WIRED FUTURES | ALL VINYL TECHNO MIX | '94 - '97 DEEP CUTS & CLASSICS

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My main inspirations when learning to DJ were Carl Cox, Jeff Mills and Dave Clarke. They each had classic mixes - F.A.C.T. 1+2 from Coxy, Live at Liquid Room from Mills and X-Mix Electro Boogie from Clarke, all of which I rinsed to death on cassette throught the 90s - but obviously this wasn't enough.

Without wanting to drone on like a miserable old sod, the way you were gonna learn to mix in the 90s wasn't watching a tutorial, and videos of raves would focus on the dancers, not the DJ... To try and learn the ropes, you needed to get into the raves and watch people at work. I made it my mission to see all three of them play as a teenager.

I ended up watching Coxy, the most accessible of them, a bunch of times. At his intimate Ultimate BASE nights at Velvet Rooms, I could watch him and Jim Masters up close, bashing it out on three decks. Coxy, despite already qualifying as a globe-trotting superstar DJ, would always hang around afterwards saying hello to the ravers who stayed the distance. On the incredibly remote chance he ever reads this, thank you Carl for being so kind to a sweating wide eyed teenager gushing with excitement to shake your hand..! It meant a lot, and I'd love to think that there are current DJ superstars doing the same thing for similarly starry eyed kids.

The style I absorbed watching him, and have since tried (with mixed results lol) to emulate, was rave music as a romping, wild clatter of drums and hot synthetic meltdown - human chaos contrasting with machine precision; hedonistic, unpredictable and, importantly, fun..!

So I guess this mix, mostly drawn from the period of 94-97 is my tribute to that. I've tried to go through a range of styles, deep and Detroit-y, to discoid tech-funk, to harsh industrial bangers, a lick of acid, and finally some big room action from the dons Underworld. Finally, massive shouts to Tim Taylor for generously gifting me the Missile Records tunes I play - what a great label, sounds better by the day.

00:00 Envoy - Seawall
04:25 Kumulus - Cloud Chaser (String Mix)
07:20 Cliff Hanger - The Shadows
10:12 Paul Hazel - Go
13:53 Ha-Lo - Bud
15:44 Neil Landstrumm - Swing/Jerk
18:04 Dave Angel - Fever
22:12 DJ Onefinger - Housef*cker (Umek mix)
23:34 DHS - House of God (Surgeon Mix)
27:39 Dave Clarke - Red 2
29:23 DJ Hyperactive - Wide Open
31:28 Robert Armani - Scoreboard
34:19 Primate008
37:05 Tomas Andersson - Bas
40:22 Steve Poindexter Vs Awex - Bodyheat 95
43:22 Planetary Assault Systems - Funk Electric
46:49 Drexciya - Black Sea
50:42 Underworld - Dark & Long