New Spandau 20 podcast provided by original UK Techno legend Ben Sims. The Hardgroove/Theory Boss is one of the genres most technically gifted and hardworking DJs, who has been spinning Hip Hop, House and rave on pirate radio and parties around Essex and East London since the early 90s. This week it’s his turn on the Spandau 20 series.

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Run it Red’s 100th Episode is online NOW and to switch things up my Discoid/House alias Ron Bacardi takes over with a much-requested Dj set recording, this one from DJ Bone’s excellent Further party a few weeks back.

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1. Larry Levan - Love + Happy Echo. Larry       
2. Kramer Dashwood - What Has Been Joined By God/Ron Hardy’s Ghost. PGH
3. 7th Movement - Odyssey (Dub Star Discomix). Jus’ Trax      
4. Soulphiction - Cheerleader 2. Philpot 
5. DJ Nature - Let it Ring. Golf Channel      
6. Rick Wade - Players Theme. Harmonie Park  
7. Riva Starr & Gavin Holligan - The Feeling (Deetron Beats Remix). Snatch!
8. Mr G - Lightz (G’s Out Dub). Phoenix G
9. Harvey McKay - Caffeine. Uncage      
10. Brothers’ Vibe - Tell Me. Som Underground      
11. Dance System & Leon Pard - Change The Subject. Chiwax   
12. Chesus (feat Kofi Tarris) - Monster. 4 Lux Black      
13. Al-Dos Band - Confusion. Kalita  *RB JFF Edit  
14. Nyra - Sisco Visco. Canoe      
15. Jimmy Bo Horne - Spank. Sunshine Sound  *Mikeandtess Edit
16. Dave Lee Revibe - Hey, Uh-What you Say, Come On. Disco Combine
17. Dwayne Jensen - My People. Landed  *RB JFF Edit     
18. Loleatta Holloway - Catch Me on The Rebound. Goldmine  *Dirty Channels Edit
19. Deetroit - Kloud 909. Unknown Deetroit      
20. Third Deck - Agogo. Deppjacking
21. Anthony Fade - Higher . SlothBoogie Edits 
22. Machine – There But For The Grace Of God Go I. RCA  *Cratebug Rework of a Karizma Edit
23. First Choice - Dr Love. Salsoul  *Cratebug Edit
24. KiNK - Beats. Royal House     
25. Dj Deeon - 2 B Free. Dance Mania      
26. Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face? (Kon's Duet Mix)  West End
27. Parris Mitchell - Rubber Jazz Ban (Len Faki Edit). Dance Mania
28. Mark Broom - G Theme. Rekids      
29. Lester Fitzpatrick vs DJ Geto Man - Disco Loop. UKR     
30. Ruffneck (Feat Yavahn) - Jazz Thing. MAW
31. Ben Sims - Raise Your Hands. Hardgroove      
32. Jr From Dallas - Cash Jack. Meltin Funk      
33. Santone - Be Right There. S.O.M.      
34. Remy & Sven - Piano Power. Global Cuts     
35. CZR - Jazz For That Azz (Revisted - 2023 Remix). Texture
36. Santos - Broken Symphony.  Let Me Understand  
37. Petrus - Dat Sample. Deepjacking
38. DJ Bruce Lee - Bumpin' (Ron Bacardi Edit). Hardgroove      
39. Teddy Douglas - Motherland Beats (Beats). Basement Boys
40. Adryiano - U Better Axumbody. Cestraw
41. D’Julz - Ze Box. Robsoul
42. Jamie 326 & Cratebug - Hit It N Quit it. Lumberjacks In Hell      
43. Ron Bacardi - Easy. Hardgroove      
44. Norm Talley - Da Hornz Norm. FXHE      
45. Claudja Barry - Work Me Over. TSR  *MB Edit      
46. Floorplan - Tell You No Lie. M-Plant      
47. Delaze - Bloody Samba. Sino     
48. Ann Nesby - Lovin' Is Really My Game. Perpspective
49. Diana Ross - Love Hangover. Motown  *Cratebug Edit
50. Ron Bacardi - The Lemon. Hardgroove      
51. Felix Da Housecat & Chris Trucher - Thee Trk! (Honey Dijon Re edit). Classic
52. Ben Sims - Dollar Bill, Y'all (Vocal Mix). Hardgroove
53. Ben Sims - Ain't No Stoppin’. Hardgroove  *RB JFF Edit

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Tresor (German for safe or vault) is an underground techno nightclub in Berlin and a record label.

