I guess this one might not really class as a tune of the day as you can’t buy it unfortunately, but this track is absolute pure quality.

Thankfully nothing to do with 2Unlimited (although maybe that’s where the vocal sample came from) this is a classic dark stepper from 1993.

It’s pretty sinister at times with a lazy mentasm breakdown but the lush strings and pads shine through in several places. Despite sadly never seeing a proper release (only surfaced on plate), scant information and rumour has it that it was supposed to come out on Reinforced Records.

I’ve only ever heard it twice – once on a Fabio Dance Planet mix and then on a Doc Scott tape. I suspect it’s probably a Goldie or Manix tune but there’s also some big similarities with the Energy track that Goldie and A Guy Called Gerald did as the 2 G’$ on Juicebox (especially the drums). Maybe a collaboration…

Who knows. Either way it’s a storming tune and epitomises that deadly R Sound from back then – tough, futuristic music.

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For show #001 I went for a little 4Hero and Goldie tribute. Going through the years from 1992 and the anthemic work of Manix, early Rufige, 4Hero and collaboration project ‘Internal Affairs’.

Be sure to check out Drumtrip Radio every Wednesday 8 – 9pm GMT on Mixlr with guests on rotation. Be sure to follow us to get alerts and updates!

Up next on Wednesday 9th April we have Dave M aka Brian Badonde taking the controls.

Tracklist
01. Manix – I Can’t Stand It – Reinforced
02. Manix – Hardcore Junglism (Exclusive Mix) – Reinforced
03. Rufige Cru – Menace – Reinforced
04. Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era – Peace & Loveism (4Hero Remix)
05. 4Hero – Journey From The Light – Reinforced
06. 4Hero – Students Of The Future – Reinforced
07. 2 Bad Mice – Mass Confusion (Rufige Kru Remix) – Moving Shadow
08. Internal Affairs – In My Soul – Reinforced
09. Nookie – Give A Little Love (Manix Remix) – Reinforced
10. Manix – One More Time – Reinforced
11. Internal Affairs – Hands To Heaven – Reinforced
12. Metalheads ‎- You And Me – The Beauty – The Beast – Synthetic
13. Rufige Kru – Fury – Moving Shadow
14. J Majik – Sunray (Rufige Cru Remix) – Infrared
15. Scarface – I Seen A Man Die (4 Hero NW2 Gangsta Move) – Virgin
16. Goldie – Jah – FFRR
17. Layla – Gotta Find Love (The Goldie Blue Room Vocal Mix) – Inferno
18. Tom & Jerry – Till The Morning – Tom & Jerry
19. Tom & Jerry – Maxi (Mun) Style (Nasty Jungle Remix) – Tom & Jerry
20. Nuyorican Soul – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4 Hero Remix)

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I know nothing the Pat Metheny group other that what Discogs told me; they are a “jazz fusion band founded in 1977 around a core nucleus of guitarist Pat Metheny and keyboardist Lyle Mays.”

The original mix of Across The Sky is quite a relaxed and pleasant downtempo affair, but Goldie completely switches it up for his 1998 drum and bass take on it.

It’s a much darker and builds ominously as it progresses, with but a few elements of the original remaining as it gets the Rufige treatment.

On the vinyl you also get another alternate Goldie mix, and will set you back a mammoth 50 pence on Discogs.

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What a night this was. I remember going, hoping someone would drop a few oldskool tunes. It wasn’t advertised at all as an oldskool night, so imagine the vibes when every single DJ raided the crates for the Speed classics.

Such a line up too, LTJ Bukem, Goldie, Fabio and Grooverider, and Tayla. It’s safe to say that without those names, D&B certainly wouldn’t be what it is today, or perhaps even exist at all.

As soon as I walked through the door I could hear Tayla playing Secret Liaison, it was obviously gonna be a great night.

Being so close to Christmas it was a good atmosphere inside and you can hear it on the recording, the crowd noise really comes through at times. No more so than on the Goldie set – I remember it well, it might have been about 3am and Goldie started with The Helicopter tune. I was too pissed to even realise what the chopper rotors sample signalled and was on my way to the bar. When it dropped the mission to the bar was quickly abandoned as I rushed back to the dancefloor. You can really hear the crowd when it drops, I get goosebumps as I reminisce on that.

Grooverider was a nice surprise too, as although it wasn’t exactly a speed style / Logical Progression set, he played some real tough 90s D&B to change the pace a little late on.

I have said numerous times on here that I was too young to hit the raves in the 90s, so I can probably say out of all the raves and club nights I have been to since  I started in 2001, this night probably had the most vibes, the best crowd, the best atmosphere.

