I'm kicking off a new mix series for 2024! Every month I will do a new one hour(ish) mix devoted to some serious crate-digging. For January I'm starting with a rollers special ... enjoy!

Read more about the mix here: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/01/pearsall-presents-there-back-001-january-rolling-drum-n-bass-1994-1996/

Recorded in Berlin, January 2024
100% Vinyl
(67:16, 154 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. Roni Size - Fashion [V Recordings]
02. P-Funk - Return of the Funksta [Frontline]
03. Kolective 4 - His Majesty [No Sell Out]
04. DJ Solo - Deal Wid It [Production House]
05. Adam F - The Bible [Section 5]
06. Cool Hand Flex - Step to It [De Underground]
07. DJ Nut Nut - Message from Jah [Deep Jungle]
08. Undercover Agent - Dubplate Circles (Remix) [Juice]
09. DJ Zinc - So Damn Fresh [Ganja]
10. Just Jungle - Listen Tune [Trouble on Vinyl]
11. Aladdin - Warm & Easy [Aladdin]
12. Hardware - Dreamin of You [Frontline]
13. Essence of Aura - Northern Lights [Moving Shadow]
14. Hidden Agenda - Is It Love? [Metalheadz]
15. Lemon D - Urban Style Music [Metalheadz]
16. Shogun - Just for You [Renegade]
17. DJ Solo & DJ Aura - Wreckin' Shit [Mo Wax Excursions]
18. Frank de Wulf - Drums in a Grip (Wax Doctor Remix) [Harthouse}
19. Soundman & Don Lloydie - Greater Love ft Elizabeth Troy (Grooverider Hardstep Mix) [WEA]
20. Mental & Dangerous - Send Me [Soundclash]
21. DJ Krust - Future Talk [Full Cycle]
22. Skool of Hard Knocks - Wid Da B-Boyz [Grand Larceny]
23. Maldini - Rap Season [Trouble on Vinyl]
24. DJ Rap - Switch [Proper Talent]
25. DJ Dextrous - Moonlight [AKO Arcade]

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There & Back 001: January, Rolling Drum & Bass 1994-1996

For the fourth mix in 2024's There & Back series, I'm exploring the more obscure side of the classic 90's techstep drum n' bass sound, focusing on b-sides, remixes, and album tracks. Luckily for me, this is a very rich vein to mine! Tons of cool tracks featured on this mix ... enjoy!

If you liked this mix, more in a similar vein: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techstep-darkside-drum-n-bass

Read about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/07/pearsall-presents-there-and-back-004-april-techstep-b-sides-remixes-album-tracks-1996-1999/

Recorded in Berlin, June 2024
100% Vinyl
(70:49, 170.6 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. Mampi Swift - The Journey [Charge]
02. Usual Suspects - Contortion [Renegade Hardware]
03. Eat Static - Interceptor (Decoder Remix) [Planet Dog]
04. Dom & Roland - Dumbo [Moving Shadow]
05. Ed Rush & Nico - Comatone [No U-Turn]
06. Future Forces Inc - Bypass [Trouble On Vinyl]
07. Future Forces Inc & Nico - Chase [Saigon]
08. Ed Rush & Optical - Millennium [Virus]
09. Grooverider - Rainbows of Colour (Optical Remix) [Higher Ground]
10. Ed Rush & Optical - Medicine (Matrix Remix) [Virus]
11. Bad Company - Forgotten [Bad Company]
12. Dom & Roland - Homicide [Moving Shadow]
13. DJ Kane - Bruton [Riddim Track]
14. DJ Krust - Resistance [V Recordings]
15. DJ Krust - The Last Day [Full Cycle]
16. Decoder - Tension [Elementz]
17. Andy C & Shimon - Genetix [Ram]
18. The Kraft - Synthetic [Frontline]
19. Trace & Nico - Copies [No U-Turn]
20. Doc Scott - Swarm [Metalheadz]

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There & Back 004: April, Techstep B-Sides, Remixes & Album Tracks 1996-1999

I really love the techstep drum n' bass sound of the mid to late 90's, so here's another exploration of the more obscure side of this era, focusing on b-sides, remixes and album tracks from some of the scene's best-known names, as well as some more obscure artists. Some of these tracks I've NEVER heard in anyone else's mixes, but IMO they are all stone killers. Enjoy!

Read more about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/11/pearsall-presents-there-amp-back-007-july-more-techstep-b-sides-remixes-amp-album-tracks/

Here's the previous There & Back dedicated to more obscure techstep sounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/there-back-004-april-techstep-b-sides-remixes-album-tracks-1996-1999

The rest of the series: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/there-back-2024-crate-digging

Tracklisting:

01. Think About Mutation - Visions (Source Direct Remix) [Motor]
02. DJ Trace - The Beacon [Volume]
03. Capone - Guess Who [Hard Leaders]
04. Dom & Roland - City [Moving Shadow]
05. Babylon Zoo - The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes (Goldie Armageddon Babylon Mix) [EMI]
06. Hydro - Tha Bomb Shit [Emotif]
07. Trace & Nico - Damn Son [No U-Turn]
08. Lemon D - Chainsaw {Metalheadz]
09. Dillinja - Vicious [Test]
10. Elementz of Noize - Other Side of Town [SOUR]
11. Renegade - Eastern Promise [Dread]
12. Decoder - Quake [Tech Itch]
13. Paradox - A Certain Sound (Remix) [Renegade Hardware]
14. Spider Net - Awake [No U-Turn]
15. Future Forces Inc - Neitherworld 6 [Rawkus Primitive]
16. MTS - Hard Disk (DJ Zinc Remix) [Juice]
17. Dylan - Virus [Droppin Science]
18. Boymerang - You Like It Like That [Regal]
19. Sun Electric - Eya (Future Forces Inc Hardware Mix) [Apollo]
20. Cyba Space - Life feat Shanie (Dom & Roland Remix) [Cyba]

