It was 1994.  maybe late 1993.  Nothing like mixing up a cassette tape on two beaten up Technic SL-210s (I couldn't afford 1200s) and a mixer from Radio Shack.  I had one good quality Maxell tape that I had recorded one of my hip hop radio show on a couple years back.  I decided to record over it and make this breakbeat mix tape with all the new vinyl I had purchased.  I plugged the VCR audio into the mixer so I could use samples I had prepared from Kung Fu movies and a Documentary on martial arts.  My needles were on their last leg (you can hear every little bump in the records and there is even a skip or two).  Regardless, I made the mix, bought some cheap blank cassettes and spent a week making dubs to hand out.  I went through some of my comic books and took them to Kinko's where I copied pictures and pasted and cut words and images with actual scissors and glue to make the covers.  I even included my home phone number on it!  I think this tape got me some bookings.  At the time, the hardcore scene was fading, jungle and happy hardcore were still a year or two away and everyone was into trance at the time, yet I stuck with what I loved.  I hope you enjoy this piece of history.  I cringe at some of the mixes and I'm glad that I improved over the years, but its nice to reminisce and relive a great time in my life.  Peace. Love. Unity. Respect.  Just as relevant now as it was in 1994.
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DJ Venom - Crane School Of Breakbeat (1994)

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