously..
The first track of this genre I heard was when a guy a work put a tape on that had House Nation on it by the Housemaster Boyz in 1987. Just loved it from the moment I heard it and it was so different, was always a Kraftwerk fan too and quickly headed off down a rabbit hole and then the first tracks made with 808 and 303's turned up. There are simply too many tracks to list.
Went to Ibiza in mid 1988 on holiday and heard even more of this music, won't pretend I was then off to Shoom etc. though in my bandana and smiley t shirt as I went away on a trip to the Middle East for 6 months until Christmas more or less when I got home. What a difference though when I did get home in late 88, my mates had all turned into full on ravers with long hair or on the way to it and were clubbing or doing illegal raves most weekends.
Had a great time thorough 89-92, loads of late night drives around Southern England with raves in some great places, some excellent clubs (Sterns in Worthing) . Glastonbury 89 and 90 was great too (Joe Bananas stall etc.), was a very different place to today but even more exposure to the whole rave scene. It did also have a generally good impact on indie music and saw some great gigs by just about all of "baggy" bands, wasn't the biggest fan but it did make a nice change from the norm jangly guitar types.
It did start to get very mainstream though towards the later 90's and obviously the Criminal Justice Act curbed a lot of the illegal "stuff" which was a shame and then you got the Superclub era, sort of lost interest by then as I guess started to grow up a bit with more responsibilities. Still loved the music and actually still do.
For me it definitely had a really positive affect on music and as someone who still loves gigs as much as that first one I saw at 14 the electronic bands that came out of rave really are some of the most enjoyable now (for example Leftfield, Orbital, ). That said though I still am very much a fan of Post Punk but electronic music is my real fave genre live or recorded, without rave I'm not sure it would be as diverse as it is now.
One of the best things the whole rave thing did was remove the annoying shirt/trousers/shoes policy that clubs had, never understood why I had to put chinos and a collar on for a Saturday night out. Trivial I know but what a pain it was.
So yes it was a good time, probably the 1976 for my generation which gave music the wake up call it needed.
The first track of this genre I heard was when a guy a work put a tape on that had House Nation on it by the Housemaster Boyz in 1987. Just loved it from the moment I heard it and it was so different, was always a Kraftwerk fan too and quickly headed off down a rabbit hole and then the first tracks made with 808 and 303's turned up. There are simply too many tracks to list.
Went to Ibiza in mid 1988 on holiday and heard even more of this music, won't pretend I was then off to Shoom etc. though in my bandana and smiley t shirt as I went away on a trip to the Middle East for 6 months until Christmas more or less when I got home. What a difference though when I did get home in late 88, my mates had all turned into full on ravers with long hair or on the way to it and were clubbing or doing illegal raves most weekends.
Had a great time thorough 89-92, loads of late night drives around Southern England with raves in some great places, some excellent clubs (Sterns in Worthing) . Glastonbury 89 and 90 was great too (Joe Bananas stall etc.), was a very different place to today but even more exposure to the whole rave scene. It did also have a generally good impact on indie music and saw some great gigs by just about all of "baggy" bands, wasn't the biggest fan but it did make a nice change from the norm jangly guitar types.
It did start to get very mainstream though towards the later 90's and obviously the Criminal Justice Act curbed a lot of the illegal "stuff" which was a shame and then you got the Superclub era, sort of lost interest by then as I guess started to grow up a bit with more responsibilities. Still loved the music and actually still do.
For me it definitely had a really positive affect on music and as someone who still loves gigs as much as that first one I saw at 14 the electronic bands that came out of rave really are some of the most enjoyable now (for example Leftfield, Orbital, ). That said though I still am very much a fan of Post Punk but electronic music is my real fave genre live or recorded, without rave I'm not sure it would be as diverse as it is now.
One of the best things the whole rave thing did was remove the annoying shirt/trousers/shoes policy that clubs had, never understood why I had to put chinos and a collar on for a Saturday night out. Trivial I know but what a pain it was.
So yes it was a good time, probably the 1976 for my generation which gave music the wake up call it needed.
House music in England '92-2000
At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Sasha, live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Sasha, live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 27th June 13:58
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 27th June 14:26
The_Doc said:
House music in England '92-2000
At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Shasa live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
Got any jungle in bruv...?At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Shasa live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 27th June 13:58
I remember the violence in nightclubs ending almost overnight as soon as ecstasy hit the scene in about 1989 - it was amazing !!!
I miss those days.
I did a few of the big raves - fantasia , dreamscape etc etc but I preferred the smaller ones - love of life in Cambridge, ( Kelsey kerridge sports centre) and the hardcore clubs: club uk in Wandsworth , Martha’s Vineyard in Swansea. Lakota in Bristol. 89 - 95 were the best years I my opinion.
