Well it's not all from London I know, but like many a scene, London has often been a processing point for what's being generated elsewhere. In this case, very much courtesy of Frankfurt, Detroit, Rotterdam, New York and of course the UK itself. This is a fairly close recreation of the regular sets I played at VFM, Dead By Dawn, Eurobeat 2000, Institute Of Goa, Helter Skelter and various squat parties (Spiral Tribe, Bedlam) in and around London. Hard banging techno leading up to some of the decent first instances of gabba.  It's at a point where things were quickly splintering off from the highly successful UK Rave Hardcore sound of 92 and reconnecting with a harder updated version of what had previously been coming out of Detroit, Brooklyn, Belgium and Holland around 89/90/91. Looking back, though it seemed such a very separate sound from breakbeat hardcore, with the distance of time they were both very much shades of the same rave. Ah the memories….


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Warlock - The Hard Sound Of London 1992-1994

1.	Overcast - Problem Solver	
2.	Nasenbluten - There It Is	
3.	Syndicate - Jungle Muffin	
4.	Nasenbluten - Intellectual Killer	
5.	Nasenbluten - Dash	
6.	Overcast - Get Alarmed	
7.	Nasenbluten - Mylan	
8.	Nasenbluten - Knobs & Knockers	
9.	Nasenbluten - Blows T' The Nose	
10.	Nasenbluten - Cut Her To Bits	
11.	Syndicate - Terrorists	
12.	Syndicate - Grim Reaper	
13.	Syndicate - Visions Of Death	
14.	Xylocaine - Igloo Terror	
15.	Embolisim - Devil Spawn	
16.	Overcast - The Only Way In	
17.	Nasenbluten - Cuntface	
18.	Nasenbluten - Wagga Wagga Wagga Is Wrong	
19.	Nasenbluten - Race Against Time

Manu Le Malin -  Radio Nova (Spécial Bloody Fist)

Specially recorded studio set for Revalation -- from a double pack also featuring Mach One & Carl Cox ........... a few months later, Carl would return to Revalation in Plymouth and actually play my 1st ever release -- Edge Records 13 --- HOME RUN :) :) :)

THE DJ PRODUCER REVELATION STUDIO MIX 1994

Lost , possibly never aired Oldschool Mashup from 1998

Using Sonic Foundry's "Acid" - before Ableton was even a word :)

Sounded good after loose phase correction -- UPLOADED - ENJOY <3

THE DJ PRODUCER REMINISCENCE VOL. 2 1998

- DJ Fishead from CA -
In the early 90's Fishead made his mark in the c underground as the hardest of the hard. His unique sound made him one of that city's most popular DJs. It wasn't long before he caught the attention of promoters in western Canada and the midwest United States and he soon became known throughout North America for his uncompromising style.

In late 1996 he began writing for Massive Magazine and was soon sharing Hardcore Editor duties with Doormouse. His work with the magazine and close ties with record labels worldwide afforded him the opportunity to discover new talent and help a number of artists get the recognition they richly deserved. In addition, his constant travel allowed him to help a number of Canadian artists gain exposure across the continent.

As a DJ he is capable of playing just about any style, and has been known to blend genres in creative ways. He is back on the Canadian prairies, after living in Montreal for several years, and still seeking out new ways of fusing sounds together.

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:::::Tracklist
1. Eraserhead - Just Like Regular Chickens - IRS
2. Overcast - F-Projection - Bloody Fist
3. Unibomber - Jungle Track - Distort
4. Doormouse - Black Cop White Cop - Distort
5. Pitchhiker - Pilldriver - Cold Rush
6. 3D + Snuggles - Defender [Problem Child remix] - Ghetto Safari
7. Ingler - T Plus - SixSixtySix
8. Randy x Ingler - Callscream - Epiteth
9. Micropoint - Zeq9 - StormCore
10. Mouse - Deji - Karnage
11. Demoiselle Douce Innocence - Moonbreaker - Anticore
12. EPC - Baryton Place - Blut
13. Fist of Fury - Huuiirr - Slaves of Devil Our Master
14. No Name - Koma - Fischkopf
15. Neurocore - Transsexual Paranoia - Underground Perversions
16. Venetian Snares - Bashing His Head - Hangars Liquides
17. Burning Lazy Person - If the Truth Be Known - Fischkopf
18. Masonna - Sonic - Anti-Music
19. Speedy Qs - Energy Speedway - Ks
20. 303 Nation - Double Speed Mayhem - DancePool
21. Merzbow - ElectroKnots Part 2 - Cold Spring


