Respect to the originators of the house sound  - This version is a mashup of two versions released on the 12" that I always thought should have been released together as a single :)

I am not making any money from this track, much like many of the originators of what has become EDM music of today. If you are the copyright holder, and want this removed, just PM me.

https://www.discogs.com/Da-Posse-Featuring-Martell-Searchin-Hard/release/1512

Da Posse - Searchin Hard  (DJ Ace's Krazee Acid Vocal Rework)

40 minutes of xmas junglis, 174 BPM, ho ho ho jump up sound

Tracks featuring
Bill & Ed, Mew Zu, Technical Itch, Kiddah, Caviar, Zero T, DC Breaks, Killbox, Mozey, UBUR, N Monic, Althea & Donna.

Xmas Junglis - DJ ACE

Excursions into the deep featuring tracks from Evil Eddie Richards, Francois K, Fred, Laurent Garnier (early), Charles Schillings and Octave One.

60 minutes of Deep & Minimal - DJ ACE

Just before the the DNB music scene went into a a dark hole of industrial baselines there was a moment of club nights at the Blue Note, with uplifting sounds and beats. A great moments of fusion also between soulful sounds, and summer grooves. I've tried to stay true to that moment of DNB with a selection of fresh cuts released during the last months of 2021. So....in we go with 60+ minutes of what today's called liquid DNB. Electronic sounds,  jazz and sub-step, dubstep rollers to bring 2022 in with some positive vibes.

Track Listing

- M Church - Lazy Groove
- Qua Rush - Coup de grace
- Rafau Etamski - To Have Forever
- Bill & Ed - I told you
- Qua Rush - state of confusion
- Everything is recorded - 
- Echo Brown - Affirmations
- Parallel Viewer - Feelings
- Evolved - Thinking About
- Barrel Cactus - Basic Biology
- Kenzo - Guilty
- After Aphex - Awaken
- Skuff + OBI - Storm 
-  Easy, Pyxis, Sofi Mari  - Planets
- Refracta - Oxygen
- Gravity - Enigmatic (original mix)
- Edwards Oberon & Paul T - Best Life

Liquid DNB Volume III - DJ ACE

I feel lucky as I DJ'd during the peak of electronic dance music. My biggest years 91-94 and even if I continue to call myself a DJ today, those were the glory years. This weekend I managed to get down nearly 2 hours of the tracks that were being dropped up and down the UK. It was a great time if you were a clubber too as you could find yourself listening to Belgium techno, New Beat, Breaks, 808s, Acid, and have some rap going on through the tunes too in one night. As a Londoner the source for these tunes, were in hard to hear name drops for tunes played by DJs on  Fantasy Radio and Centrforce. These slabs have been mixed down on vinyl on my Allen & Heath Xone32. There are some absolutely belting mixes in this set, couple of eek moments but I'm nearly 50 and I'm not using a red sync button! Get your glowsticks and white gloves and go back to good times and memories, when the energy levels were always running red.

Tracklisting:

