Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 2

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alt_daz Some of the tracks that are around marketing in which Pirate Radio Stations at the time presented themselves correctly as being great ways to reach the public especially the youth of London.

The humour of the track: "Washing The Dishes" sums-up the fun of that era.
Favorite track: Washing the Dishes.

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1.	Intro (Don Ads) 00:09	buy track
2.	Don's 1st Birthday 01:03	buy track
3.	Telepathy Man II 01:30	buy track
4.	Junglists & Junglettes 01:36	buy track
5.	The Sound of the Underground 01:03	buy track
6.	Boogie Beat Promo 01:04	buy track
7.	Tribal Dance 01:03	buy track
8.	Lost & Found 02:03	buy track
9.	Music Power Ilford 00:51	buy track
10.	Dance Xplosion Pt. II 01:46	buy track
11.	Think of the Future 01:41	buy track
12.	Advertising Eruption 00:52	buy track
13.	Club Booyaka 02:37	buy track
14.	The Way It Was 01:30	buy track
15.	Get the Buzz 00:21	buy track
16.	Washing the Dishes 00:11	buy track
17.	Fusion 00:31	buy track
18.	Smithy's House 01:09	buy track
19.	Rumble in the Jungle 00:50	buy track
20.	Bear Necessities 00:56	buy track
21.	Brave New World II 01:34	buy track
22.	Double Dipped & Every Picture Tells a Story 01:10	buy track
23.	Halloween Spooktacular 00:51	buy track
24.	Total Music 00:55	buy track
25.	Atmosphere 01:14	buy track
26.	Hocus Pocus 01:39	buy track
27.	Don Merchandise 00:22	buy track
28.	Teen Rage 01:46	buy track
29.	Innersense 00:11	buy track
30.	Adventures in a Land of Music 01:24	buy track
31.	Hi Poison Demos 00:32	buy track
32.	Telepathy Man III 01:29	buy track
33.	Wax City Records 00:44	buy track
34.	Energy Ads 00:24	buy track
35.	Leading the Ravers Forward 00:37	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 August 4, 2022

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