Here's Dave Pearce's BBC 6 Music show that I was a guest on. It's a 2 hour show and I was asked to pick 20 Rave anthems, in fact we managed 23 in total. There are obviously many more tracks that I could have picked but I think this is a good cross section of tracks from that 91 / 92 era. I've also added a bonus Slipmatt mix with all 23 tracks mixed together. I really hope this is something you will download and keep as a nice piece of Rave history to play to the younger generations in years to come...

Track list
SL2 – On A Ragga Tip - XL Recordings 
Altern8 – Activ8 - Network 
Shades of Rhythm – The Sound Of Eden - ZTT 
Love Decade – So Real - AATW 
Dream Frequency – Feel So Real - City Beat 
M&M ft. Rachel Wallace – I Feel This Way - Suburban Base 
Awesome 3 – Don’t Go - FFRR 
N-Joi – Anthem - Deconstruction 
SL2 – DJ’s Take Control - XL Recordings 
The Prodigy – Your Love - XL Recordings 
Urban Shakedown ft. Mickey Finn – Some Justice - Urban Shakedown 
Liquid – Sweet Harmony - XL Recordings 
Rhythm Quest – Closer To All Your Dreams - Network 
Ratpack – Searchin’ For My Rizla - Ratpack 
Dance Conspiracy – Dub War (Chapter One) - XL Recordings 
Jonny L – Hurt You So - R&S 
Praga Khan – Injected With A Poison - Profile 
Urban Hype – I Feel the Heat - Faze 
2 Bad Mice – Bombscare - Moving Shadow 
The Prodigy – Ruff In The Jungle Bizness - XL Recordings 
Edge One – Compnded – Edge Records 
Manix – Feel Real Good - Reinforced 
SL2 – Way In My Brain (Remix) - XL Recordings

Slipmatt 50 minute DJ Mix


Slipmatt & Dave Pearce - The 6 Mix Rave Special 13-04-2012

"Turn up the bass and lay low on the treble." Lover of good peeps and good chooons, with a particular penchant for deep and progressive, but partial to anything from Ben Böhmer to Leftfield to Ludovico Einaudi to Jon Hopkins to Ray Keith to Orbital to...

Godfather’, ‘Legend’, ‘International Hero’. All accolades attributed by loving fans Worldwide to the DJ, Producer and scene pioneer known as ‘Slipmatt’. For over three decades, this dubplate diamond has been changing the game, staying on the pulse and keeping ahead of the curve, packing dancefloors and selling out clubs long before it was cool and still does so to this very day.
  
Having produced a ton of successful singles and compiled a number of hit selling mix albums under his ‘Slipmatt’ alias for some of the World’s most respected record labels including United Dance and Ministry Of Sound, ‘Slipmatt’ is also one of the masterminds behind legendary production outfit SL2 (along with Lime and MC Jay), the visionaries responsible for the chart smashing anthems ‘On A Ragga Tip’ & ‘Way In My Brain’ among many others on the iconic label XL Recordings, home to legendary acts such as ‘The Prodigy’, ‘Basement Jaxx’; and ‘Adele’. 

‘On A Ragga Tip’ is presently enjoying a resurgence of popularity as it goes on the current Virgin Media TV ad as part of their Un-Limiting adverts which includes the new ‘On A Ragga Tip’ Un-Limiting Remix, which has equally proved as popular as ever with dancefloors around the globe and this year alone is scheduled  to collaborate in the studio with Shades Of Rhythm, Andy Galea of Sol Brothers, Alex P, Awesome 3, Alexis Raphael, Sooney and, his good friend DJ Lime with some brand new SL2 releases also in the pipeline.

This wayward don of dance has also played at every major dance event and venue worth knowing about over the years including Energy, Telepathy, Fantazia, Vision, Universe, World Dance, United Dance, Dreamscape, Helter Skelter, Slammin’ Vinyl, Rezurrection, Elevation, Moondance, Raindance, Peace Fest, Clockwork Orange and to top it all off had the great honour of playing directly after his good friends ‘The Prodigy’ to a packed O2 Arena of over 20, 000 people, bringing that particular night to an epic close, and ringing in the year 2014 with a tremendous bang.

‘Slipmatt’ also repeatedly continues to play across the globe in the USA, Asia, Australia, Europe and every corner of his native UK for a string of well recognised and well attended club promotions, festivals and events. He’s no stranger to a Festival or two either playing at leading big top gigs such as Glastonbury, Boomtown and We Are Festival and there has also been and continues to be multiple overseas visits to Ibiza where Slipmatt still to this day enjoys regular return trips to the White Isle’s most infamous hot spots to play such as Eden, Es Paradis and Benimussa Park (The Zoo) 

His media outreach is quite noteworthy also, having started RAW FM, been a resident on Kiss FM, a regular in M8 Magazine and Mixmag, featured in the illustrious DJ Magazine Top 100, he’s been on BBC television a number of times including the famous chart show ‘Top Of The Pops’, runs two of his own popular Radio shows and Podcasts ‘World Of Rave’ and ‘Slip’s House’ and additionally, has won a multitude of awards, including that of ‘Best DJ’ and ‘Best Producer’ awarded by some of the industries most respected bodies such as Kiss FM and EHM.

Not one to ever slow down or fall behind and always keeping himself fresh and relevant, this dancefloor don has been focusing lately on the biggest and best house beats, which has led him to an already extraordinarily busy 2020. Add to that his upcoming book “My Story (and How I Became a World Class DJ)”, which is set to be a smash hit amongst rave fanatics the World over later this year and with over a hundred gigs booked for 2020 already (mid-Feb), there are no signs of this crowd pleasing international artist slowing down any time soon. 

Godfather Of Rave and still keeping it fresh? Definitely.

by Jon Brown | 2020