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【SBMBHCR100】" DJ FISHEAD " December 2022

1.	Nasenbluten - Mystines Makes Gas	
2.	Nasenbluten - Robert S Flapp	
3.	Nasenbluten - The Lassie Feeling	
4.	Nasenbluten - Day In The Dark	
5.	The Shaftmen - Shaftman	
6.	Nasenbluten - Concrete Compressor (Renal Mix)	
7.	Xylocaine - Street Sam	
8.	Overcast - Untitled	
9.	Xylocaine - U.S.S. Triton	
10.	Nasenbluten - Broken Arse	
11.	Nasenbluten - Dermal Plating	
12.	Nasenbluten - Aim @ The Brain	
13.	Xylocain - Prosthesis	
14.	Nasenbluten - Urinal Fun	
15.	Nasenbluten - Holy Arse	
16.	Nasenbluten - Race Against Time	
17.	Nasenbluten - Dirty Rotten Bastard	
18.	Nasenbluten - Pessimistic Guy

Nasenbluten – Live In Newcastle - 1996

Up next representing mix 008 we have a debut from Terminal Madness. What better way to celebrate mothers day then to blast some hard tunes into the old dear's ear holes! 

Some of you will know him as Gand for spending the last 10+ years playing his oldskool jungle, hardcore and garage collection out for a whole host of events such as LWT, Distant Planet, Rupture and Jungle Syndicate to name a few. Now it's time for the birth of Terminal Madness! He'll be bringing a relentless selection of twisted, pounding tribe, which he'll also be debuting at the Tarantism takeover at the Bangface weekender. So get involved, check this stomper of a mix out & see you down the front 😉

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Tarantism Mix-008 - Terminal Madness

It was a real pleasure to welcome legendary Australian Disc Jockey Mark N into the Kool London Studio for a guest mix . Known mainly for his Hardcore sets, Mark wanted to showcase his Hip Hop influences on this one and what a mix he turned out !! (100% Vinyl as is standard for this show) More info here: www.facebook.com/DJ.Mark.N.Australia
Being extremely knowledgable and passionate about the music, Mark was kind enough to send over an extended and ultra informative track listing to bring the listeners in on a few extra details :) 
Apologies for the mic feeding back during the first couple of tracks..

Tracklist : 

Lynn Collins - Think 
Rob Base & Dj EZ Rock - It Takes Two
Rob Base & Dj EZ Rock  - Keep It Going Now
Word Of Mouth ft. DJ Cheese - King Kut
Gunshot - Battle Creek Brawl
Big daddy Kane - Nuff Respect
Breakfreak Inc - Just A Break Freak
First Frontal Assault - Atomic Air Raid
Kool G Rap - Kool Is Back
MC Paul Barman - Housemate Troubles
Society Suckers - Kakke Ekko
Depth Charge - Depth Charge Vs Silver Fox ft. MC Alkaline
___________________________________

Mark N Guest Mix:

1. Bomb The Bass / Megablast (Original Rap Version) (1988)
Several versions of this track were released and out of all of them, this is by far the greatest. A stripped down version consisting of UK MC Merlin on vocals over a rough Apache break, complimented by DJ D-Zire transform scratching the intro of The Jimmy Castor Bunch classic 'It's Just Begun'. This version was only released on a 7” which was given away free with copies of the UK music magazine 'Record Mirror' in September 1988.