History:

The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former department store Wertheim at Leipziger Strasse 126-128 in Mitte, the central part of East Berlin, next to the Potsdamer Platz. The history of the club goes back to 1988 when the electronic music label Interfisch opened the Ufo Club in Berlin. Ufo was the original centre of Berlin house and techno, but due to financial problems that club closed in 1990.
After Ufo closed, Interfisch's head, Dimitri Hegemann, and some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin. This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months before Germany unified. The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin. Tresor continued to be a popular club, having expanded and reconstructed continuously several times to include an outdoor garden area, and a second "Globus" floor. The Tresor floor in the basement was reserved specifically for hard techno, industrial and acid music, while Globus was featured mainly more mellow house sound. The record label Tresor Records was founded soon after the club first opened, in October 1991. Featured artists on the label include Jeff Mills, Blake Baxter, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Stewart Walker, Joey Beltram, DJ Surgeon, Pacou, Cristian Vogel and many others.
In 2004 the documentary "Tresor Berlin: The Vault & the Electronic Frontier" was released. Directed by Mike Andrawis, it features interviews with Hegemann, Carola Stoiber, and DJs & artists associated with the club & label. The film covers the period from Hegemann's involvement with the Fishladen and UFO clubs in Berlin-Kreuzberg to the final months prior to Tresor's closure.
Tresor closed on 16 April 2005, after several years' prolonged short-term rent. The city sold the land to an investor group to build offices on the Leipziger Straße location. It was open for each night of April 2005, with the final event starting the Saturday night with queues stretching all the way down the road, and still going Monday morning.
Tresor reopened on 24 May 2007 in the decommissioned southern tract of the combined heat and power plant Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte in Köpenicker Straße. 
Since November 2019 the club has a subsidiary in the city of Dortmund called Tresor.West. 
In September 2022, Tresor published a photobook, Tresor: True Stories, to document the past 30 years of its history.

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Jeff Mills Live @ Tresor, Berlin Germany 14-12-2000 Part 1

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Mark Williams is a veteran that has paid his dues over more than two decades on the scene as a DJ and producer. Since the 80s, when he started his career at UK hot spots like the Ministry of Sound and Final Frontier, he has been laying the groundwork for his future success. 

His production work has also gained him acclaim the world over and he has released a staggering catalogue of quality tracks on some of the most respected techno labels in the world including: Tortured, Dark House, Pure Plastic, Phont, Primate, and Carl Cox’s Ultimate Trax imprint, to name a few. In addition to releasing on other labels, Mark also has his own imprints: Artificial Vinyl, Real Sessions, Macumba and Real Vinyl. Mark has also gained worldwide recognition with his skilful and distinctive DJing style. 

Mixing tribal, tech house and techno on three decks and CDJs, his rocking performances have helped him to develop a strong fan base and facilitated gigs in places like Spain, Turkey, Slovenia, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, Macedonia, and Sweden. His first major tour was in 1998 when Mark was asked to join Carl Cox on his “World Wide Ultimatum Tour.” In 2000, Mark became a resident at a club night called “Damage” in Dublin and later that year he supported Billy Nasty on his “Torture Chamber World Tour.” 2003 found Mark on his first “Ingoma Tour” with Ben Sims which culminated in a now legendary party at the Loft Club, Barcelona, the weekend of Sonar. In 2004, Mark and Ben set out for another tour to promote Mark’s debut album, “A Point in Time” on Ingoma. 2005 was another banner year, with Mark playing at clubs, parties and festivals around the world including a set for more than 40,000 people at the Monegros Festival in Spain. 2005 also saw Mark bringing his sound to radio. The “Concept Show” (www.conceptshow.com) is a monthly broadcast that Mark co-hosts with Macedonian DJ Goran Kan. Some of the past guests have been Mark Broom, Paul Mac, Ben Sims, Cari Lekebusch, Oscar Mulero and DJ Bone. From the studio to the DJ booth, Mark Williams is one of the brightest stars in the world of techno and his list of accomplishments is impressive and ever growing. 

In 2007, Mark has teamed up with Paul Mac to provide a new way of presenting his music using a combination of three turntables, 2 CDJs and a laptop running Ableton. Sou Tai are intending to fuse their customary sounds to create something new and fresh. The addition of Ableton to the standard setup enables the use of custom edits of classics and to be able to drop all manner of surprises into the mix. 

