The fact that this is mixed by the judge makes it a guilty pleasure but this was on heavy rotation in the bensonomobile back in the day
Guilty pleasures from the Crasher/Cream trance era
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bosstrabs Hugo using the word ‘melt’ having just caught on to something everyone did a decade ago.
@Dan also called someone a “melt” in the Oasis thread less than a day ago.
@LT42 called someone a “melt” in the RIP thread only a few weeks ago.
I don’t recall you making any such complaints or observations then, you fucking melt.
Hugo wears his Global Hypercolour T-shirt while staring at a ‘magic eye’ poster through the shop window of Athena. Slowly the word ‘Melt’ starts to form amidst the fractal colours.
Hugo chose his 2003 Clubbers Guide-style avatar because lesbians and DJs are absolutely revelatory to someone who was until recently listening to Do The Bartman on one of these…
…realise its not cool to shit on anyone’s honeymoon period soundtrack, but FUCK ME THERE’S SOME TERRIBLE SHITE IN THIS THREAD! 
Do us a mix of all the above please Damo.
I don’t know what gives me a bigger headache - Hugo’s posts or Mario Piu ‘Communication’ (Somebody Answer The Phone)
Whoever started this absolute disaster of a thread should be shot / banned for life.
Unbroken1 …realise its not cool to shit on anyone’s honeymoon period soundtrack, but FUCK ME THERE’S SOME TERRIBLE SHITE IN THIS THREAD!
shut the fuck up, and post something shameful Damien
THIS IS OUR SAFE SPACE
NasserAlazzawi …got plenty of stuff that’s aged very badly (I’m certainly not like Mr C who never bought an embarrassing record in his life… apparently), but not much of it would fit into the Cream/'Crasher trance bracket- altho there was def some crossover with the prog-trance sound of the time (one or two bits above, Moguai mix of Seven Days, some of the Hooj stuff).
I’ve always maintained that this was the end of ‘prog’ that I liked the least though (has certainly aged the least well). A lot of the more commercial trance completely passed me by. Quite a lot in this thread was what the likes of Jules/Dave Pearce was playing on R1, and Graham Gold on Kiss, and I’m honestly not sure was played in London that much, maybe with the exception of Peach and The Gallery (which also had some ‘proper’ prog DJ’s on).
Amps …I dunno, as proven by this thread, ecstasy is a very powerful drug.
Millsy …absolutely not.
benson …god that brings back memories. Used to cane that in me Pug 205 CTI . Used to love a free mixtape/CD from the mags or given out nicks after a club. I remember getting a free Turnmils CD after the Gallery one night that I loved for years.
Heres the Soundcloud shizzle
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=hooj%20choons%20mixed%20by%20judge%20jools
…remember being quite shocked when Jules became the BBC’s acceptable face of trance. Used to follow him when I just arrived in London in the early/mid-90’s- he was one of the only London DJ’s playing a proper mix of styles in one set… never super-tight but always a proper party mix, big vocal house tracks, then acapellas over tough techno etc. He was also notably shy, crouched over the mixer and very rarely engaging with the crowd, always freaked me out that he evolved into the extrovert with the sleeveless shirts, funky specs and trumpet.
Unbroken1 …and crumpet.
Trumpet 
This was on rotation at the mid 90’s afters.
At what point, in ypur experience listening to electronic music over the years, have you heard a track and thought ‘you know what this track needs? More trumpet’
Dan …yeah, not the best in the series (and I remember the mixing being a bit all-over the shop) but def a decent reflection of his pre-R1 style.
Remember him playing loads of those tracks- K&M Funk & Drive, Z100- Don’t Stop, Chubby Chunks- T1, Mukkaa, Buruchacca, Jump. Used to really like his Tomohawk label back then too, 290 North, Miles Kane etc.
Saw the Judge absolutely tear up the Oxford Brookes Student Union in 1999.
HUGE night!