{"id":3686,"date":"2015-01-21T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:13:51","slug":"pearsall-presents-original-basement-vibes-the-sound-of-chocis-chewns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/pearsall-presents-original-basement-vibes-the-sound-of-chocis-chewns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents Original Basement Vibes (The Sound of Choci&#8217;s Chewns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/pearsall-presents-original-basement-vibes-the-sound-of-chocis-chewns\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).jpg\" alt=\"Choci's Chewns\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).mp3\">Pearsall presents Original Basement Vibes (The Sound of Choci&#8217;s Chewns)<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click, save as to download this free mp3 mix<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/187131441&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in Berlin, January 2015<br \/>\n(99:23, 227 MB, 320 kbps MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).zip\">Zip file (split into separate tracks)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns)BIG.jpg\">Big cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).cue\">Cue file<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Style: Classic Hard and Acid Trance sounds from the man like Choci and his various labels<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Direct link to the mix:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/choci\/Pearsall-OriginalBasementVibes(TheSoundOfChoci%27sChewns).mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Calculas &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Calculas-Millennium\/release\/305860\">Millennium (Mad Gay Mafia Remix)<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Remixes)<br \/>\n02. Geezer &#038; Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci-The-Geezer-Mono-Madness\/release\/24100\">Mono Madness<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n03. DJ Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Choci-M25\/release\/117397\">M25 (Dynamic Intervention Remix)<\/a> (Public House)<br \/>\n04. Choci &#038; EC1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci--EC-1-I-Could-Be-Him-I-Could-Be-Her\/release\/24294\">Natural High (Pink Cally Mix)<\/a> (Choci&#8217;s Chewns)<br \/>\n05. Chris Liberator &#038; The Geezer \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Chris-Liberator-The-Geezer-303-Power\/release\/21799\">303 Power (Choci &#038; The Geezer Remix)<\/a> (Smitten Remix)<br \/>\n06. Choci, Billy &#8216;Daniel&#8217; Bunter &#038; The Geezer &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci-Billy-Daniel-Bunter-Geezer-The-Brown-Bread-Mate\/release\/184567\">Acid Conspiracy<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n07. DJ Mishka &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Mishka-Going-Back-In-Time-EP\/release\/221731\">Going Back In Time (Mad Gay Mafia Mix)<\/a> (Efadrine)<br \/>\n08. DJ Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci-Spaced-Out\/release\/177004\">Spaced Out (DJ Choci&#8217;s Pagan Mix)<\/a> (Cannon)<br \/>\n09. DJ Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Choci-Nu-Style-Acid\/release\/94029\">Can You Feel The Force<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n10. DJ Reche &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Reche-KWM\/release\/680674\">Don&#8217;t Work (Choci &#038; Mark Sinclair Remix)<\/a> (Main Vein)<br \/>\n11. Choci &#038; Injector &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci-Injector-Acid-War-Nothing\/release\/11710\">Nothing<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n12. DJ Paola &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Paola-Aliens\/release\/11711\">Souls Of The Tribes<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n13. DJ Riddler &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Riddler-Riddle-Me-This\/release\/210351\">Fast Track To St. Louis<\/a> (Public House)<br \/>\n14. DJ Paola &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Paola-Code-1000\/release\/373008\">Code 1000 (DJ Mishka&#8217;s Absinthe Mix)<\/a> (Cannon)<br \/>\n15. K90 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/K90-Genesis-Phantasm\/release\/22924\">Genesis<\/a> (Choci&#8217;s Chewns)<br \/>\n16. Andy Allder vs Graham D &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Andy-Allder-vs-Graham-D-The-Fist-EP\/release\/205694\">Snow Queen<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n17. DJ Mishka &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Mishka-Fifth-Element\/release\/94033\">Fifth Element (Skyscraper Mix)<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n18. DJ Theron &#038; Jon Doe &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Theron-Jon-Doe-Transelucant-Awakenings\/release\/4667\">Rubber Banned<\/a> (Public House)<br \/>\n19. The Darkman &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Darkman-Mad-Gay-Mafia\/release\/208184\">Mad Gay Mafia (This Is Fucking Trippy Mix)<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n20. Tasha Killa Pussies &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Tasha-Killa-Pussies-Killacore\/release\/24309\">Burn Baby Burn<\/a> (Choci&#8217;s Chewns)<br \/>\n21. DDR &#038; Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DDR-Choci-Valhalla\/release\/94048\">Valhalla<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n22. DJ Choci &#038; DJ Paola &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Choci-DJ-Paola-Cherokee-Pharoah-Tears\/release\/225566\">Cherokee<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Frequencies)<br \/>\n23. Beamish &#038; Choci &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Beamish--Choci-Gamma-Ray\/release\/176059\">Stingray<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Remixes)<br \/>\n24. Choci &#038; Tickle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Choci-Tickle-Flute\/release\/113888\">Flute (Choci &#038; Andy Allder Remix)<\/a> (Voltage Controlled Remixes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7118-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"in the mix\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7118-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7118-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to to 2015!