Name: HMS @ Helter Skelter - The Strings Of Life - 1997 by The Rave Music Archive
Duration: 30 min 19 s
Description: HMS & MC Ribbz @ Helter Skelter 'The Strings Of Life' on Saturday the 7th of June 1997.

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Back in 1997, at the peak of Italy’s underground hardcore movement, a young producer named Manuele Tessarollo, known today as T78 or Activator, dropped his first-ever release under the alias Manuel E.S.. The EP, titled “Welcome to the Next Level”, marked not only his debut into the world of electronic music, but also introduced a raw, energetic, and uncompromising sound that resonated deeply with the hardcore and gabber community of the time.

Released on Italian Steel, a niche sub-label of the legendary D-Boy Records, the EP quickly became a cult vinyl, passed from DJ to DJ and treasured by collectors. With no digital release and no availability on streaming platforms for decades, its legend grew quietly, fueled by word-of-mouth and rave nostalgia.

At the heart of the EP is the track “Old Soul”, a hardcore anthem that encapsulates the raw energy and emotion of the late ’90s gabber scene. 

The rest of the EP delivers exactly what the title promises: a journey into the next level of hardcore — full of distorted aggression, high-speed rhythms, and a youthful defiance that foreshadowed Tessarollo’s future evolution into one of Italy’s most respected techno and hardstyle producers.

Now, after more than two decades in obscurity, Infamia Records has finally reissued the EP using the original master recordings. This long-awaited re-release is a gift to die-hard fans and an invitation for a new generation to discover a hidden gem from one of Italy’s foundational producers.

Artist: Manuel E.S.
Title: Blow Your Mind
Version: Original Mix
Release Date: 05/09/2025

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Welcome To The Next Level Ep

Blow Your Mind (Original Mix)

INF089 - Manuel E.S. "Blow Your Mind" (Preview)(Infamia Records)(Out 05/09/25)

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} From A Coruscating Hope’s very first sputters of tapping percussion and crackling texture - Skegness, England based producer Dean Grant Collier, known as Grant Deane, weaves a web of hypnotic and mysterious dichotomy. It is a record draped in haze - both cloaked in nuanced and cloudy tones and somehow equally as illuminating and vivid. As the pieces gently unfurl there is a sense of wandering through the fantastic, though at 8 tracks and 46 minutes it is hardly a meander - nor is it brisk. A Coruscating Hope is ostensibly a minimal techno record, albeit one that lurches forward through muted IDM kissed soundscapes; but, it is brimming with life and motion. Taking inspiration from the minutiae of complex emotional scapes as well as brutalist architecture, Grant Deane’s shimmering productions map out an inner journey - a view from a train merging with the commuting occupants’ reflections. 

}} A Coruscating Hope’s tracks are meditations - tone poems where snippets of vocals and carefully assembled snaking synths wind beguilingly around jagged percussion interjections on liquid grooves. At times such as in “The Surfacing Dawn”, “Potential Energy” and say “Stuff Falling” the effect is a warm lull of synaptic agreement, chugging along with grace and poise. At others such as on “With Less of a Jolt Than We Were Braced For” and “Forever Wanting To Be Over There” the effect is more unstable, with dissonant tones mounting and swirling around the groove in a deftly manoeuvred balancing act - one in which the titles themselves give clever hints as to what is causing the mischief - whether they be implied anxiety or yearning.  In this way the record feels intensely personal, concise and yet expansive, moody and yet optimistic. 

}}} A Coruscating Hope, it might therefore be said, is a record poised at the crossroads of listening environment applications: there are a few moments for the adventurous dancefloor to be sure, but much of the record truly lies in a hypnagogic inner space…a soundtrack for contemplative rumination and self discovery.

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HMS & MC Ribbz @ Helter Skelter 'The Strings Of Life' on Saturday the 7th of June 1997.

Helter Skelter-The Strings of Life

HMS @ Helter Skelter - The Strings Of Life - 1997

My 2nd deep dive into my 94/95 hardcore and jungle vinyl, where a lot of music crossed over with pianos, basslines, ruff breaks and ragga samples all over the place. 

