Revenge Of The Tech Heads (WMNF 88.5 Jan 28 1992) «

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swamp says:

January 4, 2012 at 7:29 pm

Briscoe (aka Disco Don) w/ Ray Nemeth and DJ Paul Cook – Revenge of the Tech Heads vol 8 , WMNF 88.5 Tampa, FL (28/01/92)

Sorta of cheating with this one. The show was done 20 years ago this month, on our friend Rich Ranck’s “So Hip It Hertz” program on community radio station WMNF 88.5, here in Tampa, Florida. Paul Cook spun the records, Ray Nemeth and myself (referred to as Disco Don) brought the tunes. This one has warts and all, skipping records, some sloppy mixes (and many great ones), and the limitations of cassette tape and recording off the radio. This was live and we threw the records at Paul at random. I love the way he blended in the pop tracks (way before “mashups”), and his approach to rave was from a hip hop angle. I can’t stand to hear my voice, especially from 20 yrs ago. We had a lot of fun doing this, which was probably the 3rd time I was on the radio.
I have been listening to and collecting electronic music since ’86, and the first underground rave I went to was in December ’91 (a month before this show). That rave, “Raven1” was in an empty warehouse, with the guys from Rabbit In The Moon spinning. We frequented the night clubs, but the warehouse rave was so exciting in it’s own way.
My friends and I used to go and spend $10 a record for new import singles. We got anything that said Rising High, Suburban Base, Reinforced, SUAD, Moving Shadow, Warp, Cowboy, etc. Before the internet, before any magazines were covering electronic music, you had to hunt it down and hope you happened across something no one else had. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with me.

Tracklist
Side A
Frank Mills – Music Box Dancer
Frankie Bones – When Does It End
Discuss – Pissed Apache
Voyager – Baby From Lower Level
M1 – Dirty Five
Techno Grooves – Let It Go
Liberation – Liberation
Shut Up and Dance – Lamborghini
DMS – Love Overdose
We R 3- Happiness
Mystery Man – Lov-E
Global and the Hardcore Massive – Gone
AC Trixta – Lost Marbles
Side B
Rebel MC – Wickedest Sound
Mystic Knights – Ragga Man
Ragga Twins – Spliffhead
Speculators – Jungalization
DJ Scoobie – King Basehead
Interface – Toytown 3
Mystery Man – DJ Business
2 Bad Mice – Bombscare
(don’t remember)
(don’t remember)
Tek 9 – You Got To Slow Down
Run DMC – Peter Piper

bong says:

January 5, 2012 at 4:03 pm

looking forward to this one

ragga twin step out!

bong says:

January 8, 2012 at 5:32 pm

superb memories of tunes gone by!
that tune at 17:22 used to have the fields bouncing!!

Briscoe says:

January 8, 2012 at 8:55 pm

Thanks bong! That’s wild that Liberation was big in your area. It didn’t make a bleep here, but I remember seeing it @ Peaches Records (defunct of course) on ZYX, which was another label along with Radikal that we bought on sight. Unfortunatley ZYX soon after became too cheesy.The samples sound like Martin Luther King Jr , who was as popular for rave samples as James Brown was to hip hop sampling. So few records came out back then that most records were exciting. There were no genre police either. Now we have so much music ,which is great, but I looked over all of the Best of Lists from Pitchfork, FACT, etc. and I am underwhelmed. It takes a lot more to impress me now. My fave album this year was one made 44 yrs ago, SMILE, with Honorable mention to Mayer Hawthorne. Oh the good old days.

bong says:

January 9, 2012 at 10:04 am

ye!! piano tunes were big

Briscoe says:

January 9, 2012 at 9:35 pm

I’d have to say my fave piano tunes are Your Love by Prodigy, Sweet Harmony by Liquid, and Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D. These tracks where like getting a shot of adrenalin on the dancefloor.

Headhunter says:

January 12, 2012 at 9:33 am

many happy memories!

thanks for sharing

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