4.2 - Transcriptions - 2020 Rework

Ever since I first recorded bits of mixes off radio – mainly Triple J’s ‘Mix-Up’ and 4ZZZ’s ‘Crucial Cutz’ programmes – I’ve always had a soft spot for that music. It’s the music that I remember most clearly bonding me to the trance, techno and psy-trance genres. No longer did I have to feel kind of half-satisfied with rock, pop and bits of ‘dance’ music – there was music that I could really love, that gave me the feeling of energy and power that no other music does.

And ever since I first spliced those bits of ‘transcription’ tapes together into the first two of my ‘Transcriptions’ mixes, I’d wanted to find those tracks, buy them and mix them for real into my own mix. I knew I was never going to be as good as those DJs at the time – Nik Fish, Adrian Van Ray, Ken Jensen, Jen-E, Michael Kidd, and Peter Mogg on 4ZZZ – but I wanted to be.

Gradually I found tracks. Lots of searching and listening, endlessly retrying SoundHound and Shazam to get matches, asking friends to identify tunes… it took a long time. I owe a huge debt to Peter Mogg for actually announcing what those tunes were, which I carefully noted down afterward – no-one else did, and how is an up-and-coming punter supposed to find those tunes again? Sadly, there are still quite a few tunes I have no ID for at all – if you want to try your hand at the unknowns in mixes 4 and 5 be my guest!

Finally, in late 2020 I started assembling the mix. While I liked the idea of following the pattern of my previous reworks – start and end with the same tracks but rearrange everything else to blend better – the ambient pieces just deserved to go at the start, and build up to a rocketing hardcore finish. Quite a few tracks, including those ambient ones at the start, don’t feature in the Transcriptions mixes but came from recordings from that time so I got to include them. There are still a few tracks that I would have loved to put in but haven’t identified, and a few that I have that I don’t really feel the same emotion for any more and left out. I was tempted a few times to add in other tracks not from those recordings from that era that I love, but I took them out again after just finding them mentally incongruous with that one pure objective of a homage to Australian FM club radio in the late 1990s.

(Also, I just discovered in July 2022 that the tune I’ve always known as “Information (Tremble Mix)” is actually the Original mix. So it’s still a work in progress, apparently!)

So here it is! Enjoy!

Completed 3 Feb 2021

Styles

Files

04 - Transcriptions - 2020 Rework.mp3 - 160 kbps - 216.8 MB
04 - Transcriptions - 2020 Rework.80kbps.ogg - 80 kbps - 121.7 MB
04 - Transcriptions - 2020 Rework.ogg - 160 kbps - 230.9 MB

Total play length: 03:21:38

Track listing

Track	Artist	Title	Remix	BPM	Length
1	Sabres of Paradise	Haunted Dancehall	In the Nursery Mix	77.30	05:48
2	Cosmic Baby	Cosmikk Trigger 5.0	Unreleased 1992	138.90	10:14
3	Squelch	Crash	Danny Howell's Original Mix	135.00	12:53
4	The Infinity Project	Ego Shredder		140.00	06:46
5	Masaray	Time Traveler of Trance		137.80	13:08
6	Total Eclipse	Toxic Caterpillar		139.90	07:03
7	Juno Reactor	Guardian Angel		142.90	07:28
8	Humate & Rabbit in the moon	East	Rabbit in the moon remix	133.60	09:39
9	assign	1998.7.16 Tokyo	Jurgen Driessen Presents Assign	140.50	12:45
10	Sunday Club	Winds of Change	Part 1	141.10	08:55
11	Way Out West	Domination		135.90	08:38
12	Virus	Sun	Man With No Name Remix	135.80	06:57
13	Severed Heads	Dead Eyes Opened	Spooked	134.00	09:06
14	beXta	Journeys		143.40	05:54
15	Cygnus X	The Orange Theme	Ferry Corsten Remix	145.00	07:03
16	De La Ray	Superangel		140.90	05:13
17	Sola Nova	A Visit To The Planetarium	Mannheim Mix	149.00	07:33
18	C.L.M.	Centrode		138.90	06:57
19	Adrenalin Drum	The Hypnotiser		149.90	06:58
20	Gamma Loop	Stagmato Seven		142.60	07:22
21	Lords of Octagon	First Adventure Trip		151.80	07:58
22	beXta	Affinity		143.30	05:38
23	The Dentist	Global Phases	Phase V	150.80	05:02
24	FSOM	Teknologi		153.00	06:40
25	Cenobyte	Future World	Future Mix	159.80	06:26
26	Virtual Symmetry	Information	Original Mix	152.10	08:23
27	beXta	Summit		159.40	04:22
28	beXta	The Monicle		169.90	06:04
29	Alien Factory	Get The Future Started		163.90	07:55
30	DJ Hooligan	Rave Nation	Perplexer Remix	165.00	05:43
31	Cenobyte	Tales From The A-Side	Byte Mix	162.20	06:01
32	beXta	Rhythm Gun		172.20	05:41
33	Mikado	Feel The Bass	Rave The Bass Mix 1995	173.40	04:40
34	GT-Sampler	Hallelujah		180.80	06:27

I welcome any suggestions, criticisms and recommendations for new music to listen to. I will consider doing specific mixes for people, but this is only a hobby. Hope to hear from you.