My love for music started long ago peeping into parties by others older than me. Started with love for soul then moved up to the UK house scene in the late 80’s. Clubs like the Lime Light, Browns, Café D Paris and the Pig was where it was all happening. I think this is where House music took over the London club scene. I remember Judge Jules on the decks in a corner of the dance floor at the Pig in Gray’s Inn Road. He was young and I was younger. Dancing away but carefully watching his moves. This is where it all started for me to be a DJ from playing cassettes. Saw Carl Cox playing in a Church in Westbourne Park and he was mixing on three decks. OMG!

I started collecting Vinyl early 90’s and saved up some cash to buy some belt driven decks and a mixer. It was more of balancing the records on the decks act in those days. I got picked up by a promoter called Kilroy who ran Global Explosion. My first ever play out was at Club 414 with MC Navigator and I also got radio exposure.

Mid 90’s I moved to NYC. It is there that I got hooked on to the sounds of underground House music. My weekend clubbing was to the diverse sounds of ‘Little’ Louie Vega, Junior Vasquez, Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles and NY’s Hot 97. The New York House camp was heavy. The clubs were humongous playing Tribal, Latin, Deep, Techno, Electro and the slower Chicago.

After returning to London I gradually got into UK Garage scene and was playing on Stevie Koo's BOSS FM. Then got involved with SUPREME FM with fellow DJ’s and MC’s in 1997, which was one of the hottest UK Garage stations of that era giving platform to the likes of Dj Oxide, MC Neutrino, The So Solid Crew and many more.

Done some production but nothing to mention. The love for House music was all always there and funny enough the scene has evolved back to it again. Back on radio and the club scene.

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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

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