I love Calibre's music so I decided to dedicate the whole show to celebrating the man himself.

TRACKLIST:

Calibre - Thought Fields [Signature]
Calibre - Chasm [Signature]
Calibre - Sheven [Signature]
Calibre - Stars We Can See [The Nothing Special]
Calibre - Sand Promise [The Nothing Special]
Calibre - Limbo [The Nothing Special]
Calibre VS Mark Ernestus (Feat. DRS) - Bad [Signature]
Calibre (Feat. DRS) - Badman [Signature]
Calibre (Feat. DRS) - Say Enough [Signature]
Calibre - Over The Top [The Nothing Special]
Calibre - Behind The Sun [CIA Records]
Calibre - What You Need [Creative Source]
Calibre - Open Your Eyes [Signature]
Mist:i:cal (Feat. Robert Owens) - Believe [Soul:r]
Calibre (Feat. Diane Charlemagne) - Bullets [Signature]
Calibre (Feat. Lariman) - Peace Of Mind [Signature]
Calibre - Things R Re-arranging [Creative Source]
Mist:i:cal - Losing Ground [Soul:r]
Calibre - It's... [Soul:r]
High Contrast - Everything's Different (Calibre Remix) [Hospital]
Calibre - Trust [Signature]
Calibre - Highlander [Signature]
Calibre - Makes Me Wonder [Signature]
Calibre & MC Fats - Neighbourhood [Liq-weed Ganja Recordings]
Calibre - Deranged [Soul:r]
Calibre & High Contrast - Mr. Majestic [Signature]

Netil Radio - Calibre Special - 1st April 2021

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Here's another one from '95 - recorded on to a Poundland tape. My aunty Karen got me a six-pack of them for my birthday that year. Unsurprisingly they weren't the best quality, but I was grateful to have them nonetheless - although this one has a TDK sticker over the Poundland branding, so I guess I wasn't exactly full of pride to be using their audio tapes. Teenagers eh... 

Adding to the bad quality of this recording is interference from GLR, which was the nearest legal station to Kool. I spent many days and nights battling with my makeshift aerial (the old metal hanger which so many of us used instead of the standard aerial on a stereo) to try and get a clear signal. Sometimes I'd be lying in bed holding that hanger in the right position for an hour or two just to get a decent recording...

RIP Stevie Hyper D.

Nicky Blackmarket with Stevie Hyper D - Kool FM (94.5) - 1995

Another Poundland special. Always great to hear Stevie Hyper D and Nicky Blackmarket in action, the two complemented each other so well. I used to spend ages trying to catch all of Hyper D's lyrics and recite them at school - the man was a don. RIP.

Nicky Blackmarket with Stevie Hyper D - Kool FM (94.5) - November 1995

The Supreme Team show went out every Friday night from 11pm - 1am, if my memory serves me correctly. This one features 5ive-O on his own with Ron and SL back-to-back. 

On side B the show comes to an end - followed by 15mins or so of Marly Marl with MC Navigator, 5ive-O and Moose. 

Classic shit.

DJ Ron & SL with MC 5ive-O - Kool FM (94.5) - 1995

Another classic from that regular Supreme Team Show. Pre-Carnival lick.

DJ Ron & SL with MC 5ive-O & Moose - Kool FM (94.5) - 25th August 1995 (Part 1)

"If you're taping this, well...!" - 5ive-O says it all at the beginning of this tape, absolutely storming and one of the earliest recordings from my collection that's still intact. I'm so glad I didn't tape over this one.

As you can see from the image, I taped over my 'Rave 92' compilation and I'm glad I did - this show is an absolute classic and check out the ads at the end!

As I've said, summertime 1995 was a special time - jungle was blasting out of everyone's cars, the sun was blazing down and Kool FM ruled the airwaves. 

Younghead with 5ive-O, Navigator & Flinty Badman - Kool FM (94.5) - 9th July 1995

This is one of my absolute favourite tapes. Ryme Tyme and Trace are deadly together and 5ive-O just adds that little bit extra - he's obviously lean! I'm guessing that this was recorded later on the same day as the Younghead set from 9th July, but I could be wrong.

The tape itself is absolutely ruined, it's been repaired/chewed up several times - you can even see the blu-tac I used to repair in the photo! Somehow it has retained a decent level of quality. In fact, this tape is in such a bad way that side A kept on slowing down during recording (which is why this is just side B) and then it broke while I was converting side B - so now I've got to go old school and try to fix it. 

Wish me luck...

DJ Trace with Ryme Tyme & 5ive-O - Kool FM (94.5) - 14th May 1995

Nicky B, Rodney T, Stevie Hyper D and MC Gee... Need I say more?

Nicky Blackmarket b2b Rodney T with Stevie Hyper D and MC Gee - Kool FM (94.5) - 18th June 1995

Side A of this tape features more from Ron, SL, 5ive-O and Moose from August 1995.

Side B is a proper mish mash of tunes from Bryan Gee and Jumpin Jack Frost from the late 90s. 

