For the 3rd time this year we're at United Dance. This night was for the launch of the 2nd album. The album once again was all happy hardcore but the event once again included drum & bass.
The fact it included drum & bass was a good thing because that meant it included this Ratty set that I've posted which is one of the best sets I've ever heard. It's a bit of a shame that hardcore and drum & bass became so separate which led to Ratty effectively being an old skool DJ because it really sounded like he was onto something here.
Just 4 of the 12 sets were drum & bass but we nearly had as many new for 1995 drum & bass tunes as we did hardcore. These were:
Rude Bwoy Monty - Warp 10
DJ Hype & Ganja Max - Pum Pum Mus Smoke Ganja
Funky Element - Hip Hop Junkies
Gang Related & Mask - Soldier
DJ Biggs - Sunrize
Northern Connexion - Spanish Guitar
The Outsider - Black Remix
The Sentinel - Genesis
Soundcraft - Deep Sub
Once again though it's "Hearing Is Believing" by MA2 which gets the most plays appearing 3 times on the tapes.
Hardcore wise one may expect the tune selection to more or less match the album but it doesn't quite. There are some tunes that appear both at this night and on the album, but there are also several tunes on the album that as far as I can tell were yet to make their rave debut.
The Seduction set begins with "All You Bastards" by fellow United Dance promoter Eruption, but that would be the opening track to the 3rd album at the beginning of 1996.
These are the new for 1995 tunes hardcore wise:
Scott Brown & Omar Santana - Ain't It Wild
Wedlock - Ganjaman
Knightvision - Knight Of Visions
Hixxy & Chuff – Smoogee’s Asleep (Again!!)
Billy Bunter & D-Zyne - Ride like the Wind
Sub-State - Another Day
The Timespan & Krazy Fresh 2 - Shout Now
Eruption - All You Bastards
DJ Seduction - In The Mix
2 Left Feet - Never Let You Go
Sy & Unknown - Report To The Dancefloor
Tom Thumb - Superman
The tunes "Ride Like the Wind" by Billy Bunter & D-Zyne and "In The Mix" by Seduction would be played at lot at raves following this.
The tune that got the most plays hardcore wise was "Toytown" by Hixxy & Sharkey which appeared in 5 of the 8 sets including a surprise appearance in the Clarkee set.
This event was featured on the TV show BPM on ITV. Much of the footage came from the Vibes set, but not the opening tune "Wonderful Days" by Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo. That was one of my favourites at the time and I had it on a set a mate mixed for me and on "A Nightmare In Rotterdam". It was also a Top 10 hit in Holland, but I think this is the first time I've heard it at any of the raves I've featured so far this year,
The show also has footage of Dougal and Hixxy doing the Essential Platinum live PA where they are playing "Toytown". I'm not convinced they're actually doing anything on the keyboards though. There was also an interview with them and it's weird hearing that Dougal had been DJing just 5 years but made to sound like 5 years was a long time.
Also on the TV footage was an interview with promoters Seduction and Eruption who were referred to as their actual names John and Chris.
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