UK Free Parties and Free Festivals 1990-1994 – Interesting blog about the early days of the UK free party scene, with lots of video, pics, stories, and other stuff. Excellent background to the world I documented (a bit!) in my Squat Rocking series of mixes.
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Mixed in Adelaide, 2004
(72:50, 167 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)
Style: what do you think? it’s not fucking polka!
In my long-term quest to add some decent reading material to all of the mixes, I’ve now gone back and added some notes on each of the tunes to the post about my Rampage Audio 5 mix. Enjoy!
I’ve just added some pictures to the post for last year’s hard house mix Liquidate. Check it out – it’s actually turned out to be one of my more popular mixes, at least going on data transfer and page views. Enjoy!
Turn Away Skull – Karl Haze left me a message, so I went and checked out his site, and it’s got two rather fine-looking mixes on it, with the promise of more. I’ve only listened to the old skool set Head Cleaner so far (which is great!), but I’m sure the other one is equally as good. Check it out.
My Year of Mixtapes – Making me look like an absolutely total and utter slacker, Chicago’s Chrissy Murderbot is doing a weekly mix, covering an absolute galaxy of styles, from ragga jungle to disco to booty bass to, fuck, all kinds of other stuff. Well worth a look.
Tinrib Recordings Marathon Mix – A wicked mix of tunes from Tinrib Recordings (one of the leading UK hard house/nu-nrg labels) put up on the Bangingtunes forum.
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Mixed in London, September 2009
(74:49, 132.94 MB, V0 VBR MP3)
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Style: artcore junglizm / intelligent drum n’ bass
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Mixed in London, August 2009
(76:46, 138.47 MB, V0 VBR MP3)
Read my essay Edinburgh Techno Daze
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Style: fearsome hard techno
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Mixed in London, September 2009
(84:11, 152.57 MB, APX VBR MP3)
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Style: early 90’s rave techno -> hard techno -> hardcore -> gabba
I hope all of my readers are having a good Christmas! As my present to you, I will be putting up all three of the promised mixes over the next week, starting with We Control The Night tomorrow. Enjoy!
A few links to mixes I’ve liked recently.
Bass Music Mix 8 – Von D – Von D is a French dubstep producer who has recently caught my attention with his fusing of classic Detroit techno-style chords and melodies to a dubstep framework. This mix at the excellent Bass Music Blog features a load of his productions all smoothly mixed together. A real treat.
Dunfyboy’s Mixes – I first found his site when he dropped a comment. Some realy good mixes across a range of genres. His High Contrast mix went straight on my iPod and is a particular highlight.
DJ Harmony’s old skool trance mixes – This is the motherlode if you love that old European hard trance sound! 20 excellent mixes, covering everything from uplifting Paul van Dyk style to wibbling acid to out-and-out rave mayhem. Fucking fantastic and not to be missed.
