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The Oldskool Series: history of EDM (1964-2004) (pg. 8)
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| Domesticated |
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Where did you get that information? I'm impressed.
You missed a few things:
a) The shuffle first emerged in the '90s as far as I know, not the '80s.
b) One of the main production groups in Melbourne during the '90s was Hardware, which ran big parties down at the docks. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_2rip
Episode #26: Deep Audio Release [1999]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...01_15-08_00.mp3
The underground scene of Australia in the 1980s was made up of artists such as Soho, Planet Patrol, Yaz, and Serious Intention. Many of which were producing a combination of electro, disco and funk. A popular form of dance called the Melbourne shuffle came out of this era. It was a fast heel-toe action that incorporated body movements suitable for underground dance music.
Melbourne becamse a haven for large-scale raves in the nineties era. In 1992 a crew known as the Melbourne Underground Development (MUD) began a series of parties called Every Picture Tells a Story. The parties were held in the Global Village warehouse complex in Footscray, Melbourne and drew crowds by the thousands.
Outside of Melbourne in the Bushland areas, production crews were hosting "doof" parties. Doofs were essentially outdoor festivals held in remote country areas. The most popular area for this type of partying was around Mt. Disappointment for parties such as Earthcore and Kryal Castle.
Across the country, Perth developed it's rave roots when dj's like Roy Jopson, Colin Clarke and Dave Jackson were mixing Detroit and German techno into their dj sets at the Limbos nightclub in 1990. On October 13, 1990 the first official rave was held in Perth that was titled NRG and held at the Network Dance Club on James Street Northbridge.
By 1999 there was a plethora of production companies hosting events anywhere they could get their hands on. Sydney primarily held down a warehouse scene and focused on house music. Perth production crews mainly used nightclubs as their rave havens but catered more towards a hardcore, drum & bass, and trance crowd.
Popular crews in the Perth region were Storm Productions, Bass Agenda Crew, Raggabone, and Technotainment. Some of the venues used by these crews in 1999 were The Factory Nightclub, the warehouse at 65 Edward St, Belmont Park, Osborne Park warehouse (Hutton St), Greenwich Bar, and a "superclub" called Redheads.
The featured mix is a selection from my deep house archives from 1999. During this time much of the dance scene to me had become all about hard trance, hard house, hardcore, hardstep, hard this & hard that. However during that time I always enjoyed taking a step back and going deep & groovy. The majority of these kinds of sets were never played out since it was almost taboo to spin anything deep with the current influx of ravers that had popped up around that time.
Romanthony & DJ Predator - Clap Ya Handz
Joshua - Remember
Miguel Migs - Easy Does It (Discoteque Mix)
Aka Electric - My Sweet Meat
Brooks - Inside the Heads
Petalpusher - Breakin It Down (Migs Dub)
Atjazz - Come & Play
Kerri Chandler - I Know
Blaze - Lovelee Dae (Primitive Dub)
Romanthony & DJ Predator - Music Mind |
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| DJ_2rip |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
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Where did you get that information? I'm impressed.
You missed a few things:
a) The shuffle first emerged in the '90s as far as I know, not the '80s.
b) One of the main production groups in Melbourne during the '90s was Hardware, which ran big parties down at the docks. |
Thanks! Good to know about Hardware. I'll add this to any updates I make on the series! |
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| DJ_2rip |
K... so it's going to look like I skipped a few episodes. That is because this past week I posted some retroactively and also re-ordered the entire series to work more chronologically. Check out www.2rip.podomatic.com to see the newly added Episodes 5 & 7.
Episode#29: Stargasm [1999 House]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...15_40-08_00.mp3
The untold story of Chicago is that after the birth of house, the city developed a major underground scene that mirrored other areas of the United States. By 1993 the Chicago rave scene had really begun to flourish with parties like 100% Pure Hardcore which featured Phantom 45 & Hyperactive; Rejoice which hosted Dubtribe along with Terry Mullan & DB; and See The Light which hosted Moby, Orbital & Aphex Twin.
