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Another 1996 Mixtape from the 	archives. 
Had a listen to this and all I could think was how diverse the music was then. 

Diva vocals, pounding beats, piano riffs, cover versions of commercial tracks, quality, cheese, and those rare  tunes that you had heard somewhere and brought back those oh so good feeling from a dark corner of a dance floor somewhere. 

From clubs that were hard to get into unless you were the “right look”, to clubs that wouldn’t let you in if you were the “right look”. From under dressed tiny hot pants and bras to overdressed, anything worked if you could carry it off. All the way hrough to secret parties in derelict houses - how did we survive? 

I remember being in a 2 storey terrace house in the backstreets of Darlinghurst for a party that you had to call a number to find out where it was, there was a massive gaping hole in the upstairs floor that was the dance floor, god only knows how we avoiding falling through it. 

Music production varied from well produced pieces of pure magic to slapped together bootlegs - back then we called those white labels. 

All us DJ’s did everything we could to get our hands on the “limited edition” white labels as we knew or were told by our friendly vinyl pusher that its the LAST copy and there was only 50 copies released. Sometimes that was true… sometimes nah…. But you wouldn’t take the risk would you? 

The race was always who would play the next big tune first, back then there was no “hey dj can you play *Insert current top 10 track”. There was no waiting for someone else to turn it into a hit. 

Believe or not, I don’t hear vocals - I hear whats under the vocals and that for me is the journey, vocals get in the way of a good story! There is said it! 

Try to tell me or sing the vocals to something and I’ll most likely give you a blank look. 

The dance floor was served a selection of brand new tunes, new styles, experiments, vocals, instrumentals - yes the era when the best tunes had NO VOCALS - I was in my music heaven then! 

Back then people would follow certain DJ’s because they loved the particular style the DJ had, and the access to that music was limited to the DJ’s or avid music collectors as vinyl was expensive! Imagine paying anywhere from $15 and upwards for ONE tune? It was a bonus if both sides of the vinyl had winner tunes. 

Considering my pay rate was $35 per hour back then at my main gig (and then taxed) it meant either lots of gigs or day jobs just to sustain a healthy vinyl collection, let alone feed and support a child and myself. 

There was always a compromise, if you wanted the good gigs you were paid less as they were high profile and then you made up  the money for it on other side gigs. 

I will be releasing the Archived Mixtapes through the years that I was recording them. I still have a couple I could salvage from the collection for 1996. 1997. 1998. 1999. 

Some of the tapes didn’t survive, the quality is so bad that it was painful to hear. But, I’m glad that some have survived.  

As I listen to the tunes, they all bring memories of either buying them, playing them, trying to mix them and the worst was scratching them, ohhhh the pain of scratching a favourite tune! 

There are quite a few tunes I don’t have anymore, there’s another story there. Some I sold to fund my move to Melbourne, some were stolen - the stolen ones broke my heart as they were the cream of what I was playing in 1998 and 1999 and a lot of unique vinyl that was my sound and I have not found them again as I didn’t catalogue what I had so the artists and titles have been lost to me. 

Between the vinyl, flight cases, headphones, and a case of cds, it broke me. That happened on my birthday, I didn’t think I would recover.

Jewelz December 1996 Mixtape Side A And B

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The sixth instalment of a collection of mixes I will be putting together showcasing some of the timeless songs that remind me of the club that we all grew to love.

This mix is not a collection of hits, as there will be many more in this series. It will be cycling through the songs that represent classics to me, some will be more known as others.

DCM Classics 06

New shit the bed mix with my good friend zachary enjoy xx

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THIS IS TONE ZONE VOL.1

If you didn't know I'm 1 half of TONE ZONE with the other half being Zed Kay.

We wanted to showcase the songs we been working on since we joined forces a couple months ago!

Hope you enjoy the sounds of Tone Zone.

Plenty more to come, this is only the start.

THIS IS TONE ZONE VOL.1

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Here's a 2 hour mix of some tunes i played when i was in charge of the opening set at DcM Saturdays.. some great classics in there
Turn your stereo up!
Listen, Share and enjoy..

Dj Rata DcM Opening Set

Oldskool Nrg (1996-1999) 2nd instalment - banging from start to finish

DjKanu - Bootleg Mix Vol.2 (Oldskool Nrg)

ORIGINLLY STARTED PLAYING TRANCE, OLD SKOOL TRANCE AND NRG. .. BUT I HAVE NOW TURNED TO  MELODIC HOUSE & TECHNO, HOUSE, TECH HOUSE, PROGRESSIVE HOUSE & AFRO HOUSE.
DM ME FOR MORE INFO & BOOKINGS.

Well, my original attraction to hip-hop, especially freestyle hip-hop, ties in with my ADHD, and from since I could remember, my authoritarians have reminded me that I have a big mouth,
 or I’m a smartass, or that someone will fill my big mouth in one day, so it was an attraction that I could utilize my natural gift of challenging the worship or rebuttal with substance,
 meaning, and mostly understanding at the original time of my training, my brain to speak in rhyme was to outsmart the apparent smart people who know better than to take their words pull them apart restructure them, and have them contradict their own wisdom that was initially to 
teach this big mouth a lesson as schooling was not my strong point whilst at school when I left, I started reading heaps and started teaching myself how to form phonetically correct sentences or to make use of 
adverbs and the funny thing is that when you exceed the level of the
 self-appointed coherence of the coherent, they turn around and say it does not make sense. 
Or is it just waffle and the ignorance of people who are too self-absorbed to see there are more levels than self-appointed elite status I would like to challenge of challenging the elite status of knowledge well, 
I am a tad older these days, so I don't have as much.
 I desire to correct the elders as I am one. Aha, so here we are 20 years on, and I still use rap, the power of words, and DS as a tool to either therapize myself or point out a message that otherwise would. 
just be lost in the shitstorm people like to create also once I have recorded my rebuttal. 
or message that I want to be heard or just unload a load on my own chest it can't be changed, and there is never any he said she said because it is exactly what I said funny people soon start understanding when it is heard by more than their ear, and he doesn’t make sense line doesn’t wash because I’m like well 100000 
Other people got it. Concisely, that’s where my inspiration originally came from. Eminem played a big part in the way I use words, double syllables, limericks, double entendres, etc.
 There are a lot of artists that inspire my way of lyricism, from my written works to my freestyle works. My word selection is very conscious, and I have spent 20 years fine-tuning what was. 
Once, I thought it was impossible to achieve, but I got there. Well, my own goal, anyway, was just to be able to throw a beat on and let my brain take over.


As time inches towards dawn's mistress of light,
daylight glistens and a new chapter of life starts its beginnings.
your troubles left at yesterday's end. make today your own free for you to bend
Set the trend for tomorrow's new
When all is blue remember the next days a new 
And a fresh breath of life waits just for you.

Written by
samples9ine poodle mc 
2010

I am who I am
That's
All that I’ll be
You are also.
you
Free to be you.
You
You are who you be?
I won’t ever be tempted to
Ask.
So please don't preach.
My loyalty undoubted its known without speech
All I ask.
We don't burn.
Position of royalty
Our lives gifted.
One to an another
You
To me honest
We stand here as lovers.
What is shared between two?
In fleeting
Moments we breath
Shall be both under this omen.
Time
Shall still stand open
The words
That we spoken
BE life locked in its key
What is shared between lovers?
Not a weapon for SCORN lovers
This be trust.
Fuck
Love
Promise
Both hold true to this promise
Standing present
As lovers
You and me honest

Written by 
samples9ine 
2024

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