We're now into a new era for both Slammin Vinyl and Tazzmania. Both had now held their final events at the Rhythm Station in Aldershot. Hastings Pier was the new home of Tazzmania with the first event held with Slammin Vinyl.
The line up consists of a solitary drum & bass DJ with Grooverider and the rest of the line up being hardcore. The tape pack doesn't contain the Grooverider set though.
The tapes aren't entirely free from drum & bass though with the Easygroove set being a mixture of hardcore and drum & bass and this is why I've posted his set.
Quite a few new for 1995 drum & bass tunes appear on his set which are:
DJ Rap - Fuze 1+2
J'ia Francis - How Many Ways
DJ Sparks - Your Mind
A Touch Of Jazz - Between The Lines
B-Jam - Scandalous
DJ Phantasy - Just Waiting
Hardcore wise these are the new for 1995 records:
Druid & Heatwave - Music for the 90's
Druid & Heatwave - Round and Round
Phoenix - Who's In Control
DJ Psycangle - Smile, Fuck Up
DJ Supreme vs. Billy Bunter & D-Zyne - Outside World
Elation - The Anthem
DJ Ratty - Unknown Title
Dy-Sector - Free Your Mind
E-Logic - The Sorcerer
Marc Smith - Feeling
Diss Reaction - DJ Lan
DJ Creator & Shardy.L - Heaven Sent
Billy Bunter & D-Zyne - Rock To The Beat
DJ Sub-State - Boom!
DJ Psycangle - Parallel Worlds
Eye On Life - Got 2 Feel Good
Sensi-Tize - I Do
Party Animals - Have You Ever Been Mellow
A couple of significant ones here. "Have You Ever Been Mellow" by the Party Animals would be a Dutch number one the following year.
Another significant one is "Smile, Fuck Up" by DJ Psycangle. It's an alias of Luna C, a man who keeps breakbeat hardcore going to this very day. This tune though was very much the Dutch sound. Given the success hardcore was having in Holland at the time I guess it made sense to make a record like this.
There are 3 tunes that make 4 appearance each across the tapes. There's "Toytown" by Hixxy & Sharkey, no surprise there. Also appearing 4 time is "Ride Like The Wind" by Billy Bunter & D-Zyne which was one of the big records of the time. Finally there's "Rock This Place" by DJ Chewy who may have passed away by this point, it was 1995 when it happened.
One of the surprises on the tapes was the appearance of MC Massive. He was resident MC at Helter Skelter and this is the first time I've known him to appear at any rave apart from Helter Skelter.
It's the final event of the year for both Slammin Vinyl and Tazzmania. From this point onwards Tazzmania would carry on at this venue with the odd rave elsewhere before calling it a day in 1998. Slammin Vinyl would find a new home in Bagleys the following year where they held most of their events for the rest of the 90s.
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