The Scene #1

AUGUST ISSUE 1 FREE THE SCENE CLUB UK ROAST ELEVATION FINAL FRONTIER

RAVESCENe MAGAZEEN • THE BUZZINESS • NO 45 • LABRYNTH RECORDINGS NEXT RELEASE JIMMY J AA: BAD DJ A: INTO THE MUSIC Available NOW Listen YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO HELTER SKELTER ON DECEMBER 3RD ALL NIGHT 9PM-7AM AT THE SANCTUARY WAREHOUSE V7 SAXON ST, MILTON KEYNES ARENA ONE 9-10 CLARKEE 11-12 DJ HYPE 12-1 DJ RAP 1-2 EASYGROOVE 2-2.45 JUMPING JACK FROST 2.45-3.15 THE PRODIGY 3.15-4 RATTY 4-5 SLIPMATT 5-6 GROOVERIDER 6-7 DR S GACHET MC'S LENNI MAN PARRIS MCGQ On the 3rd December 1993 we will create two unique atmospheres that will bring the house down. With a 100k sound system plus today's most intelligent lighting effects. This will be our last party this year so lets all have a good one and see you on December 3rd Respect.......... over and out!!! Info; 0295 275361 THE TECHNODROME MARK-E G AZTEK THE MUSICMAKER COLIN FAVOR LOFT GROOVER H.M.S WARLOCK MACH ONE LIVE PA THE ASCID PROJECT

CUTTING TRAX Recognition of Nova Mutes credibility as a serious dance music label is long overdue. Consistent although quirky, they are difficult to pin down . Best described as acid for the '90's frequently bridging the gap between progressive rhythms and the 303 acidic dogma. Most releases will satisfy the casualties amongst you being more relevant in their acid flavourings where Harthouse maybe a bit sour in aftertaste as of late. So, sample Juno Reactors "Transmissions" Nomu 24LP but as a starter the definitive collection "Version 1.1" MOMU 17 LP is a must or the 12" "Rota" by 3Phase album released on 22nd November P12 NOMU 23. Reactivate 8 is the latest collection from React in the form of "Hi-Octane Dance Music" React LP 27. Always cherry-picking only to the de-rigeur of current hard-house floor fillers which includes Frank DeOWulfs remix of "Golden Girls", Deep Pieces "Panoramic Shuffle" and C J Bollands "Camargue". Ore Music's "Colourclind" currently on promo provides a Ministry flavoured cut, first mix on side one is outstanding. JL BILLY BUNTER REVIEWS 1) DJ Peekay - tuff breaks, powerful acid sounds, trancey samples, moody bassline and strong uplifting lyrics, flip it for come My Selecta and get your ears round some more powefull drum + bass and listen to the whistle crew go mad when they are raving to this one. "A must for all hardcore raves". 10/10 2) Studio Pressure E.P. - Certificate records 18, my favourite out of the 4 tracks has to be it's finest, soothing vocals, power drifting strings, interchanging throughout the track. An excellent keyboard progression mixed up with a nice and easy bassline and kicking break beat with lots of rhythm. Keep your ears peeled for the sneaky little sample "do u like that". Excellently produced 9/10 3) Ramos & Supreme - "Journey" b/w "Crowd Control" (Hectic Records). An excellent double "A" side exploiting break bass and beats to the fullest. Main ingredient of the day on this 12" pure Smilely Happy Hardcore. Crowd Control, uplifting to the maximum, powerful strings, melodic piano progression and a beat that kicks. flip it for the Journey, sampling the piano from "Awesome 3 - don't go" wicked samples, powerful bass and a hint of Techno with more wicked breaks. What more could you ask for? 10/10 4) Legal Offence - "Burnin" Deep 7 Records a definite grower on your musical feelings, everything that makes a track strong is here. A mixture of Jungle, Hardcore and Techno. Some acid is also thrown in with excellent vocals, basslines, original breaks and samples to come up with this well put together track. Could this be a sign for the future? 9/10 5) Poosie + Cru-L-T - "Hear me" Knite Force. A label that's impossible to miss whatever record shop you go in, and this tune does the Knite Force crew just as much justice as their other material. Definitely one for the hardcore ladies, starting off with female vocals and kicking in with a storming break and vibrant bassline. This then follows with some wicked rushin melodies half way through the track, which kicks back into the break, bass and vocal leaving a smile on your face until the end of the track. Dropped it last tune of the night at the Labrynth Warehouse 6/11/93 and it absolutely kicked. 10/10 6) This is the Information Centre - "Double pack 12" White Label" 4 mixes. Something that crossed my palms about a week and a half ago, two white labels I know nothing about, but 4 mixes that are the absolute bizznizz. All mixes with the sample "This is the Information Centre" running over the top of tuff breaks and basslines. With mixes for all forms of Hardcore parties, warehouses or clubs this will be a massive Jungle stomper. 8/10 7) Space Work - "Happy House" Madd Bass recordings. One of the most interesting tunes I've heard all year, definitely a one more on a Sunday morning. An excellently produced 145 bpm happy groove, sampling Janet Jackson, James Brown ans Susie and the Banshees amongst others. All incorporated with funky bass and beats and the maddest uplifting trance sound I've ever heard. Check out the vocal "We're happy here in this happy house", why can't we have more like this? Love it. 10/10 8) DJ Trax - "Hightime - Blackmore" Moving Shadow. Two wicked tracks, Blackmore being the drum and bass groover sampling some wicked rap and electro classics including 2 live crew and the Young MC, and as the tune says " It a really make you hypnotised". flip it and you'll get my personel favourite out of the two "Hightime" a real vibey hardcore tune with moody strings, kicking beat, powerful bass and a true uplifting female vocal. One for the hardcore luv'd up crew, Moving Shadow still proving they've still got what it takes to make some of the best hardcore in the U.K., this will be massive. 10/10 9) Naughty Naughty - Volume One. "Into the future" is the absolute nuts, breakbeat with rhythm stormin bassline breaking into a wicked uplifting hardcore sound with a wicked vocal followed by more uplift, this time by a piano all based around a tuff hardcore groove. Flip it over and catch yet another remix of "I Need Your Lovin", probably the best remix so far but is this one official I wonder? Naughty Naughty. 10/10 10) Double X-Possure - "Deep as Fuck". This is my favourite tune of the past month, the sheer nerve of these people is excellent. Take a garage anthem "Deep Inside" which has been played to death in all the clubs and turn it into a bangin hardcore track which will probably be massive well into Christmas. If you don't blow your whistle to this one you're going to the wrong raves. Check out the B side for more Double X-Possure. Deep Deep Down inside all we need is love. Excellent. 10/10

