Tag: hardcore

Sublight: “Gabberdeen!” Classic DJ set

  • July 1, 1996

Slow evolutions from deep and hard to happy and heavy.

Sublight: “Rottendam Gabber” Classic DJ set

  • June 21, 1996

Hardcore – big & bouncy as fuck.

Sublight: “Gabber Endings” Classic DJ set

  • June 10, 1996

Side B. The end comes with a bang.

Sublight: “Live @ Narcottage (Side H)” Classic DJ set

  • May 19, 1996

Every year we went to the Narcottage for the Victoria Day long weekend. Eventually it became elaborate: generator, full sound system, plenty of DJ’s and a full on party atmosphere. In the middle of this long run of epic events, I managed to play a record-breaking 19.5h set, and capture much of it on tape.

Sublight: “Live @ Narcottage (Side I)” Classic DJ set

  • May 19, 1996

Every year we went to the Narcottage for the Victoria Day long weekend. Eventually it became elaborate: generator, full sound system, plenty of DJ’s and a full on party atmosphere. In the middle of this long run of epic events, I managed to play a record-breaking 19.5h set, and capture much of it on tape.

Sublight: “Rotterdam+Gabber=Real?”Classic DJ set

  • February 25, 1996

In 1996, all of a sudden hardcore was changing. Faster and more intense, but equally, a huge resurgence of happy hardcore hit the decks.

Sublight: “Live @ Deathrave ’95 (side B)” Classic DJ set

  • June 17, 1995

My 21st birthday, and a going-away for a good friend of ours resulted in a bit of a raucous affair. This is the insanely hard part of the set where the night got crazy.

Sublight: “Shades of Deepest Intensity” Classic DJ set

  • May 17, 1995

When life hands you lemons, make Acid.

Sublight: “Hardcore Flesh & Bones” Classic DJ set

  • December 1, 1994

Pretty much the angriest music you could find in 1994.

Sublight: “Grabba Gabba” Classic DJ set

  • November 8, 1994

Many of these early sets were filled with humour and inside jokes, perhaps a reflection of the fact that rave culture and music really didn’t take itself as seriously back then as whatever passes for it now might. As a results, the odd Monty Python skit or Barney record or other quote seemed to make it’s way into the soundscape. Given how comedic hardcore was back then, with MC’s trashing each others’ cities, and parody tracks, this shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise. Now the inside jokes about pancreas boxing are a thing of the past, and the Grabba Java coffee shop in Otawa this set was named after is surely long gone…