DJ Ron & SL with MC 5ive-O & Moose - Kool FM (94.5) - 25th August 1995 (Part 2)

This was a proper job to sort out. The original tape (dubbed over my Jungle Mania album) must have snapped and I naively mended it with some Sellotape but somehow managed to do a proper Frankenstein's monster botch on it, taping one half of one show to the other - so halfway through the tape it cuts from Younghead b2b Pressure X to the Andy C show with Hyper D, and vice versa on the other side. You can see how mashed the tape is in the picture. One of the spools is missing, there's blu-tac (green) involved and loads of Sellotape, side B has loads of cracks. 

Luckily, with the aid of 21st Century technology, I was able to rectify this and reinstate sides A and B to their original format. 

Still though, it's funny to listen to the original tape, which makes a whole heap of noise when it's playing, and funnier still to think that I valued the tape so much that I kept hold of it even though it was in such a mess. 

You've got to have hope eh...

A: Andy C with Stevie Hyper D & Sting (Pt.2) * B: Younghead b2b Pressure X with 5ive-O - 1995

Another classic half hour of music, some all-time great tunes on this one and the MCs just kill it, too. Badboy.

This was dubbed over one of my mum's old reggae tapes. 

SL with 5ive-O, Navigator and MC Co-Gee - Kool FM (94.5) - 1995

On side A of this tape there's a mix by Alex Reece which was broadcast as part of Radio 1's 'One In The Jungle' show. 

Side B starts off with a really low quality fill-in broadcast of a Jungle Fever tape on Kool FM featuring Brockie with Moose and 5ives. Then goes into the first part of the return of the Supreme Team to Kool after a short break... they've just got back from New York. The repeated jingles are a bit annoying and the reception was awful, but hey... 

A: Alex Reece (One In The Jungle) * B: DJ Ron & SL with 5ive-O, Moose & Strings - December 1995

When DJ Trace went over for an extended stay in America, Bryan Gee stepped in to look after his Sunday night slot between 9 and 11pm. I recorded his show almost every week and this is one of the earliest tapes I have - there are two different shows on either side. Side B suffers from poor reception in places, but the music is too good. 

I have no idea of the exact dates, but I guessed they were around the end of summer 1995... possibly a bit later in the year. 

Bryan Gee - Kool FM (94.5) - Summer 1995

Loco Dice hosts the first hour of this special Desolat takeover show, telling us all about the label - and in the second half of the show Yaya puts together a Desolat only mix. 

So you have two hours of Desolat, enjoy! 

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Edited by: www.soundcloud.com/ceri 

TRACKLIST (PART 1):

Guti - Al Viento 
Moritz von Oswald - Watamu Beach Rework
Loco Dice - Tight Laces (Marcel Dettmann's Response 1 & Response 2)
Dubfire - RibCage
Loco Dice - Black Truffles In The Snow (Mike Huckaby Jazzed Out S Y N T H Remix)
Guti - All The Girls
Pirupa - Party Non Stop (DJ QU Remix)
Nyma - The XXX File
Premieku - E codat
Davide Squillace - Illusive Reality
Anthea (ft. L.K) - Booty Call
Cuartero - Sweet In The Morning

TRACKLIST (YAYA MIX):

Passarani & Sacco - Flora
Loco Dice - La Esquina
Manon - Que Cara E' Essa (tINI Cusco Sour Remix) 
Guti - The Hustler
Hector - Make A Move
Martin Buttrich & Mousse T - Smack Back
Alli Borem - Jonk
 tINI - My Shine (Carl Graig Remix)
Aldo Cadiz - Exes O.S. (Version One)
Viudez & Rainer - Nuevo Cedar
Dragosh - For Mepa Trape
Davide Squillace - The Other Side Of Bad
Rosario Internullo - Sentimente
Livio & Roby - Sunday Offend
Yaya - Our Connection



Hidden Depths x Desolat Takeover - Hoxton FM - (05.04.14)

DJ Trace with RymeTyme and Remadee - Kool FM (94.5) - 1995

Fabio - (Radio 1) - 16th January 1998

Fabio - (Radio 1) - 15th August 1998

Andy C - 1st April 1998 - Frost - Groove - 3rd April 1998

Shonky - 2deep House Show (MOS Radio) - April 2011

I played four hours of dub influenced electronic music at Spiritland recently, a few days after soundsystem legend Jah Shaka died. So I dedicated my set to him, taking a few clips from his interview with Red Bull, which were interspersed throughout my set.

On the way home from that gig I decided to record a mix using all the music I played, sewn together with those clips of Jah Shaka. 

So here it is... Four hours of electronic dubwise selection.

Electronic Dubwise Selection (2023)

Eddie Richards put together this mix of music that epitomises the groundbreaking era at Camden Palace back in the early eighties. It took him six weeks to piece it all together meticulously. 

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DLTMix

DLTMix006: Eddie Richards

Almost three hours of trance classics. Enjoy!

