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Mark C

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OLD SKOOL RAVE & ACID HOUSE

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Sparki's Faves December 2016

Insane

This was actually the birthday party of a mate of mine (ex-promoter) with full marquee, dodgems, 15k sound, lasers - the full works and in a field down an old dirt track in the middle of no-where just like back in 1989 - The party was full of like minded ravers and even the police turned up at 3am to shut us down - but they didn't succeed hehe... Other DJs included Micky Finn, Colin Dale & Jumping Jack Frost!

Slipmatt - Live @ A Rave In A Field 03-08-2013

This year I celebrate 24 years as a pro DJ in the Rave business on exactly the same day as Raindance. Even though I was a DJ from a very young age Raindance was my first big break back in 1989 so I always see it as my proper début in to the Rave scene...

It is a massive challenge trying to pick from so many wicked tunes... so the track list is simply a mixed bag of tunes that bring back great memories of Jenkins Lane and all of the Raindance tours that I was involved in through the early years.

Hope you enjoy and hope you can make it to our 24 years celebrations on 5th October 2013 at The Suffolk Street Warehouse in London.

https://www.facebook.com/events/139242579581383/ 

Slipmatt - My 24 Years With Raindance Warm Up Mix-September 2013

D J Mark C - Cloudy with a chance of darkness

We are proud to present you our 24th edition from our Underground-Podcast-Series by SIX9LOVER.

Dont forget to follow him on his socials!

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nikita-kirilov-780334732
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/six9lover/

ENSEMBLE PODCAST - UNDERGROUND SERIES 024: SIX9LOVER

My first release on vinyl on the massive Kniteforce Records. One of the tracks of the EP .

Feel The Bass - Outer Limits EP [Kniteforce Records] -Unmastered as can't find the mastered one]

The Inspiral Carpets recently announced they had signed to Cherry Red Records, with a new album and a reissue both planned for 2014. The first of these releases, Dung 4, comes out at the end of April.

Ever since the return of original singer Stephen Holt in 2011, The Inspirals have been keeping busy with tours in the UK and abroad, as well as releasing two great new singles – ‘You’re So Good For Me’ in 2012 on their own Cow label and ‘Fix Your Smile’ in 2013 on Tim Burgess’s O Genesis imprint.  The band’s new album – which will be entitled simply Inspiral Carpets – is tentatively scheduled for September 2014. 

As a precursor to this, Cherry Red will be reissuing the Inspirals’ legendary demo tape, Dung 4, for the first time on vinyl and CD. The vinyl version will be a limited edition available for Record Store Day on 19 April. It will contain all eleven original tracks, remastered from the original master tapes, with a bonus 7” EP of the band’s earlier four-track Cow demo from May 1987. All tracks will also appear on the CD edition, released 28 April.

Although the session was recorded in December 1987, what became known as Dung 4 wasn’t issued until May 1989, and only on cassette, the same month as the band’s third single ‘Joe’, in a bid to combat the bootleggers and as a thank you to their fans. The cassette included the original demo version of ‘Joe’, featuring Stephen Holt on vocals, which had previously graced the compilation LP Manchester, North of England.

Stephen remembers that seminal early period: 
“After years of playing local gigs and recording several demo tapes, which gradually improved each time, we seemed to be on the rise in Manchester and our name also seemed to be spreading  around the country. We recorded Dung 4 when we had built a strong batch of tunes and had perfected our own sound, different to anything else in Manchester at the time. It felt like we were recording our debut album and something special.”

Clint Boon: “We recorded and mixed the Dung 4 session at my little studio in the Guide Mill on South Street, Ashton Under Lyne. It cost nothing to make. We all had jobs at the time. This is what we did after work. We were a garage band. I knew this recording session was a very important moment for the band. To me, Dung 4 is our debut album. Listening to the original master tapes for the first time in 27 years was the most goosebump-inducing moment I’ve had in my time with the Inspirals.”

