tomohawk77

Some of these 96-97 sets are very odd selections ... sorta reminds me of times I walked away from JJ feeling underwhelmed. The one complaint I always had of him was that he'd play SUCH a blinding set one week ... literally all the big tunes and a load of acetates and white labels you'd never hear again ... then the next week he'd just drop a whole set of utter handbag shite! I'd get all my mates to go with me to Frisky Ministry or Gallery @ Turnmills, Bagleys, or Clockwork Orange after seeing him smash it ... and he would play like it wasn't him!? I know a lot of it is subjective, and what you are in the mood for, what the DJ feels like playing, and you meet in the middle somewhere. But I honestly would be MIFFED at how on and off JJ could be. There were at least a 6 times I came away thinking "I'm not going to see him again after that rubbish" ... but would always unconsciously tune into his Friday -sat shows on Kiss and start hearing banging tunes again and get revved up for another gig lol ... he won't budge ... he also turned up drunk a few times and spent most of the set being center of attention and fluffing his mixes. He's done that taking the needle of the record while its playing a few times lol ... I'm having fun compiling my JJ retromixes from 96 -99, as there is a sad lack of sets from that period. And there were great tunes that were in the bangin - pumping vein before the Trance sound dominated and it got too samey ...

Anyone ever go to the Clockwork Orange raves @ Camden Palace and The Cross???? Some bangin and memorable sets from Jules, Kelly, Fontaine and the other big room "Big Choon" DJ's from 95 - 99!

Like toilet paper - we're on a roll ... We're pumpin' you up like a Lilo ... Like an Iron Girder we supply you with rather solid stuff ... I agree with what one the previous posters said about JJ giving us names of tunes ... but most of his swag bag was all mash ups, acetates and White Labels ... the mixes i am compiling for this site are all well known tunes ... is THOSE white labels we need to get our grubby mitts on ... like the one in summer 97 he was caning that had the theme from Tales of the Unexpected on the breakdown lol

https://www.discogs.com/artist/5917-Jean-Phillippe-Aviance'>Track 3 is Jean Philippe - Sexy Thing. Pumping house that Jules and Graham Gold played @ Frisky and Peach. I had the wax. Marshall Jefferson dropped it @ Tribal Gathering 96 as well and the place went nuts. Track 9 is classic Techno: Outsider - Pain in my Brain on Junior Recs. Never heard JJ play this, but Cox and Dave Angel were all over it. Track 11 is Natural Born Grooves - Forerunner (Nobody ID'd it?!) One of the biggest tunes of 96. Never loses its feel after 20 years!

Track 2 is deffo Aleem - Flirti Organi. Used to have it on wax.

Track on the 12 min mark is: Pizzaman - Gotta man Following Progress Funk is: Westbam - Sunshine: Stretch n Vern Mix (Wkd tune CANED by Jules and Kelly in 97) This sounds like what JJ was spinning mid 97

Judge Jules in what is probably the earliest shot I've seen him in @ Kiss when they were a Pirate station in 1988! This was when I first started listening to his show along with Norman Jay and Trouble Anderson, et al.

The Marc Et Claude tune went down a storm @ The Cross @ Serious. Jules used to spin another track with that "La la la laaa" vocal in 96 - 97. I'll have to dig that one out for JJ 97 Retromix

No it was live on Radio 1. Jules came down to the Ministry to spin with Jon Kelly after the Liverpool one. My 21st lol. Friday 24th July 98. We went to the Brighton one the following year with Cox and Jules

