This week sees us going as far down the South West as we're likely to go. The venue as you may have guessed was in Cornwall and the event was Dance Planet.
Dance Planet started life in the Midlands but headed to the South West after an incident at one of their raves in the Midlands which resulted in the venues closure. Cornwall Coliseum was a venue that hosted many gigs over the years and closed in 1999, though the last Dance Planet at this venue happened later on in 1995.
At the big raves around this time, techno would often be found in the smaller rooms. At this event though it was the main arena. There wasn't a happy hardcore arena as such, though the techno arena featured Seduction which was a happy hardcore set. The 2nd room was the jungle room.
The beginning of this Scorpio and Producer tapes though will tell you that jungle was the more popular of the two because the MC says the 2nd room is full.
Furthermore I can find the tracklistings for the jungle tapes on the internet but not the techno ones. Whilst I've given all the techno tapes a listen, attempting to tracklist them all is too much and will inevitably have a bunch of unknowns.
Jungle wise these are the new for 1995 tunes which appear and there's quite a few of them:
Asend - 12 O'Clock Drop
Chris Jay - Champion Sound
DJ SS - White
Dread Bass - Moods
Shy FX - Simple 'Tings
DJ Dopeski - Dope
Asend & Ultravibe - Just A Little
Desired State - Goes Around
Missing - The Box Re-opens
P-Funk - P-Funk Era
Danny Breaks - Easy
D4 - Careless
Mental Power - Red Hot Ghetto
Adam F - Burning Deep
Goldie - Jah The Seventh Seal
Pascal - In Da Meantime
Groove Corporation & Bim Sherman - Ghetto Prayer
Ed Rush - The Force Is Electric
Asylum - Steppin' Hard
Dillinja - Ja Know Ya Big
Digital - Why
In Between The Lines - We're Rollin
Source Direct - Bliss
General Degree - Papa Lover Jungle
DJ Fokus - Trigger Happy
Interception - Forever
Bay B Kane - Attack
Jaco - All The Ladies
Melodious - Bongo
The Halfbreed - Good Old Days
Stakka & K. Tee - Bad Influence
There's a tie for the tune that gets played the most. Both "The Lighter" by Sound of the Future and "Hearing is Believing" by MA2 appear on 4 of the sets. Also worth a mention is that Apache plays "Black Side A" by DJ SS twice in his set.
One of the DJs playing a jungle set was Lomas, a DJ who I've heard play techno a few times but never jungle before. There's also a DJ called Energy but I suspect it's a different DJ to the one who would become Kevin Energy.
The journey to Dance Planet would have been a long one for those who don't live in the South West, but perhaps none as long as Joey Beltram who had flown in from America for it. That said there is no Joey Beltram tape so I don't know whether he turned up or not.
A DJ in the techno arena who definitely did turn up was Bass Generator who came from Newcastle which is almost the furthest place away from Cornwall in England.
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