dangerous set mate you have nailed it for old skool darkside 👌👌👌👌👌🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

I love all these old tunes. thanks for this. legendary business

Best intro to a mix i have ever heard mate. Top draw

An absolutely epic trip into the darkside of hardcore and jungle. Loving the nods to some of the nuskool, darkcore artists in here. A pitch black selection fella! :D

With well over 30 years of mixing experience; this genre of mix means the most to me as it includes many tracks from my first few crates of vinyl. During the latter half of 1993 in the UK there was a distinctive split in rave scene where many of the top jocks began playing more darker, sinister tracks after a good few years of more uplifting vibes. Included are typically what you could have expected to hear from the likes of Top Buzz, Grooverider and Ratty. Have included some more recent productions.

This is my hardcore mix. There are many like it but this one is mine!

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1 - DJ Trace & Ed Rush - Clean Gun
2 - Enforcer - Dam Tuff
3 - DJ Crystl - Warp Drive
4 - FBD Project - Terminate (HWND Remix)
5 - Darkside Weapon 1 (Unknown)
6 - Wax Doctor & Jack Smooth - Unfriendly
7 - International Rude Boyz - Drum Programme
8 - Darkside Weapon 2 (Unknown)
9 - Rotating Heads - Dark Secrets (Wishdokta Mix)
10 - Boogie Times Tribe - The Dark Stranger (Origin Unknown Mix)
11 - Pascal & Sponge - Raw Basics
12 - The Skeleton Krew - Luv To Luv Ya (Remix)
13 - DJ Solo - Darkage
14 - Dope - When I Was Young
15 - Bounty Killaz - Silent Voices
16 - Warped Kore - The Power
17 - DJ Trace - Never Felt This Way
18 - Scott & Keith - Deranged 
19 - Andy C - Slip n Slide
20 - Invisible Man - Twisted
21 - Q Project - Champion Sound (Alliance Mix)
22 - Tango & Ratty - The Killer
23 - Andy C - Something New (Part 2)
24 - Elevation - Take Your Mind
25 - Human Being - The Box Opened
26 - DJ Trace - Lost Entity (London Mix)
27 - Top Buzz - Maintain Her
28 - Ironik - The Calling
29 - FX - The Devil’s Work (Boizo Edit)
30 - Torchman - Tell Me (Remix)
31 - Peshay - Gangster
32 - Kev Bird & The Wax Doctor - Dark Matter
33 - Mad Dog - Monged Out
34 - Out Of Order - Right Guard (Dub Mix)
35 - FBD Project - The Core
36 - Lewi Cifer - Heat
37 - Wots My Code - Dubplate
38 - Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows (Boizo Edit)
39 - Studio Pressure - Presha III
40 - D-Cruze - Want You Now
41 - Johnny Jungle - Flammable (Tango Mix)
42 - Jack n Phil - Unity (Boizo Edit)
43 - Jim Polo & Neil Vass - Underground Feeling
44 - Tango - Future Followers (VIP Mix)
45 - Matrix - So Ruff
46 - Dub Two - Bad Man (Tuffness Mix) 
47 - Swift & Zinc - 2 Warm
48 - Andy C - Bass Constructor
49 - Lemon D - Pursuit Thru The Darkness
50 - Smith & Brown - Life’s Just So
51 - DJ Excel - Just When You Thought It Was Safe (Remix)
52 - The Untouchables - Don’t Be Afraid
53 - DJ Hype - Weird Energy
54 - MC Lethal - Prince Of Darkness (Nex Mix)
55 - DJ Fokus - Chill Out
56 - International Rude Boyz - Paragone
57 - Drum & Bass - Lowdown & Funky
58 - The Anthill Mob - Black Rushin
59 - Acen - Close Your Eyes (Unknown Remix)
60 - Bizzy B - Twisted Mentazm
61 - Potential Bad Boy - Work The Box (Boizo Edit)
62 - DJ Trace & Ed Rush - Don Bad Man 
63 - Nicky Allen - NAD 45 (Welcome To Hell)
64 - Skanna - Night Stalker EP
65 - Goldie & Rufige Kru - Terminator
66 - Red Alert & Mike Slammer - F@ckin Hardcore
67 - Cloud 9 - You Got Me Burning Up (Ray Keith Mix)
68 - Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation (Ray Keith Mix)

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Oldskool Hardcore Rave (10/10) - 12-03-22 (The Darkside)

If you're feeling these mixes with full track lists primarily focused on the 90's U.K dance music scene feel free to follow and share!

The idea behind my page is to log and showcase the music that has influenced me over the last 35+ years so that my daughter, Ebony, can listen to ‘olden day’ music and hopefully appreciate how good we had it. 

Having learnt my craft in the late 80’s at the age of 12 and teaching myself how to beat match on 1200’s within a week, I felt I had a knack for this DJ’ing thing way before it became fashionable. I would class myself as quite a versatile DJ able to lend my hand to most genres. Hopefully all those years of bedroom mixing and house parties have paid off…but that’s up to you to decide. 

I attempt to capture a constant energy in my mixes regardless of genre and am always a firm believer that the mix is as important as the track itself. I endeavour to create seamless transitions whilst maintaining the energy. During longer mixes a welcome switch in style is sometimes required. In fact different genres warrant different styles of mixing, in my opinion. And monotonous sets do nothing for me. Up and down, peaks and troughs, it’s all about building the listener up and letting them down gently.

Never one to choose tracks based on their popularity or current chart position, I hand pick the tunes I mix because I think they’ll stand the test of time. The idea being that during any of my sets I can pick a point and know I’ll dig that track or mix. Although digitally digging isn’t as rewarding as finding physical vinyl records for me, it is a whole lot easier. That said there are a lot of below par tunes out there to sift through before finding worthy tracks. Then the set process begins…I just approach it as a musical jigsaw.

Anyway, enough about me. Whether you’re getting ready to go out for the night, cleaning the kitchen or in the car, turn it up, get in the groove and I hope you enjoy the vibes  😎

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