https://www.nts.live/shows/dj-persuasion/episodes/dj-persuasion-20th-may-2022

Demon Poetry w/ Tasha (Live at Rupture x Bassbin 200522

Hardcore Jungle 1993 Mix 10

Oldskool 1991 Mix 10

This part 1 of a a very special two mix set dedicated to classic drum n' bass sounds, reimagining nights at two of the most influential London clubs of all time: Speed and Metalheadz. This mix focuses on imagining a night at Speed at the Mars Bar, Soho ... a night I never went to!

From the blog post:

Taking place on a Thursday as well as being located right in the heart of London instead of a massive warehouse on the outskirts meant that Speed attracted a different, more mature crowd, including curious fans of other styles of electronic music as well as people from the music industry. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this night to the development of the lighter side of drum n’ bass – it was a testing ground for new sounds that could then be taken on the road around the UK (and the world!) on the weekends. It was a place where people from the scene – producers, dj’s, a&r’s, hangers-on – could connect, interact and plan collaborations. It was somewhere that this sound could take root and grow, away from the pressure cooker environment of the big raves, where thousands of teenagers wanted the latest mental sounds. It was also a crucial venue for spreading the sound beyond the existing scene, a place where people who would never dream of going to a One Nation or AWOL or Roast could be turned on to high-speed breakbeats.

Read more: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2023/01/pearsall-presents-i-never-went-to-speed-i-did-go-to-metalheadz-special-2-part-90s-drum-n-bass-mix-from-light-to-dark/

Mixed in Berlin, November 2022
100% Vinyl
(87:05, 200 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. DJ Pulse - New York [Creative Wax]
02. Wax Doctor - Kid Caprice [Metalheadz]
03. Axis - Dusted [Good Looking]
04. Intense - Streams of Thought [Creative Source]
05. Eddie - Intelligent Drummer (Steve Gurley Remix) [One Touch]
06. Sounds of Life - A Spice Of Jazz [Certificate 18]
07. Hidden Agenda - The Wedge [Metalheadz]
08. DJ Krush - Yeah (Alex Reece Remix) [Mo'Wax]
09. DJ Krust - Jazz Note II [V Recordings]
10. Nookie - The Blues [Reinforced]
11. Intense - The Sax Lick [Way Out]
12. PFM - Danny's Song [Good Looking]
13. Shogun - Together [Renegade]
14. Mouly & Lucida - The Abyss [Timeless]
15. LTJ Bukem - Music (Peshay Remix) [Nexus]
16. DJ Trace - By Any Means Necessary (Promised Land VIP Mix) [Higher Limits]
17. Ken Ishii - Stretch (Shogun Remix) [R&S]
18. Grace - If I Could Fly (LTJ Bukem Remix) [Perfecto]
19. Forme - New Element [OKBRON]
20. PFM - For All Of Us [Good Looking]
21. Essence of Aura - So This is Love ('96 Remix) [Moving Shadow]
22. PFM & Tayla - Submarine Tune [OKBRON]
23. The Invisible Man - Spiritual Awareness [Looking Good]
24. Jonny L - Tychonic Cycle [XL Recordings]
25. DJ Crystl - Mind Games [Earth]

www.sonicrampage.org/blog

Blog

I Never Went to Speed ... [Special 90's Atmospheric Drum n' Bass Mix]

