DJ Mix from the days when piano house and helium raps ruled the airwaves. From handbag to hardbag these are some of the tunes that made you smile and lose yourself in hedonistic abandon on a Saturday night /Sunday morning. I've included tracks that crossed over into 4 of the clubs I used to visit in the 90s, Trade, Sunnyside Up, Renaissance and The Gallery. There's Trance, Hard House, Funky house and some of the tracks that used to just make you smile when they were going  off


DJ Hugstar Classic 90s Handbag / Hardbag Uplifting House Mix/Mash Up

Father, husband, maths teacher, special needs coordinator, assessor of learning difficulties and sometime DJ

 I like to incorporate lots of varieties of house music in my sets, re-editing and remixing tracks in the mix using samples and loops.


History: 

 I started DJing in 1997 on 2 belt driven decks that I bought 2nd hand. I was into dance music from an early age and was a frequent visitor to many a dance floor with a harder age (Sunnyside Up, Final Frontier, Trade, DTPM, Melt, Twisted, Sunflowers, Strawberry Sunday, Gardening Club & of course my local friday night in oxford with Graham Gold as resident, and saturdays at the Coven, where Sunnies residents were regular guests)

By 1998 I had moved to London where I was lucky enough to have a girlfriend (now my wife) and her brother who were willing to buy me 2 Technic 1210s to try and help me break into the DJ circuit.
I was fortunate to get offered a DJ residency round the corner from Turnmills,  just when Fabric was being built ,which gave me the opportunity to break into the London club scene, predominantly playing tracks with a harder, funky edge. 
By the summer of 1999, I'd relocated  to Ibiza, holding down a residency at Bar Zuka in Ibiza Town and played in Privilege  in the back room on Manumission Mondays.

When back in the UK between 2001 and 2007 I co-ran the Futur and Sunday Brunch (with my best mate and DJ partner Nick Scott) clubs in Oxford, playing a more progressive and funky sound.

House music for me is everything. It's what I listen too to motivate me, cheer me up, remind me of the good times and look to the future.

Most of the mixes available to download are from 2012 onwards, but I have included some older ones.
I pretty much enjoy mixing all forms of house music so you'll find all sorts of syles of music.
I love mixing up old favourites as much as  new material.


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DJ Hugstar Classic 90s Handbag / Hardbag Uplifting House Mix/Mash Up

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