It's time to dust off that whistle, look for your white gloves in the wardrobe and start smearing Vicks over your chest. While you’re at it, think of a good lie to tell your parents, to explain why you’ll not be home all weekend.
It’s going proper Old Skool for this one. Here’s 32 Breakbeat style re-fixes, remixes and bootlegs of all those massive tunes from the good old days. Only we weren’t very good, or very old and we’re talking about the nights.
All previous counter-cultural movements stood for something, but suddenly all we offered mankind was gurning, endless hours of techno and seizure-inducing light displays. The Party Generation may not have had the same world-changing ideals as the Hippies, but we shared a similar optimistic invincibility. Raving was “youth culture” in its most beautiful form, a wild, irresponsible, adulthood-shunning celebration of existence itself. Then Human Traffic happened. We all suddenly realised that our lifestyle had become a cliché, the underground had become mainstream. But screw it, nothing lasts forever… except the music. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that the UV stuff inside glow-sticks tastes absolutely foul.
So, if you spent any of your Saturday nights during the Nineties inside a warehouse, on a beach or under the stars in a field, then this is for you (provided the years of emotional and chemical abuse, coupled with all that sleep deprivation haven’t taken their toll on your mind.)
Quit worrying about the recession, slip that middle-aged spread into a smiley t-shirt and get yourself over to that abandoned industrial unit some chancer has filled with speakers. It’s about to go right off…
It’s going proper Old Skool for this one. Here’s 32 Breakbeat style re-fixes, remixes and bootlegs of all those massive tunes from the good old days. Only we weren’t very good, or very old and we’re talking about the nights.
All previous counter-cultural movements stood for something, but suddenly all we offered mankind was gurning, endless hours of techno and seizure-inducing light displays. The Party Generation may not have had the same world-changing ideals as the Hippies, but we shared a similar optimistic invincibility. Raving was “youth culture” in its most beautiful form, a wild, irresponsible, adulthood-shunning celebration of existence itself. Then Human Traffic happened. We all suddenly realised that our lifestyle had become a cliché, the underground had become mainstream. But screw it, nothing lasts forever… except the music. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that the UV stuff inside glow-sticks tastes absolutely foul.
So, if you spent any of your Saturday nights during the Nineties inside a warehouse, on a beach or under the stars in a field, then this is for you (provided the years of emotional and chemical abuse, coupled with all that sleep deprivation haven’t taken their toll on your mind.)
Quit worrying about the recession, slip that middle-aged spread into a smiley t-shirt and get yourself over to that abandoned industrial unit some chancer has filled with speakers. It’s about to go right off…
Tracklist
| 1 | It Was A Very Good Year by Frank Sinatra |
| 2 | Hey Boy Hey Girl (Disco Of Doom refix) by The Chemical Bothers |
| 3 | Quadrophonia (Nefti rave breaks remix) by Quadrophonia |
| 4 | Compended (Krafty Kuts re-kut) by Gordon Edge vs Krafty Kuts |
| 5 | Playing With Knives (Swifty B remix) by Bizarre Inc |
| 6 | Your Love by Deekline and Red Polo |
| 7 | It's A Fine Day by Lissat and Voltaxx |
| 8 | Hardcore Uproar 2009 (BreaksMafia and Lee Mortimer rerub) by Together |
| 9 | Renegade Snares (Aquasky vs Masterblaster remix) by Omni Trio |
| 10 | Sugar Is Sweeter (Twocker vs Krafty Kuts mix) by CJ Bolland |
| 11 | Break The Bomb (Respect To Kenny Dope remix) by Bass Weazal |
| 12 | 99 (A.Skillz remix) by Cassius |
| 13 | Gonna Be Mine (Far Too Loud remix) by Peo De Pitte and NAPT |
| 14 | Hardcore Heaven by Athson |
| 15 | Golden Daze by Golden Girls |
| 16 | Move Ur Body (Elevation) (Eddie Voyager rave breaks mix) by Expansions |
| 17 | Humanoid (Plump DJs re-touch) by Stakker |
| 18 | Far Out (The Slag Brothers remix) by Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era |
| 19 | Hard Flaw by Hardfloor vs Elite Force |
| 20 | For An Angel by Crisp Biscuit |
| 21 | Insomnia (DJ Tortu rerub) by Faithless |
| 22 | Le Voile Le Soleil (Lunathics booty remix) by Subliminal Cuts |
| 23 | Papua New Guinea (bside remix) by Future Sound Of London |
| 24 | Bombscare (DJ Icey remix) by 2 Bad Mice |
| 25 | He Never Lost His Hardcore (Peacemaker remix) by NRG |
| 26 | Ragga Tip by Deekline and Red Polo |
| 27 | Smack The Force Up by Prodigy vs Elite Force |
| 28 | Don’t Go (Jakob Carrison remix) by Awesome 3 |
| 29 | Felix Hustle (Breaks mix) by Deekline and Red Polo |
| 30 | Injected With A Poison (Jakob Carrison remix) by Praga Khan |
| 31 | Sweet Harmony (DJ Icey mix) by Liquid |
| 32 | Chime (Sketi Breaks edit) by Orbital |
| 33 | Closer Dreams by Stonewash |
Who can resist such a passionate write up. Oi Oi
And who can resit the mix. Fantastic choice of choons, especially the remixes. A lovely blend of old and new, breaks, house, rave, NRG all mixed together with love.
nixce shit