It also reminds me what a loss it is for Good Looking and LTJ Bukem to no longer have MC Conrad as a part of the GLO stable. I’m not exactly sure what happened but word is they have fallen out and are not likely to reconcile. Part of the attraction of  seeing Bukem live was the fact Conrad was so unique and worked so well in combination with Bukem and the music. It appears that Good Looking may have owned the rights to the name “MC Conrad” so since the split Conrad goes by the name of Con*Natural. I hope they patch it up!

Anyway, I have looked all over the Internet and it appears that most of these sets are not available online (at the time of writing). Hit download to open it up on Media Fire.

-Download-

Individual tracklists I found online…….

LTJ Bukem
Sounds Of Life – Hidden Rooms [Certificate 18]
Universal – Groove Therapy [Looking Good]
JMJ & Richie – Montana [Moving Shadow]
LTJ Bukem – Horizon [Looking Good]
Ils & Solo – Sweet Sunshine [Looking Good]
J Majik – Repertoire [Metalheadz]
DJ Fokus – I Want [Lucky Spin]
PFM – One & Only [Looking Good]
Forme – New Element [Mo’ Wax – Headz 2A LP]
E-Z Rollers – Believe [Moving Shadow]
Mad Dog – Seance (Jack N Phil remix) [Basement]
Foul Play – Being With You [Moving Shadow]
Future Bound – Sorrow [Skanna]
Photek – The Water Margin (95 VIP Mix) [Unreleased]
Wots My Code – Dubplate [XLR8]

Goldie
Deep Blue – Helicopter Tune
Photek – The Water Margin
Digital – Spacefunk
Alex Reece – Pulp Fiction
Skanna – Find Me
LTJ Bukem – Music
Rufige Kru – VIP Riders Ghost
Souljah – Fade To Black
J Majik – Your Sound
Roni Size – The Calling (Goldie Remix)
?
Adam F – Circles
Dillinja – Acid Trak
Metalheads – Terminator
Doc Scott – VIP Drumz
LTJ Bukem – Horizons
Peshay – Represent
?
?

Fabio
Intense – Natural Progression [Creative Source]
Flytronix – The Rhode Tune [Moving Shadow]
Carlito – Heaven [Creative Source]
Nookie – Only You [Reinforced]
Apollo Two – Atlantis (LTJ Bukem remix) [Good Looking]
Wax Doctor – Offshore Drift [R&S – Wax Doctor: Selected Works 94-96 LP]
Wax Doctor – Atmospheric Funk [Talkin’ Loud]
Doc Scott – Far Away (Fourteen Flavours Of Funk) [Metalheadz]
Skanna – Find Me [Skanna]
Aquarius – Drift To The Centre [Looking Good]
Adam F – F-Jam [F-Jams]

Grooverider
Rufige Kru – VIP Rider’s Ghost (The Origin)
LTJ Bukem – Music
Cybotron Feat. Dillinja – Threshold
?
? [No U-Turn?]
Photek – Form & Function
Trace – Sonar + Dillinja – What’s The Deal!
Roni Size?
Digital – Spacefunk (Doc Scott Remix)
Dillinja – Acid Trak
Adam F – Jaxx
Bad Company – Hornet
Breakbeat Era – Rancid Rinse
Capone – 2 Da 1
DJ Die – Drop Bear
PFM – Dreams
Ed Rush, Optical, & Fierce – Alien Girl
Roni Size – Only A Dream
LTJ Bukem – Horizons

Tayla
Motive One – Loop Progression (Good Looking)
BNM – Blade Runner Blues
DJ Crystl – Mind Games
Doc Scott – Tokyo Dawn [Good Looking]
Photek & Tayla – Soul Searching
Blu Mar Ten – She Moves Through [Good Looking]
Bim Sherman – Can I Be Free Of Crying (Underwolves Remix)
LTJ Bukem – Rainfall
PFM – The Mystics
Source Direct – Secret Liasons
PFM – Rough With The Smooth
Adam F – Aromatherapy [F-Jams]
Dave Wallace – Future Realities Pt.1 [All Good Vinyl]
JMJ & Richie – Free La Funk (PFM Remix) [Moving Shadow]
Artemis – Elysian Fields [Good Looking]
St. Etienne – The Sea (PFM Remix) [Creation]
Seba & Lotek – Universal Music [Good Looking]

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Thankfully he has still found time to relaunch his website and upload some gems to his new Soundcloud page @Goldie-Official.