Throughout the nineties other popular acts in Chicago were Danny Breaks, Ruffneck, Woody Mcbride, John Acquaviva, Sleepy C, and Underground Resistance. The rave scene in Chicago mostly carried over the drum & bass sounds from artists like Phantom 45, techno from Detroit and a lot of Chicago-style acid house. Straight house music dj's were still often featured on lineups with artists like Derrick Carter & Doc Martin.
The dj mixing style of Chicago has, since the days of disco, been a competitive format. As was seen with the birth of house music when dj's were constantly trying to outdo each other, the tradition continued the entire way through the nineties and into present day. Many Chicago dj's specialized in scratching and turntablism and most competed in DMC-style battles. Danny the Wildchild was one of these dj's who competed in and won the 1998 DMC Championships as well as Bad Boy Bill who won First Place one decade earlier in the 1988 DMC Championships.
Bad Boy Bill became famous for taking Chicago house music to a level it had never reached before. Having started his dj'ing with the WBMX dj mixing team "Hot Mix 5" and soon undertaking the challenge of mass producing mixtapes, Bad Boy Bill had developed a base to springboard onto the international music scene. Bill showcased a great deal of local Chicago flavor in his mix series Bangin' the Box which also incorporated a great deal of regional techno. In 1997 he formed House Connection with Richard Humpty Vission. Together they produced two mix compilations that had set the tone for Chicago house mixing in the late nineties.
In 1999 house music continued to progress forward. Pete Heller's "Big Love" was ranked as the #1 dance song of the year by Billboard Magazine while Junior Jack's "My Feeling" reached #31 on the UK Chart. Michael Moog's "That Sound" had also reached #1 on Billboard Magazine's chart, except this did not happen until the year 2000.
The featured session is a house mix that was recorded live during my college years nearly a decade ago. In it's entirety it featured some of the most popular and well-known house and disco house tracks of the 1999 period.
Kamasutra - Burnin
Hardsoul - Fight The Feeling
Celeda - Let The Music Use You Up
Jose Nunez - Hold On (Jazz N Groove Dub)
Ministers De La Funk - Believe (Dub)
Junior Jack - My Feeling (Kick N Deep Mix)
Paul Jacobs - Happy Days (PJ's Unreleased Mix)
Michael Moog - That Sound (Full Intention Dub)
Gambafreaks - Down Down Down (Vocal Mix)
Pete Heller - Big Love (Dronez Mix) |
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Episode #30: Alien Night 1999 [techno]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...34_58-07_00.mp3
As the nineties rushed on the media hype surrounding raves continued to grow. Daily newspapers as well as the evening news dedicated themselves to attempting to uncover the underground world of the rave scene and educate the public about the events, selling the older demographic on the notion that raves were a danger and a threat. The coverage in many ways created a promotion for the rave culture and as interest in the parties grew, so did attendance, as well as the budgets for hosting these events.
In Washington DC, Buzzlife had been successful with their event at the Capital Ballroom. In 1998 the venue was purchased by John Boyle who soon renovated the venue and changed the name to Nation. In 1999, Nation became one of the only venues to own the famous EAW Avalon soundsystem. Unfortunately by May of that year, Fox 5 News did a report which sensationalized what took place inside the venue. They released a report which focused almost completely on drug use and also sited the DC Metro police for being involved as one officer who was on camera was alleged to have had a relationship with one of the ravers who they had been filming. The news report was the cause of a great deal of controversy leading to the closing of Buzz. For two weeks, Buzz patrons protested outside of the Fox 5 studio on Wisconsin Ave in DC. After a few months of being closed the party re-opened.
During the same year a Philadelphia production company called Local 13 had thrown one of their largest events called Whistle 2 which was held at the South Jersey Expo Center in Pennsauken, NJ. The venue was sepereated into different rooms called dome: Pleasure Dome, Super Dome, Power Dome, Drum Dome and Industrial Strength Dome. The lineup featured dj's like Green Velvet, Nigel Richards, Frankie Bones, and DJ Icey.
