When it comes to big name rave promoters of yesteryear there are several that almost always get a mention such as Dreamscape. You don't very often hear Double Dipped get a mention though, but they were bigger than you'd think.
In 1995 they were putting on events every Friday at Bagleys. This was the same venue Slammin Vinyl put most of there late 90s events on at and several other big name promoters had events there too.
In late 1995 they made the switch to every Saturday but I see no evidence of them having any more events beyond the initial one. The team behind Double Dipped were the same team behind Ravescene magazine.
This particular event though gave us a landmark moment for happy hardcore which was the debut of "Toytown". In a Hixxy interview he talked about Dougal playing it at an event for the first time at Bagleys and I see no evidence of it being played at any event prior to this.
My view of "Toytown" is that I'm not a big fan, if anything I got sick of it appearing in every happy hardcore set I heard at the time. That said I don't blame that record for the demise of the scene, for me it was the vocal stuff that came later.
One of the tracks in the Dougal set which follows that sort of formula is "Sky High" by Psy-Quest. It's not a bad record but it no doubt influenced some pretty dreadful records that came afterwards.
These were the other new for 1995 tunes on the tapes:
Dougal & Mickey Skeedale - Sounds Of House
Future Primitive - Feel It
Happy Tunes - Let The Good Times Roll
Ramos, Sunset Regime, Billy Bunter - Are You Ready For This
Happy Tunes - Put Your Hands In The Air
It's probably fair to say none of this records had nearly anywhere near as much impact as "Toytown" and were largely forgotten by the end of the year.
The only other set to be recorded that night came from Supreme.
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