nice tunes man, glad one set at least was saved from the day.

Love the tune at about 26 mins.. all the set is just sublime.. 🙏

Love this set, buddy. Loved dancing and painting to it x

Andy Riley/Inland Knights live@ Lost Horizon Bristol for Duvet's 23rd Bday & Smokescreen's 30th Tour

Andy Riley(Inland Knights) Live@ Duvet 23rd - Smokies 30th

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Grace doing her stuff with the usual magic! What a party such an amazing dance floor. Let's have some more!

Harry's Book launch anniversary Stroud party... The Mighty Grace Sands Rocks the party.

Here's a recording of Simon DK, when he played at my PENG event in Exeter, 30th June 2007.
Simon was my fave ever deep house dj, and a super lovely guy! 
His dj sets influenced the sounds of The Rurals.
He'll be missed...but, his legacy will live on through the music!!

Simon DK - Peng Records party, Exeter, 30th June 2007

Simon DK from the DiY Sound System was an integral part of putting the deep in the early British house scene and free party culture beginning in the late 80’s… and a central inspiration to all of us that went on to form the Deep Cartel soundsystem and collective...  DiY were renowned for punk principles but with beautiful music and DK embodied this spirit to the end… he will be deeply missed but so wonderfully remembered for getting so many of us deep inside in his transcendent sets… ...this set here a true gem and one of the highlights of a series of nights the Deep Cartel hosted in the SW from 2000-2003... DK with his finger on the pulse breaking records nobody had heard at the time, brand new tunes fresh from San Francisco... finally I dug out the MiniDisc recording after 20yrs in the barn, remastered it to brighten up the lost EQ.... and here you go...

SimonDK_BlackSwanBristol

Simon DK (DiY)_TheDeepCartel_BlackSwanBristol_2002

More cratedigging late into the night. Tracks from Halo, H-Foundation, Hipp-E, Photon inc. Terrence Parker, The Stickmen and more, producing at times quite a hard groove!

2023 08 06 Old Rocker

This is another recording from our Thursday night Jo-Jos night in Stroud from 1996. we had asked Rick and Pete to come and play a hip hop set for us, just for a bit of a change. The local Hip Hop kids could not contain their delight and we had various request for a mic from the word go. We managed to flow them off for most of the night. but eventually one of them ran home to get a mic, so the last 20 mins has some local MCing on it. They  where good lads, so we put up with it as to not offend them too much.

Digs & Woosh Hip Hop set Jo-Jos Stroud 5-9-96

A very special podcast for us from the one and only Simon DK (DiY).

Recorded Live @ Earth in 1995 this podcast is still sounding fresh today capturing DiY perfectly. DiY soundsystem are one of our biggest influences and their parties are a pinnacle part of clubbing history.

Massive shout out to Simon for allowing us to re-upload this bit of magic.

Enjoy x

The DiY Sound System was one of Britain's first house sound systems. The group "divided their activities between free parties and legal club nights, acting as a bridge between counter-culture and the mainstream".

It was created in Nottingham in 1989 as a reaction against the growing number of rave promoters whose bias was towards their own financial enrichment, rather than the joy of their party-goers. They wished to form a cohesive, collective, political front against the prevailing anti-rave legislation that was beginning to come into force at that time. This became more marked around the time of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, with DiY playing a key role in the largest illegal rave ever put on at Castlemorton Common Festival prior to the Bill and a constant stream of illegal, outdoor parties (often at travellers' sites, quarries and disused airfields) all over the country. Simon Reynolds writes that DiY threw "free parties at abandoned airfields or on hilltops, drawing a mixed crowd of urban ravers and crusty road warriors".[2]

DiY also worked successfully in the realm of legitimate club nights, with their "Bounce" night touring the country as well as being a staple of Nottingham's night life. Its popularity, connected to its lack of concern for dress codes and its non-exploitation of its loyal clubbers, coupled with its very particular form of deep, soulful, often minimal house music, led to it being recognised as one of the top ten club nights in Britain by The Times.

In 1993, they also began their own record label, Strictly 4 Groovers, which later became known as DiY discs. They released house music on vinyl until 2006, which included releases by local talents Atjazz, Rhythm Plate and Charles Webster. The collectives primary DJ's - Simon DK, Digs and Woosh - still play at various nights in the U.K., Europe and United States.

