When it comes to Dreamscape events this one was the big one. It was in the middle of the Northamptonshire countryside and attracted around 15,000 people. Whether it would have become and annual thing we will never know as Dreamscape promoter Murray Beetson had sadly passed away by the following summer.
There were 5 arenas, 4 of them being dance music arenas and a chill out arena where Mark EG played a 15 hour set. The main arena was a mixture of hardcore and drum & bass, arena 2 was drum & bass, arena 3 was techno and arena 4 was house.
The tape pack from this event was a 12 pack which featured sets from all 4 arenas. There were 4 house tapes which is quite unusual for a rave tape pack. The DJ's were Jon of the Pleased Wimmin, Tony De Vit, Farley Jackmaster Funk and Pete & Russell, the latter being the promoters of Progress who were hosting the house arena.
I've posted the Clarkee set because I just love the energy from it. I've not featured a Clarkee set in these posts yet, but given he played all the Dreamscapes and was good friends with Murray Beetson it seems appropriate for me to pick his set to post at the big Dreamscape event.
Tape wise we have slightly more drum & bass than hardcore owing to the fact Easygroove does a mixture of hardcore and drum & bass in his set, so we have 5.5 sets of hardcore and 6.5 sets of drum & bass.
These are the new for 1995 drum & bass records:
Dillinja - Non-Believers
Adam F - Circles
Dillinja - Simple
Il Padrino - Il Padrino
The X - New Dawn
DJ Hype & Ganja Max - Rinse Out
Ballistic Brothers - I'll Fly Away
Oblivion - Sands Of Time
Intense - The Sax Lick
Mouly & Lucida - Spirits
Arteq - Amazing
Maximum Style - One 4 Da MC's
Cybotron Feat Dillinja - Threshold
Prizna - River Nile
DJ Trace - Monkeys
Tribe Zero 2 - Death By Sax
Goldie - Still Life
L Double & Shy FX - The Shit
DJ SS - Green
Conroy Smith - Dangerous Jungle
Deadly D - Punani Nuh Fi Nurse
The most notable of these is the first outing of "Circles" by Adam F which would be a Top 40 hit 2 years later. It's one of the usual suspects that dominates the sets though with "The Lighter" by Sound of the Future appearing in 4 of the sets.
Hardcore wise, these were the new for 1995 tunes:
DJ Dougal & Mickey Skeedale - On A High
Dougal & Eruption - I.O.U.
Force & Styles - Harmony
Alchemist & Fade - Keep On Trying
Micado - It's Gonna Be A Fine Night
Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Stars
Sandman - Can Can Party
Ferocious - Please Don't Go
DJ Fade - Lost It
SMD - SMD#5
Sy & Unknown - Techno Harmony
DJ Pooch - Don't Stop
DJ Pooch - Volume 11
Higher Level - Feel The Sky
Tim B - Step To It
DJ Isaac & Pagan - 2 Definitions
DJ Demo - '96 Style
One of the notable ones here is "Stars" by Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo which had just entered the Dutch Top 40. It had been a while since SMD#4 had come out, but SMD#5 was here and was the last one of the series. "96 Style" by DJ Demo is basically a remix of "95 Style" by Happy Rollers. I have to say though September does seem a little early to be putting the next year onto a tune name.
There were 2 hardcore tunes which were played the most on the tapes. "On Top" by A Sense Of Summer and "Bust A New Jam" by Seduction & Eruption.
Little did anyone know at the time that this would be the penultimate Dreamscape as we knew it.
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