2. Bomb The Bass / Megablast (7” Edit) (1988)
This was the re-worked version made as the theme tune for the classic Amiga/Atari shoot'em up 'Xenon 2:Megablast'. It was also released as the B side of the Bomb The Bass single 'Don't Make Me Wait' in 1988. Samples / breaks / cuts all in the mix. Original UK sample-house.

3. Big Daddy Kane / Raw (Extended Alternate Version) (circa 1988)
Rough as a badger's arse! This weird version was recorded on cassette from the radio in New York in the very late 80s. It features Big Daddy Kane freestyling over an extended stripped down and brutalized 'Hot Pants' break rolled out by Marley Marl. The recording is so distorted (with added radio compression) that it inadvertently beefs the break up beyond the stratosfear. This version finally hit wax in 2006 on the reissue of Kool G Rap & Polo's 'Road To The Riches' 4xLP special edition.

4. Kool G Rap & Polo / Men At Work (1989)
From the same album as the above cut. Another rugged and raw Marley Marl production utilizing a liberal amount of Incredible Bongo Band's classic 'Apache'. Added 808 kicks for flavour and Kool G Rap lisping and spitting at breakneck speed seemingly without ever coming up for air. “I might be cool but I'm far from a fan”. Golden era business.

5. Twin Hype / Do It To The Crowd (1989)
Two brothers Glennis and Lennis Brown paying homage to their DJ King Shameek over what sounds like a sick rock break. This track has a touch of hip house about it which caused a bit of sneering from the hip hop bosses at the time. It remains one of the best hybrid tracks of its time though with loads of on-the-fly scratches and drop ins. The twins ended up in prison after their career took a sharp dive following the final Twin Hype release in 1991, when they were rumoured to have been involved in an armed robbery which went awry.

6. MC Duke / I'm Riffin (1990 Remix) (1990)
A slightly unusual re-blast of UK MC Duke's original 1989 masterwork, found on the B side of The Final Conflict single on Music Of Life. This version has a slightly more stripped down break combined with sections of Kraftwerk's 'The Model' rocking away in the background. Duke's vocal delivery also seems a bit more subdued than the original.

7. MC Duke / I'm Riffin (The Criminal Minds 5 Year Grudge Mix) (2013)
Awesome recent remix of the original, using Duke's original 1989 vocal track. Remixed by Spatts from The Criminal Minds, with loads of break switch-ups and old school britcore-style open fader roll cuts by Sir Jerome Hill. Released on Jerome's own label Fat Hop last year. Supreme!

8. Sound Unlimited / One More From The City (A.S.K.'s Concord West Refix) (1992)
Australian 12” from the early 90s. Sound Unlimited were one of the only Australian hip hop groups signed to a major in the early 90s. They copped a bit of stick from some of the other hip hop crews in Aus because of this, but they were doing their thing and had some pretty good releases in my opinion – of which this was their final. The original version of this single was far too smooth for my liking, but a remix by old school legendary Aus hip hop DJ A.S.K was commissioned. He wasted no time at all stripping out all the 'music' from the original and roughing it up in the extreme. Breakbeats, loops and berserk layered cuts all in the mix. Amazing. 

9. Ice-T / Mic Contract (1991)
From his epic opus 'OG Original Gangster'. Ice is on fire here threatening all other MC's with his career-ending skills on the mic. This track was omitted from the European vinyl version of OG for some reason, but did appear on the rare US promo-only double LP alongside all the instrumentals on a separate plate. I've spun this in the mix from the equally as rare US radio-only 2xLP promo where all the rude words are replaced with radio static. I've also slipped into the instrumental and busted out a few 80s style cuts to break the mix up a bit.

10. John Davis / I Can't Stop (1976)
Original B-Boy breakbeat which I first heard cut up to absolute perfection on Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince's 'He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper'. I've used it here from Volume 7 of Ultimate Breaks & Beats, just like everyone else did in the 80s.

