Comments on: Graeme Park at the Garage, Nottingham 1988

By: Noel

Noel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:54:49 +0000

The same tape was put up on http://www.oldskoolanthemz.com back in 2007. Absolutely cracking stuff, here’s what we got for the tracklisting…

1. Deepak And Khan ‘Holle Holle’
2. Mory Kante ‘Yeke Yeke’ (Afro Acid Mix)
3. Funky Worm ‘Hustle!’ (Graeme Park Mix Nottingham)
4. Black Riot ‘A Day In The Life’
5. The Brat Pack ‘So Many Ways (Do It Properly Part II)’ \ Jungle Brothers ‘I’ll House You’ (Acapella)
6. The Minutemen ‘Bingo Bongo’
7. Mr. Lee ‘Pump Up London’
8. Mr. Lee ‘Rock This Place’ ..what mix? (USA Club Mix)? …not (USA House Mix) or (UK Club Remix)
9. SLF ‘Show Me What You Got’ (Acid Mix Part 1)
10. Kraze ‘The Party’
11. The Todd Terry Project ‘Weekend’
12. Orange Lemon ‘Dreams Of Santa Anna’ (Extended Club Mix)
13. The Mack ‘Escape’ (Breakout Dub)
14. Blaze ‘Can’t Win For Losin”
15. Mantronix ‘King Of The Beats’
16. Jewel-T ‘I Like It Loud’
17. Eric B. & Rakim ‘Put Your Hands Together’

17. Eric B. & Rakim ‘Put Your Hands Together’
18. Kid ‘N’ Play ‘Gittin’ Funky’
19. ??? – hip hop
20. Stetsasonic ‘Talkin’ All That Jazz’
21. Taana Gardner ‘Work That Body’
22. The Night Writers ‘Let The Music (Use You)’
23. Bam Bam ‘Where’s Your Child’
24. A Guy Called Gerald ‘Voodoo Ray’
25. Baby Ford ‘Oochy Koochy’
26. ??? – “we hope you enjoyed your flight, thank you” “yes i did”
27. This Aint Chicago ‘Ride The Rhythm’
28. SLF ‘Show Me What You Got’ (Acid Mix Part 1)
29. Royal House ‘Can You Party?’ ..what mix?
30. Material ‘Bustin’ Out’
31. Swan Lake ‘In The Name Of Love’
32. The Todd Terry Project ‘Back To The Beat’
33. Rhythim Is Rhythim ‘The Dance’
34. EPMD ‘Strictly Business’
35. True Mathematics ‘For The Lover In You’
35. Sugar Bear ‘Don’t Scandalize Mine’ (Vocal Mix)
36. Roxanne Shante ‘Go On Girl’

36. Roxanne Shante ‘Go On Girl’
37. Smokey Dee & DXJ ‘All You Need Is The Bass These Days’
38. MC Shy D ‘I Wanna Dance’
39. The Beat Club ‘Security’
40. Hashim ‘Al-Naafiysh’
41. Mantronix ‘King Of The Beats’
42. Yazz And The Plastic Population ‘The Only Way Is Up’ ..what mix?
43. ??? – “hey hey hey”
44. Fast Eddie ‘Acid Thunder’ ..poss (Fast Eddie Mix)
45. Psychic TV Featuring – Jack The Tab ‘Tune In (Turn On The Acid House)’ (Mister Love Acidisco Northern Soul Mix)
46. Black Riot ‘A Day In The Life’
47. The Minutemen ‘Bingo Bongo’
48. The Brat Pack ‘So Many Ways (Do It Properly Part II)’
49. Inner City ‘Big Fun’ (Juan’s Magic Remix) (2 Copy’s)
50. Diskonexion ‘Make It Happen’ (Graeme Park Mix)
51. Adrenalin MOD ‘O-O-O’

51. Adrenalin MOD ‘O-O-O’
52. The Associates’Heart Of Glass’ (Auchterhouse Mix)
53. Terry Baldwin (Housemaster) ‘Do You Wanna Dance?’
54. SLF ‘Show Me What You Got’ (Acid Mix Part 1)
55. Ralphi Rosario ft Xavier Gold ‘You Used To Hold Me’ (Accapella)
56. Mr. Fingers ‘Can You Feel It’
57. Rhythm Controll Ft Chuck Roberts ‘My House’ (Acapella)
58. Ten City ‘Right Back To You’
59. Jungle Brothers ‘I’ll House You’ (Houseapella)
60. Jungle Brothers ‘I’ll House You’ (Instrumental)
61. ??? – Track26 again
62. Deepak And Khan ‘Holle Holle’
63. Bomb The Bass ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ ..Inst? ..breifly
64. Mickey ‘Mixin’ Oliver ‘In-Ten-Si-T’
65. Paul Rutherford ‘Get Real’
66. ???
67. Royal House ‘A Better Way’
68. The Todd Terry Project ‘Weekend’
69. This Ain’t Chicago ‘Ride The Rhythm’
70. A Guy Called Gerald ‘Voodoo Ray’
71. Black Riot ‘A Day In The Life’
72. Royal House ‘Can You Party?’
73. The Housefactors ‘Play It Loud’

By: DJD2

DJD2 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:59:18 +0000

……………………………………ACID…………………………………………=]

By: rich evans

rich evans — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:33:37 +0000

oh my word…. thankyou for posting these fantastic moments, what a blast from the past, never sounded so good, proper misty-eyed listening to this! sweaty, exciting, proper mix up and ‘where’s your child / voodoo ray’ brought me to my knees! this was alien and good! stood for all things new, a movement and a religeon….. CLASS of the highest order ;o)

By: Graham Redfearn

Graham Redfearn — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:28:38 +0000

Can anyone advise on how listen and / or donwload the mix?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:23:28 +0000

I can name some of the people in that photo. I agree about 88 for the year. I spend most weekends in that place as one of the most happening clubs in the UK

Anymore photos from that era would be most welcome as a trip down memory lane!

