Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 4
Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 4
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Mixed in Edinburgh, December 2002
(67:33, 105.9 MB, APX VBR MP3)
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Style: freeform hardcore and a little bit of gabba
direct link to the mix:
http://www.sonicrampage.org/mixes/Turbo/Pearsall-RampageTurbo4.mp3
Tracklisting:
01. Nostrum – Brilliant (Hardtrance Mix) (Time Unlimited)
02. Aura Infinity – Acid Bottle (Remix) (Storm)
03. Gollum & Arne L II – Yeh! (UK44)
04. DJ Choci & DJ Paola – Cherokee (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)
05. Ruffage & Mannik – They’re Coming (Elation)
06. Two’s Company – Dream (Nu Energy)
07. Helix – Helixia (Stompin’ Choonz)
08. Tom U4EA & James F – Nightmare On Base (Electronic Recordings)
09. Jonny Go Mental – I Can Feel It (Acid And Bass Mix) (Raving Mad)
10. Kevin Energy – Roll With This (Fast As Fuck Mix) (Nu Energy)
11. Tazz & Concept – Fresh Style (Electronic Recordings)
12. Sy & Unknown – Rock It Like This (Quosh)
13. Brisk & Fade – Retro Rush (Next Generation)
14. Kaos & Ethos – Technorocker (Blatant Beats)
15. KI-Real – Virus (Ferox Remix) (Bionic)
16. Justice – Born To Raise Hell (Megarave)
17. Sharkey & AMS – Mind Control (Bonkerz)
18. DJ Eclipse – Ultraworld 5 (Bonkers)
The fourth in the Rampage Turbo series.
Here’s some reviews of individual tracks from Discogs:
‘Yeh!’ is on a very different tip with a punishingly tough bassline. There’s no melody to speak of, just a banging, hard, relentless groove. The beats stop and someone says:”If we do not live for this, then why do we exist?”…indeed!
This record is dedicated to the great (Hardtrance,Hardcore) Cenobite label back to 1996.
All 4 tracks contain hugh Alpha Juno sounds,wich they use for their Hardtrance melody’s, with stomp deep dark basslines.
When hearing this sound loud,you will hear the dark sound of The old famous Hellraiser at Amsterdam …
“Mind Control” is more of a speeded up freeform hardcore tune with slightly harder kicks. Long synths and upbeat melody fit well with the finnish guys at Electronic or FINRG. The scifi samples “It’s alive!” work some craziness in with the tune (although slightly overused). Pretty good piano/breakbeat breakdown in there too. Good tune.
This is the pinnacle of the early so called “freeform” hardcore sound, named because the so called “blending” of other styles namely trance and turned into hardcore tracks. Ultraworld is certainly unique, banging and an absolute dancefloor monster! This has been ripped on many dancefloors and totally cained by DJ Sharkey back in the day when “freeform” was still an unknown genre! 10 years down the line and this track is still miles ahead of the pitched up hard trance styles that we now know and love as “freeform” hardcore today.
In my opinion, DJ Eclipse belongs with the early hardcore producer legends such as Sharkey, Brisk, Scott Brown, Sy & Slipmatt! Eclipse’s production carried amazing talent that went relatively unknown to other sub-genres due to lack of support, funding, and perhaps bad timing in the scene. Another crying shame is that he moved to Australia to concentrate on other things and as I understand it no longer produces hardcore! DJ Eclipse – what a legend!
Holy shit man this site is pure gold! every mix is spot on, alot of things wrong with alot of dj’s is there narrow minded difine’n them selfs to one genre!
got a lot of respect man after readin ur comments about each of your mixes, also ur CHOOOON selection! ultraworld 5 is one of my all time favorites i’ve always said its one of the if not the ultimate tune to end a mix!! POWER
IN THE MIDDLE OF DL’N UR WHOLE ARCHIVE!
wondering if ya could shed a bit of light on a piticular european trance sound, recently got a copy of tunnel trance force vol 2 mixed by dj dean it was released 97ish, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yl2zf0gsNs this is one of the tunes on it, do u no of any other stompin mixes/dj’s of this stuff buddy?
Bobby hill lsd
16 Jan 10 at 4:33 am
Thanks very much for the kind words! I’ve put a lot of effort into the site and mixes, so it’s nice to see that it’s appreciated.
As for the old European hardtrance stuff, I love it! In fact, it’s probably the music I love the most; if I’m drunk late at night it’s pretty much guaranteed that that’s what I’ll pull out to throw on the decks so that I can stomp around the spare room, headphones clapped over my ears, while my wife wonders why on earth she married me.
Paradoxically, this is probably why I’ve never done an entire mix of the stuff, because I want to do it justice, and I’ve never been entirely decided as to how to go about it. Maybe in the next few months, though.
Pearsall
16 Jan 10 at 3:32 pm
[...] For those who don’t know, Nostrum is Bernd Augustinski from Cologne, Germany. Bernd was responsible for a succession of amazing trance records in the mid to late 1990’s on the Time Unlimited label, combining beautiful, bittersweet melodies with twisted acid lines and pounding high-velocity rhythms. I’m not too sure what he’s been up to in recent years, but at least from his MySpace page he seems to still be involved in music. I’ve always been a big fan of his stuff, and I’ve used Nostrum tracks on Rampage Turbo 3 and Rampage Turbo 4. [...]
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