11. Unique / Axe-Maniac (1989)
I never believed that the record shopping in Japan was as good as everyone said it was until I turned this one up when I was there. It's the B-side of the 'Pure Dynamite' single on Sylvia Robinson's US post-Sugarhill label New Day Records. An absolute slept-on DJ battle classic where Unique talks about how his DJ Godfather D chops up 'new-jacks'. Some killer lines in there including “cuts are much too deep for a band-aid”. Rough stripped down production using the aforementioned John Davis break. Unique's career unfortunately ended after just two singles and before his debut LP got a full release. Booo. I wonder what ever became of DJ Godfather D?

12. Trouble / I Get Hype (1988)
Britcore at its absolute finest. Appearing on Tim Westwood's short-lived hip hop label Justice. Using liberal amounts of James Brown's Give It Up Or Turn It Loose as the basis. Killer vocal delivery. Killer cuts. Roughness on wax. Not sure what happened to Trouble, discogs leads to an artist called Detroit Red, who looks as if he's done some vocal work on a Caveman release in 1992, after which his trail goes cold.

13. Demon Boyz / Vibes (1988)
Awesome and rough track from the classic London trio who set themselves apart from a lot of other Britcore at the time by unashamedly rapping in their native accents. One of my favourite acts from the Music Of Life label.

14. Mark Summers / Summers Magic (1990)
When I first heard this tune in Australia in 1990, I had no idea that the main sample was from Magic Roundabout, the BBC children's TV show (it wasn't screened on Aus TV). Weirdly I first heard this tune on JJJ (nationwide youth radio in Australia) just after it came out and recorded it on cassette. It wasn't quite like the earlier sample house of Coldcut, Bomb The Bass and MARRS as it was quicker and used more unusual sections of sample sources including a killer loop from Fred Wesley & JB's 'Blow Your Head' in one part. It's a pretty cheesy cut-up record – but it does pre-date some of the gimmicky cheese of the early breakbeat hardcore scene. I'd hazard a sensible guess that most of the samples in this tune weren't cleared – and the delicious irony here is that Mark Summers went on to run a company that 're-creates' samples for people instead of 'clearing' them. Amazing!

15. Simon Harris / Bass (How Low Can You Go) (Bass Below Zero Mix) (1988)
Another early UK 'sample-house' record that had a world-wide release via a major. There are a few versions knocking around (including a version mixed by Public Enemy's Professor Griff!). My favourite version by far though is this one by DJ Streets Ahead where he strips the track down to a bare skeleton and cuts up original breaks over the top. Streets Ahead was a favourite UK DJ of mine in the late 80s as he did cuts on a lot of UK records including some Norman Cook releases. Nobody seems to talk about Streets Ahead much these days, and a bit of research recently turned up the unfortunate fact that he passed away in 2012. He will live on in many people's record collections though, including mine. RIP Shem, thanks for all the cuts.

16. Bomb The Bass / Beat Dis (Gangster Boogie Inc. Remix) (1988)
Seminal UK sample-house tune which again had a worldwide release, and uses a bedside digital beeping alarm clock as the main hook. The version that was locally released in Australia had the 4 bar uncleared sample of 'The Good The Bad & The Ugly' by Ennio Morricone removed, but I managed to get hold of the UK import 12”. The original UK release also initially appeared on a 'fake' US label called Mister-Ron, apparently with the intention of leading the London locals on to believe that it was a USA import with more 'kudos' than a local production. This version was a slightly rearranged remix with the guitar sample isolated at the beginning. It's not in the mix for long here, as I was eager to move along into.....

17. Bomb The Bass / Beat Dat (Freestyle Scratch Mix) (1988)
This version appears at the very end of the Bomb The Bass debut album 'Into The Dragon'. Remixed by J Saul Kane (Depth Charge) who also did the manic, slightly sloppy but perfectly appropriate cuts. Sick!

18. Coldcut / Which Doctor? (1989)
From the debut Coldcut album 'What's That Noise?'. Beautiful dubby London melancholy with breakbeats and Matt Black transform-scratching what seems like someone yelling 'heeeeeeelllppp' from a children's record as the main hook. Loads of unknown acapella drop-ins, cuts and spinbacks throughout the tune, some of them very subtle. Still sounds amazing some 25 years after the fact.

