Finn Johannsen – Rewind Selection 1990

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1990 was still a transitional year for UK breakbeat music, but on another scale than 1989. The direct connection to acid house started to fade, yet the prototypes of the previous year were developed further. The breakbeats became more varied and complex, there were more bleeps and bass and more pianos, more rave, more techno, gradually more tempo but also generally more diversity. And as you can see with the number of mixes I recorded for this year, there were far more releases as well. And they sounded more refined, as the nights they were played at got bigger and the sounds followed suit.

00:00:00 1 The Source Featuring Candi Staton – You Got The Love (Erens Bootleg Mix)
00:07:37 2 Mr. Fingers – Mr. Fingers – What About This Love (Even Deeper Mix)
00:13:18 3 The Stone Roses – Fools Gold (A Guy Called Gerald remix)
00:20:02 4 4 Hero – Move Wid The House
00:25:00 5 The Sindecut – Demanding Cycle – Of A Word Bound Hammerhead
00:29:57 6 M.N.D.J – Stop The World (Instrumental)
00:33:11 7 Moody Boys – Jammin (Ital Mix)
00:37:40 8 A Certain Ratio – Won’t Stop Loving You (Sumner Mix)
00:41:56 9 Rebel MC – Comin’ On Strong (Ruff Neck Mix)
00:48:31 10 The James Taylor Quartet – Killing Time
00:53:05 11 Fresh Four – Compared To What (Dub) (feat. Lizz.E)
00:57:15 12 Nomad featuring MC Mikee Freed – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion (Instrumental)
01:03:11 13 Mr. Fingers vs. Rockers Revenge – Feel The Sunshine
01:08:15 14 A – L.A. Star – Wondrous Dream (Mix 1)
01:13:50 15 Psychotropic – Only For The Headstrong
01:21:00 16 – Change (Quick St. Break Mix)
01:25:56 17 Baby Ford – Change (Konrad Cadet Mix 1)
01:30:45 18 Jesus Loves You – Generations Of Love (Future Dub)
01:35:44 19 Jesus Loves You – Generations Of Love (Land Of OZ 12″ Mix)
01:41:54 20 Renegade Soundwave – Women Respond to Bass
01:45:14 21 A.R. Kane – A Love from Outer Space (Venusian dub)
01:51:42 22 A.R. Kane – A Love from Outer Space (Solar Equinox mix)
01:55:10 23 A.R. Kane – A Love from Outer Space (Lunar Eclipse mix)
02:00:47 24 The Sindecut – To The Heart
02:04:59 25 The Sindecut – Having
02:08:31 26 Psychotropic – Hypnosis
02:16:24 27 Logic Control MCs – High Pursuit
02:19:35 28 Mental Cube – Chile Of The Bass Generation
02:23:14 29 – In Yer Face (Mancunian Delight)
02:27:57 30 A Certain Ratio – Spirit Dance
02:32:04 31 Orbital – Omen (The Tower)
02:34:32 32 Shades Of Rhythm – Exorcist
02:39:07 33 Newington Heights – Reach
02:44:11 34 Hardcore – Get A Little Stupid (Backroom Mix)
02:50:39 35 The Moody Boys – Funky Zulu (You’re So Fresh) (Chapter 1)
02:55:14 36 Mc Wildski – Warrior (The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting Mix)
02:59:04 37 Renegade Soundwave – Thunder II
03:03:42 38 Jolly Roger – Music Is The Weapon Of The Future (Dub)
03:09:02 39 MC Buzz B – Never Change
03:12:22 40 Mental Cube – Q
03:16:30 41 A Man Called Adam – Barefoot In The Head

00:00:00 1 Orbital – Chime (JZJ Oh Ya Mix)
00:06:18 2 Plutonic – Amen
00:11:17 3 Unique 3 – Phase 3
00:15:23 4 Excel D – The Blur
00:18:52 5 Westworld – The Slam
00:24:04 6 Hypnotone – SBX
00:28:20 7 A1 – I Like Techno
00:31:25 8 Unknown Artist – Untitled
00:34:46 9 DJ Mad A & Dr. Stevie The Ambient Guru – Levitating Pharaohs (Full Frontal Spacehead Ambient mix)
00:38:38 10 Baby Ford – Let’s Talk It Over (12″ Full Version)
00:43:35 11 No Smoke – Oh Yes (Freedom)
00:48:11 12 Language – Renegade (The Energy mix)
00:52:34 13 Language – Renegade (The Cryptic mix)
00:57:01 14 Bang the Party – Rubbadubb
01:00:18 15 Turntable Overload – T T O
01:05:01 16 Unique 3 – Pattern 12
01:09:36 17 Orbital – Omen (12″ Version)
01:15:52 18 Logarhythm – Jungle (Nightmares On Wax Mix)
01:19:39 19 The Black Dog – Apt
01:23:38 20 Synchro – Synchro-Bass – Mystic Voyage
01:29:29 21 Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring (Extended Version)
01:38:50 22 Adé – Free The Soul
01:42:11 23 2 In A Rhythm – Magic Machine (Ruff Rhythm Mix)
01:45:59 24 2 In A Rhythm – Magic Machine (Time For Action Rap)
01:49:41 25 2 In A Rhythm – Bionic Boogie (Work Da Rhythm Mix)
01:53:24 26 2 In A Rhythm – Bionic Boogie (Ride The Groove Mix)
01:57:28 27 Inc – Hi-Speed (Pirate DJ Club Mix)
02:01:29 28 Freshtrax & Ace II With Pressure Zone – Destruction (War Zone Mix)
02:06:32 29 Andromeda – Control (Control of the dance floor)
02:11:01 30 Shut Up And Dance – A Change Soon Come (Instrumental)
02:14:51 31 Shut Up And Dance – A Change Soon Come
02:19:10 32 Sudden Impact – Game Of Love (Original Mix)
02:25:04 33 Sudden Impact – Game Of Love (Remix)
02:30:41 34 Adamski – Adamski – Killer (Remix)
02:36:56 35 Sike – Intrigue

