Selection of Deep Acid and House/Techno tracks from way back in time....

Don't You Ever Doubt The Groove!  1995

King Of The Rollers

Punkz

Twisted up beats and bass lines = freaks and chaos

Freaks And Chaos

Subway Sonics

Panorama / Biology 1989

Now Is The Time 2008

dark, moody and edgy vibes from London town circa 1990 at Dungeons, Labyrinth and Superstition

Dungeons 1990

a tribute to a club called RAGE at Heaven under the arches, London...this selection of tracks is from early 1991 timeframe

RAGE 1991

Selection of house & US garage from 1992. Tracks sold at records shops such as Catch A Groove and Black Market Records in London Town…I used to play these tracks in wine bars and pubs in Croydon at the time - yes….haha trying to recreate the deep house Ministry vibe that was big at the time...

Catch A Groove 1992

This mix pays tribute to the sounds of early 1988. Back then in London it was all about clubs like Spectrum & Future on Mon & Thu nights respectively, Enter The Dragon on a Wed and Trip at Astoria at the weekend...Included are early Chicago and New York tracks with Future being more experimental with New Beat & Balearic themes. Spectrum was where it was banging tho…I can always remember the Heaven laser rig slowly descending towards the dance floor when Slam by Phuture Pfantasy Club was doing the damage…mmm wicked.

Future & Spectrum 1988

Sounds of the Eclipse Spring 1991. A tribute to the madness of the club... & the mix tapes for sale at the venue. Driving back from Coventry to London worse for wear at 8am banging a Carl Cox tape purchased the night before...

Eclipse 1991

running round town, listening to the pirates, writing down titles, hitting the record shops, checkin out the parties.. smoking herbs in the park...keeping out of trouble and not giving a flyin'

this is the sound of my late 1990 - London Fields

London Fields 1990/1991

Back in the spring of 91 there was a lot of noise coming from the south coast and one night in July a car load of us drove down to Worthing from South London to see what all the fuss was about. This club was similar to The Eclipse in terms of the sounds...ruff & tuff hardcore, breaks, Belgian/NYC techno and everything in between. It was crazy. We had a few more down at Sterns and a couple of one off parties in Brighton. This was the sound of the Summer 91 for me...bloody hectic period all told but you could never forget - long live Sterns!

In-ter-dance 1991

Ruff & Tuff sounds of 1990 London dedicated to The Crazy Club on Saturday nights at the The Astoria... .not much detail comes to mind from these nights...except maybe the tables, balcony and the bastard queues..

Astoria 1990

Warning **first track contains explicit lyrics**

Dedicated to the Biology events that ran in 1989. Proper warehouse beats and grooves for the summer. Hitting Blackmarket Records in London W1 to sort out the tickets and then find someone with a motor willing to sacrifice the next 12-24 hours of their lives for us...

Biology 1989

b sides, white labels, test presses, old skool vibes, breakbeats, techno grooves, underground selections from 1991

...an international rave signal beamed out across the airwaves - keep that frequency clear!

Internationl Rave Signal 1991

Selection of deep house moods & grooves from 1991 timeframe

Out All Nite 1991

Before Spectrum or Future there was the The Project Club, first in Ibiza and then in Streatham, South London. This was the club that Trevor Fung got going on his return from Ibiza. This mix is a selection of trax circa 1988 and recorded as a tribute to the club.

The Project Club 1988 #2

The Trip @ Astoria 1988

Tribute to the Sunrise warehouse parties around 88/89.
This is a soundtrack to scrounging a lift off someone who could drive 30 miles to the party & and then finding them again before the end so you could get a lift home.

Sunrise At Ecstasy Airport 1989

Soundtrack to the opening weeks at the MOS in SE London during Oct/Nov 1991..

Ministry Of Sound 1991

Back To The Future 1989

sounds of the summer 1989
warehouse grooves and acid showdowns

Sunrise 1989

King Of The Streets 82-86

b sides, white labels, test presses, old skool vibes, breakbeats, techno grooves and underground madness from Spring 1991

In Order To Dance 1991

Place : Ziggi's in Streatham, South London
Time : 1988
Music : Acid

The Project Club 1988

Boogie Down Bronx  82 - 86

Rickmansworth, England 1989...last party of the summer for some of us. 

Trying to recreate the vibes from these large scale outdoor parties, so not always the most commercial tracks on display. The underground tracks that fired the spirit of the groove very much a theme at these parties and captured in this mix.

Blast Off 1989

Compiled, mixed and dedicated to the Energy Summer Festival near Effingham July 1989. This one ran a week before the big Sunrise in Amersham....

Energy 1989

Long queues, little tables, balconies & wicked house music. This is the club we always seemed to arrive at on a Saturday night when there was no big outdoor rave to find...

SIN @ Astoria 1989/1990

Warehouse Grooves Vol I

Warehouse Grooves Vol I 1989

17 years old...emerging from a UK futurist electronica and US hip-hop and electro beats education this was a first dabble into house music and garage music flavours - June 88

When We Used To Play 1988

Selection of tracks from the 2nd wave of electro/hip-hop with a few electro-soul flavours thrown in to the mix. 

808 All Stars

808 All Stars 82-86

Collector and DJ. This page is dedicated to underground dance music styles and UK club references, with mixes dedicated to club nights and events from the eighties and very early nineties.  

02/23 - I am currently re-mastering all these mixes so they sound better :-)

More recently I have been playing on Internet Radio delving into the  archives to share my music.

If you want to know a track title, post a comment on the track as I have not compiled running orders (yet);-)

D x.

Donda Starros

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