Tag: Altern-8
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Xmas Rave Wars
It’s Festive Rave Wars for the Xmas #1 this year! Campaign to get Altern8’s Activ-8 to Christmas #1 has been floating around for a while but now Mark Archer is re-releasing the Masked Hysteria classic it’s going into hyperdrive, with remixes from Balkan Vinyl faves such as AGT Rave Cru, DJ Phantasy, DJ Billy Daniel…
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Long May The Acid Reign – original track on Beatport
Long time in the works, but 303 Acid House compilation ‘Acid Reign’ has been released as a Beatport exclusive today – and it contains a track by yours truly on it (as fingertrouble). Blurb goes something like this: Originally conceived as a replacement for the bassist in a band, the TB-303 was not initially a…
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RIP Nitro Deluxe
Heard via his record label Cutting Records on Facebook that Manny Scretching aka Nitro Deluxe has died. He was a house pioneer and creator of THAT synth line that appeared in millions of cutup house records- you might know him better from Altern-8’s Brutal-8-E which amongst many others samples or recreates large parts of this…
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RC 214: Playing Hooky
3 weddings, 2 DJ gigs (I’m kinda of a DJ!) and one New Order gig…that was 2011. Hopefully 2012 will be quieter/busier (delete as applicable). And hopefully I don’t turn into the Shit Bears Say skit…already invented cubstep and dumbstep so far…Amazeballs! Various covers of New Order, I talk about The Artist, Canterbury Group and…
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Rave Wars II: The Hardcore Strikes Back
I was going to post that you needed to get your skates on to get one of 500 Balkan Vinyl’s ‘Rave Wars II’ 7″s with Mark Archer (of Altern-8 fame) and HrdVision doing acid/rave Star Wars related tracks – but just checked and it’s already sold out. You snooze you lose I guess although I…