One place I would have definitely gone raving in 1995 given the opportunity would have been World Dance @ Lydd Airport. World Dance were one of the biggest promotors of the 90s and this is the venue they are best known for being held at.
Unfortunately they had stopped doing tape packs by this point so I'm not able to listen to any of the sets. I have seen the line up though.
World Dance were very much leaning more towards drum & bass evident in the compilations they put out and the fact that by the end of the 90s they had done away with happy hardcore completely.
In 1995 they still had happy hardcore at their events. In the main arena there were 10 DJs, 6 were drum & bass and 4 were happy hardcore.
Drum & bass wise there was Hype and Ellis Dee who were the DJs mixing the World Dance compilation I bought the following year. Ellis Dee's partner in crime Swanee was also on the line up. The other DJs were Grooverider, Kenny Ken and Randall.
Happy hardcore wise there was Slipmatt who may have included drum & bass in his set. There was also Vibes and Vinylgroover and I would imagine both of the would have been playing full on happy hardcore. Finally there was resident DJ Pooch.
There were a few Pooch records being played out around this time but DJ wise he seemed to rarely play anywhere but World Dance. The following year he would stop making happy hardcore and move onto speed garage.
Arena 2 was house music.
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