noel is speed queen vol 1

Whatever happened to UK Garage? One minute it’s The Newest Bestest Thing In Town, then suddenly we’re all listening to rock and 80s-influence electro... These days it’s back underground UKG had its roots in the South (“it’s-a-Lon-don-thing”), but despite being based in Manchester, I was really into it. I loved the darker, grittier, harder Speed Garage tracks too. You’ll find plenty of them in this mix. This session was recorded some time between March and September ’98. I can’t find an exact date on any of the minidiscs. It was around the time I was DJing at Via Fossa on Canal Street in Manchester, filling in for Chris Buckley. He would often lend me his records and I had first dibs on the promos he didn’t want/sell, hence I ended up with quite a wad of Speed Garage tunes. Also, in 1998, every pop tune seemed to be released with a selection of different genre mixes (RnB, house and UKG) as record companies hedged their bets to gain a hit in any scene. This is why the likes of Robbie Williams, All Saints & Janet Jackson turn up in this tough underground mix; although you could miss them if you didn’t check the tracklist. Running at over 100 minutes, the mix was split over two minidiscs. In transferring it to a downloadable format I’ve edited the mix together as a single piece of audio. This is the first time it has existed as one continuous mix. Enjoy! 106’50” - 148.6MB - AAC file - 192kbps Noel Is Speed Queen vol 1 mixed summer '98 across two minidiscs, re-edited together 27 Feb 07. . 1. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - fen & ramsey remix 2. soul ii soul - pleasure dome - tuff jam’s uvm dub 3. olive - miracle - 187 lockdown deep dub 4. fatimer rainey - love is wonderful thing - dub is a wonderful thing 5. robbie williams - south of the border - 187 lockdown’s southside dub 6. miss bisto - barefoot bandit - white label 7. adeva - don’t think about it - 187 lockdown dub 8. all saints - i know where it’s at - colour system inc vox 9. down low - lovething - vip mix 10. bruce wayne - ready - bmw one’s ultimate bad boy mix 11. adeva - don’t think about it - nu birth dub 12. damage - lovelady - da funkstarz epiccamouflage dub 13. 5 - slam dunk da funk - sol brothers 14. bizzi - bizzi’s party - rolling bass mix 15. serious danger? 16. industry standard - what you need 17. ??? 18. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - ?? 19. janet jackson - got til it’s gone - armand van helden **tracklisting for part 2 of the mix was lost so tracks 15>18 are guesses