[Closed] Old School Rave- Show me your best

I keep thinking of more and more tunes from my yoof.
Oh the days of Fantazia and Universe

I work very close to the site of The Sanctuary. It is an Asda now 😥

Loving this thread.

Don't know how to embed clips, but..

Deep Blue - Helicopter

Sonz of a loop da loop era - Far out

Altern-8 - Infiltr8 202

"watch yer bass bins, I'm tellin yer!"

Kinetic of longton is now the most hardcore of places.

Wilkos

The first time walking down the steps into Sterns underground. A genuine life changing moment.

Has anyone mentioned the legend that is Marshall Jefferson yet?

One of the best around IMO -

Great, simple, hedonistic days....a mate emailed me a Youtube clip of a Helter Skelter party at the Sanctuary with us in it for a brief few moments...his accompanying text read [i]'watch this and realise how shit your life is now'....[/i]

I think his sentiment was a little strong...i happen to like my life as it is now but there is a certain 'something' missing....it was exciting being part of a scene back then, we were on the fringes of society, the music and clothes and drugs were our secret, the thrill of friday arriving and just knowing that the weekend was going to be epic....thats what is missing from my life now and sadly i'll never get that back....i like my job, i have good health and enjoy plenty of healthy, harmless hobbies....but those evenings in the 90s spent in the car with 4 or 5 mates driving hours to an event were special, music playing, flyers laying around the car, bags of speed being passed around, phone calls to mates from other parts of the country, heart pounding as we queued to get in, how the bass would hit you, the tingles down your neck as the pills kicked in, lasers and strobes....truly great days and i will treasure the memories and the music forever.

Dev - I could have said it better myself.

A mate of mine made this record

and another made this...

great days.

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Beltram - Energy Flash[/url]

Friday lunchtime revival..

House classic -

Kinetic of longton is now the most hardcore of places.

Wilkos

Sad... turning up in the carpark and hearing the building above the bus depot shaking and rattling with the bass, then walking in down the steps into the room, strawberry smoke and lazers.. damn I miss those days!

Sounds of Eden above, that brought back some memories from Legends in Warrington. Full of ravers but played 120bpm house music and almost disco / soul stuff, magic.

I love Utube music.. That Dunne Espiral track reminded me of a bootleg 12" I have, with just 'in spirit' written on it.

Here it is, a proper goose-bumper..

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Deviant, Oh yes I remember!!!

This if the link works is my Ultimate TUUUUUUUUUUUNE 8)

Is this thread on an automatic 6 monthly repeat cycle?

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A classic from Entropy Stoke.. pianos and bleeps!

This thread should be on a weekend-ly cycle 🙂

Beats griping about who rides what bike where and the like. Raves not rants!

Dunno if this will work, Friends, Lovers and Family: Children's Stories

Wunundred!

http://soundcloud.com/cautious/dj-cautious-old-skool-jungle-mix

http://soundcloud.com/cautious/dj-cautious-jungle-sessions

Both awesome tight mixes, for those who enjoy a bit of jungle...

Despite being born in the wrong era, I prefer the old-school early 90s to 00s music - not the shite which is churned out today (Pendulum + Chase&Status - looking at you!)

Been to plenty of 'old school' raves around London - the scene is still very much alive! Perhaps it's those who realise old is very much better....

( It took me 10yrs to find the below CD album, after I lost my original one! )

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Atmospheric-Drum-Bass/release/72153

The original piano classic?

Music Takes You, that's a great track.

Stumbled across this gem : Dee Patten 'Who's The Bad Man' -

The other parts are on youtube...

🙂

I think his sentiment was a little strong...i happen to like my life as it is now but there is a certain 'something' missing....it was exciting being part of a scene back then, we were on the fringes of society, the music and clothes and drugs were our secret, the thrill of friday arriving and just knowing that the weekend was going to be epic....thats what is missing from my life now and sadly i'll never get that back....i like my job, i have good health and enjoy plenty of healthy, harmless hobbies....but those evenings in the 90s spent in the car with 4 or 5 mates driving hours to an event were special, music playing, flyers laying around the car, bags of speed being passed around, phone calls to mates from other parts of the country, heart pounding as we queued to get in, how the bass would hit you, the tingles down your neck as the pills kicked in, lasers and strobes....truly great days and i will treasure the memories and the music forever.

Popped into this this summer, brought a tear to my eye when this one went on

went to fantazia revival in brixton this year was ****ing brill

now just need a world dance lydd airport hanger revival

The Orbit in Osset,and then to Morley 8)

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Went to orbit in Morley as well. Music was a bit " hard " for me but still had a good night.

Just found this - where I spent New Years Eve '91. Lost my mates for about 4 hours.

It all started for me at The Limit in Manchester in 1991. Then moved on to Shelleys, kinetic and Bowlers!! Those days were amazing, feel so lucky to have been that age at that time, perfect 😯

Pills and lost hours in fields whilst on leave from the army, bonkers, but I don't remember the cats.

The last tune but never the end of the night

Deviant - you must be a mind reader as that is exactly how I feel. I have loads of old tapes ('92 was my favourite year) and I still get a rush listening to some of the old skool tunes.

Best days of my life. Lots of folks just don't get it 😉

It's not completely old skool, but I love this mix. Starts off in breakbeat house territory, then moves into more jungle type stuff.

http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/2009/07/luke-vibert-bang-face-mix.html

the early 90's were indeed the raving days of glory 🙂 this WAS the tune and THIS was the defining 2 0r 3 or maybe 4 days!!!

was their for a few days, camped in a clapped out opel kadett and at the DiY soundsystem......Digs and Whooooosshhhh.

