I made this last summer but I never published this till now. I had a hard time doing post production on the levels as the Tic Tac Toe and ElblandE records have bass that is just too loud.

(13 years in the making and I had fans for me doing this mix from before I even had all the vinyl. Apparently this is a much loved set.)

If I was pushed to name the one DJ set that inspired me the most both with my musical tastes and style of playing records on record players I would have a list of 5 sets. The number two favorite set, LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad at Dreamscape 4.

I came across this set in an unlikely way. At the time in 1998 there was only one 1992 music fan site called "Bassquake" ran by this fellow named Matt. He had up a great set of LTJ Bukem at Dreamscape 4 but it was in crappy real audio. I asked him if he could upload this set as an MP3. He instead sent me a cassette tape in the mail with Bukem on one side and Phantasy on the other.

The sound quality of this tape was just aweful, lots of distortion and hiss. Once I got over that I was in for a treat! Previous to this day in 1998 I had thought of UK 'Ardkore as just being the same old anthems I had heard time and time again such as all the Acen, 2 Bad Mice, and DJ Seduction stuff. I had no idea this style of music went any deeper then that. As I was listening to this tape I was in for a big surprise!

These were all seriously kick ass tunes that I had never heard before yet somehow I knew they must have existed as if I dreampt about them. Bukem's mixing is not nearly as good as the Phantasy set but he does play tunes that I never before associated with him. For one I never imagined Bukem played ... what I was calling at the time... happyhardcore. Also new to me at the time was that there were 1992 tracks that sounded like modern drum and bass only way better. Tracks like Tic Tac Toe and the El'Bland E record. The first record I was able to get for this set was weeks after I had gotten this tape from Matt "Bassquake" himself: Manix "Try to Love Me". It would take me another 13 years to track down the rest.

I've done my best here to not only collect the same records for this set but to play them in the same order and to even mix them in the same way as Bukem which was tough since I haven't listened to that low quality live set in a long time. For the past week before making this mix I was listening to the Bukem set on loop while playing Black Ops 2 to reaquaint myself with the set. In post production I also added in some bits of MC Conrad because he has become one of my favorite MCs just from this set. I love how he says cliche' 1992 'ardkore samples at the right moments. For this reason I just had to drop in some bits of his speach in the set. As it is, when I hear tunes from this set I hear MC Conrad in my head saying "'Ardkore knockin' at ya back door", "'Ardkore Junglin", "Easy tiger, thats the way wel like yah", and the classic, "This sound is the wickodest sound, pumpin music to the ground".

01) (X) Have a Good Time - DJ Clarkee - Paradox
02) (X) Ruff Guidance E.P. – Nu-Matic - Ruff Guidance
03) (X) Ulterior Beats - Is That It? - D-Zone 22
04) (X) Try to Love Me - Manix - Reinforced
05) (X) Im So High - EQ - Formation
06) (X) Street Knowledge - Men From Del Bosca - Giant Trax
07) (X) Brainstorm - Brainstorm - Brain
08) (X) Spectral Bass - Aurora - STU.J
09) (X) We Told You - Rush Till Dawn - Basement
10) (X) Dub War (Chapter One) - Dance Conspiracy - XL
11) (X) Ephemeral - Tic Tac Toe - white label
12) (X) Suicidal - DJ Crystl - Lucky Spin
13) (X) Soul Feel Free - Krackpotz - 786
14) (X) Lock Me Up - Ruff Groove - Ruff Groove
15) (X) Dark Matter - Kev Bird & The Wax Doctor - Basement

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