Holy Noise – Father Forgive Them (The truth mix, Hithouse Records)
Floor Filler – Rub it in (Lower East Side Records)
Problem House II - Hit you with a funky dope rhythm (Hithouse Records)
Tech House - I Luv You (evacuation mix, USA Import Music)
Nitrous – Moonwalk  (Not on Label)
Outlander – Steal My Love (R&S Records)
Techno Grooves Mach 1 – Brasil 1 (R&S Records)
Outlander – Vamp (R&S white label)
Sonic Solution (CJ Boland) – Music (R&S Records)
Floor Filler – My name is house (Lower East Side Records)
Dinge Queen in the Mist – Play me ad Nauseam (Future Records)
Meng Syndicate - Sonar System (Speedy J Remix, Music Man Records)
R&S Records - unknown
Holy Noise - The Noise (Hithouse Records)
Autonation – Inside your mind (R&S Records)
80 Aum – C (AUM) A (Independent Music Corporation)
T99- Anasthasia (Who’s that beat)
Qualified – Adventures in Success (Dance Records Attacks)
Praga Khan – Rave Alarm (Beat Box)
Industrial - Renegade (Remix, Kintix)
Nitrous – Hear it Flow (FX Records)
M.N.O. – God of Abraham (Trance Mission)
Holographic 4th – Wasteland (80 Aum records)
Sven Van Hees – Atom (Atom Records)
Maximum Overdrive – 12000 AD (Manix Mantra, R&S Records)
Apollo 440 – Lolita (Stealth Sonic Records)
Renegade Soundwave – The Phantom (remix, Mute Records)
A Homeboy, a Hippie and a Funky Dredd – Total Confusion (Confusion Mix, Tam Tam Records)
Shoot the Moon – Technophobia (Tuff Mix, Creative Rhythm)
Project 1 – A Few Dollars More (Tam Tam)
Brainstorm (TZ9) – Untitled (R&S unofficial)
Techno Grooves Mach I – Concerto di Techno (R&S Records)
Mundo Musique – Andromeda (Easystreet, R&S Records)
Cabaret Voltaire – Easy Life (Jive Turkey Mix, Parlaphone)
Leila – Space Love (Rephlex)

Hardcore File 1 -  2 Hours of Hardcore from 1990-1992 (DJ ACE)

When you are talking about pioneer labels, a few come to mind. Underground Resistance, Trax, on the Stateside. Over in Europe you would have to have R&S Records, Music Man to name two. But if you had to pin me down I’d say DJAX trumps R&S by having a sound so consistently theirs that artists just seemed to flock and produce stuff for their label with their sound. I’ve put together 60 minutes of what makes this label so unique. 

Expect to hear tracks from: Acid Junkies, Mike Dearbon, K Alexi, Trance Induction, Ismistik, Signal to  Noise Ratio, RHC, Spasms EP, Edge of Motion, Zero Zone, Random XS, and the hugely mighty TERRACE!!

It is really worth noting that most of the tracks in this mix are more than 30 years old.  Enjoy that sound that I'm now recording in 24BIT Audio and upping a WAV for better airplay!

PURE DJAX UP BEATS - (DJ ACE)

B12 Record Label started in 1990.

A very futuristic sound  for the days, almost too much so, as at was pure listeners music, and even doing that was sometimes hard because the B12 harmonies were very out there!

Despite that I bought quite a few of them and this mix is 67 minutes of that sound. 

Expect to hear nearly all the main artists on the label: 

Redcell
Musicology
B12
2001 

A mix of music that you might expect to hear in a bar from Blade Runner.

Pure B12 Records - DJ ACE

45 Minutes of Classic Warp Records from the early 90s. 

LFO (Leeds WareHouse Mix)
LFO (remix)
Nightmares on Wax Aftermath - LFO Remix
LFO - Mentok 4
Nightmares on Wax - I'm for real
LFO Probe
Nightmares on Wax - Dextrous
LFO - Track 4
Tricky - Disco
Nightmares on Wax -. Sal Bastardas
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath (original)

Recorded direct from Vinyl on 1210s with Allen & Heath Xone 32  Ortofons. Call me a dinosaur!!

45 Minutes of Warp Records - DJ ACE

A two-hour mix covering the best in acid-house music released from Jan – September, 2022. All the best music is now on Bandcamp, if you want to hear sample banks being reused, you can find those tracks on beatport!

It was a real pleasure mixing this selection together and thanks to artists that provided promos and files to let me highlight tracks, some not yet released.

If you’re an artist that wants to be featured on a future acid reference works, message me. I can’t reply to everyone but I will listen to everything I get with pleasure and any files wont’ be shared or played anywhere without prior consent. 

Next acid reference works will likely drop in early 2023.

Here’s the track listing and where you can find these great artists and their pages. Support good music.

