Dispatch Recordings Official Playlist

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We begin the start of a new series at Dispatch Recordings, with the first instalment of the ‘History Remastered’ project. Covering the very early days of the label, from 2001-2003, we have remastered the work of original label founder Nos – one half of the Hidden Agenda duo, the other half, of course, being Max Fresh. Some of this material now made available digitally for the first time ever.

Dispatch Recordings was started by the Hidden Agenda brothers in 2001, with the first release being DIS004. Dispatch 1-3 were Hidden Agenda releases on Goldie’s seminal Metalheadz label, so Hidden Agenda continued the series via their own label Dispatch Recordings. Twenty years later, the time seemed perfect to revisit the label’s history and give a selection of the best tunes from the formative years a brand new remaster.

Nos continues the Hidden Agenda project via his own productions, following his brother Max Fresh’s untimely passing in 2016. Label owner and manager Ant TC1 has curated a selection of their very best work, the musical founding blocks of Dispatch given a timely, contemporary makeover. Lovingly remastered by the collective talents of all involved at Black Science Labs Mastering, Labmaster Mastering and AT Mastering.

Tracklisting:
01. “Quiet Days [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Max Fresh)
02. “New Day [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
03. “Shut Down [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Max Fresh)
04. “Chameleon [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
05. “9.30 [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
06. “Soul Glo [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
07. “Culture [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
08. “Chase Sequence [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
09. “Daylight [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
10. “Believe Me [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
11. “Chameleon (Stress Level & Ant TC1 Remix) [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
12. “Culture (Polar Remix) [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
13. “Simpatico [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)
14. “Believe Me (Acetate & Renegade Remix) [Remastered]” – Hidden Agenda (Nos)

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Dispatch Recordings 'History Remastered Part 1 - 2001 to 2003'

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Wild Things / Banton

Banton

Rise & Shine

Chameleon (Stress Level & TC1 VIP Mix)

Chameleon

The Drum Club

Believe Me (Acetate & Chris Renegade Remix)

After a background in traditional piano training and progression onto the electronic organ during childhood, I got my first 16-bit computer aged 13 in the form of the Commodore Amiga 500.
Somebody gave me copies of Soundtracker software and the ST range of sample disks, and along with my best friend, we began making our own tunes. Then along came MED Sound Studio and we started really getting to grips with producing using just the Amiga and simple keyboards.

As our output grew and the next few years unfurled, so we created first Q-P-I Music (Quadrosonix Productions Inc), 'Headlong Recordings', and finally 'Unborn Records', all basically label names for our growing output of experimental, late 80's/early 90's rave-influenced tunes. I became CJ Shadow, making hardcore, techno and jungle style tracks, while CJ Trinity made remixes of more commercial sounding tunes like that of The Prodigy and laid-back house/techno stuff, and developed a more general electronica-like, ambient, trance-style sound.

By the time we left school in 1992, aged 16, we had produced well over twenty C90 cassette albums of material. The next year or so saw investment in our kit as we upgraded to Amiga 1200 computers, better synths, and for the first time the introduction of simple mixers and decent monitor speakers. The quantity of our output certainly reduced, but the quality significantly increased.

Though our paths in life diverged significantly at aged 17, we continued to produce an evolving sound, improving and honing our individual styles and incorporating our personal influences as jobs and money allowed investment in better software and hardware. By the time the internet was a thing and even before ADSL (broadband) I was releasing the best of our music on unsigned music websites like MP3.com. Uploading several hours of music on a dial-up connection, now that was fun :)

By the turn of the millenium we had our own website, unbornrecords.net, and ran it as our label and home online to promote our music. CJ Trinity's material was by now very much in the house/trance and dance remix genres, whilst mine was definitively a breakbeat-driven, jungle and drum&amp;bass sound, reflecting the scene I was busy raving in every weekend, and immersed in fanatically. We sold a few CD albums, got quite a lot of downloads and generally enjoyed what we did, but life got in the way of it ever becoming more than a hobby.

Though our music continued to increase in quality and get some serious attention from a few people in the right places, sadly by 2005 we both had so much going on in our separate lives and so little time for music production that the website fizzled out, and along with the demise of several of the unsigned artist sites we had our material on, our music basically fell off the edge of a cliff. CJ Trinity's unfinished but astonishingly good final album, 'Atmospheric Hi Trip', really showed how far and complete his particular dance sound had come. My last CJ Shadow album, entitled 'Kitchen For No Reason', was completed that year and actually reflects how complete and professional my DnB-based sound was becoming. Even today, everyone who hears it seems to agree that it truly is a crying shame that I never continued making music.

Since 2005 I remain infatuated with the Drum & Bass scene, keeping up with the massive online output and trends, going out whenever possible to the dances and just loving everything I'm hearing and seeing. Recent months have seen me going through the old hard drives, listening to our old music, and a dawning realisation that I cannot allow this part of my life to die. And having now stumbled on a folder of projects and work from 2005 that basically constitutes what would have been my next album, I have decided to plug myself back into production.

2025 sees the 20th anniversary of the release of Kitchen For No Reason. I can confirm that a new LP is on its way, produced under my new Ignomius Darka moniker.

https://ignomius.com

Banton

Tactile

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