I miss those days.
I did a few of the big raves - fantasia , dreamscape etc etc but I preferred the smaller ones - love of life in Cambridge, ( Kelsey kerridge sports centre) and the hardcore clubs: club uk in Wandsworth , Martha’s Vineyard in Swansea. Lakota in Bristol. 89 - 95 were the best years I my opinion.
One of my favourite nights was in 1997, a Nat-West in Streatham High Road was squatted and there was a fantastic party (and it was my birthday).
People dancing on the counters, brilliant lighting, excellent vibe, phones and photos of staff were still there and the chill out area was the vault downstairs. Rolled out of there around midday on the Sunday. Fantastic!
People dancing on the counters, brilliant lighting, excellent vibe, phones and photos of staff were still there and the chill out area was the vault downstairs. Rolled out of there around midday on the Sunday. Fantastic!
You lot are making me nostalgic for an era I was too young for! I didn't set foot in my first club until 1998, some of the girls I went to school with were going to raves as barely teens in 94/95, but being up in the North East they were going to clubs in the Makina scene which still isn't for me now. Discovering house music in 96/97 it was a bit of a guilty pleasure as my me and my mates were all into bands and the indie scene and it was quite polarising back then. There was tons of negative press over Ecstasy back in the mid 90s so I stuck to alcohol. I feel like I missed out!
I was born in 1980 so I was too young for raves and nightclubs at its zenith. However as a kid I was entranced by electronic and dance music of the late 80s onwards. I guess it began with the Miami Vice Theme, 19 by Paul Hardcastle but then came crossover tunes like Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S and Beat Dis by Bomb The Bass, and then came bands like 808 State and KLF.
1992 was the year rave became mainstream arguably thanks to The Prodigy who were a gateway drug for our generation but at the time they were criticised for ruining the scene with kiddie rave e.g. Trip to Trumpton and Sesame’s Treat.
I will always say 1993 is my favourite year for dance music. The pace of change was so fast let alone one year to the next as the scene was splitting into jungle / drum and bass, and happy hardcore. It was amazing to experience this from cassette tapes being along school classrooms and how outdated they quickly became.
The music becoming faster and harder. More emphasis on manipulating breakbeats, more bass; the DJs and producers were like the Pied Piper and you couldn’t help but follow the beat as they could afford better equipment rather than solely reliant on an Atari ST home computer.
I guess the millennial equivalent would probably be Speed Garage, UKG / 2 step and the emergence of Grime and Dubstep.
I didn’t get into Hip Hop until my latter teens. The Golden Era passed by and still revered and it was the emerging indie / backpacker (wearing) scene. Some of the hardcore drum and bass DJs came from hip hop. Worth checking out the UK scene of the early 90s such as London Posse, Hijack and the Britcore scene – check out 20 Seconds To Comply by Silver Bullet. Another to check out would be Rebel MC / Congo Natty who did pop rap and went on to become a jungle producer.
1992 was the year rave became mainstream arguably thanks to The Prodigy who were a gateway drug for our generation but at the time they were criticised for ruining the scene with kiddie rave e.g. Trip to Trumpton and Sesame’s Treat.
I will always say 1993 is my favourite year for dance music. The pace of change was so fast let alone one year to the next as the scene was splitting into jungle / drum and bass, and happy hardcore. It was amazing to experience this from cassette tapes being along school classrooms and how outdated they quickly became.
The music becoming faster and harder. More emphasis on manipulating breakbeats, more bass; the DJs and producers were like the Pied Piper and you couldn’t help but follow the beat as they could afford better equipment rather than solely reliant on an Atari ST home computer.
I guess the millennial equivalent would probably be Speed Garage, UKG / 2 step and the emergence of Grime and Dubstep.
I didn’t get into Hip Hop until my latter teens. The Golden Era passed by and still revered and it was the emerging indie / backpacker (wearing) scene. Some of the hardcore drum and bass DJs came from hip hop. Worth checking out the UK scene of the early 90s such as London Posse, Hijack and the Britcore scene – check out 20 Seconds To Comply by Silver Bullet. Another to check out would be Rebel MC / Congo Natty who did pop rap and went on to become a jungle producer.
TGCOTF-dewey said:
The_Doc said:
House music in England '92-2000
At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Shasa live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
Got any jungle in bruv...?At the bleeding edge.
Said yes to everything.
Its never been the same since.
3am Megadog allnighter Nottingham, dark, hot, religious (I'm now atheist), all my mates, heavy, fumbling with strangers, tribal,. Music that commands you.
Chasing a beat to get lost in.
