DiY soundsystem is a DJ collective that formed around 1989 in Nottingham. Whilst being well known for kick starting the free party scene in the midlands, DiY also put on some serious club nights including Bounce, Serve Chilled, the Doghouse and Sponge. On the streets of early nineties Nottingham, in the run up to the weekend, the one question on everyone’s lips would be:
Got tickets for Bounce?
We’re really pleased to host another recording from the DiY archives (there are more to come). If you were there or thereabouts please say hello.
DiY Simon DK Bounce 92 Pt1 [47:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download DiY Simon DK Bounce 92 Pt2 [47:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Listening to some old tracks with my brother and DIY came up so I googled and found this. Fun times indeed.
It is difficult to describe accurately what these times and memories mean to me…Meeting up at Jaceys…The Dance Factory…and then the nights switching clubs..Greyhound St..St James St…etc…Just Brilliant Brilliant times…Deep House one moment then Dj Sy Rave mixes the next…Regards to all..any links to more old classic Notts House / Rave would be welcome….Keep it Locked..:)
Damn!! I can’t thank you enough for bringing this back to life for me. Those memories are brought back so easily with this amazing music. Just WOW. Mad times…!
Glad i found this page, really good memories of the free parties with sweat sound system, i can remember DIY would turn up, was it DJ Jack!! and play the most amazing set’s, wish that time in life wasn’t so hazey!!! But what good fun.xxx
DJ Jack live form Amsterdam was the first I heard of him (in 91 I think?). I bough the tape from “Crisp Biscuit”, a ‘rave shop’ that sprang up in my home town Chippenham, Wilts (I guess off the back of Devotion at Goldiggers, free parties in Wiltshire fields courtesy of laidback open minded famers and before the CJA). DiY tapes rocked; they gave me a sound that was less frenetic than a lot of the breakbeaty/jungle sounds of 91/92 and went deeper and more melodic than any other ‘dance’ music I’d heard prior. The groove was – and still is – incessant though… My mate Justin and I rinsed that tape for a long, long, long time…
Big shouts to all the hardcore. i guess you know the score!
Easy… urbanatelier x
I can’t believe this site exits. It’s fantastic. So good so many people remember Bounce with such love. It was the best. Never found anywhere since with such enthusiasm and love. Just the best nights!!! Hello to the St Stephen’s road posse if you ever happen to read this! Wayne, Karen, Rob, Andy, the guys next door, Big Nick and everyone else I can’t remember (Could it be you guys above?) Still have some tape somewhere but I think they were 3rd hand copies and I played them to death. Must dig them out and see.
Yes, yes, yes….brilliant to hear the old tunes again. They were so good we’d be driving up from London whenever we could. New Years Eve 1992 Bath anyone? Amazing, amazing DIY party with the fog in the morning and Fight the Power as the last tune.
Awesome. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks Fella, This takes me back so far… well only as far as 1992. DIY rock. I recall (only just) listening to DIY hours on end, flipping the cassette tape round and round while entertaining two fellow students on their first Trip.
Hee hee! Trippers Grin.
Happy times. Love and peace.
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