HI TECH ROLLERS - DARK DRUM & BASS - ALL VINYL '98-'03 - BANGERS AND RARE CUTS

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  / ianmcquaid  

In 1998 I was a teenager living on Sandrock Rd in Lewisham with my mates Martin and James - me and Martin used to DJ and James would MC, along with two other lads called Budzy and Detrimental. They'd come over, we'd load up the bucket with soapbar, and get mashed while we ran the tunes we were buying from Blackmarket Records. It was a fun time.

We really wanted to be on pirate but didn't know how to make that happen, so instead we called ourselves Sandrock Soundsystem, put the speakers by the open kitchen windows, and blasted out jungle and garage to the street. We felt like the music was too good to keep it to ourselves, don't know if the neighbours felt the same.

A bunch of the records I play in this mix are ones I bought in that period - tracks like Stangled Duck, See Red and Represent were/are absolute classics of rolling DnB - dark but still danceable, which was the sound we wanted, massively influenced by the sets played by Brockie and Andy C. One of the common things from that time is that we pooled our records - those 12s were expensive when you were a broke kid! Coming to do this mix I realised that I had never actually owned Dillinja's Test 2, and was just playing James's copy. FML! Looking back though, I like how communal it all was.

Anyway, a quick note, the internet crapped out on me whilst recording this, so the intro of Sicknote was cut off - I enjoyed the rest of the mix too much to do it again, it is what it is, real life is raw! Hope you enjoy.

*Thanks to all the heads in the comments who've filled me in on white label names!

00:00 Ed Rush & Optical - Sicknote
00:40 Future Cut - The Specialist
03:13 Teebee - Warehouse
04:33 Brockie - Represent
06:00 Total Science - Squash
07:04 Bad Company - The Nine
08:34 Future Cut - Busted
10:48 Trace - Sonar
13:44 Kemal & Rob Data - Gene Sequence
15:33 Johnny L - See Red
17:34 Mac II - Time is the Fire
18:31 Twisted Individual - Fallopian Tube
20:21 Total Science - Make Me Feel
23:29 Bailey & DJ Ink - Need U
24:57 John B - Up All Night
27:31 Pressure Rise -* Cause 4 Concern remix
29:12 Dillinja - Take My Life
30:17 Futuretech - Mudslide
31:45 Q Project - Superstition
34:19 Future Cut - Ghetto Style
35:26 Future Cut - Dillinja remix
37:16 Dom & Roland - Parasite
39:00 Moving Fusion - Sexdrive
40:18 Red One - Strangled Duck
42:08 Total Science - Nosher
43:15 Shimon - Hush Hush
44:10 DJ Zinc - Freenote
45:38 JB - The Smurf
46:24 Shy FX - Rah
49:00 Ray Keith - Your Dub
50:36 Bad Company - Planet Dust
53:23 Moby - Go (M&M Remix)