I think that was meant to be a slight against techno that wasn’t hard enough. Not that I really mind either way.
Category: Classic DJ Sets
Sublight: “See you back then” Classic DJ set
Brash breakbeat time travel.
Sublight: “Core-Hardness” Classic DJ set
One coffee, one cream, ten-thousand sugars please.
Sublight: “Ryan7 & Sublight: Loaded Live (side B)” Classic DJ set
Double deck tag team with a master of techno and integrity.
Sublight: “Ryan7 & Sublight: Loaded Live (side A)” Classic DJ set
Double deck tag team with a master of techno and integrity.
Sublight: “Strange Trance Diagrams” Classic DJ set
An out-of-character outburst of happy progressive trance and house. It won’t happen again, promise.
Sublight: “Thee Ancient Art ov Tekno” Classic DJ set
A strange veer into the past to have a look at what came before.
Sublight: “Darkest Dejection turned to Depth” Classic DJ set
Much like the set before it, this was about closing the books on an amazing era in trance and moving beyond it as it stagnated, to the genres that were revitalizing and evolving in more innovative ways.
Sublight: “Brightest Intensity Trance” Classic DJ set
One of the last and best trance sets I recorded. By the late 90’s trace was becoming either very light, lazy progressive or very dark, dull and psy, neither of which I was enjoying. The golden age of epic beauty trance was all but over, and the powerful anthems of Prolekult, Dream Inn, Banzai, Ascension and others were drifting away, to be replaced by the comical elevator music that trance would become.
Sublight: “Wikkid Oldskool Breakbeat” Classic DJ set
1997 was the year Hullabaloo landed in Toronto, and with it a resurgence in all things oldskool. Breaks, jungle, hardcore, happy hardcore, it all came back, with a liberal amount of the newest vibes and styles as well. This set harkens back to the very early days of breakbeat, with a great focus on the happy aspects – pianos, classic breaks, vocals and rhymes, and hand-in-the-air vibes. I happened into a residency at Hullabaloo, thanks to a friend, and kept paying their parties until I left Toronto in late 1999.