yes indeedy

Hello JJ all the way, U R right, Judge´s slots on KISS were phenomenal. Pity, there are a few of his KISS shows available throughout the internet. I recorded only bits and pieces that are here in the archive. Btw, if you can dig out some of his KISS shows and upload them it would be a treasure. Paul Uskin (IDed as) Paul Erskine 'Don't Stop' - where did you find the info about it? Cannot find any relevant info about such a release. I had many JJ Kiss shows taped from 88 -97. Fridays 7 -10 Sats 4 -7. The Classic house mastermix was a good slot, as well as mastermixes featuring all those acetates and white labels ... all good thrown out in a huge box FULL of other DJ tapes from the 90s ... still bite my fist today when I think about it. I specifically taped to keep as documents for a place this this lol ... he basically Tonged out after joining R1. 98 -99 had some good tunes, but moved across to other things after getting bored with Trance in 2000. I loved the 95 -late 97 period, as the club nights n London were many and varied. Jules then played all over the shop as circuit DJ. After R1 he stopped doing a lot good club nights as they simply couldn't afford him anymore ... I preferred the mix of pumping house, prog and the upcoming Trance sound as it was then, with tunes like Moonman's "don't be afraid" and many of the tunes off the Introspective of House comps, the best representation of what the sound was the, as well as the JDJ mixes. Sorry to hear that - a sad story indeed! It would be a full treasury of cream if the tapes had not been lost! Btw, there was a d´n´b hype back around 1995-97. I agree that JJ would prefer d´n´b for some time and smuggled some tunes into his shows, gigs and compilations. I was in London from Autumn 97 to Spring 98 and there were many superb places to go - Camdan Palace, Cross and many others with Ministry on the top! Radio 1 landing catapulted Jules into elevator where the sky was a limit. It was not a nation DJ anymore, he became a global star since BBC was already broadcasting via ASTRA satellite and, if I am not mistaken, in five years´ time they launched net digital broadcast. Camden Palace was one the best venues of that era. I'd been going there to Jungle - Hardcore Rave since 93, and then to House events like Peach and Clockwork Orange - Divine, etc. The Cross, Bagleys, SW1 club, Leisure Lounge, all great venues ... but the main room @ Ministry (The Box) is still the best rig I ever witnessed. MOS was owned by Millionaires, so as shit as their compilations were, and the cheese they promoted, the place was great on the right night with your favorite DJs. I went every other week for 7 years in a row. Jules did go global with R1. He had already been a well known player since 87 when Kiss was a pirate. He was a lot more funky then, and was actually a prodigy of Norman Jay, who had the big show on Kiss in 85 -91, and had been running Good Times @ Notting Hill Carnival since the early 80s. He and Jules put on Warehouse Raves, Norman with GT, and Jules had his Family Function org. Music was a lot slower then,and more in with things like Soul II Soul, Balearica, Acid Jazz, etc. Jules was made for R1 in a way, but I'm glad I had been seeing him those years beforehand. Kiss FM created a HUGE buzz in london when they went Legal in late 91, and everybody used to play Kiss all the time, as well as the Underground pirate stations, so you knew where to go clubbing.

Yeah its Serious Danger - Deeper (Memory Mans Revival Mix) One of the biggest tunes for me in 98. JJ caned it on his show and out in the Clubs. Its on the Slinky 98 Essential Mix. Classic tune, always gets a rise

This mix must be from 95, as Yeke Yeke, Wink, Umboza and Access came out in 95. This was what JJ was spinning mid 95

Saw Sonique quite a few times in 97 -98. she used to be in S -Express with Mark Moore. She was friends with Jules, hence her explosion onto the dance scene in 97. She was signed to Serious Management, run by Jules' bro Sam, so she was lucky to jump in right at the top. I wasn't always in the mood for her singing over sets, but she was smart enough to only do it over a couple of tunes and not ruin a set, like those idiot MC's do at Jungle raves. Saw her first time @ Clockwork Orange in June 97 as part of a mega studded bill with Jules, Kelly, Fontaine and Alex P. It did feel a bit like she raided Jules crates, as she played all the same things he did, but she quickly developed her own sound and was a pretty good mixer. My own monthly night took over from hers in 2002 @ Pomodoros in Bishopsgate, as she went to live abroad. Her Fantazia 98 mix had some good tunes like Organ - To The World, and my favorite version of "Spell on You." A deep, moody dub.

Deliciously uplifting JJ anthem from summer 96 (snippet taken from a cruddy old JJ mixtape bootlegged from Clockwork Orange @ Camden Palace in June 96) This was a HUGE summer anthem in 96. Typical of the pumping, uplifting House Jules was spinning at the time, with the Trance and Progressive, harder edge stuff seeping in. Using the classic Nightwrighters "Let The Music Use You" from 87 (Jules used to cane the original on his Kiss pirate show in 87 as well) Never found a digital copy of this, so will have to get it from Discogs and rip it for my parties this summer.

