Thats the way i go... W3k it... ✌😎💪

Nice and clean production as ever mate. Bringing back those old skool piano etc vibes witch I always loved back in the day : D

RATTY--DREAMSCAPE - 15 VS 16 --31.12.1994

Paul Cronin's take on Apogee Breaks Kekke

Apogee Breaks -Kekke だいすき - Cronin's Rave Generator Rmx - Beatport 27th nov

Hardcore Is For Life

Talking Needle - Whisper

DJ Mark C - Take It Easy

Heart Of Gold - Distrax Refix.

Love the original from 1993 and it was begging to be remixed, hope I did it justice! free download :)

Pascal & Sponge - Raw Basics (Sparki Dee Remix)

So the boys from Paranoid Recordings have forced me out of retirement to make a tune for their latest piece of plastic. 

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Its a cross between both versions of Lord of The Null Lines, with random game samples from my favourite 90's games chucked over the top of it.

Pre order it now please if you do you're in with a chance of me remixing one of your favourite old skool tunes, just message me with proof of purchase and I will pop your name in the hat.

Simon Harris - Fucking Rip Off Man (Soundcloud Version)

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I dont think i need to introduce Ellis Dee to you do I? You already know that he is the epitome of the word RAVE? That the EDM DJ's of today wouldnt be doing what they are doing now if it wasnt for the hardwork and perseverance of this guy? 

Back in 1991, when I was 17, I passed my driving test and owned an old VW Beetle (lowered within a inch of its life!) and I would look forward to the weekends, and my time off from working at Tesco's, to go off with my mates to the big raves, staying up all night, and enduring that painful drive home the next day. But who cared about the day after, it was about the night that was now... and the music that was being played. And there was none greater than Ellis Dee, trust me! From watching him at the raves as a ponytailed punter to listening to his mixtapes or recordings of his shows on SunriseFM that use to filter down south to us in the New Forest, the buzz was always there! So it was a great honour when I first met him in a rave in London when we were playing at the same night, back in 2003, 12 years later! And now, 16 years after that meeting, I am still buzzing. Buzzing that he entrusted me to handle his incredible back catalogue. I have to pinch myself!

But enough about me and my man-crush!!! Lets talk about the legend that is Ellis Dee. He first started DJing around 1980 on the REMA soundsystem in his neighbourhood of Hackney, London, playing Soul, Funk and Rare Groove. It was at this time his love of music blossomed but it didnt bloom until 1988, The Summer Of Love. The Summer Of Aciieeedddd!!! And that is where the name was born, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, also known as Acid, also known as LSD, also known as Ellis Dee!

He quickly made a name for himself, his rolling style of mixing and bouncy vibes, getting him booked up and down the country, a figurehead of the emerging mega rave scene that made many people rich! But it wasnt till a chance meeting, that he moved from being a DJ to being an accomplished producer. In 1990, Ellis Dee's mate bought a flat from MK13 AKA Richie T and his pal told him about Richie and that he had a studio. Intrigued Ellis went over and heard what he was doing, working alongside a chap called Rennie Pilgrim. Though he felt the music needed to be a bit more cutting edge and suggested to capture the essence of now, they get hold of a sampler and start caning the breakbeats. Luckily Rennie had a mate, Nick Newton, who had a sampler, so they got him over and things clicked into place. A 4 piece supergroup was born, the Rhythm Section. 

By 1992 Ellis Dee was a resident of Bethnal Green and had a small studio set up where he made the tracks 'Do You Want Me/Rock To The Max' on an Ensoniq EPS 16+. When the tracks were finished he needed to mix them down, so a trip down south to Hammersmith was required to the residence of Rennie Pilgrim, where the tracks were finished off. Straight away they knew these would be huge tracks on the rave scene and quickly Ellis Dee set up his own label, Ellis Dee Project, and released the 12" to the world via the distributor, Mo's Music Machine.

