Vibealite @ Venue 44, Mansfield 24/02/1995

This week takes us to Venue 44 in Mansfield. Again this is a small town that I've never been to, but it's the fact Mansfield is a small town that made this venue attractive to promotors. Basically venues in big cities were having problems with gangs, but this was less likely to be an issue in a small town.

The event is Vibealite who are probably best remembered for holding events at this venue which was where they started and held the bulk of their events up to the end of 1995 when the venue closed down.

After 3 weeks of events which were hardcore only it's good to be at a mixed genre event again. 

Tape wise, it's a somewhat strange but very welcome choice of what sets were recorded. They come from Vinylgroover, Fergus and Ned Ryder. 

There's no argument that Vinylgroover was a big DJ of his time, but in early 1995 he was still a relatively new to the bigger events and this was his Vibealite debut. This was the happy hardcore set and there was one new for 95 tune that hadn't been heard on sets so far this year in "NRG" by DJ Hood.

At the end of the Vinylgroover tape came a couple of tunes from the DJ SY, one of which was "Pump Me Up" by Stu J which was also new for 95. DJ SY along with Brisk were arguably the biggest names playing that night but there appears to be no recording of their sets.

Fergus was one of the resident DJs of Vibealite along with Rush. His set was more of a hard techno one with Belgium and Germany dominating the tune selection. There were a number of new for 1995 records in there, though take with a pinch of salt given it's quite possible some were played in 1994 at raves overseas. These were:

Gamble 202 - Red Index

Black Acid - Stargate

Cortex Thrill - Deep Infinity

Technohead - Mary Jane

Technosis - Kaos

Ned Ryder was a jungle DJ, so we have a good mixture of genres tape wise. I've posted his mix mainly because of the lack of jungle we've had from the last 3 weeks. Unsurprisingly there's a handful of new for 95 records on this set which were:

Unknown Artist (Marvellous Cain) - Life Is Rollin' 

Roni Size - Step Up

Cloud 9 - Jazzmin

Carlito - Carlito's Way

Northern Connexion - The Bounce

It would have been good to have had more tapes from this event, but what we do have is a good mixture. I feel this won't be the last trip to Vibealite in 1995 either.