Tru Rave

Steve Cook, alias my partner in Clouded Vision.

I asked Steve to do me a mix that best describes himself and what better than an all-vinyl back to 91' rave mix? Ok so the challange has been set for this blog now, the first guest mix is indeed something special....

Luckily for Steve his mum worked in a club in Essex where we are both from. He had the chance to visit a REAL rave in 1991 before I was even given any homework, let alone tried to do any! Steve was 9 and inbetween washing glasses took a peek at what people got up to at these "raves". At the time technotronic and nomad were playing and from some of our productions so far you can clearly see the influence.

While others were trying to avoid measels, Steve had well and truely caught the rave bug, bought some decks in 96' and became obsessed with hardcore/jungle/drum&bass culture. He started to organise events around local halls and youthclubs and thankfully through living in Essex found it easy to get hold of a fake id to get into Oscars 3 years early..

Since then he has built his own studio, made countless tracks from every genre you can imagine, raved as hard as he possibly could and now is settling down for a life in the studio with me! Clouded Vision was formed at the end of 2007, our first two releases are on the shelves and 2 more are expected this month.

check us out on:

www.myspace.com/cloudedvisionmusic

In the mean time, move over bloggers, you have been great to us all. But now pay your dues to the first guest mix on Diary of a DJ:

STEVE COOK [CLOUDED VISION]
BACK TO MY ROOTS 91 HARDCORE MIX




01 - Carl Cox - I Want You Forever - Perfecto
02 - Cubic 22 - Night In Motion - Big Time International
03 - Band of Gypsies - Take Me Higher - Pulse-8
04 - Dragon Fly - Visions Of Rage - BTB
05 - Frequency - Kiss The Sky - Lower East Side
06 - Circa `91 - Can You Feel Me - Debut
07 - Razor Boy & Mirror Man - Cutter Mix - Rabbit City
08 - After Dark - Atlantis - Orbital
09 - DJ Space - The Visitor - Jumpin' & Pumpin'
10 - DJ Seduction - You & Me - FFRR
11 - Altern-8 - Infiltrate 202 - Network
12 - Razor Boy & Mirror Man - Beyond Control - Rabbit City
13 - Raging Rockers - Kounter Act - Ruby Red
14 - Vocation - Equilibrium - Furious
15 - One II One - I Want You - Reinforced
16 - Isotonik - Different Strokes - Orange
17 - Cosmo & Dibbs - Star Eyes - Moving Shadow
18 - Hackney Hardcore - Dancehall Dangerous - Strictly Underground
19 - Isotonik - Hasta La Vista - Orange
20 - Tronik House - Up Tempo - KMS
21 - Second Phase - Mentasm - R&S
22 - Tronik House - Mental Techno - KMS
23 - Mental Overdrive - Soma - R&S



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