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Can any techno fans help me with this question?
About 20 years ago I got my mitts on a cassette containing pretty much most of carl cox's infamous Fact 1 mix.
The tape was subsequently recorded over (not by myself), so I went out and bought the two disc cd version.
After listening to the two discs, I quickly realised they were short of a two or three tracks, present on the old cassette.
On the old cassette, these missing tracks seemed to segue between the end of disc one (stone circle: tonight) and the start of disc two (gygnus x: Orange theme).
What did the missing tracks sound like?
Well, I've yet to hear carl cox do this again, but after 'tonight' there was silence for about twenty seconds, then the sound of waves crashing against a shore, followed by a vaguely Arabic/ Egyptian sounding track, increasing in pace and segueing into the orange theme, disc two etc.
I've had a good sniff round soundcloud and old radio 1 essential mixes, to no avail.
Any suggestions as to where I can find these missing tracks or their original mix would be much appreciated.
This it?
Thanks mushrooms
It sounds fairly close, but I will need to listen to it properly in the daytime.
Though from what I've heard so far, it's still missing the 'interlude/ segue', with the silence, the sound of waves on a beach and the 'Arabic' sounding bit which had an overdubbed voice (as I remember it) sounding like some kind of invocation to "watch the serpent rise" and so on.
[edit] Oops - misread the question
I've got the double CD F.A.C.T. mix. Still rocks today!
Sadly I know nothing about the tape mix, so can't help. 😥
Discogs have the mixtape, including photos of the inlay, but there doesn't seem to be mention of the tracks you describe. Strange...
http://www.discogs.com/Carl-Cox-FACT/release/854681
Re-read the OP.
It's not the mix-tape you have. It's a recording to tape of FACT1. 🙄
I'm even more confused now! 😆
Was it taped off CD?
I do seem to recall some of the track listing on the CD inlay was in the wrong order - maybe that has something to do with it - or I could be wrong - it's been a while since I played it!
Thanks for the replies all,
I've had a sniff around discogs too to try to find the tracks missing from my 2 cd (silver?) version.
I guess that the mix I originally found taped onto a blank cassette must have come from the radio or maybe it was a copy of a freebie attached to mixmag or whatever, or even some kind of bootleg!
The defining feature of this mix was the temporary absence of music...it's not very often you hear carl cox bring the mix to a halt and have nothing but the sound of waves crashing on a shore for twenty or thirty seconds.
There's a fair few versions of fact 1 to be found on soundcloud and the like so I'll still keep looking.
But, like I said, very obscure content 🙂
Fond memories of going to see Carl Cox every month whilst at unit. Now 20 years the Carl Cox I saw was for a wood burner installation, how things change. I disappointed when I answered the door to a short white man.
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If you read through the comments on my youtube link they mention the two versions being different.
I listened to this mix two days ago funnily enough!
COXY!!
Hijack but similar vein - I found a tape in a hire car once that was labelled 'Oakenfold Cheesy Feet mix' which was great but I lost it and haven't been able to find it since. Was it just a random mix or has anyone heard of it?
I think I recall Coxy doing that at Final Frontier, Club UK, rather than some hands-in-the-air vocal interlude. Dave Clarke would also simply stop everything for a breather, with the silence ringing in your ears, before resuming his pulverising barrage. That was quite a club night.it's not very often you hear carl cox bring the mix to a halt
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Sorry, I must have had a brain fart. It was about the level of language skills I exhibited after a night dancing to Carl Cox!
Any of these possibly?
Emmanuel top = la pipe a eu
Holographic = purs floxy
Rising sons = afghan acid
Cosmos =chill mix Java or the c mix
Nico = Melbourne or axiom
Drax 2 = outdoor excursions
As an emaciated 8 stone teenager in '92 carl cox accidentally sent me sprawling onto the floor with his considerable bulk, as he made his way through the crowd with his security staff after he finished his set in a cavernous Devon warehouse..
He was very very apologetic though 🙂
You can believe this or not, but Carl Cox was booked to dj at my Mum and Dads 25th anniversary party. He was a mate of my sister and she badgered him into it. Bugger never turned up tho, claimed his van broke down so we had to get someone else at the last minute.
Can't say I blame him for that, but when I saw him at rockness he was playing CDS's- cheater!
Thanks again for the replies
@mushrooms...had a good listen to your link to the cassette version, but couldn't find the 'interlude' I've been searching for. But you do hear the sound of waves on 'cactus' by Union Jack.
@ Scotsman, the first three tracks are kind of like what was on the mix once the tempo picked up again, in a kind of a goa-trance/ Arabic musical scale kind-of-way. Less so with the latter three tracks you linked to.
In fact, I found something on YouTube called "the island of ra" and one of the tracks is vaguely similair to how I remember part of that carl cox mix.
But I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to all six of the tracks that you mentioned.
My guess is that the cassette from 20 years ago was probably a copy of prototype mix, maybe from a live gig as carl cox was taking fact1 on tour. It was probably dropped from General release on the grounds of being too dark for British tastes.
There's bound to be a copy of it out there, somewhere... 😮
i did manage to have success tracking down another recording from way back...
Lagowski's 'wire science' should be arriving soon.
Sometimes persistence pays off!. (And yes, it was quite an itch!)
Awesome mix. Drax Amphetamine was and still is such an amazing track.
Here's the link to the "Isle of ra"