Name: Cunning Interviews | DANNY DONNELLY [Suburban Base Records] by Jay Cunning
Duration: 1 h 40 min 53 s
Description: A catch up with Danny Donnelly, head honcho to one of the most influential labels in the scene - Suburban Base.

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All vinyl special showcasing some of the huge Hardcore &amp; Jungle tunes&nbsp;played at World Dance's event on April 1994!

All Vinyl World Dance April 1994 Tribute

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Was a pleasure to chat with lords of the dance, Lipmaster Mark and Evenson Allen, together they are known as The RatPack!

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Showcasing the finest from Acen from 1991 to 2020 including the new box set available now! Full track list on http://wearehardcore.uk/

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It’s been a year since I was last chatting to Bernie and Terry AKA Serotonin AKA the world famous Krome & Time. The last interview covered their debut release on their infamous Tearin Vinyl label whereas for this interview we are taking a step back, well, quite a few steps back being how quickly the hardcore, rave and jungle scenes were progressing back then. From 1994 back to the glory year of 1992. And what a big change the scene went through over those two years and what an advancement of sound Bernie & Terry went through during that time too. So how did this project come about guys?

“This release was the bridge between us leaving Suburban Base and getting round to starting Tearin Vinyl” Terry aka Krome explains “We wanted to start something new. But we wanted to do it without people knowing it was us. To be a bit more experimental and to try a few new ideas”.

Bernie, also known as Mr. Time adds more background to the project “This was the time when the white label was king. That’s what people wanted. It felt more exclusive and special and we wanted to do something like that, to get in on that scene. So we pressed up a load of copies and filled up the boot of the car and just drove around the country. We use to use flyers to help us. Often these big raves would list local record shops where you could buy tickets, so we used those to build up a list of shops around the country using those as our resource and we would hit the road”.

Bernie continues “We use to choose an area and hit 2-3 record shops a day, dropping off records ‘sale or return’. Going back a week or two later to collect our money. With the Serotonin release we sold them all ourselves without distribution. We had pressed up a couple of thousand copies and sold them for about 5 or 6 quid each. It could of even been 3000 units for that releases, I can’t remember! It was so much fun as you were in total control of your money, as long as the shops paid you that is. But you think about it, 3000 records at £5 each, that’s not a bad chunk of change for a couple of kids. It kept us going”. Terry adds “We were based in East London, so we only travelled a certain distance every day. No further north than Milton Keynes but the vast majority of what we sold was either in London or down South. We went down to Brighton, Gravesend, Worthing and Portsmouth, as well as other places down there that I can’t remember right now. Our main fanbase was down south actually and I think that’s a lot to do with Sterns and that we played there a lot. We were well known down that part of the country due to that club and Mensa and the support he gave us. The south had such a vibrant scene which started in Worthing thanks to Sterns and it just spread out from there, along the coast”.

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2. Serotonin - 'Rumblism' - VFS025 - 192mp3 clip

A catch up with Danny Donnelly, head honcho to one of the most influential labels in the scene - Suburban Base.

Cunning Interviews | DANNY DONNELLY [Suburban Base Records]

Deep into the Darkside of 1994-95 we go to unearth those dark, filthy Junglistic vibes that moved our feet and shook our bones.&nbsp;

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Tracklist: 
Ugly Duckling - Better Thank Your Cult | Erupt Records
K Super - Flumps | Diffrent Music - Sweetbox (Forthcoming)
Mastersafe - Untitled | Yorkie EP | F Project
Tango & Ratty - Tales From The Darkside | Tango & Ratty
???????? - ???????? | Parallax Recordings (Forthcoming)
Tim Reaper - Ravers Calling | Ruff Cutz
FX - Booby! | Demonic Possesions
DJ Crystl - Warpdrive | Deejay Recordings
Hyper On Experince - Lord of the Null Lines (Foul Play Remix) | Kniteforce Records
Dj Krome & Mr Time - Virtual Reality | Suburban Base
Equinox - The Quest | Greenbay Wax
Jack Horner & DJ Pulse - No Gunshots | Creative Wax
The Full SP - Raw Basics (Tango Remix) | Face Records
FX & Kutmaster K - Monster | Deadbeat Records
?? ?? ?? | ?? ????? - Parallax Recordings (Forthcoming)

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“The whole vibe was dark, the DJs were just trying to out-do each other with darker and darker tunes and it just didn’t seem like people were really enjoying themselves. So I stopped going to raves after that night” – That was pretty much where we left Nathan Ova Doce during our last interview. For Nathan, the raves were about the uplifting rushes, the parties with the happy, smiley people. Those bouncy tunes with the uplifting melodies and sped up vocals. When the darkside came, Nathan lost his enthusiasm and moved into other scenes. But he never lost his faith in the culture. “I carried on borrowing the Amiga off my mate Jez, just making tunes for fun. I would make about a C90’s worth of tunes every year. That wasn’t 90 minutes of new tunes, I may start a tune, revisit it, make another bounce and have a load of differing versions by the end of the year. The scene and the music was advancing constantly and so rapidly back then. I carried on doing my radio show on the pirate station but the station had changed from FMBR to Magic FM, but surprisingly, it was still being broadcast from the same location, the farm! But after the raid, the DTI had taken the turntables and all the records, so all we could use were cassette players and tapes, so I would often play my experiments as they were all recorded onto cassette”. Nathan still has recordings of these shows, very hissy recordings that have lasted 30 years. And on some of these recordings are various tracks that appear on this EP as well as his previous EP for Vinyl Fanatiks. I recently shared one of these recordings on the labels Facebook page, and someone commented that they too also use to play on Magic FM in Walsall after the station left the farmhouse and moved into the city high rises, around 1994. Through comments left by replies made by Nathan, it became apparent that the owner of the station went on to be quite a face in the pirate circles as well as being the first person in the UK to be given an injunction to stop him ‘causing a nuisance’ as this article that reported on the case in the Birmingham Post clarifies:

‘In the first case of its kind, the Commercial Radio Companies Association has been granted a permanent injunction against Paul Hutchings, the man behind ‘Magic FM’ in Walsall. Mr Hutchings had twice been convicted by Walsall Magistrates Court of being involved in the running of an unlicensed pirate radio station. The convictions had been obtained by the Radiocommunications Agency. In October last year, Mr Hutchings was fined £600 and ordered to pay pounds £400 costs by Walsall magistrates. They also ordered he should forfeit his equipment. ‘He appeared to have taken the view that it was cheaper and easier to run the risk of criminal convictions and fines than to apply and pay for a licence from the Radio Authority, as legal radio broadcasters are obliged to do,’ said the CRCA. ‘Because criminal sanctions had failed to deter Mr Hutchings, the CRCA brought a civil action against him for public nuisance.’ It therefore granted a permanent injunction against Mr Hutchings, meaning that if he is involved in pirate radio broadcasting in the future he will be in contempt of court, and run the risk of going to prison’.

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2. Ova Doce 'Lifetime Mission' - Vinyl Fanatiks - VFS031 - 192mp3 clip

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Cunning Interviews | DANNY DONNELLY [Suburban Base Records]

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