What year did you discover the UK Rave Scene?

[Mikee Merge n C]

I discovered Jungle Techno after hearing Toytown Techno

tunes in the Top40 in 1991.

The Prodigy 'Charly' [XL]
Smart E's

'Sesames Treat' [Suburban Base]

Them kinda choons were wicked when you're

11 innit!

Never would I have thought that I'd have got so hooked though.

Wow!
Time flies!...
:wub:

[BAZ]

My dearest cousin gave me this rave tape in 1990,



Unlike anything i had heard before.

rest is history. Hooked into the

sounds of the Underground

[Manikular]

wicked thread...

i was an avid fan of electronic

music in the 80's and when i hit the teens, tracks from the acid house era started to

filter through.. it was the birth of kiss 100fm with shows from colin dale, steve jackson

and colin faver which really caught my ear.. and i've never looked back!

[Mikee Merge n C]

You know that.
Legendary bizniss...

[Mikee Merge n C]

Ratty
Carl Cox
Ellis Dee
Ratpack
Evil

Eddie Richards
Top Buzz
DJ Sy
Easygroove

[Misdemeanor]

Didnt get to my first rave until 1996, but used to

listen to Fantazia the first taste, twice as nice stuff when i was at school (which is about

eight years since i left... fookin ell :o ) But anyway, bit of universe stuff as well as a few mix

tapes from raves not quite sure how i acquired any of it lol. Strangely enuff i ended up

clubbing in london for about a year before i actually made it to my first rave!

[dj raw]

was aware of it's existence but thought it was all

really hard techno.

how wrong was i?

got properly introduced when i went to

southampton uni in 1996. bought a grooverider & fabio tape and the rest is history.



went through house, hardcore, loftgroover style techno, and then found drum and bass

all in a matter of months. got my decks the next year and i fookin love it.

never

been to a rave as such but have danced like a lunatic at homelands, fabric, the end, heaven,

the opera house, the manor, creamfields etc.

[Lady_Dayaster]

mine was 1991 techno stuff like 2 unlimited ect charly

ect even tho i was 8 yrs old


then again in 1996 hardcore scene likes of mark eg,

sy,brisk,vinylgrover,hixxy,ratty,scorpio and producer ect billy bunter! list goes on

...i was born raver gal

[Manikular]

Originally posted by Lady_Dayaster@Mar 31 2003, 12:12 AM
mine was 1991 techno stuff like 2

unlimited ect charly ect even tho i was 8 yrs old


then again in 1996 hardcore

scene likes of mark eg, sy,brisk,vinylgrover,hixxy,ratty,scorpio and producer ect billy

bunter! list goes on ...i was born raver gal
mark eg!

he's a nut

case!!

i used to really love M Zone's Nu NRG 1995 sets... heavy..

[Sneaky]

I clicked the wrong 1! I first discovered it when

the Jungle Mania series came out.
:D :D :D :D :D :D

[Mikee Merge n C]

Those were the daze! B)

[Lady_Dayaster]

Originally posted by Manikular@Mar 31 2003, 11:14 AM
Originally posted by Lady_Dayaster@Mar 31 2003, 12:12 AM
mine was 1991 techno stuff like 2 unlimited ect charly ect even tho i was  8 yrs old


then again in 1996 hardcore scene likes of mark eg, sy,brisk,vinylgrover,hixxy,ratty,scorpio and producer ect billy bunter! list goes on ...i was born raver gal
mark eg!

he's a nut case!!

i used to really love M Zone's Nu NRG 1995 sets... heavy..
just shows im a nut case 2 lol and nrg sets were heavvy!

[Misdemeanor]

markEG & MZONE!!!!!

saw them a few years ago @Flashback actually!

Yea i had 2unlimited album as well, was well into Snap and all the 'dance energy' albums lol. awwww

[Manikular]

Originally posted by Misdemeanor@Apr 11 2003, 01:31 PM
markEG & MZONE!!!!!

saw them a few years ago @Flashback actually!

Yea i had 2unlimited album as well, was well into Snap and all the 'dance energy' albums lol. awwww
snap used to be awesome... before the newer stuff...

i still think "the power" is the best use of the LL Cool J Bells Break ever!

[Mikee Merge n C]

If you love the old skool raise up the noise!!! :)

[Misdemeanor]

kinda related....!

has anyone heard of tom wilson?

he did a tune called technocat about 95... he died recently anyway. think i read somewhere he djd at fantazia events?

[Mikee Merge n C]

I didn't go raving for a few years...
One of my nicknames at school was Rave Tapes, as I always had nuff on me! :badteeth:

[Mikee Merge n C]

Yeah I got Tom Wilsons Big Bang mix on the flip of a Ratpack PA... It's okay but not outstanding...

[azonica]

I started litening to DnB in 1994 when i was 10, used to get beats from my sister for stealing her skelter and Fantazia tapes :D

[Jibba]

i used to really love M Zone's Nu NRG 1995 sets... heavy..

:funk: You know it!!! M-zone is the puppies knackers!

I'm pretty much the same as merge after hearing stuff like 'far out', 'on a ragga tip' and suchlike on the radio 92-93 era...not to mention 'rave 92' which we used to bung on in music classes at skool.

