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2000 and bleedin 24...... how did we make it this far eh? Think about it.....   youve somehow come to be born (millions to 1 chance) and then got through life without either you or someone else killing you to reach a quarter of a century into the 21st millenium.......... COOL INNIT!! And now your here.... Reading this shite..... how about you spend less of whats left of your precious time reading my rubbish.......... and listen to my 2024 YEARMIX..... 150 bpm to 230 bpm!! 2 hours and 40 tracks of my fav tunes of the year...... You know what? I could have easily doubled it. Thanks to everyone for your support in 2024! Enjoy!! 1  - A Journey Beyond The Edges Of The Mind - The Relic 2 - Beyond The Portal - The Relic 3 - Wytch - Demanufacturer  4 - Stalker - Ophidian  5 - The Rambler (Hello MF) - Tripped 6 - The Evil Inside - Grimmvulture 7 - Eject - The Outside Agency 8 - Beautiful boys On A Beautiful Dancefloor - Killbourne 9 - The Celestial Hunt - Nanostorm 10 - Contact - AVLM & Miyuki Omura 11 - Aliens - RabBeat 12 - Dj Promo - Silence Is Dangerous (The Silence Remix) 13 - The Punch - RabBeat 14 - Industrial Counter - The Silence 15 - Dj Promo - First Rebirth Remix 16 - Time - Dj Mad Dog 17 - Energy 1996 - Dj Mad Dog 18 - Were No-One Else Goes - Dj Promo 19 - Fall In Love With Music - Dj Promo  20 - Excessum (Whitepasta Edit) - Riddler 21 - Get Beat Down - Tripped 22 - Fuckin Hostile  (The Outside Agency Remix) - Lenny Dee 23 - Audio Warfare - Unexist, Art Of Fighters, Satronica 24 - No More Yin (Heisa Remix) - Speedy Qs 25 - 20000 Freaks (NVitral Remix) Dj Promo 26 - Born To Be Hardcore - Miyuki Omura 27 - Human Disasters - Dj TSX 28 - Gravediggin - Kev Gee & Devastate  29 - Mass Listeria (Radium Remix) - Fast Forward 30 - Facetake - Shuri Khan 31 - Mental Disasters - Dj TSX 32 - Bonebreaker (Angerfist Remix) - Deformer 33 - Kill The Children - Hellfish 34 - GRL Problmz - Thrasher 35 - Creamy - Kev Gee & Devastate  36 - One Hand - Hellfish 37 - Harder They Come - Jimmy S 38 - Gas Em Up - Red Flag 39 - Funny Music - Peppa Mafia 40 - Savage Times - Hellfish

Good evening Geecasters! I hope you enjoyed your summer! Cos its going to get wetter soon! (and were not talking about aunty Michelle down the Social Club on a Friday night!) So with that disturbing thought in mind!  Heres a Geecast I put together in MARCH!! YES... March! But for one reason or other ive only just gotten round to uploading! As winter rolls in Expect more uploads and some exciting news on some actual releases for some of the tracks ive been working on in the last few months........... YES!! You heard right! Im now joining the production train! CHOO DENG!!! CHHOOOO.... (Distort the fook out of it!) I hope you all enjoy!! An hour (Or so) of uncompromising future looking hardcore. Tracklist......   Happy Friday you gorgeous people! The sun is out!! and also another GEECAST!! This time featuring Hulls Hardstyle priestess Dj LEEDEE E!! Please click the links below to Stream, download and read LEEDEE Es interview! This Geecast also features some new productions that myself & Dj Devastate (next generation records) have been working on over the last few months!   They have already been signed to a label and more information will be available in due course!!  So please check them out! Thanks to everyone who supports the GEECAST & myself! Please LIKE, SHARE, DOWNLOAD!!! Mix 1 - LEEDEE E - Guestmix (Hardstyle) mix 2 - Kev Gee - (Industrial Hardcore, Hardcore Techno)   Geecast - March - Kev Gee Tracklist 1 Miyuki Omura - The Music Makers 2 -Miyuki Omura  - Thats Me 3 - Miyuki Omura - Awkward 4 - Dustrializer - Lost In The Sauce 5 - Miyuki Omura - Get Started 6 - Opidian - Demon 7 - The Outside Agency - Resist 8 - DNGN DRGNS - Through The Prism 9 - Dj Producer - Approach Phase (Enter Dimension) 10 - Akira & Steen - Paria  11 - Dustrializer - The Database (Code:Red Remix) 12 - Miyuki Omura - Born 2 Hardcore (Remix) 13 - Stormtrooper - Jeannie & The Space Cookies (Remaster) 14 - The Belgian Stallion - Draufgehen (The Speedfreak Remix) 15 - DNGN & DRGNS - Into The Light 16 - Dj Producer - Metaphysical Universe 17 - Bryan Fury - The Return to Violence 18 -  Rage HC - My Name 19 - NOICE - Einzelgangster 20 - NOICE - Wachstum Durch Schmerz 21 - Butterfist - Abatoir Afterparty  22 - Alphatraum - Frange Rage