In Pittsburgh a company called Downlow had thrown their first party together in 1997 called Intergalactic Circus. Since then they had pioneered new venues that gave a home to many ravers through the end of the nineties. Some of these venues included the Rostraver Ice Garden in Bell Vernon, PA as well as multi-room Paintball Arena near the intersection of 21st & Smallman Street in Pittsburgh's Strip District. In 1999, Downlow hosted Magick! at the Paintball Arena which featured Roy Davis Jr and Felix the Housecat.
In Ohio venues like Moda, Metropolis and The Eagles nest had become popular spots for raves. Most of the flyers that were designed for Ohio parties had very futuristic themes, often involving robots in the graphics. Between Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and Cincinnati several local dj's had made good names for themselves. Most parties between Ohio and Pittsburgh were featuring dj's like Tigger, Darwin, Ben Kenobi, Hazey, Deep Blue, and Lemon Lyman.
This podcast is an unfinished studio mix that was meant to be discarded nearly a decade ago. It was recovered from an old PC that I was preparing to throw away. The tracklisting is as accurate as I could make it, however there may be some mis-listings.
Green Velvet - Flash
Percy X - Worklife
Frank Dubois - Buckled
Steve Stoll - Thirty
S.O.L. - Solaris
Mijk van Dijk & Thomas Schumacher - Delivery
Ade Fenton - The Stalker
Yousef & Sharam - Into The Groove
Heckmann - Stahlwerk
Gerd - Arkest's Blaze
Sender Berlin - Nana (Alexander Kowalski Remix) |
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Episode #31: The Burial [1999 Drum & Bass]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...54_21-07_00.mp3
In 1999 drum & bass some of the most popular drum & bass dj's were AK1200, Dara, Aphrodite, J Smooth and Dieselboy. Along with them was dj's like Shy FX, DJ SS, DB and John B were popular. J. Majik was continuing to innovate, having started his own label known as Infrared a few years prior, he then released the Nightvision EP. This 3 disk set contained music by Goldie, System 3, John B, and Total Science. Other notable releases were tracks like "Stalker" by Usual Suspects which was featured on Dieselboy's "A Soldiers Story."
"A Soldiers Story" was aptly named because it was popular to feature drum & bass dj's on side stages or second stages at multi-room events. While there were many parties aimed primarily at drum & bass it was rare to find house music or techno as side stage music to a drum & bass main floor. "A Solider's Story" was referring to the fight in getting drum & bass the recognition that it deserved.
Outside of the drum & bass industry, raves continued to grow in popularity. However many ravers of earlier generations had begun to feel that the influx of new event attendees was damaging to the culture. Drug use was as much of a problem as it had always been, however it was clear to the older generation that kids were coming to raves specifically to use drugs. Trance, happy hardcore and even faster pitched techno had become popular with party attendees looking to indulge in party drugs like acid, ecstasy or derivatives of such.
Many of the drug abusers falling into this category or interest of music were "candy ravers." Candy ravers often exchanged or shared small gifts, primarily toys, necklaces, beads, bracelets and stickers. The defining part of their appearance is that they typically wear a large number of homemade bracelets made of colorful plastic beads known as "kandi." The fundamental idea behind the bracelets was to remember past raves and commemorate new friendships. In many cases a Kandi Kid found one or more things to wear that would make them stand out from other ravers, often wearing the same outfit or similar style outfits at events in order to be easily recognized or known. It was also popular for people to come up with rave names which were aliases used in the party scene.
On the other side of the spectrum, typical fans of drum & bass did not dawn kandi as their attire. Junglists throughout the span of the rave scene often wore hoodies and ball caps. During the end of the nineties almost all ravers were wearing clothing made by Mecca and Ecko. They also often wore Addidas or Kangol visors. Kikwear jeans and JNCO jeans were also popular as well as UFOs.
UFO Clothing was actually developed in 1967, using military surplus as inspiration. UFO Clothing adapted it to the times by using music, art and contemporary ideologies as its foundation. The UFO cargo pants and skirts were made of a light weight, polyester & cotton blend which were made baggy which were popular for ravers dancing all night long.
This session features a few popular tracks from the 1999 period of drum & bass. Some of the releases were from J. Magik's 3-disc Nightvision set which was one of my favorite releases at the time.
