Hardcore Rhythm Team - Do U C The Light [1992]

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Label: OHM Records ‎– OHM-001
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Style: Breakbeat, Techno

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Yolk ‎– Music 4 Da People

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It’s been a year since I was last chatting to Bernie and Terry AKA Serotonin AKA the world famous Krome & Time. The last interview covered their debut release on their infamous Tearin Vinyl label whereas for this interview we are taking a step back, well, quite a few steps back being how quickly the hardcore, rave and jungle scenes were progressing back then. From 1994 back to the glory year of 1992. And what a big change the scene went through over those two years and what an advancement of sound Bernie & Terry went through during that time too. So how did this project come about guys?

“This release was the bridge between us leaving Suburban Base and getting round to starting Tearin Vinyl” Terry aka Krome explains “We wanted to start something new. But we wanted to do it without people knowing it was us. To be a bit more experimental and to try a few new ideas”.

Bernie, also known as Mr. Time adds more background to the project “This was the time when the white label was king. That’s what people wanted. It felt more exclusive and special and we wanted to do something like that, to get in on that scene. So we pressed up a load of copies and filled up the boot of the car and just drove around the country. We use to use flyers to help us. Often these big raves would list local record shops where you could buy tickets, so we used those to build up a list of shops around the country using those as our resource and we would hit the road”.

Bernie continues “We use to choose an area and hit 2-3 record shops a day, dropping off records ‘sale or return’. Going back a week or two later to collect our money. With the Serotonin release we sold them all ourselves without distribution. We had pressed up a couple of thousand copies and sold them for about 5 or 6 quid each. It could of even been 3000 units for that releases, I can’t remember! It was so much fun as you were in total control of your money, as long as the shops paid you that is. But you think about it, 3000 records at £5 each, that’s not a bad chunk of change for a couple of kids. It kept us going”. Terry adds “We were based in East London, so we only travelled a certain distance every day. No further north than Milton Keynes but the vast majority of what we sold was either in London or down South. We went down to Brighton, Gravesend, Worthing and Portsmouth, as well as other places down there that I can’t remember right now. Our main fanbase was down south actually and I think that’s a lot to do with Sterns and that we played there a lot. We were well known down that part of the country due to that club and Mensa and the support he gave us. The south had such a vibrant scene which started in Worthing thanks to Sterns and it just spread out from there, along the coast”.

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