At some point in our lives Stu Allan's sets has touched us all. We overuse the word legend, but without doubt he deserves this accolade. Stu was a legend in his own right. As far back as I can remember, even before I was a DJ, I used to listen to his shows on Key 103. He was a pioneer of music and every Dj I know looked up to him, he inspired so many of us and despite of all that... he was just Stu, always approachable and always had time for anyone.  I had the pleasure of playing alongside him many a time over the last 33 years as a DJ, he was a really nice guy who got the floor rockin' every time he played!!

Sadly, Stu passed away on 22nd September 2022 after a year long battle with cancer, but he didn't give up, he was still out there doing his thing right till the end! 
After speaking to someone from team Allan and as his wife Alison promised Stu to keep his name alive, we thought it would be a good thing to get this mix out there for you to carry enjoying Stu's music.

In 2021 I asked Stu if he could do a house mix for my House Party show and Stu being Stu agreed. It was broadcast on Saturday 14th August 2021 on Mersey Radio. 

***You can listen or download this mix for free***
A lasting tribute and keepsake to the man behind the decks.

May your name live on Stu, you were one of the greatest 
You will be missed by us all x

Till we meet again...
REST IN PEACE MATE

Radio Mix

Dj Stu Allan - In The Mix

To celebrate the fact the sun is out and winter is starting to leave us for another year I've done a mix of all my favourite Old Skool tracks for the car.

I hope you enjoy it :)

1. Inner City - Good Life
2. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Dancing Divaz Club Mix)
3. Rhythm Of Life - Touch Me
4. Hyper Go Go - High
5. Together - Hardcore Uproar
6. Black Box - Ride On Time (Massive Mix)
7. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)
8. K-Klass - Let Me Show You (Klub MIx)
9. Robin S - Show Me Love (Stonebridge Club Mix)
10. Jimmy - Keep Me Warm (Extended Mix)
11. Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
12. Xpansions - Move Your Body (Elevation)
13. Shades Of Rhythm- The Sound Of Eden
14. N-Joi - Anthem
15. Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)
16. Love Decade - So Real (Massive Mix)
17. Gat Decor - Passion (Naked Mix)
18. Brothers In Rhythm - Such A Good Feeling (Inspirational Delight Mix)
19. M&M feat Rachel Wallace - I Feel This Way (Beefed Up Mix)
20. A.S.H.A - JJ Tribute (Primitive Mix)
21. Electric Choc - Shock The Beat (Piano Mix)
22. K-Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery
23. Outlander - Vamp
24. Bizarre Inc - Such A Feeling
25. Subliminal Cuts - Le Voie Le Soleil
26. Dream Frequency - Take Me (Anthem Mix)
27. Mix Factory - Take Me Away
28. Praga Khan - Injected With A Poison (Adams Power Mix)
29. The Hard Players - Joy Of Music
30. Q.T. Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix)
31. Elevation - Can You Feel It
32. Urban Hype - Trip To Trumpton 
33. Terrorize - It's Just A Feeling
34. Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out
35. Love Revolution - Give It To Me Baby
36. Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives
37. Altern 8 - Frequency
38. Ken Doh - I Need A Lover Tonight
39. Ratpack - Brothers & Sisters
40. Rachel Wallace - Tell Me Why (M&M Full Vocal Mix)
41. Gordon Edge - Compounded
42. Hyper Go Go - Never Let Go (Piano Mix)
43. The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Fairground Mix)
44. Awesome 3 - Don't Go (Kicks Like A Mule Mix)
45. Rhythm Quest - Closer To All Your Dreams (Piano Mix)
46. Prodigy - Wind It Up

Ben Stevens - Old Skool Classics Mix

ARENA 2 - YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT!
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Luvdup's set kicking things off at the event in Arena 2.

Luvdup - Bring Cake/Bowlers Reunion 20th Birthday

DJ Nipper - Bowlers Respect Mix 2009

My live set on Sunday night @ midnight on the WOW Stage @ Silver Hayes - Glastonbury Festival 2016.

An amazing packed out arena - a wonderful crowd of ravers, and the pleasure was all mine :)

Hope you enjoy! And please feel free to download, SHARE and REPOST! x

Glastonbury

Live @ Glastonbury - Silver Hayes 'Wow Stage' 26-06-2016

The PA's

The PA's Mix 2016

Recorded @ Back2Back, Durham River Boat Cruise
25 Years Of Dance (Vinyl Only Set)

Back2Back

Live @ Back2back, Durham Riverboat Cruise

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

Posted this up a few years back - added a new breakdown featuring more of the Rev Jessy Jackson and refined the playout.

Its A Moment In Time - Not Forgotten Extended Re-Edit

Quadrant Park - Oldskool Classics - John Kelly (76min)

An off the cuff mix of old skool piano house tunes that were big at the Earth nights in Manchester and Macclesfield.

Tracklist:

FPI Project - Everybody (All Over The World) (Dance Version)
Lee Marrow - Do You Want Me (Let's Go) (Extended Version)
50 Hertz ‎– Get Up (Club Mix)
Selector - Move Your Body (Club Mix)
49ers - Touch Me (Sexual Version)
El Chico - House Music Lovers (Original)
Q-Words - That's The Choice (Club Version)
Electric Choc - Shock The Beat (Quadrant Mix)
Techno Age featuring D.J. Phil Anthony - Moving On (Italian House Version)
Marradona - Out Of My Head '97 (Original '97 Full Length)
The Two Amigos - Everybody Get Up (Vocal Mix)
Unknown Artist - Subliminal Peach
The Chosen Few - Nobody's Business
Sarasota - We're Gettin' Hot
Hi-Liner ‎– Loving You (RMX '93) (Club Mix)
The Hard Players - Joy of Music
Twist - I'll Be There (Up There House Mix)
Parra Dice –	 Can You Hear Me (Well Developed Mix)

Fill yer boots.

Old Skool House Mix Volume 1

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