19. RPO / 1991 (And I Just Begun) (Next Skool Remix) (1991)
Early dark breakbeat tune by German artist The Mover (of PCP fame), who was also busy at the time with single handedly inventing hardcore techno / gabber and it's variants under the name Mescalinum United. This version appears on the Planet Core compilation Frankfurt Trax Volume 2.

20. Richie Rich / My DJ (Pump It Up Some) (1988)
Another UK cut-up record this time by Richie Rich on his own label Gee Street (a subsidiary of Island). Tons of breakbeats, samples and 'oh fuck it that'll do' cuts. My favourite part is where he transforms the whole intro of Fred Wesley & The JB's 'Blow Your Head' over the top of the breaks and it manages to sit in time. Amazing. There's also a clip for this on YouTube which is highly amusing. Great record! Richie went on to become more well-known for his massive 'Salsa House' tune in 1989, and his music career trajectory seems to go cold around '92. I wonder what he's up to these days?

21. Rythm Mode D / Flex With The Posse (1989)
This is none other than Mr Mark Archer (pre-Nexus 21 / Altern-8) and Dean Meredith (pre-Bizarre Inc). Chris Peat and Andrew Meecham were also part of the crew at this time. Throughout 88 and 89 the crew released a few singles on their Stafford studio's in-house label 'Blue Chip', and then an album called 'So Damn Tough'. The album swings between acid house and breakbeats – the combination of which is unmistakably British. This track consists of simple loops which give way every 8 bars to turntable drop-ins of some original b-boy breakbeats. Simple, rough and awesome.

22. Incredible Bongo Band / Apache (1973)
The basis of a lot of fine golden era hip hop and one of the finest breakbeats in history (next to the Amen of course). Anyone interested in the history of this particular record might want to have a look at the 2012 documentary 'Sample This'. Michael Viner, the guy responsible for putting the Incredible Bongo Band together was quite a card, and the documentary uncovers a lot of his activities pre and post Apache break. Every hip hop DJ who spins this record cuts it up in their own way. (For 7” fanatics I'd highly recommend the 2011 Mr Bongo reissue with Bongo Rock on the A side. It's loud and heavy!) I first heard the break cut back and forth by Grandmaster Flash on the seminal 1981 'Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel' and have been hooked since. The break constantly appeared in many permutations throughout hip hop, hip house, breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum & bass and breakcore. 
________________________________
Suspekt - Watch The Rebound
Hijack - Doomsday Of Rap (Instrumental)

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Roots of Rave show with special guest mix from Mark N. (Bloody Fist) Guest Mix 30.04.2014

Here's a clean(er) version of the all-vinyl Techstep mix which went out on LSDJ's jungletrain.net show on Wednesday 4th June 2014.
The mix is split into three movements, with the first being 1996, the second 1997 and the third 1998. I have included listening notes, tracklistings and discogs links for the trainspotters. The track selection is purely personal, totally arbitrary and by no means comprehensive. It's also only the tip of the iceberg of killer records from these years. Depending on the response I may roll out a part 2 in the near future as there's an abundance of records here waiting to be dusted off and re-introduced to the world. There's never enough hours in a day though, is there?

Listening notes: 

Time: 0:00:00 - 1996 - is the period where this particular style was beginning to take shape, and pretty much centres around the pioneers Ed Rush, Nico, Trace and Dom & Roland (who criminally went uncredited as a co-producer and engineer on many of these early records). There were a lot of breakbeats still in use during this period as you will hear, but they were beginning to be programmed in a more 'steppy' regimented fashion (as opposed to the unhinged syncopation of the best 94-95 Jungle). Despite this, some of these records still have a real 'loose' style of production with plenty of what sounds like midi lag (causing the drums to regularly slide out of time) and foggy mixdowns (as everyone involved was probably baked). As a result of all this you'll hear a bit of drifting in the mix where I had to ride the pitch constantly to keep the tunes in sync. There are in fact one or two tunes in this part of the mix where breakbeats were actually layered or triggered out of time during the production stage, resulting in the actual finished tracks sounding like sloppy DJ mixing. Understand these are not production shortcomings at all, but rather endearing anomalies from a time when drum & bass was produced on real and actual pieces of linked up, temperamental hardware. The records in this part of the mix are moody as hell, swinging between ingrained melancholy, hazy cannabis-induced paranoia and straight up darkness.

