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Ha, recently purchased this wee track at the weekend, just realising how much of a rip off of Trisco it is. Still love it though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25z2rpaL0k

Slightly off topic, I love Zo's remix of Olive. I don't normally like re-rubs of oldies, but i thought it was spot on, if a little 'bare' in parts. Never heard anyone mention it before. Did it get much attention? Yeah heard the Webster mix too, think on here. It's excellent too.

Yeah, have to agree. Despite really liking a lot of the Zo/Arty stuff there for a while, I think they've really gone off the boil. Thought Rebound was pretty good, but thought Frequency Flier was awful. Think I'm experiencing what a lot of you have had for a long time now. Now that I'm paying a lot more attention to tunes, I'm quickly getting bored of a lot of it, whereas a year or so ago, it was all pretty unique sounding to me as I'd stopped listening to a lot of it for ages. Think once the cross-over potential is realised, the artists seem to instantly start making more saccharine, and formulated tunes too, imo. The two producers mentioned being a case in point.

I like that Digital Sunset. Reminds me of something older though.

This sounds familiar to me, like it's a remix though. Any ideas who played it, or time-frame age wise mate?

It's such a joke. Arctic Moon came in at 147... and Artic Moon came in at 177! Someone said Guisseppe Ottaviani got two places because of spelling too. Pretty basic stuff for 'the definitive dj list'

Just had a gander there, the first one was in 1995! Boy George and Tong mixed it. Think the one Jules did with Boy George in 98 may have been my first taste of Jules. Yeah, they're shocking now. It's just a cash-cow.

Man, you wanna see those old school heads I referred to. They take it so serious. It's like the polar opposite of this place a lot of the times. People who know id's from old tapes and sets, but won't name them because they don't want people to know, or they own a copy themselves and don't want people seeking out a copy for themselves. Kinda defeats what the scene was supposed to be about for me. Especially for those back in the 'loved up' explosion they went through.

Funny, I was just reading a thread the other day, where people were arguing over whether anything whether anything after 1995 was oldschool. The vast majority were of the opinion it wasn't. I was quite shocked that dance music that is 15 years old is not considered old school, never mind, that tunes four years old are! They are also of the opinion that trance turned shit when it became popular towards the end of the decade, which we would consider it's strongest. They consider trance the old goa stuff, Noom Records etc. They don't recognise the era we consider it's golden period trance at all.

Thanks Tom, that's great advice. I'm ashamed to say that I was the perpetrator of a scenario like that, though I do have (I think anyway) some mitigating circumstances, but I can't help but think how beneficial it may have been if me and my mate were even a bit more savvy. For starters, it was around 1998, me and my mate played as a duo back then. Nearly everything we played was trancy, proggy stuff around the 140 mark, as was the norm then really. We never deviated from that style, unless playing even harder stuff at the end of the night. We'd played in the same nightclub already, just warming up in the more commercial downstairs area, and stuck to the same style. This gig was for the student night upstairs, a proper dance night with many bigger techno/trance/ house djs. Marshall Jefferson, Dave Angel, Col Hamilton and a few of the bigger Scottish/ Irish trance and even hard house djs. We should really not been given the booking in the first place if our style wasn't suiting, but also, being naive 17 year old lads, we hadn't the savvy to do a bit of research on who was after us or ask what they wanted. We were just delirious at getting the gig. We were told it was the resident headlining, and he normally played a mixed bag of stuff. Well, we just played our normal stuff, though I swear, my mate was just dropping the hardest tune we had when he (the resident) walked in (Anthony Atcherly, In My House iirc), as it was still early, empty, and my mate was really just road-testing it, and I hadn't really heard it before. His face nearly fell through the floor! I saw it, my mate did, and we knew right away, we're f#cked here. Talk about timing! The thing was though, when he actually started, he started off break-beat at around 128, slowing our tune down till it just sounded ridiculous. We were never going to fit in with his sound, no matter what. I still felt really embarrassed though. The dj himself didn't even speak to us though, or ask us had we anything slower etc. Plugged out our headphones and that was it. Lesson learned for us though really.

Have you ever had to follow someone bashing it out at 138+ early Tom? How would you go about it? Just match the speed and gradually bring it down (if you weren't planning on keeping the speed up), try slowing his last tune down a bit (I'd imagine this wouldn't go down well with the previous dj)? I'd say playing a tune with no beat and an intro at 130 wouldn't work either, due to the noticeable gap in bpm, surely you'd lose a good grip on the crowd?

That's the one. He used to jump up in usually quiet public locations with a massive, over-sized phone and take a call. He was in the library for the sample used.

I'm in the same boat as you, I think. Back when Jules was in his pomp, the enthusiasm and passion I had for music back then was something I thought would never fade. I had decks, knew every record I had inside out. When Tong or Jules played a tune you liked, you may have chased it, or hunted in vain for a year or so, but that tune mattered. Even if you were lucky enough to find it, you'd never tire of hearing it, no matter how may times you played it. I sold my decks and records around 2004 or so for financial reasons, and always pined for the enthusiasm and hype I had for the scene. Bought decks about a year ago, and I never thought I'd be so apathetic and lethargic towards the whole scene and music in general. Personally, I think it's over saturation of tunes. Years ago, you better be damn sure you had a proper tune on your hands before anyone would even think of pressing a vinyl of it. Now, release a tune a week online, until one of them becomes a hit or gets supported. Then, release another tune a week.

Good Shot is one of my favourite tunes of all time. What kind of job has Tristan D made of it?

What was the basis for the top 5 Dutch tunes ever? Was there a vote or anything? Surely some Ferry tune is up there?

Just bumping this to say I've just bought a tape to mp3 converter today, and I have the missing audio from this set. What is my best bet, just record my full 90 minute tape and upload it onto here? Or where do I upload it to? Just record the missing bits? My tape is missing the middle section which is already on this file. It'd be nice to have the complete set up here, it's my personal favourite set of the era. I must have a look and see if I've any tapes which aren't up here too.

BBCR1 Please nominate a classic dance track for @RealJudgeJulesshow tonight - on the theme of a senior politician's resignation.

I don't think it'll suprise anyone when I tell them that I first read that Alan Morris tune as 'Alanis Morrissette' and didn't bat an eyelid.

I heard Jules play it and had no idea what it was, then was at a party one night where a lad put on this clear blue vinyl. From the first beat I knew it was Profundo. I nearly tumbled everything to get the name of it! Class tune.

'Like toilet roll, we're on a roll'. Don't remember where it's from, just stuck in the memory all those years back.

Ah, I think maybe your soundcloud wasn't updated when I listened to it? It's the same tune now alright. Good set this, enjoying it man.

Tom is the first tune Drugstore cowboys? Great tune, though when I did a search for it, the souncloud link didn't sound like the first tune on your mix. http://soundcloud.com/nhb/nhb-fabrizio-pettorelli-3

Like that Heatbeat track. Proper hard house classic too.

I was at this I think, that's my home town. Recognise a good few of the people in it too. I thought I posted that video up here :ermm: , not sure though. Absolute carnage it was. He loved it too. Remember him referencing it in a few interviews shortly after that. Mayhem, people dancing on tables, refusing to budge at the end of the night. He used to play there at least once a year up until about 2003 I think.

It's weird, I saw PVD in a local club here (Ireland), a couple of years ago, and he never played one anthem. It was a fortune on the door, Paddy's night, and he just played monotonous, techy stuff off a keyboard for the whole night. Everyone was so surprised he wasn't anthem bashing, not even one of his (more famous anyway) tunes iirc. So detatched and aloof looking too. Still crap though. I vowed never again.