Futurebound - Sustain
Accidental Heroes - Dragster
Konflict - Cyanide
The Ganja Kru - Ghetto Brother
System 3 - Gatekeeper
Accidental Heroes - Elements
Red One - Strangled Duck
DJ Freedom - Chainsaw
John B - Gollum vs. Poison Arrow |
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| This is a pretty awesome project. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_2rip
Episode #30: Alien Night 1999 [techno] |
Wicked set, will download the drum'n'bass one as well. |
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| nice work my man.. i wish i had the time to forge something like this. ive only just found this topic, and im starting off with the old skool rave enhancer set. then gonna check out the deep bass old skool jungle/drum n bass :) |
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Episode #32: Spiritual Light [1999 Progressive Trance]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...43_21-07_00.mp3
The year 1999 was said to have been the major explosion of the global rave culture. Just as the life of stars in our cosmos, the year 1999 built up to one of the last years of the main sequence which carried across the span of a decade. Interest had grown dramatically in the dance & rave scene despite many ups & downs.
Since 1991 an event called Winter Music Conference had taken place in Miami's South Beach. The conference was aimed at record labels, producers, and dj's. However as time grew on the event became a catalyst for the burgeoning South Beach club scene. In 1999 the first Ultra Music Festival took place on the Saturday immediately after the conference, which was hosted directly on South Beach.
Gatecrasher, although founded in 1993, had become very popular at The Republic in Sheffield, UK. The club had been primarily house and techno oriented, however by the end of the nineties it was a haven for trance artists like Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold and Van Dyk. Similarly, trance was becoming a bigger phenomena on a global scale.
After the release of Paul Oakenfold's "Tranceport" in November of 1998, trance hit a breaking point. The CD featured many trance songs that were recieving a lot of play at the time, featuring artists like The Light, Paul Van Dyk, Transa, Three Drives on a Vinyl and Binary Finary. The follow-up to the series, Tranceport 2, was mixed by Dave Ralph and featured artists like Oliver Leib, X-Cabs, Sasha, Andy Ling, and Fragma.
DJ Mag, which began featuring a Top 100 dj's of the world poll in 1997 started with only 700 people voting in the poll. The first two years, Carl Cox was nominated the #1 DJ in the world the first year of the poll. In 1998 Paul Oakenfold was nominated #1 with Carl Cox and Judge Jules falling behind. In 1999, Paul Oakenfold claimed the #1 spot again.
Inside party scene, rave had become an often unspoken religion for many. While there are no formal priests in the rave culture, DJ's were often thought of as the equivalent as they were technically the head of proceedings, administering music and serving as the conductor of an inner journey of either thoughts or emotions. Drugs often contributed to the journey and especially by the end of the decade many people were sold on going to raves for "the experience." The experience included friends, drugs, music and an intense journey deep into one's self.
While the dj used records to take people on a journey, the music became a common line of communication & understanding for most partygoers. It did not matter who a person was, what nationality or religion or sexual preference there was a common sense of acceptance. It was a promoter's job to ensure that no bad vibes would enter parties, therefore most flyers in the late nineties featured two acronyms on flyers which stated the basic norms for the events. The first was Right Of Admission Refusion (ROAR) which meant that anyone could be turned away from an event. Often this meant that bad attitudes or people that looked untrust-worthy would not be permitted into the event.
The second acronym stood for Peace, Love, Unity & Respect (PLUR) which is said to have originated by techno dj, Frankie Bones, in the early 90s after a fight broke out at one of the Storm Raves. Frankie was said to have picked up the microphone and shouted "I want to see some peace, love & unity here or I'll break your ing necks!" It was not until some time after this incident that the "R" was added to include respect. The full acronym was not coined until after Laura La Gassa had written an essay about "Peace, Love, Unity & Respect." This was an essay that she was inspired to write after her husband, Brian Behlendorf, came to visit her in 1993 to attend a renegade party in Washington, DC at RFK Stadium. Prior to the party, Brian had given her a booklet written by DJ Geoff of Wicked Soundsystem in San Francisco called "The Four Pillars of the House Community." After her essay was written, a raver on the ne-raves mailing list signed an email with "PLUR" and since then the term had caught on like wildfire and continues to be used to this day, primarily with candyravers.
