Fusion @ Ravedome, Hounslow 29/04/1995

 

We're now 4 months into the year. In that time we've featured raves in towns your average tourist will have never heard of or in the case of Willenhall a town I've never heard of. This week we're finally going to a rave in London.

Fusion were a rave usually associated with the south coast, but they put on lots of events in lots of different places. This particular event was their 3rd birthday.

Being in London you might expect this event to lean more towards drum & bass, but it's actually leaning more towards happy hardcore with just 3 of the 11 DJs being drum & bass. That said, Hectic Records were behind Fusion and they were a happy hardcore label. 

There were also live PAs from Ramos, Supreme & Sunset Regime and Dougal & Vibes. 

Individual tapes were released from this event rather than a tape pack. There's a question mark over whether a Dougal tape actually exists and I've seen the tracklisting for the Hype/Supreme tape but not been able to find the tape to listen to.

After last weeks feast of new for 1995 tunes at Dance Paradise I wasn't expecting too many this week. There is still a decent amount, some of which appear to have only been played and recorded at this particular event.

These are the hardcore ones:

Psycho Kinetic - Whoooo

DJ Edge - Db7

Cyclopede - Hyper (Bull Shit)

Warlock - Delirious

Obliterator - Ruff To The Max

Technosis Featuring The Maniac - State Of Flux

Druid & Rebel Alliance - Gonna Be Alright

Stu J & DJ U.F.O. - We Are The Bass

Ikon - Give Yourself To Me

Vibes & Wishdokta - Passion

Rise and Shine - The Wild One

JDS & Billy Bunter - Come Alive

Midas - Break On Thru

Vinylgroover - Hardcore N' Jungl It

Vinylgroover - Bond Connection

Question Mark - ????? (Volume 5)

The most significant one from that lot is "Come Alive" which I remember appearing in loads of sets in 1995. Like Dance Paradise the previous week, the tune played the most at this night was "Happy Vibes" by The Scotchman which appeared in 5 of the recorded sets.

There are only 2 drum & bass sets recorded and as mentioned earlier I've not been able to find the Hype one. We understandably had less new for 1995 drum & bass tunes which were:

88.3 feat Lisa May - Wishing On A Star

DJ Rap - Universal Mind

MTS - Baad Boy Sound

Easymen - Easymen

For some reason I thought "Wishing On A Star" was a Top 40 hit, but it wasn't. It did make the lower reaches of the charts though at number 61.

There were plenty more Fusion events in 1995 and I will probably feature another at some point. To me Fusion was one of your best of the rest raves. It wasn't quite as big as the likes of Dreamscape, Helter Skelter, Slammin Vinyl etc. but was big enough.