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Sasha & Digweed live @ MOS 1997

Has anyone heard this set yet? Its from their Northern Exposure Tour. The tracklist looks amazing


01. [000] ID
02. [002] ID
03. [007] Capricorn - 20Hz (Nalin & Kane Remix)
04. [015] Pako & Frederik - Western Approaches
05. [020] ID
06. [026] Morgan King - I'm Free (William Orbit Remix)
07. [034] Sound Of Sim - Rub A Dub
08. [039] Movin Melodies - Rollerblade (LSG Remix)
09. [044] ID
10. [050] Halal Sachs - Constantinople (Nomadic Mix)
11. [054] Tipple - The Drift (Transa Remix)
12. [058] De Niro - Mind Of Man
13. [064] Transa - Enervate (ETS Remix)
14. [067] ID
15. [073] ID
16. [079] Tom Wax & Jan Jacarta - Wormhole
17. [085] ID
18. [092] ID
19. [101] ID
20. [109] Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear
21. [115] Malcolm McLaren - The Bell Song (Lakme Dub)

Can't say I've heard that one but want to after a look at tracklist. Might be my favorite year for them, quality of productions with their abilities. Used to get some prog/house,techno,and trance in a set.

Check out the sets in my sig. Might still be available on recent pages.

Digweed aired it on transitions as promo for their reunion set thing at that one festival. Here it is:

https://www.mixcloud.com/johndigwee...d-live-in-1997/

And here, with DL enabled:



Agreed on '97 being a peak year for them. So many of my favourite S&D sets are from that period. 6 minutes into this one and my jaw is already wobbling.

Blimey. This set is certainly what we would describe on this quaint island as "full knacker".

big ups for the dl

Mind Of Man. Ooof. That track is just about as PLUR as it gets.

I bet Sasha is mortified that set has been made public.

This has got to be one of the most banging sets of the two of them together I've ever heard, good God.

Wormhole is on here!? This has to be a fake. Could never imagine them playing a track like that.

I really sorta loathe a lot of these tracks individually (that Wormhole joint is pretty abhorrent lol), but they reaalllly manage to make a lot of it work.

This is pretty shocking considering what S&D are both doing now, but it isn't quite so surprising considering what they'd sometimes play during those years, probably because the crowd wasn't having any of the housey Twilo fare (K90, the bigger tracks on Red Parrot, stuff from Junk Project, 1998 and so on).

I think this was also around the time that they both started getting booked at Gatecrasher. You probably wouldn't survive more than half an hour in there without some anthems on the go.

They certainly weren't averse to donning the trance trousers when the occasion demanded, but despite having accrued a number of their sets from the Year Of Our Lord 1997, I've never heard either of them set their phasers to gurn and proceed merrily up the BPM count quite like this before.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J set their phasers to gurn

lol

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper This is pretty shocking considering what S&D are both doing now...

I enjoyed how often Diggers mentions in the recording that him and Sasha will NOT be playing like this at the festival.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J They certainly weren't averse to donning the trance trousers when the occasion demanded, but despite having accrued a number of their sets from the Year Of Our Lord 1997, I've never heard either of them set their phasers to gurn and proceed merrily up the BPM count quite like this before.

I actually have a set, somewhere on my HD (or one of my HDs), where Sasha is happily smashing it out at 140. The odd thing is that it wasn't in 96/97/98, I think it was 99 or 2000, and he's just pitched up what he was playing then. I wish I could remember which one it is, actually, as it's a very odd mix. I think I got it off MS years ago, and the commentators in the thread were trying to figure out just how fucked he had been.

That said, 'phasers to gurn' is a truly wonderful expression

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I've never heard either of them set their phasers to gurn

Jeez, anyone got a spare nerdometer?

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Originally posted by Lews I actually have a set, somewhere on my HD (or one of my HDs), where Sasha is happily smashing it out at 140. The odd thing is that it wasn't in 96/97/98, I think it was 99 or 2000, and he's just pitched up what he was playing then. I wish I could remember which one it is, actually, as it's a very odd mix.

This is pretty much what Nick Warren did for three hours in this set, and it's great:



He was playing at U60311 in Frankfurt later that day, which is where guys like DJ Rush and Chris Liebing would beat up crowds with schranz for about twelve hours on a regular basis. It sounds like the progressive house/trance guys adapted by putting the slider to around +4 in Germany during those years.

Trance Trousers.

this should be an official thing. make sure the first letters are capitalised.

reminds me of Trouser Enthusiast. fucking weirdest name for an act ever. can you imagine trying to be let in for a gig and telling them you are Trousers Enthusiast? That probably happened and he changed to a different moniker straight away

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Originally posted by rubez Trance Trousers. this should be an official thing. make sure the first letters are capitalised.

Much as I'd like to take credit, it was a running joke in the dance music mags back in the '90s. I'm pretty sure the Muzik review of Northern Exposure 2 refers to CD2 as being "full of trousered up tuneage."

Pitched-up prog can be a wonderful thing. The first hour of J00F's Essential Mix from 2000 is a classic example. It's great to get those energy levels out of music that isn't woefully predictable in structure.

nice... didn't know that. that's maybe where that 'Trouser Enthusiast' name came from then.

the track before blue fear is 'Talla 2XLC - Is Anybody Out There (DJ Taucher Remix)' btw

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper This is pretty much what Nick Warren did for three hours in this set, and it's great...

Ah, totally forgot about this set! I used to ski to this, years ago. Great reminder Yes, it's very well done here. And in those J00F EMs. In contrast, I actually don't quite like the Sasha set I was thinking of, as he simply bangs it out too hard. I need to figure out what it was and share it, hmm.

fuck this track "Western Approaches" is sooooo dope, holy shit. never heard before, and cant imagine hearing this live.

It's great to hear this and props to Jack for upping the DL link.

I think people forget that they could play banging when they needed to, and this set is a classic example of them going for it.

I think people think of the "2nd wave" of S&D and think that's their sound but you cna argue that they often went the way of the trouser. (and yes Rubez, that's why Trouser Enthusiast called themselves that. Still, I'm pretty amazed they played Blue Fear. You don't usually associate S&D with Ferry Corsten tracks.


I remember seeing Sasha at Alexandra Palace on NYE in 1998 - it was absolutely fucking pounding. Talk about pitched up Prog and Trance. Digweed was never quite as plur as Mr. Coe but they still went there..... (that's Libra/Albion/calling your name, pitched up to +6)

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Originally posted by DJ RANN ...I'm pretty amazed they played Blue Fear. You don't usually associate S&D with Ferry Corsten tracks.

This is why I can never take anything you write seriously.

How are you amazed they played Blue Fear? Didn't they hammer that ish back then plus have it on a NE comp??

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