Peace
DJ ACE

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TRACK LISTING

Wtchcrft – Drugs Here
https://balkanvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/drugs-here 

Lomax EP – All Right Acid
https://nocollar4kicks.bandcamp.com/track/all-right-acid 

Music Chienne – Baka
https://musiquechienne.bandcamp.com/track/baka 

Citric Acid – Slagline
https://dizzytunes.bandcamp.com/track/slagline 

Butane – Infoslut
https://butane-alphahouse.bandcamp.com/track/butane-infoslut 

DJ Wank – ZFHX2
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/album/zfhx2-ep 

DimDJ – 1003037070 
https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/1000303707

DJ Arg – 808 Acid Inferno
https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/acid-inferno-dt011

Local Suicide – PHD in Apology
https://localsuicide.bandcamp.com/track/phd-in-apology

Dylab – Afraid to Lose
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-to-lose

Luke Vibert – Gas Logs
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/gas-logs

Sven Kossler – Meco
https://mightyforce.bandcamp.com/track/meco

Luke Vibert – Disco Derriere
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/disco-derriere

Nite Fleit – Nah
https://nitefleit.bandcamp.com/track/nah

Acid Pimp – Acid Fox
https://detund.bandcamp.com/track/acid-fox

Body Corp – Sake
https://hardlinesounds.bandcamp.com/track/sake

DJ Ford Foster - Shake That
https://superrhythmtrax.bandcamp.com/track/shake-that

Mitaka Sound – Clock Tower
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/track/clock-tower 

Pedro Goya – Flux (Archie Hamilton Remix)
https://pedrogoya.bandcamp.com/album/frenzy-001-flux-w-archie-hamilton-remix

Roy of the Ravers – Cold Wind
https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/track/cold-wind

TERR and Daniel Watts – Bring the Future
https://clashlion.bandcamp.com/album/bring-the-future

Luke Vibert – Surrounded by neighbours
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/surrounded-by-neighbours 

Erico Falcone – Jammin Tonight
https://noir-fidelity-records.bandcamp.com/track/jammin-tonight

Seafoam – Jabo
https://deepclub.bandcamp.com/track/b2-jabo

Shun – I’ll never reach your level
https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ill-never-reach-your-level

Roy of the Ravers – Showdown
https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/track/showdown-2

Shadow Acid – Nonlinear Interaction
https://shadowacid.bandcamp.com/track/nonlinear-interaction 

Jack Traxter – For Darren & Tara
Forthcoming on https://downfallrecordings.bandcamp.com/ 

Posthuman – Hack Jammer
https://balkanvinyl.bandcamp.com/track/hack-jammer

Consequence – It was meant to be
https://downfallrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/consequence-it-was-meant-to-be 

Pavel – Sorry for the Chaos
https://pavelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sorry-for-chaos

Acid Reference Works Volume 1 - DJ ACE

We're back in 1992 and the hardcore crossover, nicking Belgium techno sounds and incorporating them into the gritty London, urban setting.

This was a series of mixtapes that were sold at Camden Market in the early 1990s. Good times.

Expect to hear:

Blame - music takes you
Outlander
Lots of white labels
Early acid uk by pink and purple experience
Ital rockers
430 west in da house !!!
Some hard US early funky techno.

And big shouts to the crus that digitized these mixees!-

DJ Ace - Hardcore Pt 2 Studio Tape - 1992 - Side A (Camden Mixtape Series)

Second part of mix from back in 1992 and the hardcore crossover is nicking bits from belgium techno tunes and combing them with urban beats.

Expect to here:

TZ series
Underground Resistance
Express Yourself
Lots of twisted mentasm with breaks
Acid boxes with distortion
Aphex Twin Digereeedoo
The last track...what was that tune???







Full respect to the people that digitized these mixes!

