Pearsall presents Rampage Revisited 2
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Mixed in Berlin, July 2025
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(120:19, 276 MB, 320 kbps mp3)
Direct link to the mix:
https://sonicrampage.org/mixes/rampage-revisited/Pearsall-RampageRevisited2.mp3
Tracklisting:
- Technasia – The Force (Technasia Arpeggio Mix) [Technasia]
- Woody McBride – Off the Ceiling (The Advent Remix) [Communique]
- Extek – Muvvafucker [Primate]
- Wilko – Tek Nine [Pimp]
- The Pump Panel – Ego Acid (Thomas Schumacher Remix) [Primate]
- JvA – Foxy Acid (Crashes & Shares Mix) [Bang On]
- Ant – Get Infected [Infected]
- Rebel Yelle – Acid Nights [Stay Up Forever]
- DDR – Splinter [Smitten]
- Pharmacy – The Law [Havok]
- Stormtraxx – My Acid Dream [Byte Progressive]
- ASYS – Acid Nightmare [Tracid Traxx]
- Parasonic – 1-2-3-4 [Voltage Controlled Remixes]
- Angel of Death – Angel of Death (Hennes & Cold Remix) [Tracid Traxx]
- DJ Scot Project – O (Overdrive) [Overdose]
- Steve Blake – Get A Rush (Impact 2002 Remix) [Impact]
- Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter & Jon Doe – Mind Games [UK Hard]
- Baby Doc & The Dentist – Mantra To The Buddha (OD404 Remix) [TeC]
- VG2000 – Cyber Sex [Red]
- DJ Misjah & DJ Tim – Access (KY Jellybabies Remix) [Tripoli Trax]
- RR Fierce – Just Begun [White Label]
- Karim – Wet n’ Wild [Do Not Bend]
- Lab 4 – Place Go Boom [Fragile]
- Daniel Ro & Pepi – Remedy [Peroxide]
- Neuron – The Past for the Future (Kevin Energy Remix) [Dynamix]
- Rez – Rez Out (Raved Up Mix) [Nu Energy]
- Tazz & Concept vs Impact – Hypnotizing Music [Electronic]
- Kevin Eneregy – Vertigo [Nu Energy]
- Kaos & Ethos – Technorocker [Blatant Beats]
- Sharkey, Energy, K-Complex & Rich – Visions of Infinity [Bonkerz]
That picture above is of me with my good friends Andy and Lizzie. I took it in their living room two days after an epic party at their house in early July, thrown to celebrate their 25th anniversay.
It was a great privilege of mine to attend and play, and I made this mix as a little promo for the party. They’ve also requested that I re-record my set from that night, so keep your ears out for that.
The theme of the party was the Berlin Love Parade, which was one of the first big parties that they attended after getting together as a couple. So the room was decorated in a suitable style, with projections from past Love Parade and Rave the Planet events, with a pounding soundsystem utilizing near field audio technology to make it club-like in the room without bothering the neighbors. An awesome party!
I actually met Andy and Lizzie the year after they got together; we met at the very first Rampage event that I threw with my flatmate Rob Dinsdale and Phil Zero at the Wee Red Bar at the Edinburgh College of Art. Andy was old friends from Aberdeen with DJ Skelp, who I had met via the Energy UK guestbook, which was functioning at the time as a kind of quasi forum.
Writing about the EUK guestbook is one of those things that makes me feel properly old, just in the sense of how much technology and the internet has moved on since then. I used to go to EUK every day and interact with other people by writing messages in their guestbook. No threads, no images, no logging in, just a single never-ending message stream. Sometimes you’d open the site and have to scroll backwards through hundreds of messages to catch up. Imagine that! Very different times.
Anyways, I’d mentioned at one point I was going to start putting on a night in Edinburgh, so Skelp said he was interested in playing, and one thing led to another, and he sent me a tape (back when that was the only real way to share your dj sets, broadband being in its infancy then). Phil and I listened to the tape, liked it, and said sure, please come down from Aberdeen and play on the first night.
He asked if he could put some friends on the guestlist, we again said sure, and those friends were Andy and Lizzie. That was the night we met! It’s all a bit hazy now (since it was 24 years ago), but the night ended with Skelp, Andy and Lizzie joining us and our friends for the afterparty we were throwing at our flat down the Dalkeith Road, near Cameron Toll.
And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
In fact, we had enjoyed Skelp’s set so much, as well as enjoyed meeting him, that pretty much there and then we made him a co-resident of the party (alongside Phil and I), and Andy and Lizzie then became regulars and, quickly, our close friends that we saw not just at Rampage but at parties around the city, as well as for meals, drinks, and general hanging out.
So many good times together over the years!
Long nights at parties across Edinburgh, especially at Studio 24 and The Venue. After-parties in dingy flats across the city. Hanging out at Andy’s weird l-shaped flat on Leith Walk, with the world’s smallest toilet (you had to sit sideways on the toilet to be able to close the door!) Free parties at Blackford Quarry. A mad adventure to a rich guy’s house on the Black Isle near Inverness where he’d turned an indoor squash court into a rave cave. Many late nights and ridiculous parties at their flat on Meadowbank Avenue. ‘Quick drinks’ that turned into drunken madness, laughing the whole time. Lizzie’s 30th birthday weekender at a youth hostel in the Cairngorms, which I … barely remember. I was definitely there though! And so many more great times together.
So much fun, so many great times.
Hard to imagine that I’ve known them now for 24 years. Lucky me!
What a pleasure and an honor to know such wonderful people – here’s to 25 more years!
About the mix
Andy and Lizzie, Edinburgh 2007
Rampage was a short-lived club night that only really ran for a bit more than a year, but it was long enough to make lifelong friends and imprint indelible memories; it ran from 2001 to 2002, so this mix features solely tracks from that era, and is designed to cover the sound of those parties, showing off some of the styles we played.
It starts with a funky techno section, which is often what we kicked the nights off with (that or the slower, funkier side of hard house), then kicks on through a section of London acid techno, which moves onwards to chunky early 2000’s European hard trance, then into the kinds of UK hard house / hard trance sounds that we specialized in, before really upping the bpm’s for a full scale freeform hardcore assault (we didn’t really play freeform that much, just sometimes as a last tune). I’m really happy with how this mix has turned out, it really captures (in my opinion!) the vibe and sound that we had back then.
Enjoy!