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  1. The JJ Archive in 2023

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    On 2/9/2023 at 5:59 AM, blakeface said:

    This is still a great forum. Even though there isn't much activity anymore. I have been a member for a couple of years, i was a member even further back, but forgot my log in details.

     

    I have been looking through old posts, there has been lots of interesting reading material!

    Not to mention listening to all the old sets and radio shows from the Judge, and paying attention to the tracklists. Just so i can purchase great tunes i haven't heard before. Just to feed the vinyl addiction.

     

    Jules is playing a 2 hour set near me next weekend. (Probably a classics mix) Tempted to go solo. But if he's going to play jingles and "Put your hands in the air" voice overs - i don't think i'll bother.

     

    I tuned in to one of his weekend warm ups the other day, and i was bored! I yearned for a bit of banging house like the old days! He still sounds great over the airwaves though.

     

    Kudos to the ones who created this forum, and fingers crossed for some new audio this year.

     

    All very true. I think we can all relate to this! Good to hear you're still enjoying the forums and audio. I have found life really does take over (wife, kids etc) so there's less and less time to maintain this website, but I'll continue to renew the domain and the forum software to keep it "alive". It was made before the days of Soundcloud etc which would have been a lot easier to host the audio but there you go. I do miss the old days of specialist radio, and "simpler" times before the explosion of the internet and the fragmentation of dance music into a million genres. 

     

    I do still possess an array of Minidiscs to convert into mp3 but with over 300 of the damn things and a very niche way of extracting the audio properly, its a slow process. Amongst the dross and fragments, inevitably there'll be little gems of mixes in there that I'll rediscover and they will be uploaded in due course. 


    For example, I found one half of Jules's end of year round up from 2000, in pristine quality. I know I definitely have the other half on an minidisc - somewhere - once I find it, I'll splice them together and it will be uploaded ^_^

     

    Anyway, nice this little archive is still bringing back memories. Shout out to everyone who still browses this site, including Spin Doc! Where has the time gone? 

     

  5. '90s Dance Mags

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    On 12/29/2019 at 1:12 PM, Chewbs said:

     Can't seem to find Ministry issue 1 - which I had as I uploaded the Jules bits into the gallery on here...most anoying.

     

    I'll find this for you - our Gallery needs a revamp and if you uploaded it we definitely have it. I'll let you know

  6. Gold N Delicious / Les Hemstock

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    Ok so 20 years has elapsed and again perhaps the licence is up and they have their hands on the original sound recordings again....

     

    The Lange remix 1998 version is presumably the only Lange remix (I uploaded the acetate entry you see on discogs, with the Thrillseekers' Synasthaesia on the flipside) which I then sold, but I wonder why it's OK to release it now when presumably it was a copyright issue in 1998?

  14. Luminosity 2019

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    On 7/11/2019 at 5:11 PM, Spin Doctor said:

    In many regards though, this is classic Jules.  Throughout his career, even when at his peak, he frequently antagonised and alienated with seemingly questionable decisions and terrible performances.  Thankfully these were counterbalanced with performances which would . As someone else once said on this forum, he ‘frustrates and delights in equal measure’.  I do wonder if Jules’ consistency had been better over his career he would have fared much better in terms of his standing in the annals of DJing and Trance history.  

     

     

    And you have hit the nail on the head there sir.

     

    Jules was the "gateway DJ" for millions of people, opening their ears to the scene which then spurred us into discovering the tiny little subgenres that dance music has now fragmented into. As a DJ in his day, the magnifying glass was on him like no other in the UK, so the "consistency" argument is one brought up all the time. I've lost count the number of times I hear people say to me "I saw him perform a flawless set, so gathered my mates to see his next gig only to witness an inexplicably shocking set" leaving everyone bewildered and, well, pretty pissed off. Maybe every DJ has this, depending on the venue, their attitude, and what's in their box?

     

    But I like to think the Archive here proves those really good radio shows and live sets which were recorded outweigh all the shockers, so long may we relive them :)

  16. How’s everybody doing?

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    I am still discovering some really old stuff, stuff like this which I actually taped back in 1991

     

    4x 20-minute mixes for your ears

     

     

     

    Guest mixes on Radio 1 Show Hosted By The Pet Shop Boys, Aug 91


    * Mondays Mix - Andy & Darren from 808 State *
    1. Turntable Hype - Set You Free
    2. Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
    3. KLF - What Time Is Love (Briefly)
    4. Subject 13 - Eternity (Vinyl Solution)
    5. Lupo - So Hard "so hot"
    6. PSB - So Hard (KLF Mix)
    7. 808 State - Lift
    8. Cybersonik - Technarchy (Briefly)
    "listen to the rhythm flow"
    9. Klubzone 1 - Boom Ahh
    10. Chase Events - Enough
    11. ???
    12. The House Crew - Keep The Fire Burning
    13. Raze - Bass Power (Accapella)
    14. Hibrid & Doo Lally D - Twisted Tambourine
    15. ??? think its - Jolly Roger - Ulysses (The Groove) heavy bass
    16. Rhythm Section - I Can Take You Higher (Atomic EP) "than youve ever been before" female
    17. Moodswings - 6 Train
    18. Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is
    19. Gill Scott Heron - War Is Ugly "rock your body"
    20. ??? "out on the dancefloor" male / piano
    21. Ralphi Rosario feat Xavier Gold - U Used To Hold Me
    22. Wood Allan - Airport 89
    23. ??? "everybody get funky" (has male rap)
    24. The Hitmen - Tragic Force
    25. The Mackenzie - Party People
    26. ???
    27. Shades of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation (briefly)
    27. Cappella - Helyom Halib


