I was first introduced to pirate radio in 1991, and it played a huge role in shaping my musical tastes.
Being a kid too young at the time to go out raving, I would spend hours at home or at friends’ houses listening to stations like Kool, Weekend Rush, Defection, Eruption and Pulse, and record them to tape on a Musical Fidelity “music centre” similar to the one pictured below – not much to look at but it had an excellent pause button (anyone who used to record off radio will know how important this is).

I was also buying vinyl and playing it on this thing. It received the FM signal through a piano string instead of an aerial, which actually worked quite well!

After I went through a couple more questionable “Hi-Fi’s” (and I use that term very loosely), by 1994 I eventually moved on to a decent NAD amp and tape deck, Technics tuner and an old pair of Celestion Ditton 15 speakers. A year later I also picked up an SL1510 and a Pro 150 (hold tight DJ Jamie, I feel your pain) which was a barely useable combo, so went on to buy my SL1200s not long afterwards, that I still have to this day.

Unfortunately I would often re-record over sets or shows after I got bored of after listening to them over and over on the way to/from/in school or whatever, unaware of how much I’d want to have them back to listen to a few years down the line. I do still have a couple of my favourite ones left though.

The Mix…. 

So this set is based around tunes from the 93-94 era (with one from 92 thrown in that was way ahead of its time) that were big pirate radio favourites of mine, tunes that instantly make me think of a particular station, DJ/MC, tape, time or place the second I hear that breakdown. Basically tunes that had a positive impact on me, that I went out and bought because of pirate radio.

I have spliced in little sections of some of my old recordings (mainly Kool FM ones) that I happen to have ripped and saved on my computer – I tried not to go overboard with this, but did include some slightly longer memorable clips, like the infamous “Duffer Paul” reload, Kool FM NYE 94 into 95, which friends and me creased up over many times.

A lot of these tunes are not heard so much these days compared to the bigger anthems (many of which owe their success to stations like Kool and Rush), some are a bit rough around the edges and some were overshadowed by a monster of an anthem on the flipside (Renegade’s Something I Feel for example).

I purposefully didn’t play tracks by the same artist or on the same label more than once to try and get a nice cross-section of music in there, but it was very tough to leave some out, especially when flicking through the Reinforced back cat from this era. Also, I didn’t want to repeat tunes that already feature in previous mixes of mine such as “Just About Jungle”, which is packed with a lot of my old pirate favourites.

Shouts/credits for the clips used: 
Demolition Crew, DJ Kane, MC Det, Cogee, DJ Ash, Eastman, Trace, Rymetyme, Navigator, Mampi Swift, Kool FM, Eruption FM, and all producers in the tracklisting.

01: DJ Kane – Lost [No U-Turn]
02: Sound Of The Future – The Warning (Remix) [Formation]
03: DJ Mayhem – M-Power [Basement]
04: DJ LD – Parazone Part 3 [Planet Earth]
05: Gappa G & Hypa Hyper – Roach Is Burning [Ruff Kut]
06: B.V. – Vision [World Bass]
07: 4 horsemen Of The Apocalypse – We Are The Future [Tone Def]
08: The Whitehouse Crew – Anonymous [Subliminal]
09: The Quiet Storm – Everybody Over There [Emphasis]
10: Dopeski & Jakes – Mutant Ideology [Face]
11: Ment 4 Bass – Strings Free [Liquid Wax]
12: Double H Productions – Ultra Jungle [Hard Disk]
13: Body Snatch – The Strength (Mental Rapids) [Big City]
14: Majistrate – Big Tings [Intalektive]
15: On Remand – Controllin’ (Tango Remix) [Underworld Vinyl]
16: Underground Software – He’s Gone! [Reinforced]
17: The Joker – The Joker [Skanna]
18: DJ Nut Nut – Forbidden Planet [Virtual Motion]
19: Renegade – Something I Feel [Moving Shadow]
20: Roni Size & DJ Die – The Calling
21: Pugwash & Probe – Army Of Darkness [i-d]
22: DJ Crystl – Deep Space [Dee Jay]
23: Smith Inc – Palomino (Give It To Me) [Absolute Zero]
24: FBD Project – Breakin Up [Bang-in Tunes]
25: The J.B. – Simpin [Back 2 Basics]

* Get the ‘clean’ unedited version of the mix here

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Such gems as ‘Orange in the Dance’ and ‘Menna menna menna gwan, special didda kissan’
Anyway;

I have been looking for this setlist for some time. I found someone else on the net that is looking for the set list as well but I’m not sure if it was posted here. The description is posted below. My friend used to have this tape and I loved it and looking for some if the tracks to download if available

Thanks for your help

Taken from the net

Right, I’ve got this set I really need a tracklisting for. It’s a Kenny Ken old skool jungle set, probably made for a CD or something due to lack of MC and crowd noise. Any info, a set name or tracklisting would be great. Nice one. :thumb:

A bit of info (not every track covered because some tunes I can’t really describe):

Starts off with Original Nuttah and mixes into Valley of the Shadows (31 Seconds).
Mad jungle tune with voice sample ‘The pope a’ namana, I follow you like namana’ (fuck knows) with a piano roll over the top and vocal effects.
Sample from ‘Renegade – Terrorist’ – piano section and the sort of bouncing noise from it.
Mix of tunes, one featuring a ‘Junglist’ voice sample, another with a sentence repeated I can’t make out.
‘Can’t get you out of my head, and I stop digging around (?) about the love that you made for me’ sample before dropping into heavy jungle tune with dark bass.
‘Make the jungle chirp’ introduction to a tune sample.