This recording goes way back to 1992, Toronto 1992 to be exact. Canada is often credited as being the second home to jungle, and Toronto was one of the first major cities outside of the UK to really embrace the hardcore, jungle and D&B scene in the early 90s.

This radio show on Harddrive FM brings together Goldie alongside early Rufige Kru member Freebase, and scene stalwart DJ Phantasy. Over an hour of futuristic hardcore with Goldie handling mic duties, enthusiastically announcing soon to be released dubs like his own “Sinister” and 4 Hero’s “The Element (High Noon)”.

I always love hearing sets like this. You can hear the excitement and hope in the voices of everyone, knowing they are part of a music scene which is about to explode, pushing the boundaries and making music never heard before. It turned out alright didn’t it?

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Tell us a bit about yourself
I was born and grew up in Cambridge I moved to Newbury with work in 2001 and have been here ever since. Before I got into Hardcore / Jungle I used to listen to loads of different things mostly crap though.

When did you first get into the hardcore / jungle scene?
A mate gave me a tape of Devious D recorded at the Eclipse Night @ Cambridge Corn exchange. The first tune on there was Menace by Rufige Kru and that grabbed my attention immediately. I then started hunting out as many rave tapes as possible and one of my aunts used to sort me out with copies of her rave tapes. I then started buying tunes from a little record shop called Boom tunes in Cambridge and started saving up to buy a set of decks

I read that you first got a pair of decks in 1992. What made you want to start mixing?
To be honest I can’t remember why I wanted to DJ as no one else at my school was doing it – even when I left school there was only me and one other kid at my school who had decks. I just knew I could buy this music on vinyl and that was the way to play it.

When did you first start producing?
When I started college in 1995 I met loads of other DJs and a couple of them went on to set up home studio’s so I messed around with them making some horrendous noise there but nothing ever got finished, but it planted the seed in my head to get some equipment and start making my own stuff.

Am I right to say you had your first release on vinyl in 2004 in the form a remix of the legendary Top Buzz tune ‘Living In Darkness‘? How did that come about?
Yep that was the first release I had on vinyl. That come about from me living across the road from Nu-Urban (music the distribution company). I used to go over there and talk about tunes with Tobie (Serial Killaz) who used to work there and I used to play him all the crap I was making in my studio back then.

I had done this remix of Living In Darkness just to play in my sets. I played it to Tobie at some point and he had a copy – next thing I know he popped into the pub I lived at with a white label and said go upstairs and listen to that and it was my remix. I didn’t know back then that Phil from Nu-Urban was the owner of Basement records and Tobie had sorted it all out to get released. I was pretty chuffed with that and it’s certainly nice to have my first release on a legendary label such as Basement. I would say its more of a update than a remix though and it sounds awful now lol. Big up to Tobie for that though it certainly encouraged me to get on with making more music and he gave me tons of help back then.

If it was your first release, what took you so long having been DJing since 1992! Where was Vapour the producer in the late 90s?
Well the simple answer to that would be weed and women lol. I was more interested in going out partying and getting wasted rather than saving up for samplers and mixing desks. I kick myself now though as I wish I had pulled my finger out in the 90s and brought a studio sooner.

Thing is as well it cost a fortune to set up a simple studio back in the day – just a sampler that only had about 30mb memory would set you back over a grand that was a hell of a lot of money back then. Before I left Cambridge I got an offer to go live above a pub my mate was running rent free and thats how I managed to get the money to put a deposit down on a sampler, then my mate Adam brought me a computer on finance and I paid him back.
I picked up a 2nd hand mixer for 350 quid (and had no money to eat for a week) and with my minidisc recorder I was good to go.

Within 4 weeks of getting all that I was cutting shit tunes down at music house and testing them out. I then go asked to move down to Newbury to work at a new pub opening down there so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get away from distractions and get on with making music – also living rent free. So I moved down here and bought more equipment and kept banging out shit tunes until things started to sound a lot better. Bailey picked up 2 tracks for his Intasound label and that was it from there, everything steam rolled along.

Your productions always sound contemporary but have that gritty, hardcore feel of D&B in the mid 90s. What is it about that sound you like? How do you get it across in your music?
I think most dnb these days sound too over produced and noisy, I prefer a more organic sound with space and warmth in the tracks. I used to have a whole load of hardware equipment which most of my releases were made with. I think that this made a big difference when I first started putting out tunes as my tracks had a lot more warmth on the low end and lower bass, was a lot more evident on my tracks when played on a big system and I put this down to the equipment I was using at the time.

