Beats and audio restoration (NL)
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Early 90's Rave & Gabber - Vinyl ❤️
Music release & Live set -> SPEEDLORD

Bookings: michelle@adopt-agency.com

(Co) Founder Hard attack // Lang zal je Raven // Need 4 Speed Radioshow @ Echobox

Coming up
17/10/25 Sub Sounds, OT301, Amsterdam
24/10/25 ADE Random Vinyl Marathon
24/10/25 ADE Panel talk w/ Holly Dicker
01/11/25 Legacy, Alkmaar
08/11/25 Gabberland, Hemkade
15/11/25 Gabber Eleganza, Basis, Utrecht
22/11/25 Hysteria x Hard Attack, Perron, Rotterdam 
29/11/25 In Sound we Unite, Club Rodenburg, Beesd

19/12/25 TBA Berlin 

Past gigs
Ground Zero festival, Bussloo
Need 4 Speed Radioshow, Echobox
160k Rotterdam, openingsweekend
Strictly Tapes, Speedlord Tape special, Echobox
SPEEDLORD TAPE RELEASE (NDSM)
Hard attack, Melkweg (Speedlord live set)
Ravoria, KC Grad, Belgrade
Hysteria, Radion Amsterdam 
Trailerfest Breda
Hard attack x Qore, Teatro Utrecht 
Lithos, Raum Amsterdam 
Stekkerdoos, Willemeen Arnhem
Gabber Resistance, Madrid
Hard attack X Barbaar X Busy action, Melkweg
Play! festival
Spectra frequencies, Bogota, Colombia
Gabber by Gysèle Bret, Amsterdam
10 jaar BRET B2B Ici sans Merci
Hard attack @ Schaubude, Kiel, Germany
Slave to the Rave, Club Ost, Berlin
BOE, The other side, Amsterdam
Hellbound, Hemkade
Hor, Berlin, Germany
Hard Attack, Melkweg
Melt your face, Liverpool 
GOZERWIJFFIES, Sexyland world
Rave voor de Rafelranden, Utrecht
BUMBU, de Besturing (as Speedy G)
Multigroove, LoFi
Vondelbunker 
Tekknozid, RSO, Berlin
Club Atelier
Ascendant Vierge, Parallel
The promised Land Festival
Calling the Hardcore, Brighton
Melt your Face, Liverpool
Trailerfest
Ground Zero, Multigroove
Vinyl Marathon ADE
Gabberland, ADE
Hausplant, ADE
Into the Woods, ADE
De Core, de School, Amsterdam
Hellbound, Hemkade
30 yrs Multigroove, Hemkade
Ouwe stijl, Radion
Wooferland
25 yrs OT301
Multigroove, Westerunie
Milkshake festival, FC Renate
Rave Parade (Berlin)
Trailerfest, Breda
Kraft und Licht, Blast Galaxy
Thuishaven, Summer of love
Radio Radio, Amsterdam
DOTF
Garage Noord, Amsterdam
Ploegendienst festival, Breda
Bret, Amsterdam 
Pip, Den Haag
OWAP, Radion
Wibar, Leiden
Buurman & Buurman, Delft

Hey, Gareth here, I'm a graphic designer who start designing for clubs, parties, and labels in the late 90s. Back then, mix CDs were the holy grail of both design and music. I loved them.

But I wasn't the only one, mix cds were the soundtracks of our nights, our days, our afterparties and lives, for everyone. Yet in today's internet age, the art form has been lost (or just changed) to 2-3 hour online mixes and streaming videos, which just don't create the same magic your CD collection did. Just 60 minutes of music and incredible artwork.

The Classic Mix CD Series celebrates these discs, their soundtrack, their box art and your memories. We hope you enjoy it.

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Also, we try to help you find and buy them again by sharing Discogs links on all featured CDs and or direct links to labels where possible.

* We fully support labels and artists. If any disc creates a copyrighting issue let me know and it will be immediately removed. 

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About Gareth:
Digital creative type, gamer, music lover and occasional DJ. Currently living between Dubai & Seoul after setting sail from Sunderland in 2010. As a young designer, club and music culture was the driving force for his work, producing artwork for local club nights and record labels in the North East of England. In particular, DJ mix cds and their packaging were always his 'holy grail of design', especially those from Renaissance, Global Underground and Good Looking Records. It's a pleasure to share these discs back with people and they still influence our tastes to this day. 

For any CD recommendations, bookings, mixes or feedback you can catch me as @asapgareth on Instagram. Or you can check our my design work at www.acid.works

Making AcidTek  --MentalTek -- Tekno--HardTek ÷tribetek^acidtek-teknotribe -frenchcore-frenchtek-

Shire T (AKA Chris Davids, one half of celebrated electronic duo Maribou State, who released their latest album ‘Kingdoms In Colour’ to widespread acclaim in 2018) is set to release his debut solo album ‘Tomorrow’s People’ on 20th August, arriving as the inaugural long-player on Maribou’s own Dama Dama imprint. As Shire T, Davids draws on darker, more club-ready sounds, citing a broad range of influences which manifest in a record he describes as “a celebration of british dance music culture, pulled from all the experiences and memories I’ve had in that world over the years.” 

Having originally set out in early 2020 to work on new Maribou State music, the unfolding pandemic and abrupt change in circumstances led Davids to a renewed focus on his solo work. “I started feeling really nostalgic” he explains, “Sometimes you need a purpose to make music, something to work towards, but with this it was very much the opposite. It felt like the future had been erased and I ended up delving back into the past, into all the dance music that inspired me when I was growing up. It became a way to escape the madness that was going on at the time”

Tracks like lead single “Blue Kiss”—built around a TB-303 bassline and some classic drum machines—and album opener “Full Attention” wear their influences on their sleeves, building the pace early on with driving synth-lead rhythms in a nod back to 90’s rave. Elsewhere, tracks like “London. Paris. Berlin.” and “Serve No Tea” show off a gentler side to the record, the main piano refrains the result of a day spent tinkering on his old childhood piano. Regardless of the direction each track takes, Davids’ deft uses of melody and vocal samples keep everything tied together in a way that will feel both new and familiar to fans of his existing work.

Beginning life in 2017 as a way to create more club-ready tools for Maribou State’s DJ sets, Shire T soon became an important creative outlet for Davids, often seeing him carve out extra hours in the studio following Maribou recording sessions to work on the music. The project took on more significance as the pair began preparations for their ‘fabric presents’ release, resulting in two tracks—”Hackney Birdwatch” and “Gentlemens Whistle Club’—used to tie together the dancier-end of the various styles and tempos exhibited on the mix, which included new music from fellow Dama Dama label-mate North Downs, as well as new track “Mother” from Maribou State themselves.

Despite the period in which it was created, the album title ‘Tomorrow’s People’ serves as a more hopeful look towards the future, a time when dance music will once again ring out from club and festival sound-systems to be met by feet on the dance floor.

Shire T will release ‘Tomorrow’s People’ on 20th August on Dama Dama. Artwork is by Alexander Brown.

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