We're heading north west this week to Club Kinetic in Stoke-on-Trent. We also have notably more northern DJs with Stu Allan from Manchester, Demand from St Helens, Dream from Sheffield and whilst he moved to Brighton at a young age Carl Cox was born in Oldham. Resident DJ Brisk who's birthday it was came from Southampton though. Completing the line up was Slipmatt from Essex.
Although Stoke is in the north, it's still a long way from Scotland. The influence Scotland had on this particular night was evident though with more Scottish tunes appearing on the recordings than any other country.
As it's from Brisk's birthday I've posted the Brisk set. It's really a set of 2 halves, the first being mainly Scottish tunes which all involved Scott Brown and a couple of Dutch ones. The 2nd half is mainly English tunes but none of his own. The last 6 tunes of the set are exactly the same as the first 6 tunes of his Dreamscape 15 vs 16 mix.
It would be the last time Carl Cox would play Club Kinetic and one of the last times he would play a hardcore set. It's possibly the most international hardcore set I've ever heard, in addition to Scotland and Holland there's tunes from USA, Australia and Germany with just the final tune being English.
The Stu Allan and Demand sets are predominantly Scottish and Dutch with Scott Brown tunes heavily featured in both of them.
The Dream and Slipmatt sets are more English tunes but both still have some Scottish and Dutch tunes in them. The Slipmatt set starts heading in the Scottish/Dutch direction but is cut short because he was feeling unwell so we could have had more had he played a full set.
There are 2 tunes which appear the most frequently, appearing in 4 of the sets. There's "Technophobia" by Bass Reaction, a Scottish tune, and "Dark & Light" by DJ Demand.
These are the new for 1995 tunes that appear:
Lord Of Hardcore - Attack The Dancefloor
Ramos, Supreme & Sunset Regime - Life Force Generator
Rise and Shine - The Rusher
Q-Bass - Hardcore Friday
Q-Bass - Blow Your Mind
Bush Brothers - I'm Alright
GT Sampler - Cheese N' Onion
GSI - GSI 2 (A)
Happy Tunes - The Anthem
Happy Rollers - 95 Style
Although all the sets from the night were hardcore ones, Club Kinetic wasn't a strictly hardcore event. It would run every Friday until The Leisure Bowl closed down at the beginning of 1997.
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