01) Dom & Roland - The Planets (Moving Shadow)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/9442 

02) Doc Scott - Machines (Emotif)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/31130

03) Ed Rush - Killamanjaro (Prototype)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/496736

04) Raw Deal - Headless Horseman (Elementz Of Noize Steppin' On Headz Mix) (Botchit & Scarper)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/45189

05) Future Forces Inc.‎– Point Of Origin (Renegade Hardware) 
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/220567
(NB: I'm pretty sure this was early 97, not 96)

06) Ed Rush - The Raven (Metalheadz)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/111344

07) Ed Rush • Trace • Nico ‎– Mad Different Methods (Nu Black)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/325534

08) Skyscraper - Liberty 1 (Emotif)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/4499

09) Ed Rush . Nico ‎– Comatone (No U-Turn)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/19024

10) Ed Rush . Nico ‎– Technology (Boymerang Remix) (No U-Turn)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/19015

11) Elementz Of Noize ‎– Neon (Emotif)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/15881


Time: 0:46:13 - 1997 - As 1996 wore on, producers from outside London began to get involved. The last 96 tune and the first 97 tune in this mix are both by Elementz Of Noize, hailing from Newcastle (UK), who would go on to put out a slew of awesome singles on many different labels over the following couple of years. The techstep bug also caught on with a few German producers and labels like Position Chrome, Precision Breakbeat Research, Don-Q and Gyration all churning out their own take on the sound during this period. From a production standpoint the tunes of this period are generally much cleaner (with a couple of exceptions), faster and more stripped down than the 96 selection. You'll hear the 'steppiness' of the drums getting harder and more well defined, with actual breakbeat loops appearing less in the productions apart from the occasional amen or helicopter fill between the 2-step kicks and snares. Another feature that crept in during 1997 was the harsh 'white noise' snare that would become a defining characteristic of the best techstep records throughout 97 and 98. A great example of this is the inimitable remix of Doc Scott's 'Shadow Boxing' which can be heard in the mix here, sticking out like dog's balls. There's still a lot of darkness in these 97 tunes, but you'll also hear an increasing amount of cold, rigid, minimal repetitive machine music as well such as the spectacularly challenging Mampi Swift tune 'Hi Tek'. (If your other half happens to be in the room and tolerates more than 1 minute of that particular tune you definitely have yourself a keeper.)

12) Elementz Of Noize ‎– Astral '97 (Mindswitch)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/31107

13) DJ Wyld Pitch ‎– Darb Down (Arcane)
http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Wyld-Pitch-Darb-Down-Mysterious-Kufa/release/632788

14) Nasty Habits ‎– Shadow Boxing (The Remix) (31 Records)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/19321

15) Kapricorn ‎– The Gate (Urban Flavour)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/255891

16) Majistrate ‎– Gravity (Juice Records)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/356815

17) Mampi Swift ‎– Hi Tek (Charge)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/84288

18) Skynet ‎– MK Ultra (Audio Blueprint)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/200785

19) Scorpio ‎– Trouble (V Recordings)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/71651

20) Nico Featuring Makai ‎– Omen (Nu Black)
http://www.discogs.com/Nico-4-Featuring-Makai-Omen/release/31430

21) Vortexion ‎– This Side Down (Reinforced)
http://www.discogs.com/Vortexion-This-Side-Down/release/61384