DiY still occasionally hold free parties, typically to celebrate a milestone date - on 19 September 2009, DiY celebrated their 20th birthday with a free party in near their home town of Nottingham.,[3] while on 23 August 2014, they their 25th (Silver) birthday with a free party held in a field in Leicestershire.

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discotech Podcast 49 | Simon DK (DiY)

Nottingham resident of the legendary Smokescreen Soundsystem throws down a lively selection of dancefloor heat. A live recording from the Queens Head, Bristol, UK

Rob (Smokescreen) - Live @ Duvet Jan 019 -

Murk @ Sadmac - 03 Simon DK

Track List below.
Inspired by the 30th Anniversary of Nottingham's legendary DiY Collective, this mix features a collection of music created across that timespan by musicians and producers from within the DiY core,close associates & the wider house music family that drew inspiration from the trailblazing musical, hedonistic & cultural blitzkrieg that they spearheaded throughout the 1990s and beyond. Nottingham area producers such as Inland Knights / Andy Riley  , Neil Tolliday (aka Nail / Bent) - Charles Webster(aka Furry Phreaks)Rhythm Plate(also Yse Saint Laur'Ant), Ron Basejam, Schmoov- all included here -  emerged from this scene and era, many releasing their debut releases on DiY Discs. 
DiY's importance  within the house music world and the wider culture - mainly in UK but also internationally, while surely not yet fully recognised, should not be underestimated. As well as  being in the vanguard of promoting underground house music through their own early 90's club nights and parties in Nottingham , their mix tape releases and record label, DiY were one of the first to fuse house music , free festival ethos and Jamaican sound system culture, creating DiY Sound System.
Along with other like-minded maverick musical warriors they pioneered the outdoor /countryside/ under the stars/ summer free party. This irrevocably changed thousands of people's lives,  altered their way of looking at the world and suggested how we might live and socialise...
In pursuit of this utopian vision, property / drug and other laws were violated for the greater good and DiY put their personal safety/liberty on the line every weekend across those heady summers in the 90's,  to entertain and enlighten.
The well documented gathering at Castlemorton in May 1992, marked a  turning point. DiY  were one of the few systems flying the flag for underground "proper" house music....
Direct DiY action against the now infamous Criminal Justice Bill followed-  Other sound systems, notably Smokescreen, picked up the mantle in the 90s.
Of course, the utopian vision didn't materialise & as happens in such heady hedonistic worlds, there were deaths, prosecutions, jailings, social and  personal misdemeanours and casualties en route.......but hey, what a journey for those involved, and what a legacy. 
Many DiYers are still out there agitating, educating and organising to this day.
Their free party blueprint laid solid foundations, and in spite of restrictions that have curtailed the ability of anyone to recreate what DiY achieved in that decade, austerity driven Police cuts have seen a renaissance in recent years.
All of the tracks included here are made by people who have direct connection to DiY or who grew up in or adopted  Nottingham East Midlands region as their home. Includes as yet unreleased tracks from "newer" Nottingham producers such as Jamie Deep and Coxie.   
Dedicated to Pete Woosh - i will always love you xx
Be Still – Overview / Mobile Music - (DK & Damian Stanley)DiY Discs 
Keep Yr Shape (HypnoDub)- Gallery Sounds (Andy Riley & Pete Woosh)
Slummin It – Inland Knights (Andy Riley & Laurence Richie)
Need U – Coxie 
Heavy Sometimes – Rhythm Plate
Gonna Miss You – Inland Knights
Gayatri – Electric Soul Sounds. (Hayley Harrison & Andy Riley)
Decisions – Nail
Work It Out (Underwater Trumpet Mix)- Good Together. (DK and Damian O'Grady mix)DiY Discs release             
Cybele – Jamie Deep (Spiritwrestlers Bandcamp 2019)
Conquista - Conquista Del Casa -(T:me Recordings - shared Square Dance Studio with DiY in 1990s)
Gonna Find A Way (Major Dude Mix) - Furry Phreaks (Charles Webster)
Searchin for NJ – Digital Boogie - DiY Discs 
For the People, By the People (Schmoov Remix - Ron Basejam
Wax On (Andy Riley Wax Off Mix) – Phillipa.
Caught Up – Inland Knights.
Hothead (Original DiY Dub) – DiY (warp records - available Bleep.com)
Hundreds of Thousands – Jamie Deep

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