Disc 2s of Superior Quality

vinnyt77 It also meant you got to hear what a DJ REALLY sounded like live, which in a lot of cases, was really not good

zackster saw him there.

jonattonyeah

Nick’s home baked Mixsaka.

zackster

Fair. I used to hate it but warmed up in recent years.

jonattonyeah
You hear me girl

Mad_Cyril

jonattonyeah Get your hands off my man!

LT42 Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent, perfectly mixed flows well… but, with 006 disk two you’re hearing something genuinely unique… John at the height of his powers, playing his toughest as fuck stuff, not for the faint hearted, flowing like each track was written for the next, and in a vintage year before the internet ruined everything… the stuff on disk two is proto vortex, proto muscular, fluxing in some ethereal doorway between the panel beaters from Prague and the dayglow kids of Sheffield. It makes my balls tighten.

Plus, it genuinely represents what the he sounded like at that time, I’m not sure all GU defo did that? Saw a lot of John around 98, and it was with the disk two stuff that he was fucking clobbering dancefloors. If you’d seen him play a set of that stuff, you’d still be cunting on about it now, as I am. Tops off? you’d fuckin skin yourself and swing from Ed’s neck.

If you like the stuff from the late 90s, or if the Sasha set from The Bomb does anything for you, I’d urge you to give it more than a couple of listens, it’s fuckin sublime and on par with anything from those years. Hard, driving, epic, ethereal, boom boom woosh!

Old-Dutch After five hours of that the relief of someone doing a vaguely coherent mix must have been palpable.

Amps Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent

“More than decent”?! It’s near perfect!

Amps Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent, perfectly mixed flows well… but, with 006 disk two you’re hearing something genuinely unique… John at the height of his powers, playing his toughest as fuck stuff, not for the faint hearted, flowing like each track was written for the next, and in a vintage year before the internet ruined everything… the stuff on disk two is proto vortex, proto muscular, fluxing in some ethereal doorway between the panel beaters from Prague and the dayglow kids of Sheffield. It makes my balls tighten.

Plus, it genuinely represents what the he sounded like at that time, I’m not sure all GU defo did that? Saw a lot of John around 98, and it was with the disk two stuff that he was fucking clobbering dancefloors. If you’d seen him play a set of that stuff, you’d still be cunting on about it now, as I am. Tops off? you’d fuckin skin yourself and swing from Ed’s neck.

If you like the stuff from the late 90s, or if the Sasha set from The Bomb does anything for you, I’d urge you to give it more than a couple of listens, it’s fuckin sublime and on par with anything from those years. Hard, driving, epic, ethereal, boom boom woosh!

Fucking hell Amps is relentless about GU006, it’s alright mate we get it.

It was our warm-up CD for about six months before hitting GK around 1999*, it took an absolute battering. For that reason, it has absolute classic status for me.

*Along with this collection of bangers
https://www.discogs.com/release/261092-Carl-Cox-Non-Stop-2000

Now, it’s so full on I can’t listen to it.

bosstrabs *Along with this collection of bangers

If memory serves me correctly, that’s the mix where he fucks up a couple of the mixes on one of the disks? Proper wellies in the washing machine? Clearly didn’t give enough of a fuck to have another go. Amazing in hindsight. Some bangers on there though.

Amps It was fairly standard back then though wasn’t it?

Some of the early GUs are proper car-crashes mixing wise. I remember some nasty transitions even on the Essential Selection CDs, which you would think would be tidied up given they were for more of a casual audience.

zackster I always loved the rumor that he had a shower built off to the side of the dj booth in Arc, so that he could bathe during his 18 hour marathon sets.

To be fair, this is the kind of shit I would do if I was a famous dj but on the wrong side of 35, as I am now.

A decent shower twice a day is massively underappreciated. Especially by the French.

bosstrabs I don’t know, I just remember it being that bad I thought, ‘what the fuck’ and laughed my head off. Don’t think I have encountered anything that bad on a GU or any other commercial CD before. Might have to try and dig it out again next time i’m in the loft.

To sum up, GU13 CD1 is the daddy of all mixes.

Thank you and goodnight.