22) Ono Sendai - Fallen Angels (Precision Breakbeat Research)
http://www.discogs.com/Ono-Sendai-Codebreaker-Fallen-Angels/release/62297

23) Elementz Of Noize - Mephisto (Smokers Inc)
http://www.discogs.com/Elements-Of-Noise-Torch-Mephisto/release/161780


Time: 01:32:37 - 1998 - I re-recorded this section of the mix, as I wasn't particularly happy with how it originally went out on the jungletrain.net show. Track selection and mixing could have been better, and I have tweaked and rectified this here. You will hear the tunes are noticeably faster again, with most records pitched up between +5 and +7 to give them a bit more urgency and roll. In my experience this is pretty much how the tunes were always played back in the day on all the London pirates, in all the record stores, clubs and on mixtapes. Production standards by this stage were pretty tight and you will hear even less general usage of breakbeats in the tunes during this section of the mix. The 2-step pattern drums by this stage were harsh, loud, sharp and 100% quantized with the aforementioned 'white noise' snare in full effect on several of the tunes. The atmosphere of these 98 tunes tend to be more about tension and suspense as opposed to straight up darkness, and the final few tracks in this mix showcase techstep at its most brutally caustic with strident treadmill percussion and acid-burn analogue squelches that sound as if they'd sear your flesh if you got too close to the sound system. 
 

24) Proteus ‎– Black Note (Abstrakt)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/354327

25) Research - Research (Saigon)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/74298

26) Absolute Zero + Subphonics ‎– The Code (Renegade Hardware)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/159808

27) Origin Unknown - Sound In Motion (RAM Records)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/46943

28) Decoder - Dazee Age (RuffNeck Ting Records)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/508356

29) Dylan - Kombat (Renegade Hardware)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/23320

30) Dom & Roland - Isolate (Saigon)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/74298

31) Rayman ‎– Locutus (Gyration)
http://www.discogs.com/Rayman-Sahadum-Locutus/release/46533

32) Decoder & Mark Caro ‎– Eko (Tech Itch Recordings)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/4991

33) Dylan & Facs - Long Stroke (Droppin' Science)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/65617

34) Facs & Red ‎– Fat Cap (Juice Records)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/14844

35) Panacea - Hybris (Makai Remix) (Position Chrome)
http://www.discogs.com/master/view/231072


It was just after these records in late 1998 and early 1999 that Ed Rush changed the game again with his releases alongside Optical on Virus (and in particular the Wormhole album) which saw the techstep sound mutate into what that likeable numpty Simon Reynolds would term as 'Neurofunk'. There were still some producers making 'techstep' records throughout 1999 and 2000 but from where I was standing they seemed to be largely ignored in favour of the new 'Neurofunk' style. In my personal opinion this inevitable style shift would result in drum & bass that held a wider appeal but was far less adventurous production-wise, more dancefloor friendly  and formulaic but ultimately devoid of any real 'vibe'. Style over substance became the order of the day with a narrow emphasis on ultra-clean percussion and tedious low frequency noodling. Knowledge magazine interviews still featured photos of artists with their puffer jackets zipped up to their foreheads however, so at least some things stayed the same. 

DJ Mark N - 96-98 Techstep Vinyl Mix

Keep the Rave alive w/ Reflect & Fer-D @ 04-11-2023

Recorded very badly at 'The Slaughterhouse' demolition party in May 1995, somewhere in McCormack St, Newcastle, Australia. This rubbish live cassette recording which became FISTC-08 doesn't really do the party justice, but aside from the house demolition chaos that took place that evening, the recording is a quick and messy snapshot of where the label was at in May 1995. Tracks appeared from Nasenbluten, Overcast, Xylocaine, Disassembler, Syndicate, Netas, Memetic and Embolism. 
Free download. (Yes there's dropouts and all sorts of technical issues and drunken fuckups throughout the recording. If your equipment isn't on its last legs you're not doing it right). Enjoy!

FISTC-08 Bloody Fist Live At The Slaughterhouse - May '95

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Warlock - The Hard Sound Of London 1992-1994

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