This session was mixed live near the break of the millenium. It was inspired by a spiritual experience I had of my own, which has remained over the years to be the best day of my life. This was also during a period where I had switched (temporarily) from being interested in primarily techno and house to a growing interest in progressive trance which stayed the course of a three years crossing through the millenium.
3 Phase feat. Dr. Motte - Der Klang Der Familie (King of Spin Remix)
The M&M's - Four Play
Timo Mass vs. Ian Wilkie - Twin Town (Main Mix)
Joshua Ryan - Pistolwhip
Dj Remy - Backstabber
Mea Culpa - Spiritual Light
Aurora - Hear You Calling (Fire & Ice Remix)
Transa - Enervate (ETS Remix) |
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| quote: | Originally posted by [N]ûk|êû[Z]
nice work my man.. i wish i had the time to forge something like this. ive only just found this topic, and im starting off with the old skool rave enhancer set. then gonna check out the deep bass old skool jungle/drum n bass :) |
man i wish i had the time to do it too! LOL. The mixes have just kinda sat in my collection for the last 12-13 years but the research... damn. Some of this is difficult when you've only got a few hours to get answers.
I still have to admit that I'm always shocked to see so many drum & bass heads on a "tranceaddict" site. At the same time the majority of the people that posted in this thread seem to have a solid house, ambient, dnb background as opposed to trance. Just an observation :shrug: |
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Episode #33: Higher Learning [2000 Tech-House]
DOWNLOAD: http://2rip.podomatic.com/enclosure...55_36-07_00.mp3
Humans have the tendency to demonstrate a need to connect with one another in some form of group activity. For all communities to be psychologically healthy there needs to be a way for people to gather and exchange ideas or expressions as well as share common goals. Primitive humans spent a lot of their time sitting around fires and staring at the dancing flames & smoky forms. Anyone who has done this can understand how relaxing it can be and it gives your mind a chance to wander. It allows your thoughts to become fluid yet abstract. This is a trance-like state and in this state we have the ability to see the world from a different perspective.
Doing this in a group setting, in an altered state of consciousness (be it drugs or alcohol) and performed in a ritual type setting can, in some ways, be considered a tribal experience. Though it is packaged differently today, people continue to flock to group events where they can make some form of group connection, Be it nightclubs or sporting events or social clubs.
Rave culture had increasingly become an embodiment of modern neo-tribalism with the party as the ritual center. Although many younger ravers were unaware of the tribal roots of the rave movement, they became instinctively attracted to the rave scene because it gave them something they couldn't find anywhere else. Exceeding everything was a universal sense of the acceptance of differences amongst party kids. Raves had become a haven for people of all races, sexuality, religions and social backgrounds.
By surveying attendees at raves at the change of the millenium you could find lawyers, teachers, psychologists, high school students, drop-outs, dreamers, scammers, nurses, nerds and college students. With diversity came growth and each raver, in themself, was a special promotional piece as they often collected flyers for upcoming events and memorized what the next major party would be. The millenium had shown that this growing bubble had no signs of popping anytime soon.
The following mix was created in 2003 as a demo for a weekly event I hosted in the basement lounge of a restaurant in college, however it was only given to 10 people. The music I was playing during the early stages of this party consisted of a very tech-house selection. However my collection was not yet at the time up to date. This entire mix is strictly music from the turn of the new millenium.
LoSoul - Lies Watch Your Lift
Reactor Music - Holes In Space
Terry Lee Brown Junior - Fever
Loudeast - Thank You (Jack Mix)
Luke Slater - Body Freefall, Electronic Inform (Counterplan Mix)
Hakan Lidbo - Televinken
Get ed - De Icing
Rob Mello - Love Nasty
Jackmate - The Jacker
The RC Groove Project - The Sermon (B. McCarthy Remix)
Silicone Soul - Nosferatu
Brothers Vibe - Manos Libre
Homebase - Constant Love |
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