Name: mr kek - Bangin Beats Volume 49 - Old Skool Klassix VII by mr kek
Duration: 1 h 19 min 59 s
Description: Another trip down memory lane with a collection of early 90's Hi NRG Old School Classics.

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Now thats true dcm sydney when i worked there 

Another 1996 Mixtape from the 	archives. 
Had a listen to this and all I could think was how diverse the music was then. 

Diva vocals, pounding beats, piano riffs, cover versions of commercial tracks, quality, cheese, and those rare  tunes that you had heard somewhere and brought back those oh so good feeling from a dark corner of a dance floor somewhere. 

From clubs that were hard to get into unless you were the “right look”, to clubs that wouldn’t let you in if you were the “right look”. From under dressed tiny hot pants and bras to overdressed, anything worked if you could carry it off. All the way hrough to secret parties in derelict houses - how did we survive? 

I remember being in a 2 storey terrace house in the backstreets of Darlinghurst for a party that you had to call a number to find out where it was, there was a massive gaping hole in the upstairs floor that was the dance floor, god only knows how we avoiding falling through it. 

Music production varied from well produced pieces of pure magic to slapped together bootlegs - back then we called those white labels. 

All us DJ’s did everything we could to get our hands on the “limited edition” white labels as we knew or were told by our friendly vinyl pusher that its the LAST copy and there was only 50 copies released. Sometimes that was true… sometimes nah…. But you wouldn’t take the risk would you? 

The race was always who would play the next big tune first, back then there was no “hey dj can you play *Insert current top 10 track”. There was no waiting for someone else to turn it into a hit. 

Believe or not, I don’t hear vocals - I hear whats under the vocals and that for me is the journey, vocals get in the way of a good story! There is said it! 

Try to tell me or sing the vocals to something and I’ll most likely give you a blank look. 

The dance floor was served a selection of brand new tunes, new styles, experiments, vocals, instrumentals - yes the era when the best tunes had NO VOCALS - I was in my music heaven then! 

Back then people would follow certain DJ’s because they loved the particular style the DJ had, and the access to that music was limited to the DJ’s or avid music collectors as vinyl was expensive! Imagine paying anywhere from $15 and upwards for ONE tune? It was a bonus if both sides of the vinyl had winner tunes. 

Considering my pay rate was $35 per hour back then at my main gig (and then taxed) it meant either lots of gigs or day jobs just to sustain a healthy vinyl collection, let alone feed and support a child and myself. 

There was always a compromise, if you wanted the good gigs you were paid less as they were high profile and then you made up  the money for it on other side gigs. 

I will be releasing the Archived Mixtapes through the years that I was recording them. I still have a couple I could salvage from the collection for 1996. 1997. 1998. 1999. 

Some of the tapes didn’t survive, the quality is so bad that it was painful to hear. But, I’m glad that some have survived.  

As I listen to the tunes, they all bring memories of either buying them, playing them, trying to mix them and the worst was scratching them, ohhhh the pain of scratching a favourite tune! 

There are quite a few tunes I don’t have anymore, there’s another story there. Some I sold to fund my move to Melbourne, some were stolen - the stolen ones broke my heart as they were the cream of what I was playing in 1998 and 1999 and a lot of unique vinyl that was my sound and I have not found them again as I didn’t catalogue what I had so the artists and titles have been lost to me. 

Between the vinyl, flight cases, headphones, and a case of cds, it broke me. That happened on my birthday, I didn’t think I would recover.

Jewelz December 1996 Mixtape Side A And B

Jewelz Mixtape January 1997 
Traditionally January every year there was NO new music to buy. Distributors were closed, and vinyl shipments stopped.

So some of us DJ’s had to search through our collections to find those gems that we had either forgotten about, or flipped the b-side and found an even better version/remix of a tune than was the main release. 

Not sure if that was due to a vinyl addiction and the constant hunt for something fresh, FOMO or we were just shopaholics. 

1997 was the year I had everything I had wanted for my DJ career, club gigs and regular work. I was loving the change in the music genres as they were developing … or was it that my mind was just starting to open up even more? 

Music had no boundaries, the dance floor was as open to music as to the level of expertise of the DJ. 