BIZZY B - Creator of the Dark style? E.Z READERS Adrian H here with some more Double Egg. This week I speak to one of the nice guys to the scene, one of the innovators in my opinion of the dark sound and has more records out than you've had hot dinners (slight exaggeration there, for effect) Da man in the eggcup this week is 22 and from Leyton , East London. He worked his way up "as you dooo" from DJaying in pubs and parties around his area to residencing at the Dungeons, Lea Bridge Road with DJ's such as Ellis Dee, Chalky White 'Bob' and myself (those were the good old days) , then he really started concentrating on his chewns. If you buy records it's almost 99.9% certain that you have one of his chewns in your collection. Bizzy says when he is making his chewns he always thinks of all ravers and tries to please everyone. He likes to think of his music as more hi energy ("music you can get exhausted to") than dark. Some of the chewns he has made include The Brainstorm EP, Revolution, Crowd Says Rewind, The Science EP. He's also made records alongside people such as D.LUX, Peshay, Cool Hand Flex, DJ Hype, Forular Seven, Slammin Crew, Information Society and many more, on labels such as Brain (his own label) Quayside Records, One Off Records, Big City, Reinforced, Sub Bass and White House. These credentials made me sure that he could clear up something that is not very well understood. I asked Bizzy B 'What Is Dark Music?'.He told me that the way he sees it Dark music is not dark music. People get the word Dark mixed up with the expression eg. if something is good you say 'wicked' but people used to say 'dark' instead. Maybe someone that's falling into this trap I asked what would he call his music because I consider it pretty dark, he said that personally he tries to make it as original as he can moving away from sampling huge chunks of other people's records and not categorise to one group of ravers. Original that is a word I say often when describing the sounds of this man's chewns, so maybe Dark can be split up into two groups -original and dark. Original which I think would also include the Reinforced Cru, L.T.J Bukem, Moving Shadow, Ram Records and a few others, and dark including the tracks which Buzz thinks are killing the dark scene which are tracks "that are not music, sound absolutely terrible and do nothing for you apart from give you a headache, "you'll be standing in a rave, heAr a tune that is rubbish and call it dark , but it's not dark, it's just crap". Bizzy told me that to him the point of a rave is the good feeling, the peace and unity and that a rave without the white glove crew wouldn't really be a rave". Some of the music that is being played sounds sadistic with a devil worship type groove which doesn't go with the happy side, so people label it as dark. To try to bring this short chat to some sort of conclusion because Bizzy just squeezed me in before he had to do a radio show, we agreed that Dark is not really a music form, but just a term hastily given to a form of music which is misunderstood , original music, but as with most music forms for every 10 dark tunes that are made maybe only two of them are any good, and it's the other eight that we always seem to hear. Well, after all that I still could not tell you what dark music is, but I could tell you that Bizzy B's tunes, be they Dark, hardcore, jungle whatever you like to call it always work for me.... I'd really be interested to find out what you think the definition of dark is and we'll print the pick of the letters in the next issue. DESTINY THE CREAM JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER '93 ALL NIGHT LONG. 9PM TO 6AM. THE PIER - CLACTON - ESSEX TRANCE/HARD HOUSE JOHN DIGWEED - CHOCI ROCKY & DIESEL(X-PRESS 2) IAN WRIGHT - AL HARDCORE RAVESCENE PARTY FABIO - JUMPING JACK FROST RATTY - DOC SCOTT - PIGBAG DEVIOUS D - THE CRIMINAL MC ROBBIE DEE TICKETS £10 PLUS BOOKING FEE GARAGE/HOUSE BUSTA BROOKER(SGR FM) STEVEE B - TONY GRIMLEY & RUSSELL COOKE (CULTURE SHOCK HOLLYWOODS) JAMIE SMART & ANDY TECHNO (NEW LARGE ROOM) COLIN FAVOR - LOFT GROOVER STEVE BICKNALL (LOST) - WARLOCK AB45 - BANZAI 0255 424268 0850 428303