Track listing:
Keep The Circle Around  / Seeds Of Doubt  / Joe  / Causeway  / Inside My Head  / Sun Don't Shine  / Theme From Cow  / Butterfly  / 26  / Garage Full Of Flowers  / 96 Tears  /  Bonus tracks (Cow EP): Head For The Sun / Now You're Gone / Whiskey / Love Can Never Lose Its Own


Inspiral Carpets - Keep The Circle Around

Just thought I'd do an 88-89 live studio mix to celebrate the festival season...

Slipmatt 88-89 Mix - July 2011

Underworld ep is based on the subconscious of the deepest darkest depths of the deep underground. Dark breaks with tunnel vision melodies, A pure subconscious trip

Silverfox & Cronin - Roses Of The Sun

House Of Love

Shine On

Track B1 from the "Jungle Cat Vol.1" vinyl release.

Digital available at https://junglecatrecs.bandcamp.com/music

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Jungle Cat Vol.1 - B1 - Dub Liner - Quiet - 192kb Clip

Mikolaj Krencik, alias Miko, apart from his main project ‘Balagany Na Bani’ hip-hop collective, during the last year has also revealed himself as a great editor as well as a re-mixer in the juke/footwork world. After Symbiotic Sounds he was considered one of the most promising Polish producers promoting juke/footwork and his versions of hits like Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe, I'm In It or Bonfire showed the range of musical arsenal at his disposal. For majority of listeners the fundamental question was when his first EP would be released. After a long period of waiting Polish Juke would like to present the first debut material by Miko 'Do They Know Ya'. 

'Do They Know Ya' brings four original tracks, personal variations on footwork/juke. One should add they are quite surprising variations, which use the illustrative, space and ambient music, evoking emotions, interacting with the listener, attracting him/her. Footwork stays in the background and complements the whole making the basis for the sound, however, sometimes switches to the foreground speeding up the action a bit. 

'Do They Know Ya' is a clear-cut miniature, consistently and consciously prepared. The tension builds up gradually with no intrusiveness or obviousness. What is left is the essence required to please the ear and move the body to the beat. 

Do They Know Ya EP

Goin' Down

A slightly "off centre" breaks tune, partially an exercise in layering up chords & notes over a very simple bassline and an excuse to be a bit artsy-fartsy with the melodies instead of the usual stab riffs and piano lines.   

DJ RAVE IN PEACE - MEMORIES - FREE DOWNLOAD

Sparki Dee - In Hackney

MDS - Digital Clementine (Buy Now)

Keep It Floored

2Dark (Original Mix)

Droppin The Hardcore With A Self Referential Named Track Egomaniac Maybe Should Called It Anyway Ya Know What It Is

I Cronin

Techno City

DJ Mark C - Vision Of XTC

Backload of Keep the Fire Burning, featured on LLTA026

https://longlivetheanimals.bandcamp.com/album/llta026-various-animals-rat-2-the-old-skool-004

Keep The Fire Burning [LLTA026]

Slipmatt - Live @ Obsession At The Park 18-12-1992

DJ Mark C - Take It Easy

Inspiral Carpets - Uniform

Written by U2
Produced by Brian Eno
Perfecto Remix by Paul Oakenfold / Steve Osborne
Originally released on Island / Universal in 1992

Buy on iTunes

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (Perfecto Remix)

We're back with a fresh premiere this sunny afternoon and it comes from the brand new collaborative effort of two of Ireland's favourite DJ/Producers, Chaz & SHEE, under their new Midweek alias. 

Known individually as top drawer selectors and talented producers, the pair have been DJing and running parties together for over 2 years now and have just now decided to start producing tracks together. 

The result was a 5 track EP which walks the lines house, techno, breakbeats and acid... It even features an appearance from Limerick-based rapper and good friend of the lads Hazey Haze on the last track, further proving just how diverse the pair can be. 

