1. T99 – Anasthasia (Out of History Mix)
2. Future – Locked In Madness
3. Spectrum – Spectral
4. Channel X – Rave The Rythm
5. Outlander – Vamp
6. Modular Expansion – Cubes
7. World Party II – Forget It
8. F.O.G. – Electricity
9. Frank De Wulf – Compression
10. Modular Expansion – Eliminator
11. Frank De Wulf – The Original
12. The Project – Do That Dance
13. Amnesia – Ibiza
14. Miss Nicky Trax – Acid In The House
15. Major Problem – Acid Queen
16. Fatal Error – Fatal Error
17. IN-D – Virgin In D-Sky
18. Taste of Sugar – Hmm Hmm
19. Space Opera – Mandate My Ass
20. Petra & Co – Just Let Go (instrumental)
21. Dr. Phibes – Acid Story
22. Liaisons D – Future FJP
23. Frank De Wulf – Traffic
24. Spectrum – Brazil
25. Human Resource – Dominator (Frank De Wulf remix)
26. Set Up System- Gyrate
27. Modular Expansion – V5
28. Pleasure Game – Le Seigneur Des Ténèbres
29. Insider – Destiny (Wild Mix)
30. Two Pieces – Magic Bells
31. Frank De Wulf – Imagination
32. CJ Bolland – Horsepower (Remix)
33. Quin² – Acquaintance
34. Mantrax ‎– Scarlet Circus
35. CJ Bolland – Carmargue
36. Set Up System – Factory (Sublimation rmx)
37. Modular Expansion – Workaholics
38. Cubic 22 – Night In Motion
39. Frank De Wulf – There Ain’t Nobody
40. The Mackenzie – Higher In The Sky

funny, i didn’t really like old skool when it wasn’t old. i thought most of it sounded scary. now it reminds me of boy racers who you could hear ten minutes before they arrived, underage nights out and sounds a hell of a lot better than the ish kids have to put up with now.

i used to go the clubs, sterns in worthing usually, with my boyfriend. i never enjoyed it as it was usually on a thursday night and i had school the next day and I was slightly worried that my parents would discover that I was 1. not really staying with a friend 2. off my head 3. a good hour away from my hometown.

fortunately they were ‘hey, we used to go clubbing when we were 15, its cool just don’t get too drunk/arrested/into a car with anyone you don’t know’. so they were happy enough to let me go clubbing (sort of) but trusted me a bit too much.

i recently revealed all on my clubbing years to my mum, more than 15 years on, and if we still lived in the same house, I think i would be grounded for the next 15 years…

download cheesy quaver mix

liquid – sweet harmony

bizarre inc – playing with knives

convert – nightbird

dj seduction – hardcore heaven

shades of rhythm – extacy

cubic 22 – night in motion

sy-kick – nasty

urban shakedown – some justice

house crew – euphoria

phuture assassins – future sound

sonz of a loop da loop era – far out

awesome 3 – don’t go

2 bad mice – bombscare

zero b – lock up

shut up and dance – art of moving butts

altern 8 -evapor8

rhythm section – coming on strong

t99 – anasthasia

the crowd are the principal reason this will not work. whether the latest movement is original, meshed or outright plagiarism, its the mass market that drive a scene. the only people who like indie music are public schoolboys and girls. old skool ravers were real people. big brother provides a nice illustration of this point – apparent inventor of indie music emily, who clearly hates herself for being white, and pink haired old comedy cheesy quaver tracey.

students, of course, are equally responsible for this travesty as the nme. deprived of proper rave because they’re born too late, trying to appropriate something that belonged to a previous generation. is it me, or have students regressed back into the desperately seeking irony twats they were in the 80s?

in the mid 90s, one of my lecturers accused us of being ‘benettonized’. the explicit meaning being that we had mobiles we couldn’t pay for, nice clothes we’d worked all summer for and spent our grants on nights out at the ministry of sound. the implicit meaning being that students were supposed to be rich but act poor and listen to music that made you depressed and therefore a more authentic pauper. but the line had been blurred thanks to over generous government funding for education. now only those who are prepared to take on £30k debt or have rich parents go to university and we’re back where we started. well let me tell you, irony has no place in dance music.

true ravers will seek out the old skool, so this mix is for them.

Proper rave for grown ups and Tracey from BB8 - download here 

acen – close your eyes – xxx mix

zero b – lock up

cubic 22 – night in motion

isotonik – different strokes

prodigy – charly – joey beltram mix

quadrophonia – quadrophonia

ace of the space – 9 is a classic

messiah – temple of dreams

kevin saunderson – tronik house

channel x – rave the rhythm

cls – can you feel it

human resource – dominator

prodigy – android

lfo – lfo

toxic two – rave generator

altern8 – infiltrate 202 – joey beltram mix

bizarre inc – plutonic

digital orgasm – running out of time

praga khan – injected with a poison

westbam – mayday anthem

orbital – chime – joey beltram mix