ROAST REVIEW We arrived at the New London Astoria at 1am and people were still queuing up! For a once a month party Roast has been highly recommended by everyone in the scene so we went in and checked out the party! Walking around the place took some time due to the size of The Astoria – but a massive respect to Kingsley and Everton for an excellent light show including some wicked lazers and a venue shaking sound system. The music was doing it and in my opinion Kenny Ken played the best set and got the place jumping! The Astoria was very busy and is definitely London's best venue – if you like Jungle then Roast is an absolute must – each and every month ! We tracked down Kingsley and Everton before we left and asked them some questions. When did you start off Roast parties? We started in 1991 at Turnmills! Where did you get the name and logo? A bloke called Paul came up with the name Roast and our logo which we have used since day one. What was the best Roast party in your opinion? February 1992 at Linford Film Studios! How do you see the Jungle scene at the moment? Jungle at the moment is being saturated by everyone – which will lead to it becoming commercial – too many people are jumping on the Jungle bandwagon – some are talking about Jungle as if it's a new music – a new phenomenon – we've been playing Jungle at our parties since 1991 – that's 3 years! How do you see the Jungle scene progressing over the next 12 months? We think London Jungle will still be going very strong – the people outside London should work on building up a good party like Roast so that we can link up and make Jungle bigger than any other dance music. Who are your favourite DJ's and MC's? We rate Grooverider, DJ Ron, Kenny Ken, MC Moose and MC Five "O". Kingsley and Everton would like to give a big shout to all the Roast massive especially the Roast ladies! and remember – Roast are the original Jungle promoters since 1991 – not the new kids on the block. Big up to Kingsley and Everton and we hope they continue with there excellent Jungle parties! Rating 10/10. Review: Rude Boy Roy

