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    Any Back-to-89 (or similar) nights in London soon?

    Anyone know if there are any such nights in London soon, like there was last year at the End? Thought there might be with it being the 20th anniversary..
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    Extremity EP - 2 Extreme?

    Does anyone have an idea what year this tune is from. I can't find it on Discogs.:S Sounds like 1992 but not 100% sure
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    80's Dance/Disco - Main Genres?

    In process of tidying up and harmonising all of my MP3 library for 80's Dance/Disco (not House as I'm doing that separately) The only problem is categorising them, which is more difficult than I thought:S . What would everyone say were the main disco/dance genres of the 1980's? Here's what I...
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    Club Photo on back of "Feels so Real" by Dream Frequency

    Was flicking through my records recently and was having a look at the back of "Feels so Real" by Dream Frequency. It has a top drawer photo of a club/rave somewhere I presume is up north in 1990/91, but I don't recall it saying where or when it was snapped If ever a photo can convey everyone...
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    Disco "scene" in the UK in the late 70's?

    Gotta say that as well as the oldskool house, I'm well into the old disco and early US Garage One thing I've often wondered is what the disco scene was like in the UK in the late 70's (being only 5 or so at the time;) ). I know there was a big Northern Soul scene but I've never heard of a...
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    Decent software for Volume levelling MP3's?

    Does anyone know of any decent software for volume levelling large numbers of MP3's at once (i.e. few thousand)? My oldskool collection of MP3's has a fair few tunes which are much louder (or quieter) than the others, and it is annoying to have to manually turn the amp/stereo down. I tried a...
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    1980's Style Review on BBC4 last night

    Did anyone else watch this last night? I watched the show about the 1970's the day before which gave good credit to Northern Soul and Disco, and northern perspectives on punk etc (Mainly due to Wayne Hemingway being on) However on the 80's show yesterday, there was sod all mention about the...
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    First Italian House Track?

    Does anyone have any idea what the first true Italian House Track was (as opposed to Italian Disco)? Could it be: Cappella-Bauhaus, from 1987, Cappella - Bauhaus (12") at Discogs or Clubhouse - I'm A Man/Yeke-Yeke Clubhouse* - I'm A Man / Yeke Yeke (12") at Discogs (was this released after...
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    Class of '88 at The End, London tomorrow

    Since AB45 alerted me to this, I've been looking forward to this night:cool: Anyone else going off this forum? Class of '88 at The End - House, electro and techno - Time Out London I've never been to a big oldksool night with focus on house from 86-89, so this should be really interesting...
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    What exact genre are oldskool Reunion nights?

    Seem to be quite a few oldskool reunion nights these days. Unfortunately I haven't managened to get up north to one yet, as I live down in London, which is of course too "cool" for anywhere to have an oldskool nite (unless it is jungle):( What genre of oldskool do the reunion nights play? Do...
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    Best Home and Car Stereo systems for Oldskool House?

    Been offline for a few weeks due to work hecticity, but given that it is Christmas soon, I'm thinking of upgrading both my currently poor home and car stereo's to get the best out of the wicked oldskool tunes I've on collected my Ipod Does anyone have any recommendations for the best...
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    Getting better recording quality with ION turntable?

    I bought an ION USB turntable a few months ago to convert my vinyl but the quality of files it produces isn't great. I seem to get a bit of distortion, preventing a good clean sound, which the accompaying Audacity software doesn't seem to clean up with noise removal (in fact even on the min...
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    Club/Rave with Best Sound System?

    There was an earlier post about tunes sounding better when 'off-it'. This is certainly true:) however I would argue that an optimally booming sound system has always been required to get the best out of house music, a reason why it never sounds as good on an IPOD, as it does when 'out' Having...
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    Isometric Dance Class on Piccadilly Radio?

    Used to listen to this many years ago circa 1990, but seem to remember it didn't last as long as the 808 state show on Sunset Radio. Remember it used to play some great tracks, some of which I remember but still have not ID'd (mainly the ones with no vocals) When did it start/finish and does...
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    Defining Tunes n 1991/2? Hardcore or House or Hardcore House?

    How would everyone define the sort of music played at Life at the Pleasuredrome, Bowlers (in 1992), Sequins and other places such as Shelly's in the north west in 1991 and 1992? Used to always think of it as uplifting house, but then again some tunes were in between House and Hardcore, or even...
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    Hitman and Her at the Pleasuredrome

    Not sure if this has been requested before but does anyone have the tracklist for this. I've got most of the MP3's on this but there are one or two mission unknowns The other possible confusion is that I have the DVD that Welly put together rather than the original ITV show. The DVD cuts up the...
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    Old skool house (not jungle/hardcore) nights in London?

    Was speaking to my mate (Legends regular) the other day and we were discussing that it was a shame there was no old-skool house nights in London once in a while I came to London in 1992 and was always disappointed that there was no London equivalent nights like Bowlers, Angels, The Zone...
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    Videos of raves/clubs from pre-1993

    Following my earlier thread asking if anyone still had the sequins (spring 1992) hitman and her video, I was wondering if there was an archive anywhere where these could be downloaded. Some ones I'm still after that I know exist are as follows: - Quadrant Park (I know they are selling them on...
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    Sequins Hitman and Her Video, Spring 1992?

    Does anyone have a copy of this that could be uploaded on the file sharing thread? I had this on video but lost it over time
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    Advice on converting vinyl to top quality MP3's?

    Was wondering if anyone could help out there. I am trying to convert my collection of old skool house to MP3. I've done about a third of my tunes (about 200 tracks or so) but have noticed that the quality is not as good as some tracks I've downloaded from Bearshare (to compare) for example...