Hello JJ all the way, U R right, Judge´s slots on KISS were phenomenal. Pity, there are a few of his KISS shows available throughout the internet. I recorded only bits and pieces that are here in the archive. Btw, if you can dig out some of his KISS shows and upload them it would be a treasure. Paul Uskin (IDed as) Paul Erskine 'Don't Stop' - where did you find the info about it? Cannot find any relevant info about such a release. I had many JJ Kiss shows taped from 88 -97. Fridays 7 -10 Sats 4 -7. The Classic house mastermix was a good slot, as well as mastermixes featuring all those acetates and white labels ... all good thrown out in a huge box FULL of other DJ tapes from the 90s ... still bite my fist today when I think about it. I specifically taped to keep as documents for a place this this lol ... he basically Tonged out after joining R1. 98 -99 had some good tunes, but moved across to other things after getting bored with Trance in 2000. I loved the 95 -late 97 period, as the club nights n London were many and varied. Jules then played all over the shop as circuit DJ. After R1 he stopped doing a lot good club nights as they simply couldn't afford him anymore ... I preferred the mix of pumping house, prog and the upcoming Trance sound as it was then, with tunes like Moonman's "don't be afraid" and many of the tunes off the Introspective of House comps, the best representation of what the sound was the, as well as the JDJ mixes.

I used to have this on vinyl in 96. It said it was Antiloops sorted mix, but when I hear the tune on compilations its a different version. So either the vinyl is a misprinted label or the version they use on these comps is wrong ... erm!?

We went to see Bukem@ Logical Progression in September 97 when it moved to the Turnmills, after having had some great times when it was @ Ministry in 95-96. It said "very special guest DJ" on the flyer, so we assumed it would be Fabio or Alex Reece or Adam F. It was Jules! He mixed a set of Jazzy, atmospheric, and often darkside Drum n Bass. He played all the tunes that were used at the end of his 97 Emix. He would often put a D&B track or two in his shows then, as well. in a later interview, he said he loved Drum N Bass, but refrained from playing it out as he didn't want to confuse or lose his crowd? Shame, he was just as good in that genre.

Hi Peter ... both are acetates that never came out officially ... been after them myself for years

Yeah, Jason is right. I have the vinyl of Love Tattoo ... (Cox used to drop it a lot in his sets in 99) The tune I speak of is really hard! Jules came in with it after Tony De Vit's very hard set @ the Dance Nation launch party in 97 and it ripped everyone up. One of the mixes I've done to upload here is the best I can to replicate that set, expect for the 5 tunes that were acetates and can't be found anywhere but Jules' vault. One of them was Luka - Luca? NY style dub. Its at the end of a short mix on that 97 Kiss FM show that is up here ... REALLY moody, heavy tune. Graham Gold used it a lot @ Peach as well ... never been able to find it on Wax.

Great mix, and surprisingly good quality sound as well for its age ... This was what he was playing when I first started going clubbing in summer 93. The Paradise Club in Islington on Saturdays was one of the premier nights for Hardcore/Breakbeat and (emerging) Jungle scene. I was into Randall (best DJ in that style) and was 16 at the time. My mates girl tried to help me look older by making me have my hair down (I had a rats tail then) and putting shades on me. Naturally I stood out like a sore thumb and was refused entry. At that moment, a gang came by in a car and started waving a gun out the window in protest at the bouncers and everyone ran away, including the bouncers, so I just walked right on in, no problems ... Randall and Fabio were playing, and I was too scared to pop pills then, so was doing bombs of pink champagne, just to keep me standing all night if nothing else. I got a big rush wave and had to go and have a smoke downstairs in what I thought was the chillout room. Loads of good looking girls (with plenty of smokes) and the music was really funky. I asked a girl who was djing and she gave me a funny look along the lines of "don't you know?!" It was Jules, and he played a lot of this stuff and the mash up of chubby chunks - Jungle brothers thats on his JDJ mix. Back then there was no internet so you didn't really know what DJ's looked like, or cared! I saw Jules 2 -3 times a month from then til late 99.

02 - Supa T - Gotta Jump (Party Animals Drop Mix) was a big Jules tune in latter 96. Pianoman - Party People was also massive and was played right through til summer 97. Took me a while to get this dub version, which totally changes the feel of the tune when you remove the crud vocal.

He did this whole set @ Frisky @ Ministry in Nov 96 ... mental night. Jules used to start his sets then with a tune I've never heard anywhere else or got the name of. Very heavy tune with the vocal "wanna suck his cock" ... not my kind of line but thats what the sample was lol ... Jeremy Healy and Tony De Vit were with him in the Box (Main Room) Brandon Block and Alex P in the bar ... Ministry was a brilliant club in the early - late 90s. Some real ravers and total nutcases in that place! The Security were well known for being heavy handed with dealers and users ... I had to carry everyones stuff in one time as they were too chicken. I was in a toilet cubicle separating all the stuff when I realized there was someone watching me ... I looked up and a HUGE security guard was hanging over the top smiling at me ... I thought I was in trouble, but as luck would have he just said "Give me the Coke and we'll leave it at that ..." PHEW!

Saw him do this same set (almost) @ The Cross in summer 95