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Mad_Cyril

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Dan

bosstrabs All about Oakenfold and trance?

bosstrabs

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.

IndustryStandard

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

IndustryStandard Just listening now……sounds like he’s done a Henry and just ‘gone for it’

IndustryStandard

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.

bosstrabs

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.

IndustryStandard

Dan ….fruitlessly trying to pull it back but having a shocker. Proper amateur hour that……

bosstrabs

Dan Just listening now……sounds like he’s done a Henry and just ‘gone for it’

Could have been worse. They could have got baldy-heided Graeme Park in to mix a load of piano tunes that sound like house music hasn’t moved on since 1988.

Dan

bosstrabs Funny you mention Weatherall as he’d be the last person you think of playing at Cream, but I’ve heard a few of his mixes from Cream over the years and there excellent.

Amps

Dan Early days from about 92 -95 where a bit of a free for all, which was reflected in the rest of the scene, Sasha on the same line up as Judge Jules etc. But that is where and how Cream made it’s name, it had a bunch of the best DJs in the world, on every Saturday night, all under one roof, at the zeneth of dance music. That rep came long before the commercial releases and any of it was considered cheesy. Around 95 - 96 ish the rooms and line ups became a bit more thematic.

hugopal

bosstrabs it is the three minutes per track mixing which you just don’t get any more

You do in techno.

Heno

bosstrabs no shame in them were great cd’s to get into dance music, worked in mc donalds for a summer job around 99 used to have them on the night shift pumping out, personal fav was oakenfold cream resident had been at him at homelands that summer rest was as they say…..

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Spot on. Plenty of US House jocks as well.

Great variety and felt more communal than commercial / themed.

alistair

Amps Jeremy Healy owned that period. Women used to wet their knickers when he came on. Coke fiend and shagger extraordinaire. The skirt at Ronson when he played was top quality. Got banned from all the best hotels in Leeds. Remember he was resident at Cream for while. Funny, I saw him play quite a good set at Gatecrasher in 98 when his profile was starting to decline and the cyberpunks didn’t like him. Wouldn’t play trance. I respected the attitude. Went out with Kate Moss and Patsy Kensit. Fair play

Amps

bosstrabs You’ve opened with a stinker there, but I can’t see it getting much better.

Christian

Went to gatecrasher at least once and a month from when it started at the arches. Had some brilliant nights seeing Sasha, sander k, Paul van dyke and Carl cox. Also went to some shockers including a New Year’s Eve where Tony de vit was on at 9pm. Certainly become full of egos when the whole uv gang started to get famous. My mates younger brother turned into one. When it shut they all moved onto the hard house nights in Sheffield ((can’t remember it’s name but was also an after hours when gatecrasher was still on, which was fucking horrendous)

Amps

bosstrabs Remind me, what was the venue for Bed called? Sound Factory? Something like that? Think it was already a club before Bed moved there?

Dan

Amps Bed? Benson was a regular.

Mad_Cyril

Amps Remind me, what was the venue for Bed called? Sound Factory? Something like that? Think it was already a club before Bed moved there?

Music Factory

Amps

FAO @benson See above please!

Dan

Amps He’d never go there, but it’s an apt name for his early retreats for his kip.

Amps

Dan Boom! 😆 Sorry, completely missed the joke! Taxi!

Amps

Mad_Cyril Up until about maybe 95-96 Cream managed a huge amount of British DJs, and I mean huge, that was one of the reasons the line ups where so strong… and then they just decided they couldn’t be arsed with running a management agency and let them all go.

Amps

Mad_Cyril Thats the one! Can’t find the flyer for it, but went to what I assume was an NY Sushi night there, line up was something like Fatboy Slim, Justin Robertson, Freddie Fresh, David Holmes and John Carter & Monkey Mafia. Proper Big Beat royalty. Boss night.

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