The oldskool rave music (early 90s) thread

Pawnless Endgame said:
What are your early 90s rave faves?
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Here is an archive of live rave recordings which are no longer available in shops or via the official outlets... Many are from cassette tapes, some are directly from DAT masters, some from sound engineers mixing desks... Plus there are also lots of old and newer radio shows you might like...
Predominantly old skool breakbeat hardcore jungle techno house garage dubstep hip hop electro and everything in between, just long-press or right-click on the links ending in MP3, MP4, MPG, WAV, WMA, WMV, M4A, M4V, MOV etc. for the audio/video files to download to your device/computer... Ones ending in AFPK can be ignored as they are automatically generated by the host website.
This is a not-for-profit archive to educate the nu skool on the origins of today's rave scene...
If anybody here has anything to offer the archive, please email [email protected] !
Best wishes to all!

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builder22 said:
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Holds a special place that song, I think I've said this before on here but I have a vivid memory of hearing this for the very first time. One Sunday morning my Dad realised he had collected enough Esso tiger tokens at the petrol station and he got me a Bush walkman. So that afternoon I recorded the top 40 off Radio1 so I could listen to it on the walkman. One night midweek after school we had to go supermarket shopping at Presto. I took my new walkman and I can remember clear of day being in the cereal isle when this song came on. It absoloutly blew my mind, it was unlike anything I could have imagined was even possible to exist. It was both somehow evil and euphoric, it seemed like it had come from another dimension and I was forever changed.

I have been interested in sampling and music production ever since. By 1994 I was making music on Tracker software trying to recreate the magic of the previous years. Its so strange that the breakbeat hardcore sound came and went so quickly. I mean the last 20 years have had almost no real breakout trends and fads. The last one was probably dubstep....I guess Synthwave maybe too, but I can't imagine anything whipping the youth into the kind of frezy we saw back then.
 
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Couldn't agree more! Injected With a Poison has always been a fave.

Get some :) 1993 Messiah off their awesome 21st Century Jesus album


This is the original to the faster mix below: https://youtu.be/TD6H_9Y3Gb0 but I prefer the heavier beat:

One of my faves - Destroyer


 
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Had this remix on my mind last few days, still my favourite cover of Ride Like The Wind. Just nice, simple old school production.


 
MrMendacious said:
I recently discovered the guy who was behind Pragha Khan, Maurice Engelen, he's dutch. But he also did this tune under a different guise which I love:-



Other faves of mine are:-



Sorry that's a lot lol! I could've posted about 10 more.
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Strong first post fella :D

Metropolis is an absolute classic, they used to play the Sasha piano version with an acapella scratched in over the top in one of my usual haunts.

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hyperseven said:
Strong first post fella :D

Metropolis is an absolute classic, they used to play the Sasha piano version with an acapella scratched in over the top in one of my usual haunts.

since I'm here might as well leave this....

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It's My Pleasure, yeah another classic. So many isn't there. I got it wrong as well, that guy was Belgian.

Some more classics:-







In Spirit - what a tune. Goosebumps good.
 
I asked this a good few years ago but can't find it :)

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Can anyone remember the name / artist of a track from the around 90/91 that sampled Cat On A Hot Tin Roof?

Sample:

"Give me another bottle"
"Yes sir I want liquor that bad"
"turns the hot light off, and the cool one on. All of a sudden there's peace"

It mixed well with TC 1991 - Berry

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If I can add to this topic (if not already posted)






 
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Ok, I managed to work this out.

I remember Pete Tong's Essential Selection played it with the adjacent track being TC 1991's Berry. Using this site:

https://sbradyman.angelfire.com/ess-selection.htm

I went through every playlist starting at 1991 until I found TC 1991. In the Pete Tong - Essential Selection (Radio 1) Jan 92 listing was this:

Tyrrel Corporations - The Bottle

That's the one. I Loved the track back then. Still love it ;)

 
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