The last tune but never the end of the night

That's a classic.. Daz Willot and MC Lethal at Entropy when the lights came on.. do you want one more? Dancing with the lights on as the club emptied, off to the car parks or the services to carry on.. : )

This has cheered my sunday morning up no end! Great tunes and happy times.Dream frequency at the zone is a stand out moment for me. Still got a good collection of zone tapes somewhere.

Anyone know what this is?

Reminds me of
Sunshine - Outside World

was their for a few days, camped in a clapped out opel kadett and at the DiY soundsystem......Digs and Whooooosshhhh.

In the tiny clip that made the bulletin he was clearly heard telling her that he wouldn't be home in time for tea.. 😀

Recently downloaded some of the DiY sets from Castlemorton - Digs And Whoosh, Jack, and Pezz. Superb stuff, although some of the mixing suggests they'd been up for a while..

Anyway, some classic tunes on there including this one :

Absolutely loving this thread, bringing back some sweet memories.

One of my faves from '93:

Country & Western - Reincarnation

Still gets me at 3:16.

And this baby:

Castle Trancelott - Indoctrination -

Anyone for a old school shindig?

Ahhh DiY, Strictly4Groovers 😀 and still playing out

We had some fun after school rides when a sound system set itself up in our local 'deep-house' forestry sometime summertime 1991 and stayed there for about a week...

@Yunki

it was my kadett. lime green with alloys!

I remember a bloke at Castlemorton selling 'hippy headf*cks for 50p' and a load of nutters on acid jumping off the top of the quarry in to the lake. It was one of the best free parties i've ever been to, actually the best......complete madness!! That sort of stuff does not happen anymore....if it does it costs heaps and is probably crap

one love!

good times indeed.. what a magical summer.. there was a genuine feeling for a few months that we were going to take over the world..

thinking back I think that Toby's kadett was actually a chevette..!

😆

Had some good times in manchester, then went on to promote a club in stoke on trent, that turned out to be legendary.

Happy days with rhubarb and custards, phase 4,s green demons and white biscuits, and lets not forget about dennis the menace.

Rhubarb and Custards.... Crazy weekends at Kinetic , Bowlers, Leadmill, Gatecrasher. we even used to go to Carlos 2 in Colne... Thoroughly loved the 90's , had some great times.. lovin this thread and the tunes. 🙂

Found this.... one of my favourites.

Lights up, soaked through and exhausted, how we ended some of the best nights:

I didn't really like the music '91-'93. Things started perking up in '94. '95 was a good year.

How did I miss this thread first time around??

Got loads and loads of mp3 from 88-95, about 16 gig worth.

That Quadrant Park clip was a real blast from the past and dev's post summed it all up.

Wandering around Sett End waiting to find out where the next warehouse party was going to be..... Happy happy days, which I wouldn't change for the world.

Any Shaboo, eureka and Zone (at jenks) go'ers here, there is a reunion on the 7th July in Blackpool.

Interestingly I think that every generation has their defining moments, times that shape who they are. Anyone see that they are making a film about Wigan Casino at the moment ?

I went to the Zone once. That was definitely a small crowd capability venue! We came over, stayed in a B&B to see what it was like, very underground feel. I remember finding DS at the bar, back to the room drinking pints. The way things went though, a lot of us gravitated naturally to Uprising in Sheffield, starting with Sugar Cubes in Lincoln and then the move to the Adelphi in Attercliffe. We'd been regulars at Donny Warehouse, broke it up with visits to Dizstruxshon, Gallery, some of the larger gigs which weren't as personal. Spent a good year at U4RIA though, closed down in the end for being a brothel, right?

cock up

i went to a fantazia reunion in bristol last month for my mates stag do. it was mint 🙂

My all time favourites

Gotta love a bit of Vibes and Wishdokta 😉

Mike Slammer and Red Alert always help me do those singletrack sections a bit faster 😆 goes down a treat on the ol I Pod !

Also, i should have been doing my homework instead of bouncing around my mates house listening to this when i was at school 😆

Where's the whistle crew and the DHSS massive 😆

Best nights, days, weekends of my life, fanfu*kintastic. Shame they can never be relived and thats mainly because doves and snowballs arent like they used to be, nothing quite like a club full of e'd up kids loving it all up, todays kids havent got a clue!

Anybody got any clips from Quad II? Now that was a venue, shady as f*ck but best place ever.

If I had one wish it would be to revisit those times, soooooo glad I was there and experienced it.

Some good tunes posted up, will add a couple to the collection.

Can't miss out on Tyree Cooper:

A U4RIA (hard house club) anthem:

First heard this in the Gallery (Leeds):

I remember when it hit the charts they didn't press enough copies and it reached number 2 in the charts here and just disappeared which was awful at the time. It should have reached more people.

And also lets not forget S'Express:

MC Merlin:

Ah love those days........... 😀

Forgot to mention that I lived in Longton for 2 years whilst at Staffs Poly.....Entropy was a stones throw away as was Shellys, spoilt for choice but Entropy always won then off to the top of the hill in Heron Cross.

Got to stop, getting too emotional knowing they cant be relived!!

Ventured to a couple of reunions and although quite good they cant come close tot he original nights.

Hazydays in Liverpool Zanzibar used to be a scream a few years ago, a complete dive but great tunes. Marshall Jefferson even turned up one night, a fantastic set!

Rock fm om sunday nights 7 - 10pm definitely worth a listen to, brings out the goose bumps!!