Over Christmas 2014 I needed a break from recording my album, searching online for a song I recalled from my youth, I fell into a rabbit hole of thousands of YouTube playlists and posts, rediscovering the songs my friends and I would gather and listen to as 13 & 14 yr olds every Saturday in East Berlin on Radio DT64 (now Berlin's Radio Fritz).
I stumbled back to the future, collecting over 5000 songs on YouTube, learning for the first time the artists behind the songs we heard almost 25 years ago.
The forthcoming trilogy is the result of 18 month of building edits from YouTube recordings and stitching them together off-line. I could not include every song, nor indeed even the entire tracks from this small period until 1993, so this is my personal history of electronic music arriving in Berlin.
This trilogy will not be sold, it was a labor of love, born of nostalgia and made for sharing.
Slackjaw - Drive my Body (Brute, UK, 1992) The Latin Age - Esta Loca (Easy Dance, UK, 1989) Marshall Jefferson - Move your Body (Trax, US, 1986) Todd Terry - Now Way (One, US, 1992) Main X - 88 to Piano (Hithouse, Belgium, 1991) Format - Dance (ESP, Netherlands, 1992) Eden’s Paradise - This is the Dance (Breaking Bones, US, 1989) S.P.Q.R. - Tribal Experience (Underground, Ireland, 1993) 6 Bell All - Me and the Mailman (Rhythm, Netherlands, 1991) Lhasa - The Attic (Music Man, Belgium, 1990) Lil’ Louis - The Original Video Clash (Dance Mania, US, 1989) Private Productions - Sex Tape (80 AUM, Netherlands, 1992) Last Rhythm - Sleepwalking (American, Italy, 1990) CLS - Can you feel it (Strictly Rhythm, US, 1991) Rossi - Rossi by Rossi (Music Man, Belgium, 1990) Kaballa - Drums of the Lock (Big Time International, Belgium, 1993) Format - Solid Sessions (ESP, Netherlands, 1991) Set Up System - Music and Noise (Big Time International, Belgium, 1991) House Syndicate - Jam the Mace (Dopewax, US, 1990) Fuck the Industry - This is B.U.G. (B.U.G., Germany, 1991) Gat Decor - Passion (Effective, UK, 1992) Drug Free America - Cyberspace (Cybersound, UK, 1992)
Tracklisting: Egma - Let the Bass kick (Mid-Town, Netherlands, 1991) Friends of Matthew - Out there (Pulse-8, UK, 1991) Hallucination Generation - Atmosphere 92 (Thunderpussy, Netherlands, 1992) Neutron 9000 - Tranceplant (MFS, Germany, 1992) Drug Free America - Cyberspace (Haad Rin at Dawn) (Cybersound, UK, 1992) DJ Vox - Finally dissin’ you (non-copyrighted , 1991) Megabeat - Es Imposible, No Puede Ser (Invisible, Spain, 1990) René et Gaston - Vallée de Larmes (Fresh Fruit, Netherlands, 1993) Rush till Dawn - I think about you (Sound Entity, UK, 1991) CJ Bolland - Camargue (R&S, Belgium, 1992) 33 1/3 Queen - Searchin’ (Nu Groove, US, 1990) Fierce Ruling Diva - Rubb it in (Lower East Side, Netherlands, 1991) Dream Frequency - Live the Dream (City Beat, UK, 1990) Department of Dance - An Outdoor Overture (Junkfood, Germany, 1993) Halogen - Bliss (Ind-X, US, 1993) Fix - Flash (KMS, US, 1992) Voodoo Child - Voodoo Child (Instinct, US, 1990) Hole in One - X-Paradise (See Saw, Belgium, 1992) Microbots - Cosmic Evolution (Overdrive, Germany, 1992) Nu Tro Gen - Rollin’ Reptiles (Thunderpussy, Netherlands, 1992) Illuminatae - Brick House (XVX , UK, 1993) Marmion - Schöneberg (Superstition, Germany, 1993) ? Zig - ? Zig Theme (Rephlex, UK, 1993)