Pearsall presents Yaman 1994 Hardcore Jungle

Pearsall presents Yaman 1994 Hardcore Jungle

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Mixed in Berlin, June 2025
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Direct link to the mix:
https://sonicrampage.org/mixes/yaman/Pearsall-Yaman1994HardcoreJungle(People’sStation).mp3

Tracklisting:

1. DJ Ron – Mo Musik (African Chant) [Rough Tone]
2. Micky Finn – D-Pressed [Dee Jay Recordings]
3. DJ Dextrous & Rude Boy Keith – Lovable [King of the Jungle]
4. Q Project – Night Moves (The Alliance Remix) [Legendary]
5. The Noise of Art – Rollin’ Deep (Andy C & Danny Breaks Remix) [Suburban Base]
6. DJ Gwange – Motionless [Legendary]
7. DJ Crystl – Inna Year 4000 [Freakout]
8. Unit 1 – Theme [Creative Wax]
9. The Full SP – Raw Basics (Tango Remix) [Face Recordings]
10. Grooverider – Sinister (The Influence Remix) [Reinforced)
11. Sound of the Future – The Warning [Formation]
12. Jim Polo & Neil Vass – Energy (2 Sinister Remix) [Dark Horse]
13. Manix & Rufige Kru – You Held My Hand (Mark Mac & Goldie Remix) [Reinforced]
14. Johnny Jungle – The Devoted Drummer [Suburban Base]
15. DJ Crystl – Your Destiny [Dee Jay Recordings]
16. DJ Crystl – Warpdrive [Dee Jay Recordings]
17. The Rood Project – Thunder [White House]
18. System X – Mindgames (Dub Mix) [Entity]
19. Studio Pressure – Resolution [Photek]
20. Peshay – Piano Tune [Looking Good]

Five years ago I did a mix called Yaman 1993 Hardcore which was a tribute to the legendary 90’s tape series. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Yaman, it was a cassette mix series that ran for years in the 90’s, featuring studio mixes by some of the UK rave scene’s biggest names, like Randall, LTJ Bukem, DJ Hype, Micky Finn, Jumping Jack Frost and many more. These tapes have become so revered because most of the surviving mixes from that era were live recordings from raves and pirate radio, and these big names did comparatively few studio mixes on proper equipment without mc’s.

So for that mix I wanted to pay tribute to the series by focusing on tapes from 1993, a crucial year in UK rave and hardcore started to give birth to jungle; that was a very interesting year for breakbeat music! The outcome was a 30 track mix that covered everything from euphoric slammers to dark side mayhem to early jungle to prototypes of the stripped down drum n’ bass sound that would emerge years later.

The mix itself was a big success (by my modest standards!) and it’s one I’m very proud of, so when my friend Vali NME Click from Parallax Recordings got in touch to ask if I would be interested in recording a follow-up for his biweekly People’s Station radio show, I didn’t need to think twice!

Vali wanted to do another 1993 mix and only focus on tracks I hadn’t used (lots of tapes in 1993) and asked me to do a 1994 mix. Unlike 1993, when Yaman put out tons of tapes, in 1994 they only released mixes from five dj’s:

• Micky Finn
• Randall
• DJ Hype
• Peshay
• LTJ Bukem

Given that there were relatively few tapes released, this helped me come up with a plan for the mix: 20 tracks in total, four from each dj, played in sequence, following the order Micky Finn -> Randall -> Hype -> Peshay -> Bukem

Additionally, I also wanted to avoid any tracks I’d used on the 1993 mix, which reduced the pool of tracks I had to work with; fortunately I have a LOT of tracks from this era, so I had enough from each dj to make it work. I also made the decision that I wasn’t going to only use tracks released in 1994; it’s ok to use tracks from 1993 if they were featured on the tapes released in 1994. Lots of these tracks were still getting play time even after they were released.

What’s surprising is that Vali and I managed to have zero crossover in our tracks without doing any coordination; pure luck and serendipity!

All in all, this was a fun project to put together, and I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by how well it’s turned out. Enjoy!

You can hear Vali’s mix here (as well as mine lol):