The EP is being released on the duo's brand new 2Suite Records imprint and they're hosting a launch party for the record this Monday at Pharmacia in Limerick 

ENJOY! 

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Four Four Premiere: Midweek - Brooklyn Weekend

Matheson returns to the Eyeangle roster, this time on Roux Records. Beefy breaks and a well known vocal, what's not to love?

Matheson - NITA

Next instalment of a 92 style rave tune.......... 

DJ Mark C ~ Rushing,just a little bit to fast.

Without Ur Luv

Free Download

PREMIERE: Cedarwood State Trax - Without Ur Luv [RRR006]

My remix/edit of one of the tracks off The Prodigy's first EP.

The Prodigy - Android(Fear - E's In The Place Remix)

Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3c3frkn

Presenting the 'No Face no Case' EP by Suspect Raver! It's the debut release by Suspect Raver and is also the first EP released under the Filth Inc. banner. We hope you enjoy :)

About 'No Face no Case' EP -

Hailing from Sydney Australia, Suspect Raver has seen first hand the effect that tough laws have had on the local nightlife over the past few years.

Although it was dire for most, there was still a resolute band of underground music heads that kept the soundsystems thumping throughout the weekend evenings at determined and unyielding venues as well as via "illegal" raves.

These tracks are a homage to those times and a push for more of the same energy in the future.

Castles' angelic vocal sample drives the listener into a trance, while Run it Straight and Rave to the Rhythm are two unforgiving big room thumpers. Finally Warehouse Mobb uplifts the energy with a melancholic and reflective hook and interview sample from one of hip hops' realists.

Track Listing -

Suspect Raver - Castles
Suspect Raver - Run It Straight 
Suspect Raver - Rave to the Rhythm
Suspect Raver - Warehouse Mobb

Follow Suspect Raver on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/suspectraver

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Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Suspect Raver - Castles [FILTH001]

Global hit! UK No.5 and huge worldwide sales of the single and the Lovegod album - remastered version out soon! Produced and Engineered by George Shilling

I'm Free (Soup Dragons) - Produced and Engineered

1991 - 1992 Old Skool Rave Mix (Mickey B) 
Mickey B 1991 - 1992 Old Skool Hardcore Mix (1 Hour)
Summer vibe rave classics mix from myself of 91/92 Old Skool Mix.
Track List :-
1 - Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
2 - Turntable Symphony - Instruction Of Life
3 - Bizarre Inc - Raise Me (Eon's Ascension Mix)
4 - Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You (92 Hardcore Remix)
5 - Family Foundation ‎-- Xpress Yourself
6 - Digital Domain ‎-- I Need Relief
7 - Vocation ‎-- Equilibrium
8 - Dave Charlesworth - Energizer 2
9 - Sy Kick* ‎-- Nasty (Remix)
10 - Tic Tac Toe Ephemerol (Mickey Finn, Fabio & Grooverider Remix)
11 - 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare Remix
12 - Nino - Future Of Latin
13 - Yolk - Bish Bosh
14 - Desired State - Expansion Remix
15 - Origination - Shine On (Unreleased '92 Remix)
16 - Sly T And Ollie J ‎-- Underground Confusion
17 - NRG - Feel The Fury (Piano Mix)
18 - Psychotropic ‎-- Hypnosis (Slipmatt & Lime Remix)
19 - Orca - Alive & Kickin
20 - Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (155 And Rising)
21 - Wax Doctor - A New Direction
22 - Yolk - Music 4 Da People
23 - Pseudo 3 - B Line Stepper
24 - The House Crew - Maniac (The Final Conflict)

1991 - 1992 Old Skool Rave Mix (Mickey B)

It all started in 1992 when he started collecting all the Yaman mix tapes then progressing onto buying Technics 1200s in 1993... Fast forward to 2014 and he brought a computer with a midi keyboard and started producing 1992 style rave tracks and got signed to Kode 5 Recordings... Still collecting rave records and producing to this day.