Music from Formation, Impact, Just Another Label, Congo Natty, Back 2 Basics, RSR, London Some'ting, Suburban Base, Naughty Naughty and more...

Thumpa - Return To The Source Vol 2 (1994/1995 Hardcore & Jungle)

Here's my monthly radio show on TRHY Radio.

Broadcast on the first Wednesday of the month at 18:00 GMT, in association with Phase One DJ & Disco equipment https://www.djanddiscostuff.com/

https://www.facebook.com/trhyradio/

Trackilst:
The Deadkirks - Let's Make Some Fuckin' Noise
P.W.M. - Are You Ready To Move (Techno Mix)
Psychic Flush - Boomergang 
Shades Of Rhythm - Armageddon
Outlander - Vamp
The Prodigy - Charly (Beltram Says Mix)	
Sonic Experience - Protein (Hardcore Innovator) 
Hackney Hardcore - Dancehall Dangerous (Version 1) 
Tronik House - Spark Plug
Roel Butzen - Violent Wake Up
Holy Noise - The Nightmare	
Introsik - Heavy Atmosphere 
The Nighttripper - Triptone 
M.I.C. - OOBE1 	
Channel X - Rave The Rhythm 	
Virus 666 - Cant Stop The Move (Inhuman mix)	
Doug Lazy V Neon - Let The Messed Beat Roll (DJ Smurf mashup)

DJ SMURF @ TRHY Radio - 02/09/2020 [Oldskool set]

The third and final part to my tribute to the 1992 and 1993 music played at the legendary Quest in Wolverhampton...all different tunes!

01. Turbulence - Disaster Area
02. Luke Slater - Moave Violin
03. The Subjects vs Jeff Mills - Dark Matter
04. Scott & Keith - Get Busy Cru
05. Nick OD - Distance (I Need You)
06. Force Mass Motion - Vanishing Point
07. Ionosphere - Perfect Hibernation
08. Ruff Rider - You And Me
09. Force Mass Motion - Force Format
10. Underground Software  - Different Ting (Tek 9 Remix)
11. DJ Hooligan - B.O.T.T.R.O.P.
12. Scott & Keith - Deranged (Bonus Drums Mix)
13. Bald Terror - Hardcore
14. FBD Project - Terminate
15. Peshay - Gangster
16. The Godfather - Look To The Light
17. Defcon Situation 1 - Brainwasher
18. DJ Rap & Aston - Jeopardy (DJ Spice Mix)
19. Tim Taylor - Istanbul (Taktix Remix)
20. FBD Project - The Core
21. Johnny Jungle - Flammable (Tango Remix)
22. Citrus - Fascination
23. Cool Hand Flex - Mars
24. Uncle 22 - 6 Million Ways to Die (DJ Hype remix)
25. Foul Play - Open Your Mind
26. DJ Crystl - Warp Drive
27. Ed Rush - Bludclot Artattack
28. Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth
29. Noise Factory - Can You Feel The Rush
30. International Rude Boyz - Paragone (Remix)
31. Armageddon - You'll Never Be Mine (Hardcore Club Mix)
32. Q-Bass - Gun Connection (M-Beat remix)
33. Bizzy B - Rubadub Style
34. Potential Bad Boy - Set Me Free

Enjoy :)

Thumpa - Let's Go Back To Quest Part 3! (92/93 Hardcore / Jungle Techno)

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Clarkee @ Dreamscape 21 on Sunday the 31st of December 1995.

Clarkee @ Dreamscape 21 - NYE 1995

Uploads of UK Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Drum & Bass, Old Skool, Jungle, Breakbeat, Techno, Hard House & Trance. If anyone objects to a mix being uploaded, then please leave a comment, and I will remove it. Enjoy!

For my music productions and DJ mixes, please visit 
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HMS @ Helter Skelter - The Strings Of Life - 1997

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