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Shamelessly chronicling the good and sometimes awful mix CDs that made our formative dance music years. There will be one a week from the darkest recesses of my collection.


No embarrassment here, this was the soundtrack to a particular time when it was exciting to bosh a couple of Mitsis and listen to ‘uplifting’ (saccharine sweet) trance music in a club the size of an aircraft hangar, filled with double-dropping spazmos in UV.

Standout tracks:
CD1:
HH - I.C.E. 794 (Thanks To Berlin Dub Mix)
Danny Tenaglia - Turn Me On (John Digweed & Nick Muir’s Bedrock Mix)
Lost Witness - Happiness Happening (Lange Remix)
CD2:
Aurora - Hear You Calling
Signum - Feel The Pressure (Baby Doc Remix)

    What I like about this mix, listening back to it, it is the three minutes per track mixing which you just don’t get any more, and the crackle of vinyl throughout.

    Scott Bond on mixing duties, allegedly. No doubt tidied up by Cheeky Paul or whoever.

      Those Cream Anthems discs were always good for a laugh. I remember one started with “Heaven Scent”. Literally started the mix with it. BALLS.

        jonattonyeah Those Cream Anthems discs were always good for a laugh. I remember one started with “Heaven Scent”. Literally started the mix with it. BALLS.

        I may do one of those for next week’s choice. I don’t like to disappoint anyone who might read or listen along with my threads, unlike you.

            Anything with Pete Tong doing the mix/compilation. My Mrs bought a fair few of those in the 90s that I had to endure in her Fiesta.

            "“Goodmen- Give it up”" being a staple

            • Dan replied to this.

              bosstrabs Gatecrasher, looking in from afar, was a pretty impressive scene considering where it began and what critical mass it achieved. For a while it was utterly massive. Remember reading an article in Mixmag, following a group of the “UV Spazmos” over their weekend and what it entailed getting ready and the aftermath post club etc.

              Not my cup of tea, but as a scene maybe the last throws of Superclub-dom in the UK? Funny how tastes shifted in a few short years from that to DreamTeam/Trevor Nelson/ kids from Rochdale thinking they were from South Central LA

                I went to Gatecrasher and found it fucking bizarre. It was the height of its madness and all the regulars thought they were celebrities, having been profiled in Mixmag a couple of months before. I read years later that one of them (‘UV Lee’) did so many pills he basically became a spackermong with no functioning memory.

                This was when they were all wearing Pikachu clothes and sitting on the floor instead of dancing.

                Simon Raine (?) I think the owner was, obviously thought his superclub bubble could never burst and opened another massive venue, Bed, almost next door for more soulful/funky house. I had one night there and enjoyed it much more. Rampling was playing and was on unusual good form. I think Seamus Haji was on too. The one downer was a bird (and this genuinely happened) tried to stab me with her pointy-fronted shoe. I was stood next to her and for no reason whatsoever other than being a bit hammered I said “I see you’ve chosen a very pointy shoe this evening”. She took it off and tried to hit me with it while shouting aggressively in a broad Sheffield accent that I was “tekkin t’ piss”.

                Raine eventually bankrupted himself and (allegedly) did an insurance job on the Republic once the crowds started disappearing.

                  Thanks Dan, you imagined completely incorrectly.

                  • Dan replied to this.

                    Went to two Gatecrasher Summer Sound-Systems, both immense.

                    Sasha and Digweed, Danny T, Masters At Work and The Chemical Brothers being highlights.

                    Superclubs exist on the RHS of this fancy infographic

                    📉

                    Dan ….guilty of one of the worst “like nuns falling down the stairs” mixes on a CD compilation. Know it was “Live” but a lack of QC in my opinion at Cream HQ

                    • Dan replied to this.

                        bosstrabs Wonder what happened to the thousands who dressed up as Pikachu’s when the club folded. A tough look to get out of too easily………not too pub friendly, especially up North.

                            Dan All about Oakenfold and trance?

                            Around the time I started going ('97) it was usually Graeme Park or someone playing plinky plonky handbag house in the main room (you can hear exactly what Graeme Park will have been playing by simply listening to him now), Oakenfold or someone interesting (Weatherall, Justin Robertson) in the annexe, but then Oakenfold took over the Courtyard. Nick Warren and then Steve Lawler were the Annexe residents.

                            Then it sort of flipped in ’99 when Seb became resident and mostly played trance to the main room, and soon after Yousef became Annexe resident so it was house in there.

                            But Amps almost certainly went more than me, I was mostly in GodsKitchen as I was at uni down there.

                            • Dan replied to this.

                                IndustryStandard Wonder what happened to the thousands who dressed up as Pikachu’s when the club folded. A tough look to get out of too easily………not too pub friendly, especially up North.

                                They graduated to the hard house clubs like Insomniacz.