https://www.hardscore.com/?p=9237

Ed Rush – Trace – Nico – Mad Different Methods [Nu Black]
Capone – Mysteries Of The Deep [Hardleaders]
DJ Pulse – Let You In (Wax Doctor Remix) [Moving Shadow]
Mastermind – Blacknotes [Renegade]
KMC – Drifting [Timeless]
Omni Trio – Astral Phase [Moving Shadow]
Mouly & Lucida – Inertia [Timeless]
Innervisions – In The Shadow [Reinforced]
M.I.D. – Dreams (Revisited) [Offset]
DJ Trace – Monkeys [Unreleased]
Lemon D – Subphonic [Prototype]
Dillinja – Deadly Deep Subs (Remix) [Razors Edge]
Matrix – Slow Drift [New Identity – DJ SS Presents Jazz & Bass Vol 1 LP]
Mystic Moods – Horn Fusion [Concept 1] [Mystic Moods]
Dom & Roland – Dynamics [Moving Shadow]
Adam F – F Jam (Original Mix) – [F-Jams]
SDR & Subsonic – The Instrumental (Part 2) [Shoebox]
DJ Die & DJ Suv – Out Of Sight – [V Recordings]
Lemon D – Going Gets Tough – [Prototype]
The Chameleon – Just Close Your Eyes & Listen – [Good Looking]

Big thanks to The Mighty Rabbit for supplying the Tape

Grooverider – Kiss 100 FM [26th January 1996]

Mixed on Saturday 18th February on Technics 1210's & Allen & Heath Xone 23

Kech & B.Bonds - Zephyr (React)
Carl Craig - No More Words (Retroactive)
Underground Resistance – Gamma-Ray (Underground Resistance)
Underground Resistance – Beauty Of Decay (Underground Resistance)
Fade To Black - The Calling (Reprise) (Network Records)
UR- The Final Frontier (Underground Resistance)
BFC - Galaxy (Fragile Records)
Gemini - A Dream (Planet E)
DBX - Losing Control (Peacefrog)
UR - The Illuminator (Underground Resistance)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Deep Space 9 (A Brother Runs This Ship) (Underground Resistance )
Drexciya - Aqua Worm Hole (Underground Resistance)
Octave One - Paradox (430 West)
E-Dancer - Pump The Move (R & S)
Model 500 - The Chase (Juan's Version) (Metroplex)
Separate Minds–	First Bass (Remix) (KMS)
D Knox - Whole New World (Sect Records )
Jeff Mills - Reverting (Axis)
Underground Resistance - Amazon (Underground Resistance)
Suburban Knight–	Midnite Sunshine (Underground Resistance)
Underground Resistance  - Riot (Underground Resistance )

Detroit

Paulo M - Detroit

From 1994-1997 Fabio hosted a seminal radio show on Kiss FM. He would alternate each show with Grooverider and it was the first time jungle was played on legal radio. It was essential listening for music that wouldn't normally get played out, or even heard again! These shows were a window into another world and fresh 90-minute TDKs on hot standby was standard procedure. 

For the second hour of the show, Fabio would announce "The Jazzstep coming up next...", and after a few months it became "The Legendary Jazzstep..." - this was big!

The music was jazz-influenced and driven by funk breaks, which tended to be quite loose with the patterns. It was a golden era before things got stripped back to more surgical timings seen with liquid, it also made the sound feel more organic and musical.

This mix attempts to recreate the feeling of these shows with dreamy sax, epic keyboard solos, cool double bass and the funkiest of breakbeat grooves. Featuring music from Carlito, Subject 13, Hidden Agenda, Primary Motive and early Creative Source - some of the finest drum and bass ever made.

It was recorded from a mixture of both vinyl and digital, and it wouldn't be right for the Jazzstep show if there wasn't a couple of dubplates in there as well: a very jazzy something forthcoming on Make or Break from Deeptropix, and an unreleased collab track from Sekl @sekldnb and Rough Territory @Rough-Territory

Even during the peak era of the jungle, this music was considered quite a niche sound, but Fabio was a pioneer with a true passion and love for the music. Big respects to Fabio for doing his own thing and giving the music a platform for all to appreciate.