DJ Ace - Hardcore Pt 2 Studio Tape - 1992 - Side B (Camden Mixtape Series)

Still in 1992 (so much good music coming out in this period everyone bouncing off everyone else's inspiration. We're back in 1992 and the hardcore crossover, nicking Belgium techno sounds and incorporating them into the gritty London, urban setting.

This was a series of mixtapes that were sold at Camden Market in the early 1990s. Good times.

Expect to hear: 

Quite a bit of analogue phasing as the tape head roll around (back in the days alcohol and ear swabs to clean those headz). Now you buy plugins to add that stuff!

Some very raw beats with Landlord samples
Mikey Finn
Early Ibiza records tracks
Lots and lots of samples from Warp records!
Early Reinforced (4hero) tracks.
Big chunky techno stompers
The beginnings of proper drum n bass
Early Rabbit City :)
Leo Anabaldi (come on Italy!)
PCP experience R&S records
SL2
Shakatak beatz that will take you back to Hype's sessions on Phantasy FM.

Big shouts to the crus that digitized these mixes!-


DJ Ace - Hardcore Pt 3 - 1992 - Side A (Camden Mixtape Series)

Still in 1992 (so much good music coming out in this period everyone bouncing off everyone else's inspiration. We're back in 1992 and the hardcore crossover, nicking Belgium techno sounds and incorporating them into the gritty London, urban setting.

This was a series of mixtapes that were sold at Camden Market in the early 1990s. Good times.

Expect to hear:
Acen - Trip to the Moon
Lots of Belgium beats
Early Formation records stuff
Some London style white labels.
Warp.

Big shouts to the crus that digitized these mixes!-


DJ Ace - Hardcore Pt 3 - 1992 - Side B (Camden Mixtape Series)

Acidized 30+ tracks of filtered and fresh DNB for the summer.

Tuscan DNB Summer 2023 - DJ ACE

An hour of drum and bass, half step, and ambient vapourware. If I were 30 years younger this is what I would be playing out every weekend.

New Tone Vapours - DJ ACE (ACIDIZED)

Before drum and bass there were 3 years of amazing electronic music. The UK was at at the forefront of this dance movement. If you were raving in between 1990-1991, get a box of tissues because the tracks being played here are going to bring tears to your eyes.

Expect to hear:

Tricky Disco
4 for the money
Djum Djum Difference
Bizarre Inc
Circuit Shelter Me (Acapella)
Last Night a DJ saved my Life
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Happy Mondays
Low Frequency Overload
Dragonfly Visions of Rage
The Gonzo
Energy
House Drummer
Total Confusion
Moby Go
Masters of the Universe
Project 1 Ferrari
Debbie Malone Rescue Me (that mix!)
Earth Leakage Trip (MS001)
808 State - Quadrastate
Fabi Parras
Angel - Sly & Lovechild
Mister (Truelove vol 2)
Xpress tonight
The Theme
The Four Seasons
Your Love (original bootleg)
The world according to Sly & Lovechild
Man Machine - Step into time EP.


DJ Ace - 2 Hours of Classics from 1990-1991

You can't talk about the early 90s without including the following artists in your top 10 producers of the day. It's no surprise that many of these tracks will leap out at because they sound as fresh today as the 25 years ago they were put to vinyl.

Some of these tracks you may not understand, but a few of you will, and some will smile..note if you find yourself doing this you may need to hold onto something because you knees are going to go in a minute too!

Advisory: 70% of this mix is pure Underground Resistance. You have been warned, the rabbit warren runs deep.

Expect to hear:

- Morgan King
- Damon Wild
- DJAX UP BEATS
- The tracks that made Underground Resistance
- Resistance D
- Iridial Discs
- K Alexi
- Suburban Knight


DJ Ace - The Techno Pioneers (feat. Undeground Resistance)

While labels like R&S, Music Man and Hit House were still knocking out solid slabs of European sound in the 1990-1992 period, the hardcore movement was taking over in the UK. 

Stealing piano stabs and breaks from the euro and US sound and mashing them together with hip hop breaks and samples to create what went on to become Jungle.  

