Thoughts

The Metro in Saltcoats, Scotland was my place of worship most Saturday nights in the early 90s. An incredible club with an amazing atmosphere! 2,000 clubbers raving with happy faces and crazy dances, it really was a special place.
What I loved about the music was one minute your stomping away to a dark sounding techno track, the next an uplifting house number and often some tracks contained both of those styles.
Metro Retro is a self-indulgent compilation of the tunes I loved back in the day. I hope you enjoy the mixes, here is the first instalment...

Metro Retro

Fingers Inc – My House Acapella
Cosmo Crew – Show No Shame
Pan Position – Elephant Paw
Congress – 40 Miles (Original White Label)
Problem House – Party People
N-Joi – Malfunction
Young MC – Know How (Stanton Warriors Remix)
Bump – I’m Rushing
TC 1992 – Funky Guitar (FPI Funky Mix)
Hyper Go Go – High (Cloud 9 Remix)
S-Bam – Chicca Boom
Baffa – Piano On
Secchi – Flute On (Voice On)
Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam – Let The Beat Hit Em
4 For Money – It’s A Moment In Time

Metro Retro - In The Beginning

The second instalment of the Metro Retro mixes.
Metro Retro 2 - Something For Your Mind
Chantal – The Realm (Acapella)
Awesome 3 – Hard Up
D-Shake – Techno Trance
DJ Professor – Rock Me Steady
Electric Choc – Shock The Beat
Cybersonic – Technarchy
DJ PC – Insomniak
Cappella – Everybody
Digital Boy – Gimme A Fat Beat
Digital Boy – Kokko
K-Klass – Rhythm Is A Mystery
Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good Feeling
Outlander – The Vamp
P.W.M. – Are You Ready To Move
Anticapella - 2√231
FPI Project – Rich In Paradise

Metro Retro 2 - Something For Your Mind

A blend of my favourite tracks heard at Heaven Nightclub in Glasgow 1991-1992. A club I had no intention of going to but ended up there one night in 1991 and loved it. It was dark and a bit of a sweat-box at times but the people, the DJs and the tunes were awesome!

One Night In Heaven – Part One

Pleasure Game – Le Seigneur Des Tenebres (Destructor Mix)
Egma – Don’t Have To Be Jesus
Edge Records *2 DJ Edge - Feef Logic
ACEN - Close Your Eyes (Remix I) (Optikonfusion!)
Master Techno – My Noise
Dyewitness – Observing Your Earth
The Ultimate Seduction - The Ultimate Seduction (Studio Mix)
DHS – House Of God ($50 Mix)
A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd – Total Confusion (Heavenly Mix)
DJ Seduction – Hardcore Heaven
Awesome 3 – Don’t Go
Age Of Love – Age Of Love
Electroset – How Does It Feel
DJ Seduction – Come On
Mukkaa – Buruchacca
S1000 – Flatliners
U.S.U.R.A. – Open Your Mind

One Night In Heaven Part One

A blend of my favourite tracks heard at Heaven Nightclub in Glasgow 1991-1992. (With some artistic license of course)
The second part to my One Night In Heaven Mix.

One Night In Heaven – Part Two

MNO – God Of Abraham
Phenomania – Who Is Elvis
Double F.M. – Illusion
Edge Records *1 DJ Edge - Compnded
Krid Snero – White Line
Urban Hype – A Trip To Trumpton
Westbam – The Mayday Anthem
Traikos - Gimme A Mother ....kin' 
Egma – Let The Bass Kick
Partners In Crime – Gotham City Strikes Again
Bassboy – Let The Bass Be Louder
The Hypnotist – Rainbows In The Sky
Rhythm Quest – Closer To All Your Dreams
The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode
Suburban Delay – Energy Rush
M People – One Night In Heaven

One Night In Heaven Part Two

Part 3 of my journey back to the early 90s at the Metro nightclub in Saltcoats. Some of my favourite tunes of the era! (With some artistic license thrown in of course!)

Metro Retro 3

Lindy Layton (Beats International) – Dub Be Good To Me (Acapella)
BBG – Snappiness (Evolution Mix)
Digital Boy - Techno Beat
PKA – Let Me Hear You (Say Yeah)
Francesco Zappala & D.J. Professor - We Gotta Do It
Band In A Box – Get Dynamite
Utah Saints – What Can You Do For Me
Arkanoid – No Problem
Kick Squad – Sound Clash
Leftfield – Not Forgotten
CLS – Can You Feel It
R.A.F. – We’ve Got To Live Together
LFO – LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)
Mig 29 – Mig 29 (Love Mix)
Love Decade – Dream On
Axe Corner – Tortuga
Marrs – Pump Up The Volume
Mimmo Mix featuring Valerie Etienne – All Your Love (Pianopella)

Metro Retro 3 - Just Be Good To Me

Part 4 of my self-indulgent tribute to my favourite club in the early 90s, the Metro in Saltcoats. I hope you enjoy!