I got to a point where it was really pissing me off though as there was so much noise and hum coming from it all in the end I ripped it all out and switched to a purely software based set up and sold it all early last year. After using just software for the past 16 months its driving me mad and i’ve started buying a new set up to use – more simple than before but it will enable me to get the sound I want as using just software aint working at all as I can’t get the low end I want on the tracks, so over the coming months i’ll be picking up all the bits I want for the new hardware studio

You have been apart of the Stepback Sessions since the first volume in 2009. Was this Randall’s thing or was this a joint thing between you two? How did you hook up with Randall and what’s the idea behind the label?
Randall setup Stepback as there was a whole bunch of stuff myself, Bladerunner and Serum had bastardised for our sets, which Randall set about getting everything cleared and released. I help a lot with the label from things like artwork to mastering, and I pass tracks to Randall that have come my way. Its a great little label and has been doing really well.

We have just started up doing some Stepback Sessions tour nights as well. I first met Randall off the back of the Intasound release I did. He called me up and said he was really feeling my tracks and wanted to know if I wanted to work on some tunes with him, which of course I agreed to. He come up to my studio in Newbury and we made The Last Stand and then Angels Warning which come out on Mac II, and we also did a remix of 4Hero’s Mr Kirks Nightmare.

You have remixed some huge tracks like We Are IE, Melody Madness, Maximum Style. But if you could have one producer from back in the day remix one of yours; who would it be?
Good question! To be honest thats a hard one to answer as most of the producers I really liked back in the day are either not making tracks anymore, or make utter crap these days. And most of the producers I like at the minute have already done remixes for me. I reckon Jonny L could do a pretty naughty remix though so he would be my choice

Similar question. What’s the one hardcore / jungle track you wish you could have made?
Damn thats a hard one to pin down. I think if I had to pick one out of my top ten favourites I would go for Krust – Jazz Note on V recordings, as that tune really tells a story and just rolls perfectly.

Your own label 36 Hertz has gone from strength to strength, what have you got lined up on the label? What does the future hold for Vapour and 36 Hertz?
Next release (out now) is the Back To The Bass Volume 3 LP which has been getting some huge support across the board, then after that we have a various artists oldskool 140bpm-style 4 Track EP with tracks from Myself, SR & Digbee, ESP and Indigo Virus. After that release who knows lol.

We have a lot of artists working on music right now so there is plenty in the pipeline but its just down to who brings stuff that will work on the label first. I don’t really do all this 1 year on dubplate shite that loads of labels do, so once I get a release finalised I get it out within 6 weeks if possible. For me personally i’m sitting on about 2 albums worth of non-dnb stuff (old skool & bass music) which should be coming out next year once I get it finished. Im also working on a load of remixes of old skool tracks for various labels and projects.

Tell us a bit about your mix for Drumtrip
Well as always when I draw for a old skool mix I tend to go for the more deeper unknown stuff rather than what I call the “jungle hits” selections that most old skool mixes contain. So I put together a batch of stuff that im feeling the most from the late 90s and a couple of new things that come out on 36 hertz from myself and Jem One in that late 90s style.

Drumtrip Sessions #08 – DJ Vapour

1 – DMS & The Boneman – Strength – Production House
2 – Acro – Untitled – Force 10
3 – Sub Sequence – Music Is The Vibe – Tooz Up Records
4 – Van Kleef – Life Began Changing – PP9 Productions
5 – Revival Rough – Who Goes There – White
6 – NKS & Unknown Face – Dats Cool – Saigon
7 – Code Blue – Angels In Dub (DJ Crystl Remix) – Dee Jay Recordings
8 – Ed Rush – Force Is Electric – No U Turn
9 – DJ Vapour – Never Feel – 36 Hertz
10 – Buz – Slave Special – No U Turn
11 – 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse – Drowning In Her – Tone Def
12 – Photek – Touching Down – Photek Productions
13 – Bjorn Stokes – You’re Mine – State Of The Art Recordings
14 – Jem One – Bullet To The Head – 36 Hertz
15 – Dillinja – You Don’t Know (Remix) – Logic
16 – Phaze III & Klass A – Fearful Dimensions (Unreleased Mix) – Dub
17 – Nicky Blackmarket – Geese Tune – Blackmarket
18 – Lemon D – Jah Love – Conqueror
19 – Goldie – Angel – FFRR

Any big ups / shouts?
Big up to everyone buying 36 Hertz releases and supporting the label through the years

www.36hertz.com
facebook /djvapour
twitter – @vapour36hertz
youtube – /36hertz
Bookings – mainsourceagency.com
mixcloud – vapour36hertz

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