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bmd said:
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread. It's made a great playlist of a genre that I love but haven't heard loads of the tracks on here.

Made me smile that RAC is mentioned. I chose that name. It started out with the National Breakdown EP. Warp paid for the studio time after I had recommended Kid Unknown to them. I was DJing at Doncaster Warehouse every week and it was one of the venues in South Yorks that was playing Rave really early. 90, 91. He used to come over from Manchester to play there and I found out that he worked at Eastern Bloc. Warp had a massive rivalry with them, mainly via Pete Tong's weekly chart, we did it one week them the next and we tried to outdo each other.

I found out that he had a track, got a demo, took it to Rob and Steve and they were looking for another Nightmares type thing, so they released it. Warp hadn't really found its direction at that time. They owe so so much to George from NoW. Steve would say the same.

So I got some studio time and didn't really want to be in there on my own so I asked Chris and Rich, who were Asterix and Space, to come too. Richard, Ash and Chris made up RAC and because of Rave music at that time and playing on pirate radio and gigs out we were into breakbeats and so National Breakdown Ep it was. I remember the name got proper slammed. I was nothing to do with it by the time it came out. Good times. :)
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RAC unreleased tracks released
rac-music.bandcamp.com

RAC_UNRELEASED 2, by RAC

15 track album
rac-music.bandcamp.com rac-music.bandcamp.com
 
Something - can't imagine what - caused the title of this track to pop into my head, which made me listen to it for the first time in years, which reminded me what a thing of beauty it is.

Theme From It's All Gone Pear Shaped (1994)
 
bmd said:
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread. It's made a great playlist of a genre that I love but haven't heard loads of the tracks on here.

Made me smile that RAC is mentioned. I chose that name. It started out with the National Breakdown EP. Warp paid for the studio time after I had recommended Kid Unknown to them. I was DJing at Doncaster Warehouse every week and it was one of the venues in South Yorks that was playing Rave really early. 90, 91. He used to come over from Manchester to play there and I found out that he worked at Eastern Bloc. Warp had a massive rivalry with them, mainly via Pete Tong's weekly chart, we did it one week them the next and we tried to outdo each other.

I found out that he had a track, got a demo, took it to Rob and Steve and they were looking for another Nightmares type thing, so they released it. Warp hadn't really found its direction at that time. They owe so so much to George from NoW. Steve would say the same.

So I got some studio time and didn't really want to be in there on my own so I asked Chris and Rich, who were Asterix and Space, to come too. Richard, Ash and Chris made up RAC and because of Rave music at that time and playing on pirate radio and gigs out we were into breakbeats and so National Breakdown Ep it was. I remember the name got proper slammed. I was nothing to do with it by the time it came out. Good times. :)
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Haven't been around much but this is great to read. Warp was one of my favourite labels throughout the 90s from LFO/Nightmares on Wax/Forgemasters through Aphex/B12/Black Dog through Autechre/Boards/Broadcast (and when I was a student up in Sheffield in the mid 90s, it always felt special when I was walking through the shop doors - before it became Fopp in 1998?). I remember National Breakdown EP also being played by one of the Colin's on Kiss in 1992 and it being a soughtafter of mine for ages.
 
stethoscope said:
Haven't been around much but this is great to read. Warp was one of my favourite labels throughout the 90s from LFO/Nightmares on Wax/Forgemasters through Aphex/B12/Black Dog through Autechre/Boards/Broadcast (and when I was a student up in Sheffield in the mid 90s, it always felt special when I was walking through the shop doors - before it became Fopp in 1998?). I remember National Breakdown EP also being played by one of the Colin's on Kiss in 1992 and it being a soughtafter of mine for ages.
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hey Steph, you might rate these two mixes.



Bedouin Ascent - Joyriding III - 1994 - Rising High Records
As One - Light - 1996 Likemind
As One - Shambala (Reflected By Russ Gabriel) - 1995 - New Electronica
The Inquisition - Come Back Tomorrow - 1995 - Radioactive Lamb
Nieux - Day 83 - 2002 - Iridite
Aphex Twin - Delphium - 1992 - Apollo
Kapellmeister -The Void Ahead - 1994 - Otherworld Recordings
Kapé I'llmusier - Gaspar (Dreamaphobia Mix) - 1994 - A13
Jamie Read - Netherlands - 1997 - Basement 282
Norken - Fragile - 1998 - Numbers
The Black Dog – Cost II - 1993 - GPR
Phenomyna -Into The Other World (Unexplained Version) - 1994 - ART
Redcell – Outerim - 1993 - B12
J.Sharp/A. Turner/E. Handley - Soon - 1995 - Reflective
Stasis - Mnemic Image - 1993 - Peacefrog Records
Black Dog Productions - Flux - 1992 GPR
Ian O'Brien - Tap Sketch - 1997 - 4th Wave
In Sync - Warm - 1992- Irdial
Daff - untitled - 2000 - Tactical
Link - Arcadian - 1992 - Evolution
Pulusha – Isolation - 1997 - Evolution
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and this 2 hour bleep marathon from the warlock, which you might have checked already...

 
It's not Chicago house, it's not Detroit techno, but it's something else. Robert Armani's album Exit Only - a big record in my early raving years:


Maybe even better than Mills, Hood and Hawtin at 909ing. Unique stylings though. RMTO
 
danski said:
I've probably posted this already but beer
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Listening to that immediately made my brain jump to this (which I'm sure is on this thread somewhere):


Dunno why. Cos they're from a similar era? Cos they both got played loads at Final Frontier? Have I got them both on a mixtape somewhere?

Both classics.
 
Spandex said:
Listening to that immediately made my brain jump to this (which I'm sure is on this thread somewhere):


Dunno why. Cos they're from a similar era? Cos they both got played loads at Final Frontier? Have I got them both on a mixtape somewhere?

Both classics.
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I don't recognise that but sure I would've heard it around that time. Can see why it sprang to mind though...very Dave Clark of that era.
 
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