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  • Whatever happened to Chris & James?

Interesting re: Danny Rampling and his dj’ing. I am a big fan of his sets from 88-94. As much as I love clubbing and still went intermittently, I miss those eclectic sets where you were just as likely to hear house, trance and techno in the same set. The only criteria was whether it was a good record or not.

…hmm, whenever I heard him play in the early/mid-90’s I always thought it was v confused. After he discovered Goa trance his sets were all over the place, starting with MAW’ish house and often ending with boshing trance. I’m all for eclecticism but in a period when it was rare that sets were longer than 90 minutes it seemed a bit of a mess.

    Unbroken1 Agreed re 90 min sets. Tenaglia used to regularly go through the genres which is why I went out of my way to see him. His GU’s are prime examples.

      Dan

      He comes across as a bit off in that interview, either against James his ex-dj partner or other djs. Am i the only picking that up?

          -si- you’re not the only one. He does come across as a bit chippy. The honest answer is the high profile work dried up so there was no point in carrying on. Presumably didn’t fancy being low down the pecking order at a Clockwork Orange reunion in Es Paradis or Chelmsford race course

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              alistair

              A one hour set every reunion, sandwiched between Graham gold and Jason bye.

                  My mate booked Graham Gold.

                  20 people turned up. Including the staff.

                    Completely forgot they remixed spirits don’t bring me down

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                      -si- 😄 Just above Danny Clockwork and Andy Manston. Bye is great at Mambo though. Class act

                        Dan I have unfortunately seen Graham gold on four occasions. All absolutely shocking. Like a shit judge jules and that is a bad level to start with

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                            Am good mates with Dave Lambert of Peach fame.

                            Being a Spurs fan aside, he’s sound.

                            Dreadful KLANG I know.

                            Also seen Dave DJ a few times at oscars and club art and he is certainly better the Graham. Was he not the A&R man behind positiva

                            Yep, worked at Strictly Rhythm and tonnes of others too.

                            Christian Can’t be as good as the Roach Motel Dub? Great tune that.

                                Dan never heard that version before. I agree it’s better than chris&james version

                                  Graham Bold got buggered by HMRC i read. Loads of cash in hand jobs throughout the glory days never declared. HMRC had a special unit to focus on DJs and Bold was one of the unlucky ones. So skint he hoofed over to Thailand to continue banging out Goa Trance. Looks like he’s on the roids too

                                    That was a feast for the eyes and ears…..from the scary screen placeholder, camp gold microphone to Mr Gold shirt off banging out Nukleaz back cat for 18hours……

                                    Looking forward to the lockdown productions……