By: tim

tim — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:22:36 +0000

Here they are: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

By: dom

dom — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:39:27 +0000

Hi Jack, we’ve been changing the site around and are still in the process of restoring various mixes, parts 2,3 & 4 do exist and will hopefully be back up on the site sometime in the not too distant.

cheers

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:16:43 +0000

Does anyone know where you can find part 2 of this mix? And if there is a part 3 and 4 as another site suggests?

By: Interview: Graeme Park. « Mike Atkinson

Interview: Graeme Park. « Mike Atkinson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:47:36 +0000

[...] Sleccy’s vinyl countdown – my Guardian article on the closure of Selectadisc. Graeme Park at The Garage, Nottingham 1988 – three completely fantastic hours of house and hip hop, recorded direct from the [...]

By: dom

dom — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:31:59 +0000

Decent Wyn….cheers for that top-spot.

By: wyn

wyn — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:54:30 +0000

Dom, mr lee – pump up london also check out the earlier pump up chicago from about 87.

By: dom

dom — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:18:21 +0000

Does anyone know the tune that namechecks the UK cities?

By: tim

tim — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:15 +0000

Great interview with GP here:

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2524

By: tim

tim — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:21:37 +0000

spotter!! Thanks Allister

By: Allister Whitehead

Allister Whitehead — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:16 +0000

Just to let you know track 4 is ‘A Day In Life’ by Todd Terry. Sorry to be a train spotter but old habits die hard!

By: Tbiliso

Tbiliso — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:01:38 +0000

The Garage, Barracuda, Kool Kat, Hacienda… it’s hard now to imagine how fresh and new it felt back then, like we were on the verge of some remarkable new discovery… some kind of revelation… Mr Park must take credit for changing the way we heard music, the way we felt about music…

By: dom

dom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:56:22 +0000

some great comments and agree that around this time and earlier DJ’s did travel for guest slots and different residencies, as well as many travelling the up and down the country to attend events.

Around this time Graeme was also playing a night at the leadmil in Sheffield (the steamer) that had plent of guests , i think they even swapped one night with the Hacienda (Hot).

Cheers
Dom

By: scott park

scott park — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:27:40 +0000

Ah, my big brother……………………………….quality.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:51:10 +0000

Quality mix, im still gutted at having lost all my old tapes from those days and my full collection of tapes from the Urban Beats Club @ the club on Thursday nights that Graeme ran before it became Venus.
And yeah, Graeme was playing in London in those days too so DJs did used to guest, I remember us following him to some club in London and him going mad at his then GF for spending £100 on some shoes down there, hehhe. It’s amazing now to thing we would all go back to his flat after gigs and he’d be going through the tape of the night straight away getting it ready to sell the following week, I will never forget his broken toilet and having to flush it from the bucket by the side of the bowl! Ohh happy days!!

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:24:05 +0000

Looking at the tracklist sent a shiver down my spine.

Things really were much better back then….

By: Little Titch

Little Titch — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:04 +0000

This was the first club I ever went to, and first house dj I ever listened to. Brings it all flooding back. So exciting to have been part of this. No E’s yet. Just weed and acid. Also went to Eden. Dancing with Chris and Claude in the Soul Brothers. First time I heard the ACIIEEEDDD!!! Chant. This is great. All coming around again now.
PUMP IT UP NOTTINGHAM!!

By: AP

AP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:06:23 +0000

Downloaded and on me ipod, this is fantastic, thanks so much for sharing

By: AP

AP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:32:49 +0000

WOW!!!!!!! Amazing, and Ally Whitehead? I have a mix from koolkat 1990, its quality

By: bison

bison — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:04:21 +0000

Just a small point but it’s not strictly true about no guest djs before 1988…thousands of us in London/south east used to trek all over the region because a certain jazz, funk soul dj was making an appearance at a club and this had been happening in the London region and indeed in the rest of England (funk scene/northern soul etc since the late 60s). To a large extent the acid scene down south was driven by djs who were already known from the older scene.

By: lance

lance — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:18:51 +0000

thank you for that superb mix..,it is like an audio time capsule of good clubs around that time…it brought back many happy memories of the grasshopper in westerham and the slammer in gravesend around that time

cheers paul

By: bob

bob — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:54:58 +0000

good work mike!

By: MrB

MrB — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:47:03 +0000

I saw Graeme Park at the Garage a little earlier, perhaps 86, and at a club called the Barracuda. My friend told me how good he was, of course there was no Gguest djs ” then only really residents, so to go to a club for a specific dj was unusual.

It was just as house was breaking, so you would hear maybe only a small handful of house tunes during the night.

Good stuff.

By: DAVID

DAVID — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:25:54 +0000

This mix is bang on. Probably sums up Summer 88 everywhere! Nice to hear everything in the mix as well. I’ve got most of the tracks anyway but it certainly brings it back ‘as if we were back there’! Best year of my life!!( children excepted) and music in general!

By: dom

dom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:04:40 +0000

Hi Mike, thanks for passing through & leaving such a great comment about the mix, thanks for the tracklisting & also your memories.

Eden – now that’s a blast from the past…yes the mix captures the full spectrum of different styles moving dancefloors at the time. Great Times indeed.

cheers
dom

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:51:15 +0000

(Oh yeah, and HOW MUCH Todd Terry?! This must have been the moment when we all discovered him in earnest… I remember it well…)