Sonicrampage

Pearsall's free MP3 mixes from across the dance music spectrum

About Me

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Updated November 30, 2011

Well, I’ve finally updated this after several years of slackness! I’m a 31 year-old native New Yorker who is currently living in south-west London with my wife and baby daughter. We’ve been back in London for eight months after a year and a half of being in Edinburgh.

The concept of this blog is that it is a place for me to showcase my mixes and my writing, as well as guest mixes from other dj’s that I like. I always try to go a bit beyond what other people do – I like to do something a bit more than just do a mix and slap it up on Soundcloud or a cyber-locker site like Sendspace or Mediafire (not to knock dj’s who do that). I enjoy writing, and this site has given me a space to write about music and other stuff – some of the essays are about the specific mix, whilst others talk about other stuff I’m interested in, including my memories of going raving (something I don’t do much of these days!).

I have been mixing under the name Pearsall (pronounced Peer-sol) since I was 16 years old. I initially fell in love, deeply and madly, with dance music at the age of 15 and I then spent over a year saving up for Technics and shitty mixer, putting aside money from summer and part-time jobs, and birthday and Christmas presents … my mission was clear. Although I was initially in a monogamous relationship with jungle, over the years since I have played across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the mixes featured in this site, from the spectrum of London bass music (from jungle/drum n’ bass to grime and dubstep, although not UK garage, which I’ve never liked) to electro, breaks, house, techno and the full constellation of harder 4/4 music genres (acid techno/trance, hard trance, hard house, nu-nrg, freeform, etc.), and I’ve played all kinds of stuff at clubs, raves, house parties, and free parties over that time.

I don’t really play out any more, since I no longer have the taste for kissing the promoter ass necessary to get gigs (however, if you want to book me, get in touch!), but back in the day along with a couple of friends I ran a monthly club night in Edinburgh called Rampage in 2001 and 2002, in case you are wondering why so many of the mixes have Rampage in their titles. If you want to read some of my memories of my time in the Edinburgh club scene, check out the posts to accompany Rampage Audio 2 and Squat Rocking 4.

All of these mixes have been recorded live, off of vinyl playing on two Technics 1210′s, with a Pioneer DJM-600 mixer (except for some of the older ones, which were done on my old Numark mixer). I don’t use Ableton, Final Scratch, CDJ’s, or anything like that … due to time constraints relating to my family life, to a certain degree I will now record mixes in chunks and edit them together in Soundforge, which is not ideal, but that’s how things go. What I did is what you hear! I’ve made sure to link to each of the releases on Discogs, since I have no interest in hiding what the tunes are. I’m happy to share!

I haven’t played out in a long time, but if you want to book me for a set, please get in touch by emailing me at pearsall[at]gmail.com. It’ll have to be some flavor of old skool, and it’ll all be vinyl.

When I set up the site I wrote a longer waffle about myself, which you can check out here if you are so inclined.

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  1. Hi Pearsall,

    I am having a hard time down loading the files since I have a Mac with no right click. I will have to try it on a PC.

    Hope all is well wit you, I will get at you soon.

    Peace and Blessings

    Ian

    30 Oct 08 at 3:11 am

  2. hey Ian, I’m not a Mac expert, but if you hold the ctrl button and then click on the download link (the title below the cover image) that should allow you to download on a Mac

    Pearsall

    31 Oct 08 at 3:47 am

  3. Hi,

    I want to buy your record
    TNT (4) – Ti Ta TNT (12″)
    Label: Titanic Records
    Cat#: TTC 017

    which is listed at discogs.com and I am now in London
    (but I am leaving at monday)
    can we meet somewhere? please write me email. thanks

    Matej

    11 Dec 08 at 5:51 pm

  4. Just checked out yr website, very cool & interesting stuff. Keep up the good work.

    Daisy

    Daisy

    27 Jan 09 at 8:21 pm

  5. thanks Daisy!