    * Tuesdays Mix - Kenny Ken (Eclipse) *
    1. SSR - To Be House (Guerilla) 
    2. Party People - You Got Me Burning Up "fall down on me, I like it"
    3. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Dub)
    4. Chubb Rock with Howie Tee - Yo Bad Chubbs (Crib mix)
    5. Richie Rich & Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Salsa
    6. Jimi Polo - Better Days (Original Mix)
    7. DSK - What Would We Do (Hurleys Dub Mix) 
    8. Moby - Go
    9. Raze - Break For Love

    * Wednesdays Mix - Sasha *
    1. Horse - Careful (Original Version)
    2. The Meaning feat DJ Mellow - Showing You The Feeling
    3. Urban Soul - Alright
    4. Angels & Images - Heaven on Earth (inst piano)
    5. Dupree - Brass Disk (Accapella)
    6. Congress - 40 Miles (Inst) 
    7. Raze - Bass Power (Accapella)
    8. Leftfield - Not Forgotten
    9. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Accapella)
    10. Moby - Go
    11. K Klass - Rhythm Is a Mystery (2 copies) 

    * Thursdays Mix - Frankie Knuckles *
    1. LA Mix - Love Together (Banji Lovers Dub)
    2. ??? percussion
    3. Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Cutmaster G Mix)
    4. ??? piano "check this out"
    5. ??? "I miss your love now" female


    * Fridays Mix - Carl Cox *
    1. Hookline & Singer - Nightime (Belgian Trance Mix) "you better believe it"
    2. Basscut - Im Not In Love "doo da d ahh ahh"
    3. ??? "rocking to the rhythm" male (samples yello)
    4. The Badman Presents NDX - Higher Than Heaven
    5. Carl Cox - I Want You (Forever) "I want you forever" female / breakbeat
    6. FPI Project - Everybody (All Over The World)
    7. Evolution & Sasha - Metropolis (Cant Stop The Feeling Mix)
    8. SSR - To Be House (Guerilla)

     

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  17. Hi just a decade or so late

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    We all remember the days of taping shows, just something loads of us did, completely independently. Also, as soon as Westwood's "bombs" went off every Friday night at 11:00pm I'm sure someone up there really must have heard a million dance fans press "stop" on their cassette players :)

     

    Welcome to the site!

  18. New Shows?

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    We think we have exhausted every source out there, both in terms of audio and tracklistings, so unless we get contacted that someone has a stash of cassettes somewhere they want us to digitize and upload on here, or indeed they upload something new themselves, what we have in the archives is pretty much it.

     

    I do know I have the "end of year" Saturday show from 2000 somewhere split across 2 minidiscs which I would love to find. Once I do, you can be sure it will be uploaded straight away :)

  21. Jules @ Peach 25th

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    21 hours ago, JasonB said:

    This is why a lot of longtime fans like me have lost a lot of respect for him, the whole requesting a 3 cdj so he can mess about with jingles and acapellas and scratching makes him a laughing stock really. 

     

    On the other hand he may play a blinding set of top tracks without all that tomfoolery. Fingers crossed for you he does. 

     

     

    I completely agree with this.

     

    For me Jules was the ultimate "gateway" DJ - very flawed, very inconsistent, but capable of truly sensational sets and unique passages of atmosphere. He opened a generation of people up to a variety of electronic music.... you only need to look at everybody on these forums all with their preferred niches and subgenres that they've discovered. But the common origin was Jules.

     

     

  24. Bonzai Recordings - an hour long documentary

    in Purely Music Discussion

    Posted

    Happy New Year folks! Thought some people might find this interesting :)

     

     

    00:00:00 ▶ Intro

    0:02:24 ▶ Chapter One - Shouldn’t you stop being a waiter? Isn’t there anything else you’d like to do?

    00:04:52 ▶ Chapter Two - R&S is doing great, but why don’t you start a label?

    00:09:27 ▶ Chapter Three - We just wanted to make good music, release it, and party!

    00:16:16 ▶ Chapter Four - You could just put a DJ name on a T-shirt and everybody wanted one

    00:23:08 ▶ Chapter Five - There is the bag, figure it out

    00:24:59 ▶ Chapter Six - When you went out or you played a Bonzai track, you just knew the roof would come down

    00:30:06 ▶ Chapter Seven - We said, M.I.K.E., this is the A-side

    00:40:48 ▶ Chapter Eight - And then all of a sudden, you lost everything

    00:46:08 ▶ Chapter Nine - Let the Bonzai flag fly again

     

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