Twenty-one should be considered the companion and linking piece between our last two stomping mixes in Nineteen and Twenty, and the obscure deep-in-the-record-box sessions that were Fourteen and Fifteen. This one is somewhere in the middle and closes the loop on this chapter of the series. So, Twenty-one is all about beefy drums, big drops, and the beauty of the raised decibel – crank it up loud and come with us on this journey through beats and bass…

And what better way to start this journey than jumping on board the Last Train To Trancentral with those inspiring conductors, The KLF. Once aboard, the journey will quietly drop one of the all-time house classics in the shape of Chime by Orbital as early as its second stop, before whisking you off through a cacophony of beautiful beats and big bold drums from the likes of The Boss, The Goodmen, The Ethics and Supereal…

As well as tribal beats, the set also aims to celebrate those stylish instrumentals with the short and snappy vocal hit that drops just at the right moment. Tracks from Carlos Bendekos, The R, Beat Syndicate, The Delorme, and Escubar all fit that bill perfectly. 

As the journey develops it’s time for the Drops (and yes, that was a capital D). At this point it is all about cranking up those decibel levels and asking your Grandma to give you her best old-skool MC voice - ‘If you’ve got that feeling, touch the ceiling!’ Tracks from Big House Payback, and back-to-backs from both The Cotton Club and Harskey & Stutch boys will surely inspire a few ‘yeah-man’ flashbacks and the odd approving nod here and there.  

Proceedings continue on that front for a while as the BPM gradually increases until the mix concludes with a series of bona-fide hardcore rave classics. Bombscare, Your Love, Nothing Is Forever and Liquid is Liquid need no introduction. And remember DJ’s out there, you’ve always got to play Your Love until the end of the piano solo – anything else would be heresy.

There we have it, journey concluded. Until the next trip travellers…
 
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Here's the full track listing:

Last Train To Trancentral (1989 Pure Trance Original) - The KLF
Chime – Orbital
Congo (D Max Mix) – The Boss
Give It Up (Batacuda Refrescante) - The Goodmen
LA Luna (Full Mix) – The Ethics
Body Medusa (The Leftfield Remix) – Supereal
Latinos On Parade – Carlos Bendekos and Chinco Franco
Meditation – The R
Dancing Daffodils (Platform 12 Remix) – Beat Syndicate
Beatnicks (Original 12”) - The Delorme
Get Down - Escubar
Payback (Paid In Full 12”) – Big House Payback
Mad Badger – The Cotton Club
In My House – The Cotton Club
Harskey Gets Brutal – Harskey & Stutch
Can Stutch Dance? – Harskey & Stutch
Spicy Guacamole – The Shopifters
Everybody Party – D’Enrico
More Fool U – Mack
Do Dat Dance – AFC Botswana
Don’t Breathe – D-Tek
Indulge (Club House Mix) – Neal Howard
Bombscare (94 Remix) – 2 Bad Mice
Your Love – The Prodigy
Nothing Is Forever (Original Mix) - Ultracynic
Liquid Is Liquid - Liquid

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