Brand new 4 track ep of new old-school hardcore!

A1 Take It Higher
A2 Shitty Rave Music
B1 Drop The Needle
B2 Get Hyped

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Dead By '94 -The Shitty Rave Music EP

Soundtracking your miltary industrial complex reality.

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Tracklisting:
1.   Syco - Loners intro
2.  Okko/Project Preatorian - Ka Looba
3.  Turntable Actor Chloroform - No Bouncer
4.  2bee - Cold Wave
5.  Analect - Hypnagogia (Rapha Remix)
6.  Nignus - Interface
7.  Rapha - E 1.4
8.  Vokx - She's Such A Slag
9.  Two Times Four - I Need You Now
10. DIM - Airbus Baby (Kontrol Room Edit)
11.  Scenedrone & Trial - Shook
12. Dual Fuel - Transition (Bootleg Mix) 
13. Sandro Galli - Submariner (DJ Ogi Remix)
14. Millipeed - Base Speed
15. Scalameriya - Nisimoja
16. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (Shadym Remix)

Militant Industrial Techno

MUSIC REVIEW – MIND YOUR MANNERS (ORIGINAL MIX) – UK SYCO

By the jacKofKats

Mind Your Manners is the latest release by Norfolk Dance Music slash Electronica legend Simon Mark AKA DJ Syco who’s been working hard with his co-producer Sarge. With a couple of decades of experience in production under their collective belts, Syco and Sarge are able to create music that doesn’t need to neatly sit within any genre as they understands the harmonic dynamic of sound and are able to twist acoustics to provide new sound-scapes. 
Syco’s latest sonic interpretation of chaos is his new single ‘Mind Your Manners’. This growling creeper of a tune completely took me by surprise as the first few bars pulsed out of the speakers complete with hissing 808 drum kicks surrounded by a pulsing bass accentuated by the noise of the urban jungle. Although the tune possesses a techno beat, after a short time you release this is just the frame for the far more important picture of disordered noise carefully wound into a pattern. 
The first drop is built up beautifully with an accelerating bass guitar that captures your heartbeat and fixes your steely eye on the prize of the rush. However, this is a tune that’s going to take you to the very edge of the audio cliff without ever pushing you over the edge. The garbled vocals, much like a madman crying as he’s electrocuted and drowning at the same time lead into the second techno-tribal breakdown outlined by cold, austere synth lines before we’re reintroduced to the bass line that in many ways forms the heart beat to this tune 
This is a superbly put together piece of neo-shamanic musical ritual art, which carefully blends discordant themes and hard technological sound into a pulsing, almost living spiritual poem of existence. Mind Your Manners is a tune that surprises and delights whilst joyfully escaping definition. It’s a shame there’s not more producers out there looking at making music that reflects these kinds of internal feelings, as this is hands down one of the best pieces of music I’ve heard in 2010. 



UK Syco - Mind Your Manners

An oldschool-hardcore-flavoured techno mix, for your listening pleasure!

Intro - dialogue from the movie 'Network' (Syco edit)
Ejeca - Unloving (Special Request remix)
Robpm - Seat Belt
Raito - Rave 92
Gary Burrows - I Am Ready (T78 remix)
Angy Core - DRG
T78 - Roboto
Danny Dowdzwell - Monster
Radio Slave - Children Of The E (Kink SP122 mix)
Gene & Lesia Karz - I'm From The 90s
Alan Fitzpatrick - You Got Me
Spektre - Gates Of Dawn
Smith & King - Semblance
Smith & King - Nobody
Outro - dialogue from the movie 'Mandy'

Get Mad

Syco was first introduced to the Acid House movement way back in the inaugural days of the early Rave scene. Finding himself on the dancefloor of Gt Yarmouth Richard’s Parties during the halcyon 1988 Summer of Love, he realised he had arrived at an important point in time for music and culture. Wanting to be a part of the movement, fervour and runaway bliss of the moment, he took up DJing after seeing Hardcore Godfather Carl Cox rock out one of his legendary sets on three decks. 

He instantly fell in love with the music. He tells us “you walked into the room and it was like another world. A whole experience where House music took over. Back in the day you would play everything together. There were no boundaries to the music and DJs weren’t afraid to blend different genres together to create a musical journey”. 

From this point on he immersed himself in the scene, working with XL Records, the label that first thrust the Prodigy into the large lens of the public scene. During this period he played alongside such greats as LTJ Bukem, DJ Hype, Slipmatt and legendary Rave group Liquid. During this time he had his first record deal with Ozone Recordings, releasing two singles including Say Aaagh, which was played by John Peel on his late night sessions show. 

Syco’s career took off further in 1992 when he formed Dance on Arrival, or DOA for short, a group that managed to land a deal with Drum N Bass label Boogie Beat. They released two singles, I Like It and Muppet Mayhem, both of which received considerable airtime on the scene, making their way into the boxes of a number of big name DJs such as Ratty and Carl Cox. 

In addition to his releases, Syco also played at the Norwich Sound City gigs in 1992 at the Waterfront – a venue specially created to accommodate this event. He played on the ones and twos alongside N-Joi, Prodigy, Shaman and Orbital playing two sets for XL Records, his employer at the time. Following this he co-formed Another Dimension, a project that went on to spawn both the Wardance and Red Seal record labels, grabbing a major club smash with the Afterlife EP by 39 Orbits. 

Taking some time out between 1997 and 2005, Syco decided to return to the scene in bringing his Old School attitude to the then current soundscape, settling on an eclectic sound base on Hard Techno. This sub-genre best reminded him of the original Acid House scene, passing more than a nod towards the original European sounds. 

Syco is still passionate about the music in the same way as he has always been – from those first days of opening his ears to the first notes of the Rave scene. Instead of listening at record shops he spends hours sifting through samples online of hundreds of tunes. He has an absolute ear for good music and the ability to pull out sounds and select records from a huge slice of time, bringing a dash of both the old and new to any party at which he plays.

Syco

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