Metro Retro 4

Yello – Unbelievable (Intro Only)
Project – Do That Dance
Cubik 22 – Night In Motion
Fargetta – Music Is Movin’ (Mars Plastic Mix)
A.S.H.A. – J.J. Tribute (“?” Version)
Space Master – I Need You
Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives
Shades Of Rhythm – Extasy
R.A.F. – Just Take Me Higher
Liberation – Liberation
Digital Boy – Crossover
Dream Frequency – Moog Addiction
Dream Frequency – Take Me
Messiah – Temple Of Dreams
RTZ – Dance Your Ass Off
L.A. Style – James Brown Is Dead (Original Mix)

Metro Retro 4 - Unbelievable

Metro Retro 5

Evolution – Metropolis (Sasha’s Piano Dub Mix)
Kamera – Back In The Time
Love Revolution – Give It To Me Baby
Cappella – Everybody (Hypnotic Cyber Mix)
Westbam – Hold Me Back
Westbam – The Roof Is On Fire
Love Decade – So Real
G.T.O. – Pure
Buster Gut – Find Someone
Cappella – Take Me Away (Featuring Loleatta Holloway)
D-Shake – Yaaah
Trigger – Stratosphere
Ralphi Rosario – You Used To Hold Me
Orbital – Chime
Brothers Love Dubs – The Mighty Ming

Metro Retro 5 - Metropolis

Metro Retro 6 - Right Before My Eyes

Patti Day – Right Before My Eyes
E-Zee Posse featuring M.C. Kinky – Everything Starts With An ‘E’ (Sir Frederick Leighton Mix)
Xpansions – Elevation
Helicopter – On Ya Way
D.J. H Featuring Stefy – Think About (12” Club Mix)
FPI Project – Everybody (All Over The World)
Clivilles & Cole – A Deeper Love
Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives (Classic Club Mix)
N-Joi – Anthem
FPI Project – Risky
Digital Boy – Ok! Alright (DJ Herbie Remix)
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
New Order – Blue Monday

Metro Retro 6 - Right Before My Eyes

Some of my favourite tracks from 89-91, most of which were played in the Metro

Metro Retro 7

F.O.G. - Electricity
Spectrum - The In Crowd
Catch - Free (C'mon)
Northern Lights - Jet Lag (Red Light Club)
D-Shake - My Heart, The Beat
Spectrum - Spectral
Antico - We Need Freedom (Francis' Extended Mix)
N-Joi - Techno Gangsters
Shamen - Pro-Gen
KLF - What Time Is Love?
Neon - Don't Mess With This Beat (Instrumental)
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Carl Cox - I Want You (Forever)
Moby - Go
Together - Hardcore Uproar

Metro Retro 7 - Electricity

Some lower-tempo classics for the first Metro Retro EP!

Metro Retro 8

Westbam- Alarm Clock
Snap - The Power
Kariya - Let Me Love You For Tonight
King Bee - Back By Dope Demand
The Farm - All Together Now

Metro Retro 8 - Power Together

Part 9 of my Metro Retro mixes. A few classics from my favourite club in the early nineties, The Metro! 
Metro Retro 9
The Source Featuring Candi Staton - You Got the Love
Nomad - Devotion
Shades of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
S-Bam - Take Me Away
2 in a Room - Take Me Away

Metro Retro 9 - Love, Devotion, Sensation

My 10th Mix with a few of my favourites from the early 90s at the magnificent Metro Nightclub in Saltcoats!

Metro Retro 10
4X Sky Juice - Just Move Some
New Atlantic - I Know (Original Flute Mix)
Disco Brothers Present Nu Luv - Do It
Katherine E - I'm Alright
Brothers in Rhythm - Peace And Harmony

Metro Retro 10 - Just Move Some

A few bad boys from those early Metro years! 
Metro Retro 9 - Bad Boy!
Rhythm For Reasons - Grand National
Sonz Of A Loop De Loop Era - Far Out
Kicks Like A Mule - The Bouncer (Housequake Mix)
Terrorize - It's Just A Feeling
Kinetic - Dancefloor Justice
Pragha Khan - Injected With A Poison

Metro Retro 11 - Bad Boy!