Stay up all day, do the same the next night with Shasa live at a different venue.
Slept Monday to Wednesday.
Repeat.
Did some exams.
Each generation has their moment if you go looking for it and give in.
So many other pre 2000 tunes that move me
EDM took it to a cash based blander place. It was underground music when I loved it.
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 27th June 13:58
I was at school with Shaun Parkes who plays Koop.
The other film that portrays it all even better is Loved Up. 1994
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loved_Up
Looks like it's hosted here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1378769915855119
Lena Headey, about 400 years before she was in Game of Thrones.
Arguably a better soundtrack too:
1-01 The Grid Crystal Clear 4:31
1-02 Bedrock For What You Dream Of 6:43
1-03 Funtopia Do You Wanna Know (Gut Drum Mix) 6:02
1-04 Hardfloor Acperience 8:04
1-05 Union Jack Two Full Moons And A Trout 7:05
1-06 Orbital Attached 12:12
1-07 Rebound Make It Funky 7:38
1-08 Surjestive Advances 4:55
1-09 Spooky Little Bullet Part 1 7:28
1-10 Leftfield Melt 4:27
2-01 Richard Kirk* Oneski 5:31
2-02 Tenth Chapter Prologue 6:30
2-03 The Grid Texas Cowboys 6:06
2-04 Union Jack Lollipop Man 6:21
2-05 The Prodigy Full Throttle 4:48
2-06 A Zone* Calling The People 5:26
2-07 Banco De Gaia Soufie 6:42
2-08 Jaydee Plastic Dreams 10:05
2-09 Leftfield Song Of Life 7:10
2-10 Orbital Forever 7:56
2-11 Sabres Of Paradise* Smokebelch 2 (Beatless Mix) 4:16
Just take a look at that !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loved_Up
Looks like it's hosted here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1378769915855119
Lena Headey, about 400 years before she was in Game of Thrones.
Arguably a better soundtrack too:
1-01 The Grid Crystal Clear 4:31
1-02 Bedrock For What You Dream Of 6:43
1-03 Funtopia Do You Wanna Know (Gut Drum Mix) 6:02
1-04 Hardfloor Acperience 8:04
1-05 Union Jack Two Full Moons And A Trout 7:05
1-06 Orbital Attached 12:12
1-07 Rebound Make It Funky 7:38
1-08 Surjestive Advances 4:55
1-09 Spooky Little Bullet Part 1 7:28
1-10 Leftfield Melt 4:27
2-01 Richard Kirk* Oneski 5:31
2-02 Tenth Chapter Prologue 6:30
2-03 The Grid Texas Cowboys 6:06
2-04 Union Jack Lollipop Man 6:21
2-05 The Prodigy Full Throttle 4:48
2-06 A Zone* Calling The People 5:26
2-07 Banco De Gaia Soufie 6:42
2-08 Jaydee Plastic Dreams 10:05
2-09 Leftfield Song Of Life 7:10
2-10 Orbital Forever 7:56
2-11 Sabres Of Paradise* Smokebelch 2 (Beatless Mix) 4:16
Just take a look at that !!
Some good memories so far, thanks for the contributions. Often feel like I was born at the wrong time (1985) to experience the best music/club culture, though I think lots of people probably say similar. Was into dance music from a very young age, got my first set of decks at 14. Loved trance and hard house/hard trance (still do, amongst many other genres).
Fascinated and in love with the period I started this thread on though, would have loved to have been in clubs when the likes of Acen were dropping tracks, plus the releases on the likes of XL and Moving Shadow. As someone said, the music was evolving so fast at points- you can tell a 1989 track from a 1992 track from a 1993 track. The music got faster, harder and often darker. Love the breakbeat of 93-99 or so, but particularly 93-95. So many great tracks, labels and producers, with lots of innovation and willingness to try something new.
There's a good argument for saying it was a country-wide movement too, though there were obvious centres. But you could have a great night in Stoke, Coventry, Nottingham, Blackburn, and so on. Bit jealous of anyone around the London/SE scene of the time though
Fascinated and in love with the period I started this thread on though, would have loved to have been in clubs when the likes of Acen were dropping tracks, plus the releases on the likes of XL and Moving Shadow. As someone said, the music was evolving so fast at points- you can tell a 1989 track from a 1992 track from a 1993 track. The music got faster, harder and often darker. Love the breakbeat of 93-99 or so, but particularly 93-95. So many great tracks, labels and producers, with lots of innovation and willingness to try something new.
There's a good argument for saying it was a country-wide movement too, though there were obvious centres. But you could have a great night in Stoke, Coventry, Nottingham, Blackburn, and so on. Bit jealous of anyone around the London/SE scene of the time though
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