Mark has also found time to create a masterpiece of an album that expresses all the sides of his musicality. His love for tribal, Detroit techno and house music shines through in his album “You can’t hide what you truly feel” (out later this year) for the label Subject Detroit. 

So far Mark has soared to new heights, with Sou Tai closing the Awakenings party in Holland to outstanding reactions from the crowds. With Sou Tai riding high the pair have had some superb gigs such as the one at Spanish super club Fabrik, and Mark has now found himself back playing in much loved Japan

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Ron Bacardi aka https://soundcloud.com/ben-sims blew our ears back with his tasty and high-energy set for us at https://soundcloud.com/lebain_thestandardny earlier this year. Here's nearly 2 hours of that non-stop disco action, recorded live for your listening enjoyment!

Here's what the man himself had to say about the set:

"Here's a recording of me doing my Ron Bacardi thing live for the Razor N' Tape crew at Le Bain in NYC back in May, it was the USA debut for my House & Disco alias and i had lots of fun spinning. The set pretty much sums up what the RB DJ sets are about.. Disco of all flavours, fused with House and party faves, with edits, loops and fx a plenty. Hope you like it."

RON BACARDI LIVE IN NYC (Razor N Tape @ Le Bain, New York. May 2017)

1.Manmade Science - Phase
2.CJ + Co - We Got Our Own Thing (Alkalino Edit) 
3.Martin Hayes - Eternia
4.Atlus - Gum
5.Montreal Sound - Music (Eros Edit)
6.Devin Dare - Policy (RB JFF edit)
7.Ahzz - New York Moving	 (Jean Claude Gavri Edit)
8.Eros - Eros 003
9.Doug Willis - Crystal Lover (Joey Negro Dub Disco Mix)
10.Martin Circus - Disco Circus (Anonymous Edit)
11.Dan Shake - To The Love
12.First Choice - Love Thang (Secret Fixes Edit)
13.Hakim Murphy & G Marcel - Underground Uncensored 001
14.D’Julz - Ze Fox
15.D’Julz - Big Kid
16.Silk 86 vs Blamma Blamma - Never Think
17.Lorraine Johnson - Feed The Flame (Superprince Edit)
18.Jamie 326 & Cratebug - Hit N Quit it
19.Bobby Thurston - Check Out The Groove (RB JFF Edit)
20.Debbie Jacobs - Don't You Want My Love
21.Lucretio - Bug Lady
22.BT Express - Energy To Burn
23.AL Kent - Good Inside
24.Ron Bacardi - Back For More
25.Yello - Bostich (Man Machine Edit)
26.Unknown - Unknown (Alkalino Edit)	
27.Divine - Native Love (RB JFF Edit)
28.First Choice - Doctor Love (Surgeon Edit)
29.Exodus - Together Forever (Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco Edit)
30.Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love (Anonymous Edit)
31.Gordon's War - The Rock Is Gonna Get Ya (Anonymous Edit)
32. Love Committee - Just As Long As I Got You (Rio Edits)
33.The Clash - Rock The Casbah (Brad Shitt Casbah Breakdown Edit)
34.Lorraine Johnson - The More I Get, The More I Want (Michael The Lion Edit)

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The Deep&Disco / Razor-N-Tape Podcast Series Episode #30: Ron Bacardi

Steve Rachmad at Sub-Scape, Antwerp, Belgium (06-06-2008)

Here’s a recording taken from last year's ‘F**k Disco Demolition’ party at the excellent Paloma club in Berlin, it was such a wicked night and great to play alongside Dan Curtin and the LiveJam crew. Sadly we weren’t able to return for our party this July due to Covid 19 but hopefully this set will keep you going til the next one!

it’s only the second time I’ve donned my Ron Bacardi hat (literally) in Berlin (the first being at Panorama Bar a few years ago). For those unfamiliar with the vibe, it’s Raw House, Mutant Disco and original Warehouse grooves, taking inspiration from Chicago masters like Ron Hardy, DJ Rush and Derrick Carter and mixed up in my usual energetic style. 

These occasional sets are a lot of fun to do, hope you dig this recording. 

Pls also take the time to donate to one or more of the charities in this link (https://biglink.to/Charities) plus support Paloma in their fight to stay open (https://palomarec.bandcamp.com/). 

Thank you Ron Bacardi aka Ben Sims x

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