Metro Retro 12
Creative Thieves - Nasty Rhythm
Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There
P.K.A. - Temperature Rising
True Faith - Take Me Away
Francesco Zappala - No Way Out

Metro Retro 12 - Nasty Rhythm

Metro Retro 13
Digital Boy - Rotation
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Digital Boy - OK Alright (Original Mix)
N-Joi - The Kraken
N-Joi - Phoenix
808 State - Cubik

Metro Retro 13 - Rotation

Part 14 of the Metro Retro mixes - In Yer Funky Town

808 State - In Yer Face
Raze - Break 4 Love
Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
Liaisons D - Future F.J.P.
Hysteria - Energy Express (Long Train Mix)

Metro Retro 14 - In Yer Funky Town

Part 15 of the Metro Retro mixes - Evolution

Evolution - Came Outa Nowhere (Take Me Higher Mix)
Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives (The Climax Mix)
All Boxed In - These Things Happen
M.I.C. - OOBE 1
Bass Construction - Dance With Power

Metro Retro 15 - Evolution

Graeme Walker Live @ Ethos - The Mayday Frequency

Metro Retro 16 - Enjoy This Trip

Sined Roza -  I Don't Know What It Is (Extended Mix)
S'Express - Theme From S-Express (12'' Version)
Spectrum - Brazil
K-Klass - Wildlife
Brainstorm - Move The Colours

Metro Retro 16 - Enjoy This Trip

Metro Retro 17 - Club For Life

Chris & James - Club for Life (Old School Balearic Mix)
Anticappella -  Every Day
Modular Expansion - Cubes
N-Joi - Mindflux
Nomad - Your Love Is Lifting Me (Smart Systems Mix)

Metro Retro 17 - Club For Life

Offshore - I Can't Take The Power
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
R.A.F. - The Rhythm, The Rebel
Transform - Transformation (Club Mix)
Brothers Love Dubs - Ming's Incredible Disco Machine (Geeetaaar And Peeeyanno Mix)

Metro Retro 18 - Transform

Part 19 of the Metro Retro Mixes; Here's Another Chance

Shades of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden
M.A.N.I.C. - I'm Coming Hardcore
Urban Hype - The Feeling
K Klass - Into The Night
Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia

Metro Retro 19 - Here's Another Chance

The next E.P. from the Metro Retro mixes, 20 - Space Face

Sub Sub - Space Face
The Break Boys - My House Is Your House (And Your House Is Mine)
N-Joi - Manic
The Project - Kick The House (Hardcore Version)
D A D O - Ride On This

Metro Retro 20 - Space Face

Part 21 of the Metro Retro Mixes - G-Force
Digital Orgasm - Moog Eruption
EON - Spice
Praga Khan - Injected With A Poison (Rehab Mix
Bizarre Inc. vs Blue Pearl - When You're Playing With Knives
Prodigy - G-Force (Energy Flow)

Metro Retro 21 - G-Force

The final album in the Metro Retro mixes, number 22 - Kaos

Dr. Baker - Kaos
E-Trax - Let's Rock
Bizarre Inc. - Such A Feeling
Misteria - Who Killed JFK
Dana Dawson - 3 Is Family (Dancing Divas Club Mix)
House Of Venus - Dish & Tell
Holy Noise - James Brown Is Still Alive
Moby - Rock The House
Radioactive - The Eliminator (The Punch Mix)
Shaft - Roobarb And Custard
Altern 8 - Infiltrate
Transformer 2 - Pacific Symphony
Industrial - Only A Dream
Moby - Help Me To Believe
Steve Poindexter - Work That Mutha Fucker
Altern 8 - Activ 8 (Come With Me)

Metro Retro 22 - Kaos

A track I composed on a Sony Playstation 2 in 1999 on a programme called 'MUSIC 2000'

Bad Time To Die

Track written and composed on a Playstation 2 on Music 2000

Trapping R2

Hanger was the place to be in 93 and 94
Track IDs:
Area 51 - Let it Move You
The Stone Age - Paleolitic
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
D.O.P. - Groovy Beat
Toni Di Bart - Real Thing
JX - Son of a Gun
P.J. Master - It's My Beat
Sharada House Gang - Let the Rhythm Move You
Holy Noise - Get Down Everybody
Afrika Bambaataa - Felling Irie
Virtualmismo - Mismoplastico
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
Energy 52 - Café del Mar

High On The Hanger

I've followed the dance music scene since the late 80s, went clubbing and raving in the 90s. I love most styles of dance music and some other genres too, but my main love is early 90s club and rave music. I have been a DJ since the early 90s, starting my trade on Vinyls of course!
90s Old School House, Acid House and Techno will always be a part of my life, and my best memories were in the Metro Nightclub in Saltcoats, Scotland (hence the many 'Metro Retro' mixes I have done) Many a fine night spent there in the early 90s
I just loved the culture of anything goes! You could dress how you pleased and nobody gave a shit! And the music was just so fresh and not really categorised, it was all just dance music to us, or House music. You'd have some dark sounding techno one minute, uplifting house the next! Just loved that scene! I also spent a good few nights in Heaven Nightclub in Glasgow in 91 and 92 (Listen to my One Night in Heaven mixes for a flavour of the tunes). It was dark and sweaty and the tunes were a little harder! Hanger 13 at Ayr Pavilion was a favourite haunt in 93 and 94. I also went to other clubs like Fubar in Stirling and of course the legendary Arches in Glasgow as well as many, many raves!

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