Tracks sounding like they were made in bedrooms, sample qualities all over the place....track times all over the place. Running from one shop to the next to try and get the white labels!!

Blink and you might miss it, but it was the bridge on which Jungle built itself.

I LOVED THIS PERIOD!!

One of the hardest mixes I've had to do in a while!

SL2 - The Noise
SL2 - Way in my Brain
DJ Scoobie - Mash up the Speakers
Acen - Close your Eyes
Epitome of Hype - Ladies
White Label
The Scientist - The Exorcist
SUAD - The Green Man
Acen - We are Hardcore
Choki & LoveJoy
DMS - Exterminate
Brothers Grimm - The Lion Awakes
Manix
The Blatant EP
Project 1 EP - Right Before my Eyes
White Label
Acen - Trip to the Moon Part 3
The House Crew - Keep the Fire Burning
New Decade - The Message
Desired State - Dance the Dream
Tronic House EP
Break the Limits - E Yeah
Nightmares - Pycho Mix
Symphony Sound - Really Livin'
Mr Kirks Nightmare - Bootleg Remix
SUAD - Hooligan 69

DJ Ace - Hardcore // Birth of Jungle

Reworking of Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate's track Ruby.


Elastic Horizons - Ruby (remix)

83 minutes of big tracks from this period.

Orbital - Impact USA (1993)
Morgan - FlowerChild (1995)
Kevin Saunderson - Mental Techno (1991)
Holy Noise - Father Forgive Them (1990)
Leo Anabaldi - Noise Generation / Odyssey March (1992)
Microwave Prince - Cyclic Evolution (1994)
Trancendance - Frenzy (1991)
BLUE LABEL - Circa 1994
Disco Sluts - Full Flyte (1994)
The Annihilator - Annihilate (1991)
Choice - Acid Eiffel (1993)
Age - Imaginary Friend (1992)
Utopia Project - File 1
Jazzy Grooves Back to Back for 15 minutes



DJ ACE - Cyclic Evolution (techno/hardcore/trance from 1991-1995)

This 40 minutes mix captures dutch and US techno/trance from the early 1990s

Includes:
Outrage Tune
Hardfloor - Acperience
Transformed EP remixes (See Saw)
Biface - Injection Records
Resistance D - Injection Records
Edge Records 001
Le Petit Prince - Rainforest Mix!

40 minutes of early techno and trance

The sample at the start of this mix is from "before the music dies". The rest of the mix is a session of techno, deep house, and minimal techno spread out over 100 minutes.
Mixed up on a pair of 1210s, ortofon concordes and an Allen &amp; Heath Xone 32.
It sounds better on the wax!
Long live vinyl :)


TRACKLIST:
Agoria (feat Carl Craig) Speechless (remixes Vol 1) - Radio Slave Remix
Alexi Delano & Cari Lekebusch - Off world wonder
White label (unknown)
Oliver Klein - My definition (original mix)
Gary Beck - Tijuana 
Alex D'Elia Nihil Young - Deception (original mix)
Mark Flash - King of Light
Agoria (feat Carl Craig) Speechless (remixes Vol 1) - Carl Craig Remix
Marcel Knopf - Command
Epithet - Lightpipe
Heartik - Mini Swing (Kaiserdisco Maxiswing remix)
Oliver Klein - Hey Baby (original mix)
Alexi Delano & Cari Lekebusch - Streams of dreams
Alex D'Elia Nihil Young - Funkin with demons (Lutzenkirchen remix)
Dave Tarrida - Damage (Funk D'Void remix)
Simon Burrini - Let Go
Gary Beck - Semillon
Die Vogel - Maikaferbenzin 
White label (unknown) 7"

They still make them like this

Wrote this back in the early days of drum and bass on an Amiga 600HD running pro-tracker. Filthy bass lots of Amen, and pure 8bit sounds....

http://www.discogs.com/Elastic-Horizons-Percussive-Quantology/master/278371

Elastic Horizons Drums Conductor

Three labels are to be thanked for pushing the boundaries of dance music in the early 1990s. One is DJAX Up Beats from the Netherlands, One is Underground Resistance (courtesy of the nutta Mad Mike) and one is Harthouse records.

