Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 1

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alt_daz I fell in love with London when visiting in the year of 1994 during the latter years of my teenage days.

Being from Up North, the thing that got me was Pirate Radio which would never be allowed by authorities in my area.

The amount of choice which was available was astonishing especially hearing Jungle in FM on a weekday afternoon.

Death Is Not The End must have spent hours creating this with my favourite track being "Rush" which is the sound of my youth. Favorite track: Rush.

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1.	Intro (Hold Tight All Pirates) 01:00	buy track
2.	Jungle Magic 01:18	buy track
3.	Telepathy Man 02:09	buy track
4.	Advertising Hotline 00:26	buy track
5.	Rush 01:08	buy track
6.	Hardcore Hellraiser 02:33	buy track
7.	Generator Magazine 00:33	buy track
8.	Blackmarket 00:47	buy track
9.	Gas Meter 00:39	buy track
10.	Sobell Rave 02:28	buy track
11.	Expanse 00:58	buy track
12.	Longest Music Event Ever 01:35	buy track
13.	Elevation 00:53	buy track
14.	Pulse Mixtapes 00:23	buy track
15.	Kool Services 01:22	buy track
16.	Upfront White Labels 00:43	buy track
17.	Kryptonite 01:23	buy track
18.	Eclipse 01:09	buy track
19.	Pulse Competition 00:28	buy track
20.	Calling All Promoters 00:40	buy track
21.	Hardstep Jungle Shakedown 00:25	buy track
22.	Wonderland 00:36	buy track
23.	Brave New World 01:14	buy track
24.	No Retreat No Surrender 01:02	buy track
25.	Strictly Hardcore Records 01:02	buy track
26.	Labyrinth 01:29	buy track
27.	Creation 00:42	buy track
28.	Fantasia NYE 01:55	buy track
29.	Ultimate NYE Experience 01:03	buy track
30.	Energy 01:09	buy track
31.	Inner Glow 01:37	buy track

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Back in the early ‘90s, whenever the pirate radio MC announced “a pause for the cause”, I usually pressed pause on my cassette recorder. That’s something I would regret years later, when ad breaks had become cherished mementos of the hardcore rave era. Luckily, back in the day I often left the tape running while I went off to do something else. So a fair number of ad breaks got captured accidentally for my later delectation. Not nearly enough, though. So in recent years I started combing through the immense number of pirate radio sets archived on the internet. Sometimes the tracklists would note “ad break” or “ads”, helping to narrow the search. But often I’d just stumble on a bunch in the middle of a pirate show preserved on YouTube or an oldskool blog. A few of my original unintended “saves” and latterday “finds” are included in this wonderful collection by audio archaeologist Luke Owen. It’s the latest in his series of compilations of UK pirate radio advertisements, with this volume focusing on the audio equivalent of the rave flyer: MCs breathlessly hyping a club night or upcoming rave, listing the lineup of deejays and MCs, boasting about hi-tech attractions like lasers and projections, mentioning prices and nearest landmarks to the venue, and occasionally promising “clean toilets” and “tight but polite security” (“sensible security” is another variation). Some of these ads are etched into my brain as lividly as the classic hardcore and jungle tunes of that time. (Most rave ads incorporate snippets of current music, of course – big anthems and obscure “mystery tracks” alike). Names of deejays ring out like mythological figures: who were Shaggy & Breeze, Kieran the Herbalist, Tinrib, Food Junkie? Putting on my serious hat for a moment, I think these ads are valuable deposits of sociocultural data, capturing the hustling energy of an underground micro-economy in which promoters, deejays and MCs competed for a larger slice of the dancing audience. But mostly, they are hard hits of pure nostalgic pleasure, amusing and thrilling through their blend of period charm, endearing amateurism, and contagiously manic excitement about rave music’s forward-surge into an unknown future. The best of these ads give me a memory-rush to rival the top tunes and MC routines of the era.

— Simon Reynolds, author of Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture.

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released July 8, 2022

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