HARDCORE DJ PROFILE: Slipmatt DJ Slipmatt won a joint award with DJ Randall at the Elevation Awards for being the best Hardcore DJ on the circuit – today The Scene went to sunny Walthamstow – home of East 17, DJ Hype and DJ Rap + lots + lots of super-duper stars to have an exclusive look into the world of Slipmatt. What is your real name? Matthew. How long have you been a DJ? I've been playing out since 1989. How did the name "Slipmatt" come about? It was made up by a friend when I started to mix Hardcore. How many records have you released? Around 11 in total – some were released on XL Recordings – some were put out on White Labels and the others were released on Awesome Records which is mine and DJ Limes record label. One of your best selling tunes was "On A Ragga Tip" which led you to chart success – could you tell us what it was like being on Top of the Pops"? It was quite an experience and led to a lot of live PA work in the Hardcore scene. The funniest part was before we went on we was in the canteen which was also shared by the Eastenders cast – I had tea or as Pete Beale would say "splosh" with Dot Cotton and Arthur Fowler – an experience to be cherished for ever? Before you became a headline DJ what were your last two jobs? I was a courier which helped me out a lot now as I always have to find my way around London and all over the UK. My last job B4 my DJ break was as an electrician. What was your big DJ break? I had two big break's Raindance and Fantazia which set me off to a flying start. How many plays do you get on an average weekend? Usually 3-4 per night! One night I played at seven places which left me totally knackered and that was the most plays I have ever completed and been on time for in one night. A lot of people think you are the best Hardcore DJ on the scene at the moment. What do you think makes you so successful? I normally read the crowd and try to play exactly the type of music they want – I mix up tunes differently to other DJ's and always play records which have plenty of get up and go in them – I prefer to play a happy set! Do you listen to any other types of music other than Hardcore? Yes I listen to Reggae and Jungle. When you play out who are your favourite promoters to work for? Club Kinetic, Stoke; Milwaukees, Rushden; One Nation, London; Dream Scape, Milton Keynes and Helter Skelter, Milton Keynes.

How do you think the music and the Hardcore scene has changed over the last 8 months? Towards Christmas last year the music was becoming dark and depressing and the scene wasn't really kicking. But this year especially now in July the music is back to being really good. The scene has improved 100% and everywhere is getting full up to capacity again. What other DJ's do you rate? All I can say on that is any DJ who plays for the crowd and not for him or herself. Do you prefer DJing or making tunes? Both because when I'm DJing I can see what goes down well at a Rave and then when I'm making music I can make it so that the music will get a good response and I know that the tune will sell well. Do you have any plans for the future? Yes! I've got a new label which I'm starting soon which will be strictly Hardcore, which will feature all the top happy DJ's on the circuit. My other label "Awesome" Records will be a strictly Jungle label. Also I'm moving from sunny Walthamstow soon – to move into a new place in Essex. Slipmatt would like to say hello to Faye and baby Charlotte – all promoters, DJ's and MC's, you know who you are! Watch out for Slipmatt on Kiss 100 FM. PS – Many thanks for your time Slipmatt and we wish you the best! Did you know that since drinking tea with Arthur Fowler and Dot Cotton on the backstage of Eastenders Slipmatt has been approached by Grant & Sharon to be their resident DJ at the Queen Vic?? Watch him in the next episode of Eastenders! Matt The Hat ATTENTION PROMOTERS!! ATTENTION PROMOTERS!! Our magazine is distributed in Kent, Essex, London, Thames Valley area and the South Coast. We distribute 15,000 copies FREE to all major record shops and at all major clubs and events in the above area. We also offer a flyer insert service and excellent advertising rates! To get your event promoted to the max – Ring Terry on (0276) 686557 or (0374) 844863 ATTENTION PROMOTERS!! ATTENTION PROMOTERS!! Don't delay – Call today – Advertising deadline Friday 26th August for our next issue!