This week sees Fusion and Adrenalin team up at Bath Pavillion. We featured Fusion in Hounslow back in May but this is the first Adrenalin to feature. It was one of many Fusion vs Adrenalin events over the years, but Adrenalin were also promoters in their own right.
They started out in 1990 in Southampton. When they had their 1st birthday in 1991 they did away with hardcore and featured garage grooves and soulful house music instead. This wasn't a permanent arrangement though, but interesting to see a promoter make such a move so early on.
At this event there was no drum & bass, just hardcore and gabber. However we do have quite an interesting set from Ramos which is the one I've featured.
Most of the music he plays comes from Scottish artists but also included in his set quite early on is the hard trance record "Innerspace" by Cortex Thrill followed by an unidentified trance record. They actually blend in quite well with the rest of the set which feels like an indication of the trancecore direction Ramos would take in the not too distant future.
In addition to his DJ set, Ramos does a live PA with Supreme and Sunset Regime. Included in the live PA is "Young Guns" which as far as I can tell is the only time it's been played out.
These are the other new for 1995 tunes:
DJ Creator and Shardy.L - Bang 9
DJ Demand - Rock Your Body
Dune - Hardcore Vibes
Ultimate Elation - Oh Yeah
Water Pistol - Splosh
DJ Marc Smith - Formula
Scott Brown & Omar Santana - Drop Da Noise
Psychoacoustic - Glitch
High Dancity - Is It A Dream
Scott Brown - Dreams
Scott Brown - A New Feeling
DJ Chewy - Rock This Place
Happy Tunes & Billy 'Daniel' Bunter - Power Everybody
The Arrival - Afterburn
Forbes & Cyclone - Full Force
The DJ Unknown Project - Critical Heights
Midas - Take It From The Groove
Two Ruff - Bouncing Darkness
The Rhythm Master - Rhythm Of Life
Sharkey & Dee - Can, Can You Do It
Unknown Artist - Hard Harmony
Midas feat. Sunset Regime - Waiting for Gold
"Hardcore Vibes" by Dune was a big hit in Europe but remained an underground record in the UK. After hearing the debut of "Starjump" by DJ Chewy a couple of weeks ago we hear the better known flipside "Rock This Place" this week and this would turn out to be his only release as he passed away shortly after.
A sign of the direction hardcore was starting to take came in the form of "Take It From The Groove" by Midas which is essentially a vocal version of "Groove Control". I'm generally anti vocals but I do like this record.
Picking up where "Toytown" left off is "Can, Can You Do It" by Sharkey & Dee which is a hardcore version of "Can Can" and is a load of cheesy nonsense.
There are 2 tunes we hear the most which appear on 3 sets each. They are "Jumpin' Pumpin'" by DJ Demand which to me is a Scottish record that isn't Scottish. Then there's "Party Time" by Dougal & Eruption which is a bit cheesy, but not as cheesy as the remix that would follow.
It is however good to have this mixture of tunes before the different styles would evolve and end up being not so good.
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