This 90 minute mix, spread out of two sides of 45 (digitized from tape) was recorded in 1992 on my numark 1762 (a mixer that in the day cost £380!).

Resistance D
Mike Dearbon
Terrace
Underground Resistance
Red Planet
Random XS
Dr Phibes
Acid Rain
Aphex Twin

Random XS Side (1990-1992)

Resistance D Side (1990 - 1992)

A selection of choones from the very earliest beginning of dance and old school music, dedicated to the hours and hours trawling through records at Zoom, BlackMarket, Soul II Soul, Quaff, Unity and Time is Right record shops :)

Cyclone - A Place Called Bliss
Joey Beltram - The Dream
Eurythmics Sweet Dreams - Omen Mix
MadQ & Coco (Dr. Fouriers Friendly Vibes EP) - Yow
Rhythms Warfare - Two Notches
Mind of Kane - Out of Control
Midirain - Crack Train
Major Problems - The effects can last forvever
Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm
Renegade Hardware - The Phantom
One Tribe (feat. Cem) - What Have You done
33 1/3 Queen EP - Searchin'
Suburban Knight - The Worlds
D.A. Posse - Searchin Hard
BFC - Galaxy
Larry Heard (can't remember!)
Fallout - The Morning After
Shut up and Dance - A change soon come


DJ Ace Classics from 88-91

Make sure you are sitting down to hear this one, as there may be a lot of flashbacks!

100HZ - Low Frequency Overload (Optimism Records)
Rebel Mc - Comin' on Strong (ruff neck mix) (Desire Records)
Doug Lazy - Let it Roll (Atlantic)
Rhythm Section - Check out the Bass (Rhythm Section Recordings)
Blapps Posse - Don't hold back, the feeling (Blapps Records)
Chantal - The Realm, (accapella) (Powertrax)
Nrg Posse - Themes (White Label)
Edwards & Armani - Acid Drill (MG Records)
Leftfield - Not Forgotten (Fateh's On The Case Mix) (Outer Rhythm)
Leftfield - Not Forgotten (Dub) (Outer Rhythm)
The Epitome of Hype - Let the Freak (Pure Boomie)
Midiain - Crack Train (Vocal) (Vinyl Solution)
Project 86 - Industrial Bass (Nu Groove)
Jimmy Crash - Crash Course (Nu Groove)
Rebel MC (featuring Tenor Fly) - The Wickedest Sound (Desire Records)
Eon - Infinity (Vinyl Solution)
The Scientist - The Bee (Kickin Records) 
The Scientist - The Exorcist (Kickin Records)
Outlander - TZ 4 Discotech (TZ Series)
Pinup Girs - Take me Away (Rockola Music)
LFO - Probe (Warp Records)
Night Writers - Let the Music Use You (Panica Records)
Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier (UR Recordings)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi Tech Jazz (The Science) (Ur Recordings)
K Alexi - All about us (Bass Mix) (Djax up-beats)
K Alexi - All for lisa (Transmat)
K.A Posse - Dog Dance (DJ International Records)
Club MCM - It's Me (K Alexi Deep Mix) (Starpop)
Armando - World Unknown (m.d house mixx) (Warehouse Records)
Bam Bam - Make You Scream (Deep House Mix) (Westbrook Records)
Juno - Soul Thunder (Bassic)
Steve Pointdexter - Work that Motherfucker (Musique Records)
Charles B - Lack of Love (Desire)
Mental Overdrive - 12000 AD (Alien Anthem) (R&S Records)
Phuture - Your Only Friend (Trax Records)
Toxic Two - Rave Generator (DanceFloor)
Adonis - No Way Back (Trax Records)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon (Play It Again Sam Records)
Asmo - Jam the Dance (Tek Records)
Akasa - One Night in My Life (It's Time) (Wea Records)
Earth Leakage Trip - No Idea (Moving Shadow)
Neil Howard - Indugle (club house mix) (Network)
Psychotropic - Only for the Headstrong (Rawbass)

