This week sees us go to the East Coast with Dance Paradise in Great Yarmouth. They started off at a place just south of Great Yarmouth called Gorleston On Sea in 1990. They another event in Gorleston On Sea in 1991 but wouldn't have another event until 1993 which was at Tiffanys in Great Yarmouth.
Throughout their existence the bulk of their events were held in Great Yarmouth with the remaining ones held in nearby Lowestoft. In 1993 and 1994 they held events regularly, every week at times. By 1995 they became much more occasional.
This was the 2nd of 4 events in 1995. They had a further event in 1996 before stopping for over 18 months. When they returned in 1997 they became a house music promotor with a dress code but finally called it a day in 1998.
An 8 pack was released from this event which included both happy hardcore and drum & bass and also included 2 sets from Clarkee, one in the main arena and one in the techno room.
Also included in the tape pack is a HMS tape which was before he started doing more extreme gabber music and still had it's overlaps with happy hardcore.
What does set the Clarkee and HMS sets apart though is their leaning towards Dutch and Scottish music. Both are mainly Dutch which I guess is appropriate given we're at one of the closest points of England to Holland. The HMS set contains no English records at all.
Elsewhere the Brisk set has more of an even split with the first half being Scottish and Dutch and the second half being English and this is why I've decided to post his set.
The rest of the happy hardcore set's are mostly English with the Seduction and Billy Bunter sets being 100% English.
After last weeks Helter Skelter only brought us 4 new for 1995 records, this event brought us a whopping 27:
E-Rick & Tactic - Move Dammit
Search & Destroy - Work It
Stingray & Sonicdriver – As Cold As Ice
El Bruto – Hypnotizing
Too Fast For Mellow - M.F. Bass In Your Face
Bertocucci Feranzano - Ravers Movement
Bass D & King Matthew ft. DJ XD - Hard As Hell
Stunned Guys - Fuck All
Stunned Guys - Country Crash
Psy-Quest - Sky High
Ultra-Sonic - 1,2,3,4
DJ Demand - Jump' In Pump' In
Sub Source - Cyber Source
DJ E-Rick & Tactic - It's Showtime
Dysector - Tempo Head
Marc Smith & Dave Murray - Over Me
Stingray & Sonicdriver - Power Of Darkness
Stingray & Sonicdriver - In The Name Of God
Smile - A Good Time
Simon C - Fuck You
Omar Santana - Phat Beats
Mass Hypnosis - Mind Controlling
Overlord vs Prince Of Darkness - Acid Thunder
DJ Edge - Bb6
Mercurial - I Get Lifted
Menace II Society - Get Down
DJ Pooch - Generator
The happy hardcore tune which got the most plays this night was "Happy Vibes" by The Scotchman which was played in 4 of the sets. This was one of the early new for 1995 tunes which made its debut at Tazzmania back in January.
With the drum & bass sets we go 1 better with 28 new for 1995 records:
Fallen Angels - Frequency
The Committee - Final Conflict
DJ Krust - Represent
Mask - Reese
DJ Krust - Poison
Stakka & K-Tee - After Hours
Source Direct - Fabric Of Space
Source Direct - Approach & Identify
JMJ & Richie - Universal Horn
Photek - The Seven Samurai
X-Files - Intensity
Ils & Solo - In The Area
Oblivion - Night Windows
PFM - One & Only
The Sentinel - Awakening
Lion Man - Wheel Up
DJ Shock C & DJ Ellis The Menace - On The Level
Rude & Deadly - Mash Dem Down
B-Jam - Gunshot Me Head
Redrose - Hotter Junglematical Style
Dr S Gachet & Audio Maze - The Dreamer
3 Thieves & A Liar - Feel So Good
B-Jam - Rukus
Easy Life - Untitled
Big Bud - Faceless
DJ Phantasy - Knowledge & Wisdom
R.N.M. - Jazzy Groove
Outcast - Protocol Roll
The most played record though is "Hearing Is Believing" by MA2 which appears in 3 sets. That's not the first time that's happened.
Despite there being so much new drum & bass at the time being played, the impression I get is this event leans a bit more towards happy hardcore given the line up.
For a start we have Phantasy and Swane on the tapes but not the flyer. They presumably replaced Randall and DJ Rap who were on the flyers but not the tapes. Whilst the remaining drum & bass DJs Ratty, Mastervibe, LTJ Bukem, Dr S Gatchet and GE Real were all pretty big, I feel it does lack a Hype or Grooverider to bring your drum & bass fan all the way to Great Yarmouth.
Funnily enough they did include drum & bass in the line up at their final event in 1998, but not happy hardcore.
I would say this event alone demonstrates just how quickly dance music was moving in the 90s. Even with the benefit of 27 years passing and the possibility of listening to sets from almost every week on the internet I'm finding just the new tunes from this event a lot to take in.
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