There & Back 007: July, More Techstep B-Sides, Remixes & Album Tracks 1996-1999

I've always loved the UK Funky sound - it's as if classic American funky house was kidnapped and taken to a South London council estate and fed on a strict diet of soca, African percussion, dubstep, grime, UK garage, and broken beat in order to produce something that was completely London and absolutely, compulsively danceable. Great music! I have had a bunch of these records for years without ever making a full mix, so I thought it was time to fix that. Enjoy!

More mixes in the There & Back series: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/there-back-2024-crate-digging

More on the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/12/pearsall-presents-there-amp-back-008-august-uk-funky-2008-2011/

Recorded in Berlin, September 2024
100% Vinyl
(60:10, 142 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. Cooly G - Up In My Head [Hyperdub]
02. DVA - Natty [Hyperdub]
03. Altered Natives - Love Switch Off [Eye4Eye]
04. Untold - Just For You (Roska Remix) [Hotflush]
05. Hard House Banton - The Music [Spoilt Rotten Entertainment]
06. Emvee - Nocturnal [Wireblock]
07. Doc Daneeka - Mario's Mushrooms [PTN]
08. Mosca - Square One (L-Vis 1990 Remix) [Night Slugs]
09. Sticky - Look Pon Me ft Natalie Storm [Mixpak]
10. Cooly G - Narst [Hyperdub]
11. Girl Unit - IRL (DVA's Hi Emotions Remix) [Night Slugs]
12. Lil Silva - Against Yaself [Night Slugs]
13. Champion - Bongoshot [Formula]
14. MJ Cole - Flux Riddim [Prolific]
15. Martyn - Viper (London's Arches Edit) [Brainfeeder]
16. Beneath - Prangin' [Keysound]
17. Walton - Cool It VIP [Keysound]
18. Lil Silva - Funky Pulse [DDJS Productions]
19. Lone - Pineapple Crush [Magic Wire]
20. DJ Zinc - Wile Out feat Ms Dynamite [Bingo Bass]

There & Back 008: August, UK Funky 2008-2011

Happy hardcore is a funny one - a byword for the cheesiest dance music known to man, with the tackiest aesthetic. Whistles, white gloves, glowsticks. Saucer-shaped eyes, rictus grins, pumping fists. Hi-vis vests, cycling masks full of Vicks vapo-rub, tracksuits. As hardcore split into jungle and happy hardcore, and jungle went on to become drum n’ bass to critical plaudits, happy hardcore continued on its defiant path, not cool in the slightest and happier for that.

For the final mix in my There & Back series, I've delved into the early days of happy hardcore to deliver a mix of massive tunes. These tracks are so good, so much fun, and they just lift my mood whenever I slap on this mix (which is a lot in the last month since I made this). Instant sunshine. Enjoy!

Read more about this mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/02/pearsall-presents-there-back-012-december-early-happy-hardcore-1993-1995/

More mixes in the series: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/there-back-2024-crate-digging

More hardcore mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/hardcore-rave

Recorded in Berlin, December 2024
100% Vinyl
(59:31, 140 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:
01. Naughty Naughty - Rich in Paradise [Naughty Naughty]
02. DJ Mixmatt - R.P.T. (Rushin' Piano Track) [Man from UNCLE]
03. 2 Croozin - Life [Remix Records]
04. Heartless - Right Now [Heartless]
05. DJ Ham - And Higher [Kniteforce]
06. Higher Level - I Need You Now [Zodiac]
07. Smith & Brown - Do It Now [Homegrown]
08. DJ Force & The Evolution - Escape the Feeling [Kniteforce]
09. Happy Tunes - Pounding Beats [Happy Tunes]
10. Kriston - Got to Get Up [Just 4 U]
11. DJ Seduction - So In Love (Vibes & Wishdokta Remix) [Impact]
12. SMD - SMD1 (A) [SMD]
13. Naughty Naughty - Never Felt This Way [Naughty Naughty]
14. DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer - Feel So Real [Slammin Vinyl]
15. Seduction & Dougal - It's Not Over [Impact]
16. Billy 'Daniel' Bunter & JDS - Let It Lift You (Vibes & Wishdokta Remix) [Just Another Label]
17. Jimmy J & Cru-L-T - Take Me Away (Slipmatt Remix) [Remix / Kniteforce]
18. Oaysis - Incredible Bass (Slipmatt Remix) [Formation]
19. Crowd Pleasers - Volume Three (Side B) [Crowd Pleasers]
20. Billy 'Daniel' Bunter & D-Zyne - Ride Like the Wind ft Gem [Universal]

There & Back 012: December, Early Happy Hardcore 1993-1995

American in Berlin! I've been a dj since 1997, playing across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the variety of mixes. I love it all! 

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I sometimes play at Berlin clubs, but mostly I am a hardcore vinyl collector and bedroom mixer. Check out my blog at www.sonicrampage.org/blog

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