Make Mine a '99 by DJ S&M

This mix probably needed the least effort to record, the track selection was made up as I went along, and the whole thing was recorded in one take. Sure there are some less than perfect mixes but when I was playing this stuff at parties I was hardly such an exacting DJ. The whole theme was to go and take my favourite trance tracks from around 1999 when it ruled the clubs and hadn't really gone mainstream enough to be on every radio station. Of course the date isnt' precise, but most of the tracks are from that era.
The whole thing was trigerred by finding a copy of Gouryella in Open Mind music, I already had all the other tracks in the mix, but Gouryella was the epitome of trance, energetic, pumping bass, 4 to the floor, big builds and breaks and of course synth lines that sound like a bee in a jar.  I recorded it more or less straight after getting back, in one go, it all went straight to minidisc with the only problem being that I had to cut off the end of 1998 when I hit the end of the minidisc.
The title of course comes from the year and makes a reference to dance pioneers 'The KLF'

Favourite Bit:
Doing the whole thing in one take and grinning likean idiot.....

Hardest Part:
Letting my street cred slip far enough to let people hear this.

Tracklisting

  1. Way Out West - The Gift
  2. Sasha - Xpander
  3. Katcha - Touched By God
  4. Lustral - Everytime (Mike Koglin Mix)
  5. Bedrock - Heaven Scent
  6. Grace - Not Over Yet (Matt Darey Mix)
  7. BT - Flaming June (Paul Van Dyk Mix)
  8. Gouryella - Gouryella
  9. Paul Van Dyk - For an Angel
  10. Veracocha - Carte Blanche
  11. System F - Out Of The Blue
  12. Binary Finary - 1998 (Paul van Dyk Mix)

Copyright 2002 Scott Manley