A good DJ played a lot of “hits” as they were easy floor fillers and got a reaction, which hits was dependent on the scene and the club in question. 

A great DJ made hits. Never afraid to push boundaries or to introduce a new sound. Crafted well into a set that filled a dance floor with trust and also entertained. Keeping a floor not playing hits was a true craft. 

Trance was on its way and in a big way. The challenge to introduce this sound was accepted! The best way I could think of to get the sound out was via the mixtapes, and 1997 was when this started happening. 

The mixtapes from 1997 will reflect a new tune being dropped in the mix to break the tune in so to speak, ok… it was more like break the punters in to a new tune. Some of these these were so different to what the normal flow was, it was almost a snap out of it moment. 

Listening back to some of the mixtapes, my naming of the sound that I loved at the time as “gangster house” is quite fitting. Arse shaking fat base on a big system, male raps and vocals made my arse wiggle while in the mix. 

Over the previous year I had built up a loyal following that would buy these mixtapes, so they were the ones to hear the new music coming through. The tapes were released as soon as I could after buying the music and I’d already be playing the tunes as I was buying them. Why wait? 

How I remember some of the reactions to some of the new sounds coming …. some were phenomenal eruptions of peaking human sound effects, some were an excuse for a quick drink at the bar or a toilet break. 

OMG and speaking of toilet break…. Being a female and playing really long sets of up to 8hrs+ you can only hold on for so long, and then add in that menstrual cycle…. 

Well it wasn’t feasible to use a bottle or cup (so much easier for the blokes right?) so I had to find tracks long enough so that I could run to the toilets trough a packed dance floor, up a set of stairs and do what I had to do and get back in time to get the next track in. Im lucky I never had gastro….  

Those of you that knew DCM and the female toilets, they were up a set of stairs and there was ALWAYS a queue. The staff had one toilet at the top of those stairs. 

The desperation if the staff toilet was occupied and the pleading with whoever was at the head of the punters toilet queue to let me go next or there would be no music was almost funny had I not been worried that would actually happen! 

Then the run back through the dance floor, crawl into the DJ booth and get the next tune in on time. Im sure people thought I was rude rushing past ….

Jewelz January 1997 MIxtape Side A And B

Vol 11. One of my favs, some awesome tracks.
Banging tunes from the good old days Black Market Dayclub Style.
Featuring tracks from DJ Jean, Dave Austin, Rachel Auburn, Bad Habbit Boys, Floorfilla and more of the best.
Top tracks that last the test of time.
Mixed by me in Sept 2000.

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Another trip down memory lane with a collection of early 90's Hi NRG Old School Classics.

Bangin' Beats Volume 49 - Old Skool Klassix VII

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mr kek - Bangin Beats Volume 49 - Old Skool Klassix VII

First half of my set from Passion IV @ The Arthouse, 1st June 2013
Video from that night below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4KGAi0EULk

Passion IV

The second instalment of a collection of mixes I will be putting together showcasing some of the timeless songs that remind me of the club that we all grew to love.

This mix is not a collection of hits, as there will be many more in this series it will be cycling through the songs that represent classics to me, some will be more known as others.

DCM Classics 02

mista kek - Klubb Energy King
Previously known as DJ KEK

Old School Sydney NRG DJ from the good old days.
Love my music pumping and uplifting.

I taught myself how to mix in 6 months on good old vinyl back in '97 after listening to the legends at DCM & Blackmarket Dayclub in Sydney.

I play all NRG styles from pumping trance, vocals, harder house, cheese, but my old preferred was just straight cranking hard banging shit.

I retired in 2003, but that itch came back in 2008 and I had to scratch it again :)
I love DJing and the music but sharing it with others is the greatest joy.

These days I also enjoy the new style of NRG (UK Bounce, Scouse, Donk, Hard House/Trance/Dance) from the current producers in the scene, but nothing beats the good old days of DCM and Blackmarket.

If you're a lover of NRG or Bounce, or just upbeat and uplifting music in general, keep a look out for the upcoming new and old mixes  & follow me.

It's all about Bangin Beats :)

I am available for DJ bookings in the Sydney area (would consider other areas), contact me on here, facebook or email me at thekek316 at yahoo dot com dot au

Follow me on on here, YouTube and Mixcloud so you can keep up with my music

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