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Back in the day: Who was your fave rave DJ?

Dj Ron. Telepathy, Bow/Stratford 1991
Not sure if he played every week but I saw him every time I went there. Amazing mixing and proper hip hop tricks but not for just for show, it really worked with what he was playing. Had Rebel mc mc-ing with him once too :cool:

Still need to rip a set for ska invita ;)
I only found the tape the other week...
 
Yeah dial, Ratty would be right up there - him and Doc Scott and Bukem I think.

So many DJs though at one point or another have left a big mark on me though - Dougal for his sets at Equinox and early Dreamscapes when I first started going out raving, and Kenny Ken and Ron have provided some top moments for me over the years.
 
stethoscope said:
Yeah dial, Ratty would be right up there - him and Doc Scott and Bukem I think.

So many DJs though at one point or another have left a big mark on me though - Dougal for his sets at Equinox and early Dreamscapes when I first started going out raving, and Kenny Ken and Ron have provided some top moments for me over the years.
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Dougal along with Slipmatt are two djs I will never get TBF. even their pre-HHC sets never did much for me. Don't ask me why.

Sy pre-HHC was pretty good. Seduction was alright.
 
dialectician said:
Dougal along with Slipmatt are two djs I will never get TBF. even their pre-HHC sets never did much for me. Don't ask me why.
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I think with say Dougal - it's very much tied up with it being my first ever raving. If I was to listen to a tape of him now without that having been part of early days going out, it perhaps wouldn't evoke the same feeling and make much of an impact. There was something special though hearing him and Clarkee and Ellis Dee et al under the low ceiling at Milwaukees though bitd :cool:
 
stethoscope said:
I think with say Dougal - it's very much tied up with it being my first ever raving. If I was to listen to a tape of him now without that having been part of early days going out, it perhaps wouldn't evoke the same feeling and make much of an impact. There was something special though hearing him and Clarkee and Ellis Dee et al under the low ceiling at Milwaukees though bitd :cool:
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First ever DJ I saw was James Holden. Those shoegazing/krautrock/whatever records sounded great at the time, but this is when I thought proper techno was dead and kompakt was the future :eek:

I mean he's still a good DJ when he wants to be and has thankfully moved away from the worst excesses of the border community sound, but if I saw him today I'd probably be bored by the lack of seriously atonal textures.
 
stethoscope - I nearly went to see Carl Cox one of the first times I went out. Glad that never happened. What a serious nosedive. his mid-90s sound was perfect, house, techno hardcore trance all in one.
 
dialectician said:
I beg to differ. Especially re: Digweed. Even his early 90s sets were absolute cheese-fucking fests that made people like Slipmatt and Vibes look like men in their 50s.
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That would depend where you listen to them. In Cream with 10,000 e'd up scousers=Awesome. At home on a beaten up ghetto blaster=Actually, still awesome.
 
A few off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned already, that influenced and inspired me as a DJ - Ramjack, Derrick May, Swan E, Bunter, Westbam, Evil Eddie Richards ... Fuck, there's loads. Hard to pick a fave though.

Eta oh, May and Richards mentioned already :o
 
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souljacker said:
That would depend where you listen to them. In Cream with 10,000 e'd up scousers=Awesome. At home on a beaten up ghetto blaster=Actually, still awesome.
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See, if trance was left to people like Sven Vath and co, it could have still remained a serious genre of music that would have added to the glut of loop techno and tech house that every fucking producer outside the underground techno scene seems to love releasing these days. But digweed et al. went out for all out populism, which is fine, but without pushing the music forward in any direction. Compared to them, the happy rave djs were innovators.
 
DJ Ratty for me! This was well before my time. Though used to listen to a lot of tapes when I was 11 onwards. I used to enjoy his the most.
 
twentythreedom said:
A few off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned already, that influenced and inspired me as a DJ - Ramjack, Derrick May, Swan E, Bunter, Westbam, Evil Eddie Richards ... Fuck, there's loads. Hard to pick a fave though.
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If there's a DJ I'd love to have heard out during the 88-90 era, it would definitely have been Evil Eddie Richards :cool:
 
Rik said:
DJ Ratty for me! This was well before my time. Though used to listen to a lot of tapes when I was 11 onwards. I used to enjoy his the most.
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This is also before my time. I don't know what it is about Ratty but a lot of people who like leftfield and weird dance music cite him as a rave favourite. He's perhaps the only one with that legacy across all different scenes.
 
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dialectician said:
This is also before my time. I don't know what it is about Ratty but a lot of people who like leftfield and weird dance music cite him as a rave favourite. He's perhaps the only one with that legacy across all different scenes.
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Ratty's selections were absolutely spot-on dial. One night at Equinox I think, he played International Rude Boyz, Chaos & Julia Set and Gwange plates amongst others. Utterly rinsed the place.
 
nogojones said:
Easygroove for me
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its funny, easygroove was on so many flyers bitd, but i dont think ive knowingly ever heard a set of his....going to put that right, even though its a bit late

stethoscope said:
Ratty's selections were absolutely spot-on dial. One night at Equinox I think, he played International Rude Boyz, Chaos & Julia Set and Gwange plates amongst others. Utterly rinsed the place.
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Man with a vision ;)
 
ska invita said:
its funny, easygroove was on so many flyers bitd, but i dont think ive knowingly ever heard a set of his....going to put that right, even though its a bit late


Man with a vision ;)
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I only heard one set of his and he was playing some 94 happy hardcore. It was ok, nothing special though.
 
stethoscope said:
Ratty's selections were absolutely spot-on dial. One night at Equinox I think, he played International Rude Boyz, Chaos & Julia Set and Gwange plates amongst others. Utterly rinsed the place.
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He was brilliant :) 92-93 he was everywhere in Midlands and beyond - never big in London / SE afaicr though :confused: Great DJ :cool:

*iirc hardcore endured in the Midlands and North around that time while London was already splitting to more darkside / proto-junglist sound and vibes.

I reckon, anyway :thumbs:
 
twentythreedom said:
He was brilliant :) 92-93 he was everywhere in Midlands and beyond - never big in London / SE afaicr though :confused: Great DJ :cool:

*iirc hardcore endured in the Midlands and North around that time while London was already splitting to more darkside / proto-junglist sound and vibes.

I reckon, anyway :thumbs:
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i dunno, Ratty was pretty dark in 93, just not in the oh my god spooky way. More paranoia and rumblin' bass, i just call what he plays in 93 and 94 as jungle techno. incidentally my favourite hardcore-related substyle... :)
 
dialectician said:
i dunno, Ratty was pretty dark in 93, just not in the oh my god spooky way. More paranoia and rumblin' bass, i just call what he plays in 93 and 94 as jungle techno. incidentally my favourite hardcore-related substyle... :)
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Sure, but it was just slightly different to what was going on in London by then. Ratty's sound was definitely a Midlands vibe :) Jungle techno was a northern thing too, mostly. Pure junglism was starting to happen in London by then

I'm waffling :o:D
 
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