Tyrant @ The Prince Bonaparte 1/9/1999

apyssjw ah was that the same weekend? I was at that Creamfields - Sasha had lost his records on the way back from the States and had to borrow records for his Creamfields set.

baggers44 …terrible to think of the catastrophic environmental damage all those Swain & Snell white labels must have caused

Pickles

Yes, that was the same year.

baggers44 Was that the same Oliver who was resident at Lawler’s Harlem?

Dan Yeah, that’s the one.

vinnyt77 Nice bloke tbf…..put me on to some corkers.

Gave me a promo of this

vinnyt77 He produced with a mate of his under the name “Menace” - tribally sort of stuff which was his thing for a while - i think they did a remix of the Bagiuo Track for renaissance (somewhere in the dense forest of vinyl upstairs!)

baggers44 Think Menace was just a pseudonym for Swain and Snell?

…think Discogs is incorrect here, pretty sure baggers is right, Menace was Ollie (and another)

….odd that I can recall that, but not a single Menace/Swain & Snell record

Unbroken1

Yeah - some quite forgettable stuff…

They licensed this beauty

Unbroken1 he sold me loads of those - mostly on Plastica - not great if i am honest ! -

Christian ha yes! not sure I’ve ever heard that vocal version before

Dan …yeah, that was a nice track, had forgotten they released it, I have an import version I think.

They were super-generous with the promos… but not sure any of them made the cut when I sold off a lot of vinyl.

They rereleased a few bits of Euro stuff, Francesco Farfa and Chab, and Eagles Prey ’Tonto’s Drum’… not often with particularly strong remixes iirc. The only release I ever remember getting wide-ish play was Slacker’s mix of Clarkness (which wasn’t one of their best remixes either tbh).

The Compass Error remixes were superb

Unbroken1 Shouldn’t touch Eagles Prey tbh.

Dan that’s a coincidence: i found those yesterday! Hisham’s GPS Break Remix ! - bit odd. The Tarentella Redanka ones are really good.

Unbroken1 The one with Mindtrap?

Dan …yeah, was just thinking it was quite a year for ‘big’ tracks, Mercury & Solace, My Lexicon etc.

Seem to recall him playing the same stage possibly the year before… similar set, started with 20mins’ish of breaks before breaking out the prog. Remember hearing Koglin’s '‘The Silence’ etc.

Unbroken1 fuckin hundreds of em clogging up me spare room!

Lawler used to love a Swain & Snell track.

Mainly drivel from what I can remember.

Been said?

Unbroken1 Yeah he did, I was there (as well as this one). I seem to remember some dickhead had smashed a sink off the wall in the toilets of the pub on corner.

Perhaps Smallsy thought he was in a kitchen?

does anybody have a the actual video hosted to share, of this set

baggers44 ….the wedge I spent on PF, Plastica, Plastica Red whites sends shivers down my spine. Love the Menace duds at the time . Ollie, Jonny and Luis were top blokes. Proper vinyl pushers. Bowling into them at Bedrock spannered. Having a top laugh. Halcyon days…..

Remember going in a spending a lot after a bedrock. After I had paid I noticed a hybrid record that I just purchased without listening to. The shock when I got home and noticed it was not the hybrid we all knew and loved at the time.

seanc80 does anybody have a the actual video hosted to share, of this set

I don’t Sean.

Hope that helps.

IndustryStandard I think they all packed it in and got proper jobs when the shop shut. I know Luis plays 00s house tunes on vinyl on UK Raw radio whatever that is….there’s a live stream once a week with about 4 listeners (might be a bit harsh)…Ollie went into design of some sort. That lad Desyn used to hang around there a bit with his mate Omid - nice lads ….all seem to have disappeared . Was like another life - time marches on never ending . as the song goes (King Unique remix).

Great thread, cool insights and stories.