Visualiser on MOB YouTube Channel 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBakm7J-gJI

A special mention to Deep Inside The Oldskool @ethereal94 for hosting archives of these Kiss FM shows in a playlist which should be given world heritage status. Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/ethereal94/sets/radio-1-fm-kiss-100-fm

There is also a very good blog with a cache of Fabio Kiss FM tapes and some information and background about the scene at the time. http://mikusmusik.blogspot.com/2015/02/fabio-on-kiss-100-tape-cache.html

For the remaster of Vindication and more great music check out @NosHiddenAgenda Patreon https://www.patreon.com/NosHiddenAgenda

The Legendary Jazzstep Mix - An Ode to Fabio Kiss FM Show Mixed by Sekl

Tracklist
Carlito - Fall Down
G Force & Seiji	- Sex in Space (Remix)
New Jazz Hustlers - Bombay
The Architex - Escape
Tekniq - Razzmatazz
Hidden Agenda - Vindicator (2020 Remaster)
Primary Motive - S
Deeptropix - Dervish Funk
Source Direct - Bliss
Accelio	- Sanctuary
Rough Territory & Sekl - Funk Liberator
DJ Pulse and The Jazz Cartel - Destiny (Flytronix Remix)
The Quartet - Nevada
Lemon D - Submorphic
The Architex - Altitude
Subject 13 - Can U Feel The Vibez
Matrix - Slow Drift 
DJ Pulse and The Jazz Cartel - Street Player
EZ Rollers - Retro
Hidden Agenda - The Sun

Support Make or Break

The Legendary Jazzstep Mix - An Ode To Fabio Kiss FM Show Mixed by Sekl

First uploads of 2023, so let’s make them good ones, right?

"Back with a sound that hits you like thunder, did you miss me? I wonder."

As pioneers of the UK breakbeat/jungle scene, I doubt Smiley & PJ need any introduction. This two-part mix compiles many of my favourites from their extensive back catalogue, including the seminal LP ‘Dance Before the Police Come’ in its entirety.

Part 1 focuses slightly more on their rap roots. Part 2 leans towards the breakbeat sound that saw the rave scene adopting them back in the early 90s.

Part 1 Tracklist:

Shut Up & Dance - £20 To Get In
Shut Up & Dance - Rap's My Occupation
The Ragga Twins - Wipe The Needle
Shut Up & Dance - 5, 6, 7, 8 (Original Mix)
Shut Up & Dance - White White World
Shut Up & Dance - This Town Needs A Sheriff
Shut Up & Dance - This Town Needs A Sheriff (Remix)
Rum & Black - Fuck The Legal Stations
Rum & Black - Wicked (Remix)
Nicolette - O Si Ne Ne
Shut Up & Dance - The Green Man
Rum & Black - Tablet Man
Shut Up & Dance - Cape Fear
Shut Up & Dance - Autobiography Of A Crackhead
Shut Up & Dance - Runaways
Shut Up & Dance feat. The Ragga Twins - Java Bass
The Ragga Twins - Spliffhead
Adé - Summer Breeze
Shut Up & Dance - Dance Before The Police Come (Remix)
Shut Up & Dance - Dance Before The Police Come
Cedric Winkleburger & The Yellow Blueberries - Take It Easy (Original)
Shut Up & Dance - Rest In Peace (Rap Will Never)
Shut Up & Dance - Because Of My Vocals
Shut Up & Dance - On A Street Level

Part 2 https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/shut-up-dance-retrospective-mixtape-part-2

Shut Up & Dance Mixtape (Part 1)

Shut Up & Dance Retrospective Mixtape (Part 1)

Recorded from my tape collection. Don't think this is on soundcloud anywhere but it has already been uploaded to mixcloud. Tracklist was copied from discogs. Enjoy....
A1. Dillinja – Violent Killa
A2. DJ Die – Play It For Me (Remix)
A3. Decoder – Fuse
A4. DJ Krust – Blaze Dis One
A5. Lemon D – Going Gets Tough
A6. Deep Blue & Blame – Transitions (Dom & Roland Remix)
A7. Tanya Louise – Deep In You (Ed Rush & Nico Remix)
B1. Source Direct – Snake Style (Part 2) (Unreleased)
B2. Photek – Mingus (Unreleased)
B3. T.I.C. – Caverns
B4. Nasty Habits – Shadow Boxing
B5. John B – Sight Beyond
B6. Peshay – Fight Them

1997 - Peshay – The Edge - Intelligent Drum & Bass V6 / S2

Some meandering words...