00:00:00 1 Baby Ford – The World Is In Love (Dub)
00:05:00 2 Midi Rain – The Crack Train (Dub 1)
00:09:20 3 Midi Rain – The Crack Train (Vocal)
00:13:48 4 Circuit – Shelter Me (Helter Skelter Mix)
00:19:33 5 T.A.S. (The Altered State) – Make Some Noise (Def Mix)
00:22:45 6 HardNoise – Untitled (Instrumental)
00:24:56 7 HardNoise – Untitled (Vocal)
00:28:15 8 4 Hero – Rising Son (Inst.)
00:33:28 9 4 Hero – Rising Son
00:38:28 10 Genaside II – The Motiv (Who Da F@??$! You Calling Fat? Mix)
00:42:33 11 The Dynamic Guv’nors – These Guys Are Doper Than Dope
00:48:15 12 MC Duke – MC Duke – I’m Riffin’ (1990 Remix)
00:51:29 13 The V.F.T – Fenland Bass
00:56:31 14 Exocet – Shogun Assassin
01:01:58 15 Synchro-Bass – Dark Star
01:07:32 16 Unique 3 – Weight For The Bass
01:12:04 17 Marine Boy – Laura Laura
01:17:23 18 DJ Mink – Hey! Hey! Can U Relate (Sunshine Dub Instrumental)
01:23:56 19 DJ Mink – Hey! Hey! Can U Relate (Deep Space Mix)
01:28:41 20 Infamix – A Walk In The Park
01:33:41 21 Satin Storm – Satin Storm
01:38:17 22 Butcher Sam – Piano Passions
01:43:23 23 Bogus Order – Zen Bones
01:47:21 24 FXU – FXU – The Dark Side
01:51:24 25 C + M Connection – Bio Rhythms
01:57:11 26 Westworld – Dreamworld
02:03:28 27 Altern 8 – Reel Time Status
02:07:24 28 Demonik – Labyrinthe
02:12:52 29 Doggy – Dog Food
02:17:31 30 G.F.X. – Eternal (Mix 2)
02:19:37 31 Amber – X-Logic
02:26:18 32 Greed – Give Me (Bleep Mix)
02:31:52 33 KCC – Def
02:34:22 34 Confidential – Jam The Frequency
02:40:45 35 A Guy Called Gerald – Untitled

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2020-05-27 Finn Johannsen – at Mutant Radio, Tbilisi

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D.S. Building Contractors – One For The Burglar

A Certain Ratio – Spirit Dance

– Musique Non Stop

S-B-M & MC Tunes – Back To Attack

Shades Of Rhythm – Exorcist

Eric B & Rakim – Follow The Leader

Designer Imposter – Good News (‘s Good News Remix)

Larry Heard – DNA-RNA

Electribe 101- You‘re Walking (Ambient Mix) 114

– The Passage

NSRB-11 – 685-471 2

K-S.H.E. Vs. Juzu aka Moochy – Morning Grow (K-S.H.E’s Melancholy Grow)


Wheels of Steel – Pt.11

Posted: November 9th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Mark Rogers “Twilight For Some” [Freetown Inc.]

Nobody would probably expect anything else than deep emotional music on a label run by Robert Owens, but what Mark Rogers of Hollywood Beyond fame comes up with on the sublime “Twilight For Some”, is even more. Despite the gentle tone of the music and the understated vocal delivery, not too many vocal house tracks are as touching this. The lyrics are very melancholic, offering little relief to the troubled people they address, and the music is a companion that stresses rather than distracts. Everytime I listen to this, and the track fades out to a loop of the words “identity, identity, identity…”, I can’t help wishing this experience would last much longer, and more often than not, I put the needle right back to beginning.