I think this tune is Bunn The Sensi, features the sample ‘…push up yo’ hand if you love the sensi, shout it out and everybody, every woman and man…(?)’, (or similar) followed by the ‘Make the jungle chirp’ sample.
Remarc – RIP drops, followed by ‘You love …something something… junglist an’ dem ting’ sample, which is repeated a few times
‘Hey bludclart, hey bludclart (is a dead bumberclart?), hey pussyclart’ sample repeated over and over – followed by ‘Stoooooop!’ sample and some mad jungle tune with woman sample vocals and a ‘Special request’ sample, and ‘rude bwoy’ sample.
Mellows down, ‘Your not my, can’t deny it, your my heat fire fire fire (?), your not my, can’t deny it, love me now or I’ll go crazy’ sample. Drops into a quality tune, ‘Special’ sample taken (from that Special Request tune). 24 minutes in at this point.

‘Your not my, can’t deny it, etc..’ sample comes back after mad jungle tune dies down a bit. Sets dies off and comes back in with another new un-mixed tune. Another sample taken (sounds like a Jamaican man) that I can’t make out.

Nice piano roll kicks in with woman vocal effects (‘I got somethin’ for your mind, your…something something…’ sample). ‘Ooooh yes!’ sample taken over mellow section.
‘Our junglist, our junglist’ tune drops. 37 minutes in set stops briefly (as if swopping over a tape)
Set stops and ‘Tonight, you are you going to hear music you’ve never heard before. Tonight, you are going to hear the most contanctious, poisonous red-neck (?) dubplates you’ve ever heard!’ sample.
‘Menna menna menna gwan, special didda kissan…(?)’ tune drops, followed by male vocal effects – ‘Oooh oh oh I’ll be there…hey, hey…’
Sample which sounds like ‘Orange in the dance’. Mellows right out, and the ‘menna menna menna gwan…’ sample taken again over atmospheric sounds and piano melody, again followed by ‘Ohh oh oh, I’ll be there’ sample. The set really mellows out from this point on.

‘But now it’s time for you …something… a teet (?)’ sample, an the ‘Orange in the dance’ sample again, with another Jamaican (?) man saying something I can’t make out. 46 minutes in. ‘Sensi mania run income the dance…(…Orange in the dance…)(?)’ woman sample.
‘Well you can’t stop ’til you find my love, that’s the love you’re dreaming of! Ooooh you can’t stop ’til you find my love (something about junglist…)’ woman sample. Followed by another Jamaican (?) man saying something over and over I can’t make out.

‘Zoom zoom zoom (?) …yo, watch dis!’ sample, drops into a quality heavy bassline with sirens over the top. ‘Throw the mercy, oh yeah, alright’ sample repeated over and over.
Fucking gorgeous ambient track drops, with a saxophone or something over the top (I dunno, something like that – trombone maybe?). I’d especially like to know the name of this tune, it’s heaven! 55 minutes in. This tune drops in properly again at 58 minutes, and again with just the saxophone bit playing and nothing else at 1 hour 2 minutes.
‘East and south, with the original ..something…’ female sample followed again by the ‘menna menna menna gwan’ sample, and a ‘…this is what it sounds like when we make love’ female sample.
‘Builder, builder builder…’ sample, before the set finishes abruptly at 1 hour 7 minutes.

I can see everybody reading this and going ‘what the fuck?’, and I appreciate that nobody will be interested. I would say if you don’t like it don’t read it but it’s a bit late really now (what a fucking stupid saying that is, you should be ashamed if you say that – unless of course, you know a tracklisting then you may do whatever the fuck you want. :))

I’ll try add some audio samples of the main features if nobody knows what I’m going on about..

Just hoping someone will know what I’m on about. Maybe.

Thankyou.

Thanks for reading

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DJ Peekay – Deep Physics [Fokus Studio]
Jay J – Slip ‘N Slide [Awesome Records]
Wishdokta & Emma C – Subsonic Rider [Eternal Bass]
Fusion – Live Good [Kemet]
Soundcraft – Deep Sub [Tech Itch Records]
DJ Rap & Aston – Tibetan Jungle [Proper Talent]
Blacktracks – Skylarking [Blacktracks]
Gappa G & Hyper Hypa – Roach Is Burning [Ruff Kut! Records]
Lennie De Ice – Well Terrible [Do Or Die]
Warrior Bass – Future World (Utopia) [Future Vinyl]
Jay Parkes & Tone E.G. – Sound Boy (Part 2) [Pin High]
Sacred – Feel [Pursuit Records]
DJ Nut Nut – Forbidden Planet [Virtual Motion]
Kurruption Crew – Inside Out [Flying Fish]
Ellis Dee – Big Up Ya Chest (Remix) [Cat]
XTC – U R Near Me [Conqueror]
Frankie Paul (feat. Buju Banton) – Bring Yuh Body (Tom & Jerry Remix) [Street Tuff]
Heretic – Tek Back No Talk [Sonic]
The Imposter & Lewi – Shining [II Strong]
Roni Size & DJ Krust – Selektor Bwoy (DJ Krust Remix) [Dope Dragon]
E.P.S. Man – Shockout [Spotlight]
Tuff 2 Da Bone – Dancehall Junglist [Slam! Records]
Chatta B – Into Sound (Part 1) [Redskins Records]
DJ Rap – Switch [Proper Talent]
Just Jungle – Double Crisp [Trouble On Vinyl]

> Grab the mix here

Parts 1, 2 and 3 are available on my site as well as a load of other mixes: hardcore, jungle, d&b and other assorted nonsense.

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