Whenever Glastonbury rolls around I am reminded of two key things: my Dad, and my old rave tapes. It is possible I have attached a disproportionate significance to the latter, given that attending the festivals in 92/93/94 were all-consuming, life-changing experiences, but the tapes I bought there remain as the only physical artifacts from those halycon days. The first two years I got in free with my Dad's band (K-Passa, if you're interested; they're still going), and so I would often end up wandering the festival alone without a plan, chatting to randoms and just soaking up the atmosphere.  1992 is strongest in my memory - I recall my Dad shoving me into the band's transit van at the start of the journey; this contained both the band and several crates of K cider liberated from a student ball they'd played the night before. Father wisely opted to drive solo in the family car and was probably fairly amused to see his 16-year-old son emerge from the conveyance into the festival around lunchtime, extremely drunk and almost delirious in his need for a piss. And so it began. K-Passa were ejected from the backstage area by teatime in advance of Van Morrison's arrival, at which point I was amused to see a few middle-aged ladies behind a crash barrier waiting for the secret guest, Tom Jones. I don't recall any knickers being thrown at that point. I was lucky enough to see a few big name acts, but oddly, after cross-referencing against the three line-up posters, I can't pin them. Could have sworn I saw 808 State, or some other 'stadium techno' group - The Orb maybe? Inexplicably the only ones I recall for sure were the grunge band L7 (awesome, but shhhh... we don't talk about that), Galliano, and US3 at the jazz stage ... or was it Oui 3 ... fuck's sake. Look, the real holy grail for this rave kiddy was hanging around the various rave stalls throughout the lazy days, and then after the main stage curfews, dancing way into the small hours without the need for pharmaceutical assistance ... ok that came later ... I was just high on the vibe, man. 

You didn't ask, but the Glastonbury rave tapes I acquired were:

DJ Ace "We 'R' Hardcore"
Dave Angel at Tokyo Sex Whale, Bristol
Fabi Paras at Tokyo Sex Whale, Bristol
Some Carl Cox double pack (forgotten)
Obsession NYE 93/94 - Trevor Rockliffe, Easygroove, Joey Beltram 
DJ Sy at Club Adrenalin
Ellis Dee at Club Adrenalin

Why am I talking about all of this? My tastes back then were all over the place - hardcore/jungle obviously, techno, breakbeat, indie, grunge, jazzy hip hop, gangsta rap, ambient, dub ... but the specific Dave Angel tape above has become a central symbol of those glorious raving days of summers gone by. Jazzy, melodic electronica, sunny, positive and uplifting, transitioning into headbanging techno. I already did one tribute to Dave's unique style back in lockdown ... don't mind telling you I've played it countless times since and for me it's hard to top, but I've had a fair crack at it here. Part three is waiting in the wings. If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Enjoy the mix.

Dave Angel - Timeless [Blunted]
Dave Angel - Shuffle [Blunted]
MLO - Samarkand (Dave Angel Mix) [Aura Surround Sounds]
Love Inc. - The Look Of Love [Force Inc]
Dave Angel - Rotation [Rotation]
Point Zero - Point Zero [Rotation]
Sunshower - Sunshower [Prime]
Jeff Mills - Casa [Axis]
Katana - Erotmania [Think Green]
Trance Induction - Special Format [Prime]
Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier [Underground Resistance]
Suburban Knight - Nocturbulous [Underground Resistance]
Millsart - Step To Enchantment (Stringent) [Axis]
Nico - Oh Yeah! (Dark Treatment) [Instinct]
Dave Clarke - Protective Custody [Bush]
Drax - Interior [Trope]
Morgan Wild Project - Analog Flash [Buzz]
Dave Angel - Lust [R&S]

In-Flight Entertainment II

In-Flight Entertainment II (Dave Angel Tribute)

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A Guy Called Gerald - 20 July 23

Dj since 1991. Vinyl enthusiast. Some would say a Trainspotter. Love techno, acid, rave, and house music. 

Paulo M - Detroit

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