3 weeks after seeing in the new year we're back at The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes again. This venue saw many big raves and is likely to be the most featured venue throughout the year.
If ever there was proof that the scene had split into happy hardcore and jungle then Hysteria was it. Whilst the event consisted of both genres, the tape packs were split into happy hardcore and jungle. The event though was leaning much more towards jungle which is evident by there being 2 x jungle 6 packs and 1 x 'appy 'ardcore 4 pack as they called it. I've managed to listen to all bar one of the jungle tapes but couldn't find any of the happy hardcore ones, but I've seen the track listings for all of them.
That all said, the tapes weren't exactly what they said on the tin. The first jungle pack has Dougal on side 2 of the Micky Finn tape, the first half of the first side of the Jumpin Jack Frost tape is Diamond C, the Ray Keith tape is mostly DJ SY from an earlier Hysteria and the EXL set is a happy hardcore one.
On the second jungle pack the Darren Jay tape isn't Darren Jay at all, it's DJ Rap and Slipmatt from an earlier Hysteria. A big chunk at the beginning of the Penfold & Diamond C tape is Promis playing happy hardcore. Side 2 of the Dougal tape in the 'appy 'ardcore pack is Micky Finn.
It's the 4th week in and the 4th time that DJ SY has been playing. It's now just 2 tunes that have been in all 4 sets, "Crowd Pleasers Volume 3" by Crowd Pleasers and "In Effect" by DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer. Because Hysteria was more of a jungle rave though there is a notable amount of jungle played in the DJ SY set here.
From the happy hardcore sets the only new for 95 tune that hasn't featured at the raves looked at so far is "Cheddar II" by Cheddar. These are the jungle tunes that are new for 95:
Top Cat meets DJ Rap - Ruffest Gun Ark
More Rockers - You're Gonna (Make Me)
London's Most Wanted - Girls Dem Want It
Rude & Deadly - Lightnin And Tunda
Ninjaman - Jungle Move
Helen T - Ruff And Rugged
Undercover Agent - The Instrumental
Bizzy B & M.T. - Dub Select
Chatta B - Journey Into Sound
Mr. Realistic - If A Soundtest
Mr. Realistic - Crying
Radic - Guns Don't Argue
Just a quick note to say that any of these tunes could have been played in 1994 in sets that weren't recorded but there's no way to determine that. 5 of these tunes ("The Instrumental" to "Crying" in the list) appear in the GE Real set which is the one I've featured here. This appears to be the only recorded set the Mr. Realistic (an alias of GE Real) tunes appear on and both are good tunes.
The tune that appears the most is "Fire" by Prizna which appears on 6 of the sets. This would go on to become a Top 40 hit in April. After being the most featured tune at Dreamscape 15 vs 16, "Champion Sound" by Q-Project doesn't appear at all in these sets.
Whilst Dreamscape 15 vs 16 used both the Sanctuary and Rollers, this event just used the Sanctuary. This is likely to be the case with all events bar Dreamscape in 1995. It shouldn't be too long before we're back again.
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