Never properly got into the scene though, until hearing a hype mix cd and various AWOL cd's and tapepacks around 1994/5....got well into hip-hop for a couple of years then back into rave/DnB around 1999.

[Mikee Merge n C]

My folks visited last week and brought another draw full of rave tapes! :badteeth:

Nuff Technodrome Mixes from old Helter Skelter raves to have a stomp to! :funk:

[Jibba]

Technodrome sweatbox style!!!

Wonder how many people have passed out in there over the years???

[vyper]

I think it was around 93, a freind at school was always playing tapes from Fantazia, Dance Planet etc..Thats when I first really heard anything reprazenting underground...I was always into Dance music from an early age. 2Unlimited, Snap, Prodidgy were big fav's of mine. I've always been a big Ska/Reggae fan, which I tink contiributes to me getting into the whole Jungle Tekno thing!

[Jay Stonerz MC]

Oh my days - embarrassing records thread! :)

Technotronic 'Pump Up The Jam'

[EvA]

Think it was about 93 i really started getting in to it, we used to play fantazia tapes on our walkmans down the stables. Dont think the poor horses knew what to make of it:)

[Misdemeanor]

All about The First Taste!

[Mikee Merge n C]

I'm just asking the Dogs this cos nuff nutters pon the DOA innit bruv.

[Jibba]

I asked a similar question on DNBA and the majority of answers were like "when bodyrock came out"....ickle babies pon the board!

[Pink Niki]

bought my first tape deck bout 99/2000.

[Mikee Merge n C]

I've still got the ghetto blaster I used to test new rave tapes through...

The only thing that still works is the tuner! :D

Did you have nowhere to listen to tapes until then?!

Damn, I couldn't cope!

[Oxford Raver]

hmmmm suddenly feel very young, only went to my first rave in about 2001, been listening for proper time tho since iwas about 10 or 11 started buying rave tapes before id even left primary school- mostly into hardcore in them early days tho.

[Mikee Merge n C]

Look what a moderator has done to the question!




:D :rolleyes:

WHY DAVID?! :D

[Stumasta]

About 93 (the rave scene not my penis)

and TBH I hated it. Really didn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Wasn't till I left 6th form that I really got into DnB.

[SugaCube]

i went to my first rave in 2001 lol!!!!

[Samas UK]

I guess it all started in about 93 in primary school listenin to the Prodigy and Randall & Mickey Finn tapes on friday afternoons - First tape i owned was Mickey Finn - Amazon Kings of the Jungle from '95

ONly properly got into it in late 96 with Super Sharp Shooter EP and also New Frontier EPs on Ganja, following an interest in Hype & DJ Daddy's This World having been heavily into breaks and trip hop by the likes of DJ Krush and Mo Wax stuff.

First dnb vinyl i bought was Peshay - Miles from home before i got me decks, and first event was Reaction's Raising The Deeps wheni was 14/15, randall was the first one i think! First "Proper Rave" was Helter Skelter - Decadace in 1999.

I never did find my penis. :(

[Gem04]

Took me a while to get into dnb..first started going to nights when I was about 16 or 17 but used to hate the music!
Only for about the past year have I really loved it..

[m.c faze]

first rave i went to was the legendary cassington back in the summer of '91 i think it was,couldn't believe my eyes when i got there.i was only 15 and there were scantily clad women everywhere,dancing on top of camper vans topless,everyone so happy and loved up hugging each other.remember it being a wicked summers day.early tunes i remember of the rave scene was the scientist-the bee, the excorsist and there was a tune that used samples from poltergiest film-heavy.i have it somewhere.one of the best tapes i had was carl cox 6 thats before he got too big.
then it all changed and different genres of music were born.
i was always into music since the breakdance days when hip hop formed i was a shit hot body popper incorporating robotic moves aswell.always had battles on the lino down norhway estate listening to grandmaster flash,melle mel,afrika bambaataa and old electro tapes---those were the days.im gonna get my pipe and slippers.:shakeit:

things have come along way and things can only get better in the u.k---ennit!!!!!

[Jibba]

Originally posted by m.c faze
first rave i went to was the legendary cassington back in the summer of '91 i think it was,couldn't believe my eyes when i got there.i was only 15 and there were scantily clad women everywhere,dancing on top of camper vans topless,everyone so happy and loved up hugging each other.remember it being a wicked summers day.early tunes i remember of the rave scene was the scientist-the bee, the excorsist and there was a tune that used samples from poltergiest film-heavy.i have it somewhere.one of the best tapes i had was carl cox 6 thats before he got too big.
then it all changed and different genres of music were born.
i was always into music since the breakdance days when hip hop formed i was a shit hot body popper incorporating robotic moves aswell.always had battles on the lino down norhway estate listening to grandmaster flash,melle mel,afrika bambaataa and old electro tapes---those were the days.im gonna get my pipe and slippers.:shakeit:

things have come along way and things can only get better in the u.k---ennit!!!!!

Big ups mate.

Ol skool through and through.

And yeah you should get your pipe and slippers :badteeth: