Oldskool :))

Here's a mix I threw together of a good solid amount of old classic Italo morning energy anthems as a little promo for the upcoming Mystic - Rebirth Of Rave event!

Enjoy!

DJ Shade - Mystic Morning Anthems Mix

Kenny Ken @ Universe Tribal Gathering

Carl Cox live @ The Edge Coventry 93

My set at The O2 Arena alongside The Prodigy, Rudimental, Jaguar Skill and Modestep. I played 1.30-2.30 straight after The Prodigy in the main arena to finish the night off with an hour of classic 90s Old Skool Rave.

The arena was amazing, the whole night was an incredible experience and from what I could make out everyone was having the time of their lives.

Hope you enjoy!

Please check out my World Of Rave Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/slipmatts-world-of-rave/id794715458?mt=2

Slipmatt - Live @ O2 Arena London Supporting The Prodigy 31-12-2013

Another mashup of some funky, sexy and progressive house!!!

DJ Shade - Safari Beats House Mix 2

20 years later...

In recent times there has been a lot of looking back to the early 1990s in house music which made me curious about what my dj sets actually sounded like back then. As it's 20 years on I thought it might be fun to put one up as an Optimo podcast, but sadly I had no recordings of that time as I had long given away or lost any tapes i had from then (everything was on cheap C90 cassette tapes in those days). Then, last week a local producer sent me his album to peruse and mentioned that he had a couple of mix tapes of mine, both from 1991.

So, here is a genuine 1991 mix recorded in that year when I was co-resident at Pure in Edinburgh (which ran from 1990 - 2000) when i was known simply as Twitch rather than JD Twitch (the JD was added many years later to stop people billing me as DJ Twitch, which I loathed).

Although I started djing in 1987, I didn't start mixing records together until 1990 and couldn't afford turntables until the end of that year, so initially when i was djing at Pure I was literally learning on the job. Thankfully the euphoria of those times coupled with the fact it was all so new and exciting to so many meant that I got away with it as audiences were a lot more forgiving than they are today. Requests were fairly rare and usually a lot more oblique, often along the lines of "Can you play some "E" music?" Heckling or shouting "come on!', "harder!", "techno!" was non existent. it wasn't a better time, just different, but audiences in general were a bit politer and more patient.

This mix is two sides of two different C90 cassettes stuck together. The first half is from late 1991. It has a lot of that "E" music people were asking for on it. The mixing ranges from pretty good to the odd "ouch" moment but overall is not bad for a beginner. The second half is from earlier in 1991 and the mixing is a lot more, uh, "freeform" and gets through a high number of tracks in a short time. I think this section may have been recorded live at Pure although I can't be sure as despite running for ten years we only ever made a tiny number of live recordings. There are a couple of massively cheesy and seriously dated rave anthems on here and a couple of tracks I have absolutely no recollection of ever having heard in my life, but there is also a lot of music that I still play to this day and indeed have never stopped playing since, and some, such as MK's "Burning", Mike Perras and CLS that are enduring classics. To use the parlance of back in the day, the mix gets a little "mental" towards the end. The tape begins with a live recording of a bit of chat from the Ragga Twins live at Pure in early 1991 and ends with a particularly twisted take on David Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" followed by a blast of Throbbing Gristle. Sometimes I'd drop in things like that at Pure which maybe helps explain why a few regulars ended up with mental health issues! Pure had a reputation for being a techno club and in the early days a temple to all things rave but it was always a lot more than that (as well as those things too of course) as this podcast demonstrates. Despite the sound (and mixing) limitations I think it's an interesting document of what was going on in my world 20 years ago. 


The audio fidelity of this podcast is not high, particularly in the second half. The original cassette tape was probably copied multiple times as it was passed around from person to person. Richard Chisolm who excavated the tapes has done some remastering to improve the sound but old multi generation tapes rarely sound good and it was probably quite lo fi to begin with. It was mixed live using a cheap mixer through a cheap amp. Back then the vast majority of dj mixers were very basic - no eq, no gain and no gizmos whatsoever; just a volume fader, a crossfader and phono / line switches which I used to flick to cut tracks in and out. The mix is 85 minutes long and is a 192kbps mp3 (118mb). 

Thanks to Richard aka Restless Native.
 

Optimo Podcast 11 - Twitch 1991 (recorded in 1991)

Heres the full tracklist

Nightwriters-Let the music use you (NRG Rmx)
Kicks like a mule-The bouncer (Housequake rmx)
Q-Bass-Hardcore will never die
Sl2-Way in my brain
Liquid-Sweet harmony
Ultra-Sonic-Ultra-sonic vs Bass baby pt1
Dj Krome & Mr Time-The slammer
Hocus pocus-Bow chi bow (xtro&Qbrick rmx)
Bass reaction-Technophobia
Jones & Stepehenson-The first rebirth
Bass reaction-Hypnotize your mind
Brothers in crime-Out of sight
G-Force-Recognize
Brothers in crime-100% crisis (Kickin it around original)
Tellurian-Get raw
50,000 watts-God god god
Tellurian-Vortex


1992-1996 Oldskool Rave/Hardcore Set Mixed By `The Purist`

Slipmatt - Live @ Helter Skelter 03-12-1993

just a little mix i did last year, with a nice oldskool feel and a touch of piano thrown in

rave breaks

RECORDED SEPTEMBER 2012 @ HOME *This is a pretty bad mix done on a pair of pretty bad decks recorded with something that sounded pretty bad so.. Is to be replaced!

1-Live Together
2-You Can Dance
3-Is This Real
4-Sub Dub
5-Can You Feel It
6-Ghetto People_Static Substance
7-Come On
8-Follow My Beat_Static Substance
9-Hardcore Heaven
10-DJ's Unite Vol 1 (Remix)_DJ's Unite Vol 3
11-My Own (Slipmatt Mix)
12-Sub Dub (Crazy Breaks Mix)
13-Do It Right

All tunes by DJ Seduction unless otherwise stated_All tunes from 1992-93

KJM - Impact Records Mix   (1992/93)

KJM - Old Skool Rave Mix 1 (Recorded 6th Sept '12) Vinyl Mix.. Rave On! 

Mixed at home in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh on 2x Vestax PDX 2000 decks & a Allan&Heath x:one 22 mixer.,   TRACKLIST BELOW 

1-Let Me Be Your Fantasy_Baby D
2-Trip To Trumpton-Urban Hype
3-Rhubard & Custard_Shaft
4-On A Ragga Tip_SL2
5-Way In My Brain_SL2
6-Drumstick_N-Joi
7-Total Ecstasy_EQ (DJ SS Mix)
8-Eternal_Carl Cox & DJ Phantasy
9-Living In Darkness (Vocal Mix)_Topp Buzz
10-Unfriendly_Wax Doctor & Jack Smooth
11-Music In Search Of The Light_Rhythm For Reasons
12-Ganga Man_Red Alert & Mike Slammer
13-Touch Somebody (DJ Seduction Mix)_Spectral
14-Finest Illusion (illegal Mix)_Foul Play
15-It's Not Over_Citadel Of Kaos
16-Dis One_Red Alert & Mike Slammer

KJM - Old Skool Rave Mix 1 (1991-93)

Old Skool Rave Mix 2..  Sat. 15th Sept '12, Vinyl Mix.. Rave On! 

45 Min. Mix.. Mixed at home in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh on 2x Vestax PDX 2000 Decks and an  Allen&Heath x:one 22 Mixer . Re-done/Tidied up in July '16!

1-The Sound Of Eden_Shades Of Rhythm
2-Don't Go_Awesome 3 (K.L.A.M Mix)
3-Don't You Want Me_Felix
4-Give Me Your Love_Part-E
5-I Want You Forever_Obstruction
6-Rhythm Is A Mystery_K-Klass
7-We've Got To Come Together_RAF
8-Closer To All Your Dreams_Rhythm Quest
9-Feel The Rhythm_Terrorize
10-Just A Feeling_Terrorize
11-Take Me_Dream Frequency
12-Exstacy_Shades Of Rhythm (Remix)
13-I Know_New Atlantic
14-Feel So Real_Dream Frequency
15-Injected With A Poison_Praga Khan 
16-Energy Rush_Suburban Delay

KJM - Old Skool Rave Mix 2 (1991-93)

A quick 60 minute mix of most of the songs released by one of my favourite old skool artists General Base! Will look at remastering it to include some songs left out of this mix!

DJ Shade - Megabass (General Base Tribute Promo Mix)

Old skool mid-late 90's happy hard/breakbeat anthems! Enjoy  :-)

DJ Shade - Anthems 5 (Happy Breakbeat)

This is a rip of the 3rd happy hardcore promo mixed tape I released late 1995!

DJ Shade - The Master Plan (1995)

This is a rip of the first promo mixed tape I released in 1994 which is a mix of happy hard/hardcore!

DJ Shade - Raveutopia (1994)

Here's Vol 1 of the bedroom mix tape archive being a rip of an old mix tape from back in 1990!

Nothing like the old bedroom mixes! This one is a 45 min odd mix of 1989/90 acid house/hip house classics!

DJ Shade - X-Files The Bedroom Mixes Mix Tape Archive Vol 1 (1989 Hip House)

A mix of mainly 1993//4 Italo rave anthems/classics and a few other styles as well!

DJ Shade - Rave Back In Time Vol.7

X-Files are the mixes that one way or another have never been released!

Over the 20+ years on the decks I've recorded loads of mixes either just for fun (bedroom mixes) or as drafts for mixes I was planning to release though many of those releases were never followed through!

This is the first of the "X-Files" unreleased draft mixes which is a hardtrance mix from 2003 which was originally going to be part of the "Energize" series!

Enjoy!

DJ Shade - X-Files The Unreleased Draft Mixes Vol. 1 (Hardtrance 2003)

Mix of mainly 1994 Jungle by myself. Most of the tracks are ones I've uploaded on my YT channel over the years. Hope you enjoy!
The Ganja Kru - Mash Up Da Place
Ray Keith (Renegade) - Terrorist
Danny Breaks - Firin' Line
Skool Of Hard Knocks - Everybody
Blackman (Shut Up & Dance) - Bastards
Cool Hand Flex - Melody Madness
Flatliner - The Big Bang (Liftin Spirits Remix)
Bizzy B & Dextrous D - Come On People
DJ Crystl- Warpdrive (Re-Edit)
Desired State - Beyond Bass
The Ganja Kru - Tiger Style
Leviticus - Burial
Brock Out Crew - Hardcore Romance
88.3 feat Lisa - Wishing On A Star (Urban Shakedown Hard Dub)
Roni Size - All The Crew Big Up (95 Re Lick)
Roni Size - Daylight
DMS & The Boneman - Sweet Vibrations
Tom & Jerry (4 Hero) -   Maximum Style 
DJ Rap - Intelligent Women

Oldskool :))

Chapo78