I stepped up for this edition of Vinyl Gathering with a Y2K Bunker Rave – a 30-minute dig through ’94 to ’04, spinning breakbeat house and sweaty electro sleaze from 12”s that still carry the faint scent of Red Stripe and Marlboro Lights.
This was a real fun mix to pull together. Digging through my crates to find some proper gems – not one younger than a decade, and most of them I hadn’t played in years.
A couple of tracks really stood out while I was putting this together. Hacker 003 was the third release on Hacker Records back in 2003 – a bootleg of Orbital’s classic, reworked by Future Funk Squad’s Glen Nicholls.
I always like sneaking something soulful into a tougher set, and Superstar was that moment here. Released in 1997 on the German label Kosmo Records, Superstar is a collaboration between Munich-based producers Tom Novy and Eniac. It fuses UK garage, tech house, and disco influences, and is built around a distinctive sample of War’s “Cinco De Mayo”, giving it that infectious groove that still hits today.
This was the closing set of a cracking night. Vinyl Gathering is a regular get-together for collectors and selectors, brought together by Si Arnoldi (Far Call Records) and Joe Venables – a space for kindred musical minds to share wax and low-key obsessions.
TRACKLISTING
- Timo Maas – Ubik The Breakz (half vocal mix)
- Evil Nine – Crooked (Bassbin Twins Remix)
- Kiki & Silversurfer Feat. Captain Comatose – Shake Off (Justin Robertson’s Revtone Vocal Mix)
- Sharam Jay – Feel Nobody
- Novy vs Eniac – Superstar
- Trisco – Musak (Original)
- David Morales & The Bad Yard Club Feat. Crystal Waters & Delta – In De Ghetto (1996 Boss Mix)
- Orbital – Orbootal
- Z2– Black Finished Chrome