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Ellis Dee Project 'Do You Want Me' - Vinyl Fanatiks 004 - 128mp3 clip

Paranoid Recordings are back with another free release for 2020! This one features 4 quality oldskool hardcore style tracks from Spanish producer Mata. Grab them for free here!

04 Mata - Martians

Top Buzz @ Amnesia House 'Back With A Vengeance' on Friday the 16th of July 1993.

Amnesia House - Back With A Vengence

Top Buzz @ Amnesia House - Back With A Vengeance (16-7-1993)

It's the early 1980's, and Morgan Khan has just released the first of his seminal "Street Sounds Electro" series. A short lived collection of compilation albums that bought the underground soundtrack of an emerging culture from New York & Los Angeles, to the small rundown towns of Maggie Thatcher's Britain.
From that point on, John was hooked on this "underground" music culture as it quickly evolved from Electro to Hip Hop. Gathering and soaking up any information he could find about, DJ culture (scratching & mixing), the clothing (tracksuits & trainers), and even it's art (graffiti).
Like any addiction, many things were sacrificed in the pursuit of awesome.Paper Round money got diverted from the ‘normal’ social activities of a young teenager, towards more important items…. such as vinyl records. A couple of cheap belt driven records players (with no pitch control) and a cheap audio mixer from the local Tandys Electronics store were purchased. Not a perfect set-up, but it provided hours of entertainment. Beat matching was not particularly important for Hip Hop. Beats of different tempo’s could be dropped from one to another easily without being too jarring. What was important was scratching and beat looping. These skills were learnt. Mixtapes were made.An after school job brought in better money and so the turntable set-up got replaced with better equipment. Still belt driven, but proper DJ decks with pitch control and more robust needles… and with that came the knowledge of beat matching.
Shortly after leaving school a new cultural shift was beginning to stir across Britain.
Whispers of things called Acid House Parties or “Illegal Raves” began to creep out in the media. The weird shop that sold joss sticks, extravagant smoking contraptions and second-hand Reggae records began to also sell strange cassette tapes. Ordinary household TDK-D60’s but with a homemade inlay sleeve made from a cut up event flyer, and a white sticker on the spine with names like Carl Cox, Ellis Dee, DJ Seduction, Grooverider, & Micky Finn.These tapes would be Johns introduction to a new obsession. Where and what is this music being played? And how do you get hold of it? Not in this town, that’s for sure!
The music was amazing. Experimental beats, monstrous basses, insane synths….
A year on he discovers specialist shops such as Bang-in Tunes in Coventry and FibreOptic in Leamington Spa. Shops run by actual DJ’s & Artists on the rave scene, stocking vinyl with white labels with track names written on them in black marker pen. A new vinyl collection begins to take shape.
Distrax starts to go to the early legal all night venues such as the Eclipse in Coventry, and Equinox @ Milwaukees near Bedford allowing him to witness and indulge in the rave phenomenon first hand.
In 1991, a friend of John introduces him to a home computer called a Commodore Amiga 500, and in particular, what the Amiga can do musically. With the addition of a cheap and simple analogue-to-digital convertor plugged into the back, the Amiga could be turned into a fully fledged Audio Sampler.
John quickly grabbed his mother’s Littlewoods catalogue and bagged himself an Amiga 500+ at a bargain few quid a week. This was John’s first foray into the world of music production.
 Tooled up with a set of technics SL1210s, he first dropped on the radar through the hardcore / techno scene, sharing flyer space for events with the likes of DJ Unknown, Clarkee, Billy Bunter & Vinyl Junkie. He soon branched out with original productions released on Rancid Records, Euphoria Records and Bluebeck Records. At present Distrax can be located keeping up the good work with frequent releases, collaborations, and foraging for undiscovered talent deserving of a platform as an integral part of the Red Alfa Records crew, along with a regular internet DJ slot on www.globaldnb.com
each Wednesday 2-4pm.


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