43 Tracks in 15 minutes!

DJ Ace - 43 classic house and hardcore tracks in 15 minutes

I wanted to do this mix a long time. A snapshot of the early days of Deep House, Acid House, Garage and Jungle as told through 31 original pieces of vinyl that changed the face of music. In the last 25 minutes I've included some more recent tracks that made history, or have just become cemented in the modern day classics archive. 

Frankie Knuckles with Satoshi Tomille - Tears (Acapella)
Gene Hunt - Livin in a Land
House Conductor - Tonight I'm Going to Love You 
QX-1 - On A Journey (Mike Dunn's Vocal Mix)
QX-1 - Love Injection (Inject Me Love Mixx)
Transcendence - Luv 'N' Happiness (Chapter 1)
The Utopia Project - File 3
TC Crew - The Key
Vitamin B - Like This
Outrage Presents Choons Vol 1 - Too Much Energy
Plez - Can't Stop DMR Zone Mix
Stickmen - This is the Place 
QX-1 - Love Injection (Do it Mixx)
The Stickmen - Da Sound
Da Rebels - Basic Essentials
MDII - Set me Free
The H Men - Scream (Brutal dub mix)
Tyree - My Melody
Mark Imperial - She ain't nuthin but a hoe (Rush Street club)
Lovejoy - The Rave is On
Frost - Cool & Dry
Phuture - Acid Tracks
Frankie Valentine - Midnite Sun
Loveroot - Hold me Right (Hold me right Mix)
Fred P - Emotive Vibrations
Liquid Variety - The Best part of a Trip
Mike Perras - The Beginning of Life
Laurent Garnier - Acid Eiffel
Max 404 Recycler - Mamoulian
Space Time Continuum - Fluresence EP
K.A. Posse - Stick Music

2 Hours of Early Acid House Classics - DJ ACE

Probably one of my finest acid trance mixes of all time from somewhere around

The section Hardfloor Acaperience in Ege Bam Yasi still sends shivers down my spine, just wish I had a better copy of this mix.

Expect:
Injection Records
Orbital (LC2)
Resistance D (eclipse and emphasis ep)
Ege Bam Yasi
Hardfloor Acperience
Dance 2 Trance
B12

Acid Trance 1 - Side A

This side is more of an acid lovers side with lots of squelch from from the early 1990s.

Expect:
Bullfrog recodings
Ege Bam Yasi
Underground Resistance
Djax Upbeats
Dance 2 Trance
B12




Acid Trance 1 - Side B

3 artists, each with their own massive contribution to drum and bass. This was put together quickly don't expect genius mixing but do expect genius tunes!

Photek (4 tracks)
Droppin' Science (very very hard amen track)
Hidden Agenda (revolutionary at the time!).


1994 - 1996 Drum n Bass Classics

The summer of love kicked off in 1989, and during the next 3 years the foundations of modern electronic music were laid down This mix is heavy on tracks that UK ravers like myself enjoyed back in the days when we believed we were part of something special. Today us ravers are still #onelove to all people all colours and creeds under one roof.