    Pearsall

    27 Jan 09 at 8:47 pm

  6. THANX PEARSALL THE MIXES ARE THE BOOOOSH BEST IVE EVER LISTENED TO YOURS THE ORIGINAL TECHNO HEAD AKA ACID LIFE-SUBWAY

    ANTONIUS

    1 Feb 09 at 8:36 pm

  7. I AM GOING TO BE WORKING ON SOME NEW TITLES WOULD YOU BE INTRESTED IN GIVING THEM SOME AIRPLAY TEC

    ANTONIUS

    1 Feb 09 at 8:39 pm

  8. thanks, glad you like them!

    in regards to your tunes, I don’t have cd decks unfortunately, so unless you had them on vinyl they wouldn’t be much use to me. apologies!

    Pearsall

    2 Feb 09 at 12:07 pm

  9. WHEN RU PLAYING IN LONDON TOWN AGAIN

    ANTONIUS

    5 Feb 09 at 12:33 am

  10. I dunno – probably never! (Unless someone were to book me, but I’ve not really been actively looking for gigs)

    Pearsall

    5 Feb 09 at 9:29 am

  11. [...] I have now moved back to Edinburgh, I have taken the opportunity to update my About Me page. Check it [...]

    About Me updated at Sonicrampage

    6 Sep 09 at 11:14 pm

  12. Congrats dude on your marriage!
    Cant get enuff of your mixes!

    iQ!

    8 Sep 09 at 5:13 am

  13. Thanks dude – lots more to come!

    Pearsall

    8 Sep 09 at 9:31 am

  14. Consider yourself booked. Not sure what for…

    Maybe you can heat things up after the ceilidh band..

    Lincoln

    16 Sep 09 at 10:13 pm

  15. I am looking for a bloke goes by Phil Zero.
    Anyone know were I can find him.

    Thanks,

    Andy

    Andy Micke

    19 Sep 09 at 3:27 am

  16. andy_micke@hotmail.com

    Andy Micke

    19 Sep 09 at 3:27 am

  17. hi Andy,

    Phil’s website is MrZero.co.uk.

    Pearsall

    19 Sep 09 at 10:11 am

  18. oi oi my fellow Energy UK vetran :)

    how are you? i see you found your way to our website… yourt karim and baby doc mixes turned up on there a couple of months ago

    Small world , i was just talking to Skelp about you not so long ago!

    hope ur well man… i’ll have a bash at some of these mixes here, cheers

    Cuffy

    25 Sep 09 at 8:19 pm

  19. hey Cuffy, I’m very well thanks! Back in Edinburgh now, and things are going well.

    Hope you enjoy the mixes!

    Pearsall

    3 Oct 09 at 4:17 pm

  20. Great site thanks for all the mixes and interesting reads.

    ChubbyGibbon

    23 Jan 10 at 11:42 am

  21. thanks very much!

    Pearsall

    27 Jan 10 at 11:54 am

  22. Crazy stuff samsara and pendragon. Remember me great times. What about parties now ?????

    Raf

    28 Mar 12 at 7:39 pm

  23. Greetings Mr.Pearsall, just to let You know, I left You a lengthy message on your psynews profile, not having realized You have a dedicated site of your own; all in all, the breakdown is that I find the two mixes I’ve heard simply awesome, and I will look forward to hearing more!!! Thanx…k

    Kevork

    5 Oct 12 at 3:24 am

  24. Hello Mr.Pearsall, just to let You know, I left You a lengthy message on your psynews profile, not having realized You have a dedicated site of your own; all in all, the breakdown is that I find the two mixes I’ve heard simply awesome, and that I look forward to hearing more!!! Thanx…k

    Kevork

    5 Oct 12 at 3:24 am

  25. Thanks! Glad you like them Mr Madanian! Hope you enjoy the other mixes you listen to :)

    Pearsall

    5 Oct 12 at 10:12 pm

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