Cabaret Voltaire “Searchin” [Parlophone]

A track lifted from the album “Groovy, Laidback and Nasty” from 1990, that most of the fans and critics of the UK electronic pioneers dismissed as mere attempt to cash in on the increasingly fertile house sound. Worse than that, nobody was really willing to accept Cabaret Voltaire venturing into musical terrain that was nothing else than pure pop, with one of post punk’s most recognizable voices crooning blissful melodies with uplifting messages, and one of post punk’s most adventurous experimentalists gladly supplying the according tunes and harmonies. But Cabaret Voltaire enlisted Marshall Jefferson at the time of full creative swing for the production, and he made this song his very own, even bringing in Brightledge, on of ‘s most wonderful voices, for the background . So this might be not the most original Cabaret Voltaire record, but they had proven their merits enough before and after, and I am really thankful that they took the chance of doing this album. Maybe imagine this track not being sung by Stephen Mallinder, but Brightledge all alone for instance, and not being by Cabaret Voltaire, but by Marshall Jefferson, and house’s history books would treat it like a bona fide classic. I at least do, no matter what constellation.

Shades Of Rhythm “Exorcist” [ZTT]

Shades Of Rhythm were better known for their rave , filled to the brim with crowd noises, joyful diva vocals and plenty of pianos. And while there is nothing really wrong with that (but admitted, on many occasions it IS really wrong), they were also capable of doing something completely different. “Exorcist” is a pitch dark beast that establishes a really intense mood on nothing more than the basis of a break beat in moderate tempo and a plethora of sinister sequences that seem to spiral into the ether. This still makes any room go boom.

I-F “Energy Vampire” [Disko B]

Now that the UK bass elite is embracing an electro tinge to their latest dubplate, it is maybe a good time to drop a reminder for the Dutchman who already seemingly could look well into the future when he released a series of relentless and uncompromising classics in the past. The moody stop-and-go of “Energy Vampire” would not look out of place on a post-dubstep production of , yet it already appeared on I-F’s album “Fucking Consumer” in 1998. Things go in circles, as they say, and the robots shall have the last laugh. And if sometime the italo disco groundwork will seep through the bassbins of the younger bass generation as well (there are already hints that this is not as improbable as it sounds), there is a good chance that I-F will be involved in something else entirely, and equally influential.

“Technarchy” [Plus 8 Records]

At a time when they had no interest in minimalism, conceptualism or fine wines, Daniel Bell, John Acquaviva and Richie Hawtin released “Technarchy” in 1990, the year their imprint Plus 8 came into being, and properly illustrated that techno could embrace the sound heritage of the pioneering industrial artists, acid house, and the emerging Detroit sound at the same time. The devastating result hinted at the hoovers, cornfields, and love parades to come but back then nobody would have predicted all that. What this record confirmed, however, was that there was a potential for all that. From the introducing metal beats, building a harsh yet funky groove, to the 303 squelches, and then, of course, to one of the most bone-crushing bass breakdowns in the history of club music. Most DJs playing the record at the time when it came out even emphasized the experience by turning up the bass even louder when the kick drum came to a halt and just the bassline was rummaging around in the intestines of the floor, but then again it was already doing its work untouched by any mixing antics. In any case whoever heard the track unprepared and for the first time in a club, would possibly never ever forget it. I certainly did not.

Whatpeopleplay 11/10


Druffmix 23 – The D.H.S. Rave Chronicles UK

Posted: November 11th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Mixes | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

We’re sorted out for E’s and Wizz, the stereo of the overcrowded Jensen Interceptor heading up the M25 is blasting out The Spinmasters, while the Druffalos either make guestlist calls, read the latest Morley or WSC, sort out which trainers to wear or look nervously on the fuel display. We await 20000 hardcore members in longsleeves in a disused hangar in the middle of a field. We saw the lasers a while ago but we already missed the exit three times, ran out of water and beer, got police on our back, and it’s getting pitch dark.

This is the sound of the Druffalo Hit Squad’s UK edition of the international Rave Chronicles. Now hear this!

Bassheads – Non Verbal Communication (Deconstruction)
Shades Of Rhythm – Musical Freedom (Aquatic)
Yin Yang – Oh One (Rumour)
Dr. Baker – Kaos (Desire)
Orbital – Fahrenheit 3D3 (FFRR)
The Garden Of Eden – The Serpent In The Garden (Pepper)
Mark Rutherford – Get Real (Fourth & Broadway)
Nemesis – After The Storm (Intrigue)
Break The Limits – Fire Away (Break The Limits)
Hardcore – Get A Little Stupid (XL)
– Single Minded People (Shut Up And Dance)
Paradox – Jailbreak (Ronin)
For This II – Trak 1 (Ozone)
– Sweet Dreams (RCA)
Midi Rain – Always (Vinyl Solution)
N Joi – Malfunction (Deconstruction)
Bizarre Inc – Technological (Blue Chip)
– Fordtrax (Rhythm King)
Altern 8 – Objective (Network)
C & M Connection – Bio Rhythms (Network)
The Black Dog – Erb (General Productions)
Nightmares On Wax- Aftermath (Warp)
Unique 3 – The Theme (Ten)
Cyclone – A Place Called Bliss (Network)
Fila Brazillia – Mermaids (Pork)
A Guy Called Gerald – Untitled (CBS)
– Pacific State (ZTT)
Fine Young Cannibals – I’m Not The Man I Used To Be