Unknown Album

Rhythm Is A Trancer

Here's whole new batch of tunes that were released this month and reviewed in my newsletter: www.musicistheanswer.substack.com

TRACKLIST:

Katatonic Silentio - Themes [Delsin]
Yogg - To Whom It May Concern [30D Exoplanets]
Mathew Jonson - Into the 5D (Space Dub) [Kilómetro 4.5]
Teqmun - Balsa [Flippen Disks]
RVSHES - MTS/RHS IV [Delsin]
Vardae - Bullet Ant [OODA]
v0ll - Reset [Self Released]
DJ MELL G - GREATEST DESIRE (2AM HOPE MIX) [JUICY GANG RECORDS]
Ahmet Sisman & VNNN. - Hybridity [The Third Room]
Deniro - Pelé 4 [TAPE]
Edgar De Ramon - Acid Conga [TUTU]
Technoist - Quest for Kenneth the Space Knife [Grey Meta]
Klaudia Gawlas - Resilience [Illusion]
Joyhauser - Wasted [Terminal M]
Alex Stein & Victor Ruiz - Human Robot [Volta]
Pan-Pot feat. Hugh Betcha - PROTO [Second State Audio]
Ignacio Arfeli - Imagine [Volta]
Gary Beck - Feel It (Gary Beck Decade Remix) [BEK Audio]
Immediate Proximity - Cohaki [Radio Matrix]
IMOGEN - His Name Was Reese [Steel City Dance Discs]
Joyhauser - Lightbringers [Terminal M]
Mark Broom - You Got Me (DJ Love Mix) [Beard Man]
Joyhauser - Pulsar [Terminal M]
Oliver Ho - Gold [EPM Music]
Van Sorgen - Come Fly With Me [Motech]
R-04 & Kei How & Explain - Tou Hoku Shin [Muller Records]

EDIT

Techno Tunes (July 2023)

Here's whole new batch of tunes that were released this month and reviewed in my newsletter: www.musicistheanswer.substack.com

TRACKLIST:
Lemont - A Sea of Data and Not a Drop of Information [A Walking Contradiction]
Lemont - Promises of an Ever-Receding Future  [A Walking Contradiction]
Witch Trials - Tranquility [Myryrs]
Anchoret - Stay High (Jay Tripwire Remix) [Solar Phenomena Music]
Sven Väth - The Worm (Robag Wruhme Remix) [Cocoon]
Joaquin Ruiz - XX 13 A2. [Molecular Recordings]
Hemissi - Birthmark [Symbolism]
Drax - Virtual Plane [Monnom Black]
Hemissi - Shyd [Symbolism]
Joaquin Ruiz - XX 13 B2. [Molecular Recordings]
Ross Harper - My Gift (Bleur & MB1 Remix)[City Wall]
Shlomi Aber - Righ [CLR]
Mutecell - Skin [Mutewax]
Julian Muller - Let It Bounce [Terminal V]
DJ T-1000 - Hood Tactics [RSPX]
Marco Faraone - Ego Kills [Rekids]
Shlomi Aber - Chasing [CLR]
DJ T-1000 - Klendathu (Hertz Collision Remix) [RSPX]
PEIX - Rigor [Antimodus]
Mha Iri - Filthy [Drumcode]
PEIX - Vito [Antimodus]
Thomas P. Heckmann - Himmel Und Hoelle [Monnom Black]
Thomas P. Heckmann - Teufelswerk [Monnom Black]
PEIX - Fobia (Töria Remix)[Antimodus]
Age - Doomsday [Monnom Black]
Mutecell - Hi [Mutewax]
Sven Väth - Butoh (Robert Hood Remix) [Coccon]
Sven Väth - Nyx (PAS Deep Heet Remix) [Cocoon]
Mha Iri - Let The Good Times Roll [Drumcode]
Calvin Logue - Ready [FFRR]
Citizen Kain - Stories [UNSEEN]
Drax Ltd. I - Parnophelia [Monnom Black]

Techno Tunes (August 2023)

Almost six hours of jams at a sexy private event I played at. Shout to all who attended, big love, always! <3

Discovery Den @ Temper Bar, Shoreditch - 18th November 2023

One of my all-time favourite Circle shows, found on an old hard drive. Not sure on the year, I'd guess 2009.

Circle (Old House & Garage Special) - 23rd March

Basement Social @ Chloe's - 16th March 2024

Slimzos! On a solo tip, no MCs just pure instrumentals and dub plates. Bad boy.

Slimzee - Rinse FM (100.3) - 21.02.2004

Great new mix from Mexican duo Jay Blakk and Kiko Deal, AKA Climbers.

Climbers - Gratitude Mixtape (Independent)

Extract from Shonky's live set at Bob Beaman in Munich - 11 Feb 2012

Shonky Independent Mix

Excellent show from a golden era. Rest In Peace Marcus <3

Fabio (with Marcus Intalex) - Radio 1 - 11th October 2003

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