<\/p>\n<p>And what better way to start than with a new mix, huh?<\/p>\n<p>To kick things off, I am very pleased to present this tribute to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/3648-Chocis-Chewns\">Choci&#8217;s Chewns<\/a> family of labels, purveyors of some of the finest UK Acid\/Hard Trance to ever(ever) grace wax.<\/p>\n<p>This mix was picked out by competition winner Martyn Amos (whose own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sonicrampage\/photos\/a.906351289399132.1073741828.131001660267436\/908404619193799\/?type=1\">bespoke vintage Goa Trance mix<\/a> was delivered to him on Christmas Day). Originally it was going to be a general acid trance round-up, along the lines of my previous mixes <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/pearsall-presents-there-must-be-a-future-new\/\">There Must Be A Future<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/pearsall-presents-squat-rocking-5-bangingtunes-com-memories\/\">Squat Rocking 5<\/a>, but when I actually started going through my records I realized that it would be awesome fun to just do a mix of stuff that Choci released on his various labels, plus some remixes he did for other labels, and one tune from Choci associate and shop employee DJ Mishka&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/1172-Efadrine\">Efadrine<\/a> label.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3700\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chocischewns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chocischewns-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"Choci&#039;s Chewns record store on St. Anne&#039;s Court\" width=\"474\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chocischewns-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chocischewns-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chocischewns.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choci&#8217;s Chewns record shop entrance (photo by Ilan Sklar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are unaware, Choci&#8217;s Chewns was a record shop and label based in Soho in London&#8217;s West End, run by long-time dj\/producer Choci (duh). The shop was located in the basement of a building in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/maps\/place\/St+Anne%27s+Ct,+Soho,+London,+UK\/@51.514163,-0.1345702,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x487604d348d8826d:0xbc36bd80e99782e8\">St Anne&#8217;s Court<\/a>, a narrow pedestrian cut-through between Wardour Street and Dean Street in Soho.<\/p>\n<p>Like all the best record stores, part of the pleasure was the anticipation &#8211; descending the stairs and hearing the music get louder and louder, knowing that soon you would get your hands on that sweet, sweet black plastic. I was a pretty regular customer for a few years at the end of the 90&#8217;s and the beginning of the 00&#8217;s, and it was consistently one of my favorite haunts for hard dance sounds, along with Kinetec near Oxford Circus, Basement Vinyl in Kilburn and <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/running-a-record-store-back-in-the-day-an-interview-with-jay-equinox-of-elite-records\/\">Elite<\/a> in Victoria. Their stock always included the best of UK and European hard trance, acid techno and hard house, and Andreas Mishka (who was mostly working there when I was going) was always friendly and frequently hooked me up with promos, which was no bad thing!<\/p>\n<p>What was the sound of Choci&#8217;s Chewns? Well, Choci&#8217;s labels specialized in exactly the tunes featured on this mix &#8211; hard, energetic trance, filled with memorable riffs, rhythms to bounce to, and enough acid lines to strangle a python. Whether in a dirty warehouse in the depths of pre-hipster Hackney or in big races at places like Brixton Academy or The Astoria, these tunes always rocked the spot like no other.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3699\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/choci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/choci-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"Choci from Choci&#039;s Chewns\" width=\"474\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/choci-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/choci-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/choci.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choci &#8211; the man himself! (photo by Ilan Sklar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The sound of Choci&#8217;s Chewns, both the shop and the labels, was pretty much the soundtrack to some of my greatest nights out as a young guy &#8211; it was the fuel that drove parties like Pendragon, Escape From Samsara, Tectonic, Trancentral, Undertow, Antiworld, and many others to greater and greater heights of lunacy.<\/p>\n<p>I make no pretense that this is a definitive mix &#8211; I just pulled together a bunch of tunes that flowed nicely together and rolled it out. I&#8217;ve also deliberately used only tunes that I&#8217;ve not used on <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/mixes-gallery\/hard-trance-gallery\/\">Hard Trance mixes<\/a> before, which is why some of your (and my) favorites don&#8217;t feature. It&#8217;s also pretty heavy on tunes from the Voltage Controlled Frequencies label, but there&#8217;s no mystery behind that &#8211; it was my favorite of all the labels. I think it works pretty nicely &#8230; your mileage may vary, of course!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7169-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7169\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7169-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7169-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7169-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute to the awesome Choci&#8217;s Chewns family of labels (Choci&#8217;s Chewns, VCF, VCR, Public House, and Cannon) and their unique hard acid trance sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","tag-hard-trance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}