Don Carlos - Alone
Nexus 21 - Real Love (Obsession)
A Guy Called Gerald - FX (The Elevation Mix)
Fierce Ruling Fiva Featuring DJ Dano and Myrna Shakison  - Rub it in
LFO - Track 4
Man Machine featuring Zen - Denkimi Shakuhachi
Orbital - LC2 (outler limits mix)
Nightmares on Wax - Dextrous
LFO - Probe
Altern 8 - Passion Devotion
You used to Salsa (Bootleg)
Green Baize LP
Smooth & Simmonds - The Four Seasons
Dione - Come and get My Lovin
Clubland Featuring Quartz - Let's get busy
NJoi - Manic
Rhythmatic - Take Me Back
Fantasy UFO - Remix
Eon - Infinity
Doug Lazy - Let it roll (instrumental)
KMD Module 220
A Guy called Gerald - Rockin Ricki

Early Days Rave 1989 - 1991 (DJ ACE)

I begun DJing in 1990 back in the day when people were producing tracks in their bedroom and it seemed as though there were more bootlegs on the market than general releases. The labels didn’t have a clue what was going on and D-construction was a small dance label that was signing acts like N-Joi rather than Kylie. I did two years in the smoke playing sets to crowds of 2,000 party people that really knew their music.

If you were a DJ playing old records, you’d get booed off the stage, or the crowd would leave the room and go upstairs. I kept it close with my crowd, people would come up to me and ask if I had this tune, if it wasn’t in the box I’d play it next week. But it wasn’t a case of these people making jukebox requests but rather that they wanted to feel a part of the scene and know that they had some hand in making the night.

Out of the club into another, the nights were long and people just kept on going. 200 cars in convoy going down the A1 that was a real feeling of unity. You’d end up in a field with or without a generator, but someone would light a fire and, in the end, you might be dancing around a car stereo but it still sounded good, people believed that they were part of a new expression, a new movement.

Roll that musical clock forward and by 2011 what remained was a shrink wrapped corporately packaged scene that got its kicks from re-releasing and remixing tracks created from back catalogues of labels from the 70s and 80s snapped up for next to nothing. The majors took over distribution and the public channels of expression for independent producers has got even harder. Take a trip down the lane of the tracks that defined our genre and you won’t find too many happy faces. From Rappers Delight, through to Grandmaster Flash - Larry Heard, the man that gave you Fingers Inc - went off to become a programmer. LARRY HEARD!!! 

Back in the day a DJ would take two tracks and blend them to make a third with a mix that could last up to 4 minutes. That for me has always been a part of what a DJ should do. It's much easier now as all you have to do is push a button to beat sync it, whereas if you were mixing over the quartz lock crest of the 1210s you'd be moving it over and below the green light as you were mixing it up!

Music has today become much more disposable in the digital age, reducing people’s creative art to a click. Skip through it, break it down to a stem, no sleeve notes, no artwork visual dimension to the artists creation. All you get is track01 - 4.5MB! Do you want to download? That's today, but for me sleeve artwork for dance music has always been something special too.

DJ equipment is now cheap much more accessible – my Numark 1762 cost me nearly £400 back in 1990. My current Xone32 is still stupid money but you can’t beat the analogue circuitry inside.

The period 1988-1994 was to dance music what the 1960s was to free love. Either you were lucky to have been at just the right age to have been a part of it, or you missed out. We were the last generation to get a youth culture before the smartphone made the youth look inside instead of the world outside.

Music will take centre stage once again at some point in the future, but for all of use that were part of it we know we were part of something special, and this idea of one love guides us to this day. 

My thanks to the following people:
JJ Slide at St. Matthews Church in Brixton
Goa Nights at Tyssen Street Studios  in London
Global Dance 3,4 and weekly nights of Exposure at the Stour Centre in Kent
Buzzbys on a Friday night
SpiralTribe Sound
Chocki and the boys
Nicki Blackmarket
Ratpack
Fabio and Grooverider
Ellis Dee
Truelove productions
Heavenly Recordings
Blapps Posse
Break the Limits
Reinforced Recordings
K-Klass
Zoom Records (Camden)
Horace, (Camden Market)
Resistance D
P. Slaghaus (rip)
Leigh303 (for showing me the dance light)
K-Alexi Shelby....to understand means a way of life...

Keep listening.....to everything

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