Legendary first Essential Mix from LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad... Still remember waking up one sunny Sunday in June 1995 and listening to the tape I'd set the night before... Timeless magical music. 

RIP MC Conrad, in my opinion the best MC to ever grace the mic in this music - no-one matched that style and delivery 🙏❤️🙌😎 
'The message in the music is to move...'

Architex – Blueprint (Basement)
Funky Technicians – Airtight (Legend)
Fokus – Online (DeeJay)
Q-Project – Instrumental (Looking Good Records)
Aquasky – Images (Moving Shadow)
PFM – Mystics (Good Looking Records)
Wax Doctor – Finer Things (R&S)
Ils & Solo – In the Area (Looking Good)
J Majik – Lush Life (Infrared)
Skanna – Find Me (Skanna)
JMJ & Richie – Universal Horn (Moving Shadow)
Carlito – Heaven (Creative Source)
Sentinel – Awakenings (Basement Records)
Oblivion – Sands of Time (Streetbeats)
LTJ Bukem – Horizons (Looking Good Records)
Source Direct – Exit 9 (Source Direct Records)
Photek & Tayla – Soul Searching (Good Looking Records)
PFM – One & Only (Looking Good Records)
DJ Trace – By Any Means Necessary (Dee Jay Recordings)
PFM – Rough With the Smooth

LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad Essential Mix 1995

A month on from Conrad's passing I was reminiscing to the second Bukem and Conrad Essential mix and thought I'd upload. Equally brilliant and revolutionary as their first Essential mix, this one built on the impeccable selection of 1995 with another slew of dubplates highlighting incredible tunes that would come out of Good Looking and a few other select labels over the coming years. The tunes ranged from intricate ambient workouts like Jonny L Tychonic Cycle to deep amen batterers like Universal's Live Session (which was a little different and better on dubplate). Some took a little longer such as the lost G-Force Proximity tune that didn't surface till only recently. It's no exaggeration to say all the tunes on this mix were peak golden age, particularly Crystl Mindgames and Intense Only You...

Again, Conrad absolutely rules this mix from start to finish with total confidence and deep soulful lyrics - beautiful stuff from the leading master of ceremonies. A perfect mix for a summer's day. 

'The music's gonna pick you up and take you for a stroll....New found mystics they unfold, we bring you stories that have never been told...'
So long and rest easy Conrad 🙌🙏

Tracklist
Axis – One in Ten
G-Force – Proximity
Jonny L – Tychonic Cycle
Mystic Moods – Jazz Stepper (Dubplate Mix)
Intense – The Genesis Project (Earl Grey Remix)
Shogun – Nautilus
Ken Ishii – Stretch (Shogun Remix)
Universal – Live Session
Voyager – Hyper Sleep
Seba & Lotek – So Long
The Funky Technicians & PHD – Above & Beyond
Forme – New Element
Intense – Only You
Subject 13 – Faith
DJ Crystl – Mind Games
Universal – Groove Therapy
UFO – Loud Minority (Alex Reece Remix)
Axis – High Point
Forces of Nature – Cool Spot
The Jedi Knights – Solina
Phungus – Untitled
Voodoo Child – Desperate

LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad - Second Essential Mix - 1996

Little tribute to one of my favourite mixes from back in the day that still gets rinsed regularly due to dangerously high levels of Voyager content.
It's pretty faithful to the original Fabio and Cleveland Watkiss mix but with a couple of additions for good measure.
Hopefully get round to a full mix of the Compilation tunes in the not too distant future to complement this one.
2 x turntables, vinyl and a dash of DVS only where strictly necessary 🙏

Tracklist 
Voyager - Martian Chronics
Fokus – Like Dat
Q Project & Spinback – Rikers Island
Carlito – Heaven
Voyager – Hypersleep
Funky Technicians – Airtight (Remix)
DJ Trace – Miles High
Adam F – F Jam
Universal Traveller – Midnite (Voyager Remix)
Voyager – Crystl Kleer (edit)
Big Bud – Temptation
Mouly & Lucida – Inertia
DJ Crystl - Paradise

Promised Land

Promised Land Vol Two Tribute mix July 2024

2 hours of everything with Pete Parsons name on. 

Before I knew what was what and who was behind the records, I had put together a hit list that in later years I realised was tied together with that Parsons genius. This mix collects together everything from solo productions, co-produced tunes through to tracks engineered by or mixed by the man himself. Pete always brought that buy on sight quality with the added extra magic and depth. I was chatting with Remedee about what makes his productions call out the goosebumps and Connor hit the nail on the head "It's emotion". Alongside that key ingredient, everything comes with a big ol heaped spoon of creativity and always the quality production. As a bonus its generally dj friendly arrangement (except maybe Rythm Process lol). Anyways respect to the grand master, the daddy don - thank you for doing it right 🙏🏻

P.s. Limited by what i have in my racks - Probably a part 2 coming as I didn't get fully into the speed era stuff. Feel free to let me know of more Pete stuff that I missed this time round.

01 DJ Phantasy – Yeah, Roll Da Beats 1994 (hopefully Pete engineered)
02 DJ Fokus – Chill Out 1993
03 Static Substance – Mind Games 1993
04 Joint Project – Dark In Da Jungle 1993
05 Future Sound Of Hardcore – Promised Land 1994
06 DJ Fokus – Get A Bearing 1994
07 Rev-P – Rythm Process 1994
08 Engineers Without Fears – Spiritual Aura 1994
09 Future Sound Of Hardcore – Euphoria 1993
10 DJ Fokus – Watch Out 1994
11 DJ Crystl - Inna year 4000 1994
12 DJ Rap – Tibetan Jungle 1994
13 Harmony & Xtreme – Watch This 1994
14 DJ Crystl – Let It Roll 1994
15 DJ Rap - Spiritual Aura (DJ Rap Get Raw Remix) 1994
16 Harmony & Xtreme – Temple Of Doom 1994
17 DJ Crystl – Let It Roll (Remix) 1994   
18 DJ Crystl – Meditation 1993
19 Harmony & Xtreme – Mystified 1994
20 DJ Crystl – Deep Space 1993
21 DJ Harmony - So Real (Harmony Remix) 1995
22 D.J. Fokus – Pulse 1995
23 Voyager – Knowledge (Remix) 1994
24 Code Blue – Angels In Rhythm 1994
25 DJ Crystl – Experience 1995
26 DJ Trace – Final Chapta 1995
27 The Dream Team – L.A. Dreams (Pete Parsons Remix) 1996

Recorded live on @afterdarkradio-org with a stack of 44 records to choose from :)

Mafs - After Dark Radio 31 - Pete Parsons Special - 12.01.25

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Been listening to, mixing and making jungle, hardcore and d&b since first hearing DJ JINX on PULSE FM playing tracks like Paradise Project, TicTacToe and Order2Move early 1992.     
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