old skool
MIX: Panacea – Big Bad Head Part II
A year ago, almost to the day, I wrote about Panacea‘s rather stupendous hardcore breaks mix Big Bad Head from 2002. Well here’s the followup, a seriously slamming selection of rave from yesteryear.
MIX: Jerome Hill – New Beats the House
Put together by the DJ and producer Jerome Hill, New Beats the House is the first part of his Belgian Odyssey mix series.
Download: Alec Empire – Bass Terror remastered (20 trax)
The German musician Alec Empire may well today be better known for his ear destroying intense hardcore music, most notably as Atari Teenage Riot, but his origins lie in the heart of early rave culture.
SUPPORT: Acid Relief Compilation
Music and positive action. There are good people working with many ways to make positive change, and in the case of this 16 track compilation it’s to raise money for the DEC’s East Africa Crisis appeal. Put together by the London-based crew behind the regular I Love Acid night and Balkan Vinyl this is not [...]
DOWNLOAD: Full Spektrum freebies.
Plenty of you are fans of the grit heavy beat breakstep work of Brixton’s Full Spektrum, so this post will be of quite specific interest to you and to anyone else who loves a well programmed bass heavy breakbeat. I make tunes influenced by old skool jungle and hardcore. I have mainly been focussing on [...]
MIX: Panacea – Big Bad Head (2002)
OK, so this mix might be getting on for being almost a decade young now, but nevertheless this mix made a big impression on me when I first heard it a few months back. As with many of the older mixes that surface on this blog, I’ve been meaning to post it up for a [...]
mix: Bushby – Live at Future-Past 13/11/2010
Bushby is no stranger around these parts, his mixes have graced these hallowed corridors, his label Digital Distortions and their tracks have populated more MANTIS broadcasts than I can remember, and the bloke even knows how to string together a few decent tunes. It goes without saying that regular listeners to MANTIS and in with [...]
Mantis Radio 071 + AGT Rave Cru (live)
Coming up this week, we’ve bought the motherfunking rave as we’ve got AGT Rave Cru in the studio.
Bill Vega – Bring It Back – ’92 Hardcore mix
It’s Friday, and as the weekend approaches it’s to get you in the mood with a rave heavy mix, this week from Bill Vega. You can’t really get more rave than this selection of hardcore breaks from back in the day: 1992. It’s a testament to the passion behind this music than even now, some [...]
Chrissy Murderbot’s Year of Mixtapes Week 30: 1993 Rave.
Chrissy Murderbot’s Year of Mixtapes Week 30: 1993 Rave
I’ve done a few of these rave / jungle /happy hardcore tapes already, and here is another. I should’ve probably called it “the year in UK rave”, because there aren’t any non-British tracks on here. For those unfamiliar with the whole story arc, 1993 was the year that UK rave really developed into what we would recognize as jungle and happy hardcore. I’m really into stuff from this transitional era, when those two genres existed side-by-side, before they really split from each other. Here’s a tape of my fave tunes.