Name: Ali Cooke - Back to Basics, Leeds (DJ SET) Jan '93 by James Gunn
Duration: 1 h 31 min 40 s
Description: The late great Ali Cooke at Basics Jan 1993 DJ Set

I'd love to make it downloadable but I don't have it anymore. No idea where it is or how to make it so on here. 

Andrew Weatherall said Ali was so good he'd of been one of the best ❤

Recorded for the back to basics 30th anniversary 1991 - 2021

Track List and story: 
http://www.ralphlawson.co.uk/basic-vision/2021/12/6/back-to-basics-30

basics 30

back to basics 30 - just when I thought I was out...

Here's a recording of Simon DK, when he played at my PENG event in Exeter, 30th June 2007.
Simon was my fave ever deep house dj, and a super lovely guy! 
His dj sets influenced the sounds of The Rurals.
He'll be missed...but, his legacy will live on through the music!!

Simon DK - Peng Records party, Exeter, 30th June 2007

Simon DK and Pete Woosh of DIY playing back to back at the awesome Cabbage Moon Free Party in May 2009 at Nympsfield nr Stroud.

Cabbage Moon Free Party - Nympsfield May 09

7.30-9.00 Simon n Pete Live at Cabbage Moon Free Party

Simon DK - “Float Laboratory” (1994)
After hearing the news of Simons passing and remembering with friends the subject of a certain mixtape came up …we all searched our boxes of cassettes without much luck and some empty cases …however Pete Slotter discovered and found what might well be the only existing copy …and as luck would have it the original tape!
Recorded at Simon DK's flat in Nottingham after the after party on a DiY Bounce night in 1994 after Bath crew John Kesecki & Pete Slotter went back to his and asked him to make a tape, which he did and named it 'Float Laboratory'. 
It's a lovely pitched down mix perfectly capturing those early hours.
It was brought down to Bath - copied and played ALOT!!. It was one of those tapes that just did the rounds and was loved by many…
So it was only right at this time to immortalise it and make it available for you to enjoy again or hear it for the first time...
Rest in peace & power the genius that is Simon DK Smith

Simon DK - Float Laboratory 1994

Here'z yet another live set from thee infamous Simons Club in Gainesville, Florida. On this mixtape is no other than Rocky & Diesel.
Talk about a musical journey!! Brotha'z r right on point.
I know you will dig this!! 
We aired it on our then Deep Underground House with Cano & Myself Manny Cuevas the following weekend. Mad phone calls for this amazing mix!!
1 nce again, big up 2 Simon & his club Manager Max 4 allowing me 2 record this set. It was a perfect marriage between our radio show & the clubs. We'd help promote each other. Now that's team work & a lot of hustling. I could of spent all that time promoting myself as a DJ,Remixer,Producer, Artist... But my main goal was 2 teach my listeners.
Alrighty, enough ramblin'... Enjoy!!

Manny Cuevas
aka
DJ M-Traxxx
aka
Tha Teacha

Psalms 150=4 realZ!!!

Rocky & Diesel Live @ Simons, Gainesville, FL. 5-4-96' (Manny'z Tapez)

Buckley live @ Back to Basics 20th birthday -nov 2011 -  20 years of acid house!

A very special podcast for us from the one and only Simon DK (DiY).

Recorded Live @ Earth in 1995 this podcast is still sounding fresh today capturing DiY perfectly. DiY soundsystem are one of our biggest influences and their parties are a pinnacle part of clubbing history.

Massive shout out to Simon for allowing us to re-upload this bit of magic.

Enjoy x

The DiY Sound System was one of Britain's first house sound systems. The group "divided their activities between free parties and legal club nights, acting as a bridge between counter-culture and the mainstream".

It was created in Nottingham in 1989 as a reaction against the growing number of rave promoters whose bias was towards their own financial enrichment, rather than the joy of their party-goers. They wished to form a cohesive, collective, political front against the prevailing anti-rave legislation that was beginning to come into force at that time. This became more marked around the time of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, with DiY playing a key role in the largest illegal rave ever put on at Castlemorton Common Festival prior to the Bill and a constant stream of illegal, outdoor parties (often at travellers' sites, quarries and disused airfields) all over the country. Simon Reynolds writes that DiY threw "free parties at abandoned airfields or on hilltops, drawing a mixed crowd of urban ravers and crusty road warriors".[2]

DiY also worked successfully in the realm of legitimate club nights, with their "Bounce" night touring the country as well as being a staple of Nottingham's night life. Its popularity, connected to its lack of concern for dress codes and its non-exploitation of its loyal clubbers, coupled with its very particular form of deep, soulful, often minimal house music, led to it being recognised as one of the top ten club nights in Britain by The Times.

In 1993, they also began their own record label, Strictly 4 Groovers, which later became known as DiY discs. They released house music on vinyl until 2006, which included releases by local talents Atjazz, Rhythm Plate and Charles Webster. The collectives primary DJ's - Simon DK, Digs and Woosh - still play at various nights in the U.K., Europe and United States.

DiY still occasionally hold free parties, typically to celebrate a milestone date - on 19 September 2009, DiY celebrated their 20th birthday with a free party in near their home town of Nottingham.,[3] while on 23 August 2014, they their 25th (Silver) birthday with a free party held in a field in Leicestershire.

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The late great Ali Cooke at Basics Jan 1993 DJ Set


Ali Cooke - Back to Basics, Leeds (DJ SET) Jan '93

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DiY X 1989 1999 - A Decade Of Doing It Yourself

559 - DiY X 1989 1999 - A Decade Of Doing It Yourself - Disc 2 - Mixed by SimonDK (1999)

All these tunes were released on the DIY Communications or Strictly4Groovers label in the 90's, still sounding so good. All mixed on 12" vinyl using 1210's. I tried to make this as close as I could, to being how I remember it to be at one of the many DIY events I attended 25 years or so ago. I hope you enjoy this one....

Ali Cooke - Back to Basics, Leeds (DJ SET) Jan '93

James Gunn

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