Whats that big yellow round thing in the sky? Why is it warm? Whi is it not raining today?   It couldnt be could it?    S U M M E R   Jesus! Its only (prepares Liam Gallagher Manc accent. )   SUNNNNN SHEEEEEEE INNNNNNEEE!!!!!   And in true summer fashion.   Heres a summery Happy Hardcore mid 00tees mix to get your GRIN ON!!!   PEAK 2000-2005ish Happy Hardcore!!   lets go!!   Enjoy your weekend!   Get the beers in and the mx on!!   Go!   1 Plus System - Lets All Get Down 2 Scott Brown - Push It 3 Scott Brown - Elysium Plus 4 Expression & GBH - Nightime (Sy & Unknown Mix) 5 UFO - Breaka 6 Eclipse - 24-7 (Breeze & Styles Remix) 7 Dougal & Gammer - Ordinary People 8 Frisky & Hujib - The One 9 Breeze & Styles - Electric 10 Neo Cortex - Elements 11 Bang! - Sailaway - (Storm & Euphony Remix) 12 Bang! - Sunshine On A Cloudy Day (Storm & Euphony Remix) 13 - UFO - Tears 06 14 - Artist Unknown - In My Dreams 15 - Impact - Hold Me Now 16 - QTEX - The First Parable 17 Scott Brown & Brisk - Chase  

  Happy Friday you gorgeous people! The sun is out!! and also another GEECAST!! This time featuring Hulls Hardstyle priestess Dj LEEDEE E!! Please click the links below to Stream, download and read LEEDEE Es interview! This Geecast also features some new productions that myself & Dj Devastate (next generation records) have been working on over the last few months!   They have already been signed to a label and more information will be available in due course!!  So please check them out! Thanks to everyone who supports the GEECAST & myself! Please LIKE, SHARE, DOWNLOAD!!! Mix 1 - LEEDEE E - Guestmix (Hardstyle) Mix 2 - Kev Gee - (Industrial Hardcore, Hardcore Techno)   Now then Hardstylers!!! Its time to show what you can do!!   Can you hang With the HARDCORE?!    Lets go!!   Leedee is Dj from the north of England.  She has played all over the country & has also gotten quite a following with her rugged Mix of Hardstyle!! Playing along side artists such as Hixxy, Triple XL, Mark EG, Jake Nicholls & J-Trax.    As well as LeeDee E's banging Hardstyle mix, you lot will get your fill of 150-220BPM industrial Hardcore & Gabber!! So get ready for some LOUD Kickdrums!!   Ive also included some of my new productions so please be sure to check them out! But please!! Whilst listening take time to read our interview with LeeDee E to see what got her started on her journey. Welcome to Geecast LeeDee E!! Hows things? Are you ready to tear us a new one with your mix?! Hi im really well thankyou. Hope your well too    Can you tell us a little bit about yourself. SL (MSN style!) Im missing the A (from ASL)  as readers know you should never ask a lady her age! Im from hull  I've been a raver since 1994 (yes im old ) but im still young at heart. I run my own business its a food trailer called humberscran.    Can you tell us about your first exposure to the rave scene.  Was it through friends, family etc When  my elder brother left home. I was 15 years old. he left a cassette tape in his bedroom and I played it to see what it was. It said fantazia on it. I could not stop listening to this tape. I used to take it everywhere with me and make my friends play it in their house or in their car . Then 1 day a friend who was a little older said to me do u want to come to a rave. I said yeah straight away, not even worried about being underage. I just wanted to go so much. So my friend took me and some others to my very first rave.    Can you remember your first event that you attended? The first rave i ever went to was pleasuredome at fantasy Island Skegness    At some point you then decided Djing was of interest.  Can you talk us through how you became interested in this side of things? I used to go round to a friends house and watch them mix. I would watch them and see how good it made them feel when they was mixing. I thought I'd like to learn how to mix and get that feeling too. I told them I was gonna be a dj and they laughed. They said I'd never be a dj.  So the challenge was accepted. I bought some turntables  and some vinyl in November 2011 and I practiced.   A little every day then 6 months later I got my first booking.   Can you remember the first record you bought? And do you still have it? The first 12inch record i bought was pump up the jam by Technotronic. I think its still at my parents.   I guess you then decided to take things up a notch and wanted to play out at parties.  Can you remember your first gig? Can you talk us through it? (were, when, line up.. tracks played etc.) My first gig was at a night in Selby called homegrown. I was soooo nervous I felt sick. I nearly turned around half way there as I felt that nervous. My friends reassured me that it would ok. I was on first set of the night. I walked in and went behind the decks and took out my first record. My hands was shaking so when I put the needle on it didn't go down lightly at all my body didn't stop shaking all the way through my set. The ravers was loving it. They wasn't many female djs in the Yorkshire rave scene, so I think people buzzed of the fact I was a female dj that played vinyl.    Who were your influences when you first started out Djing?   dj T.D.K  he played hardstyle and every tune he played was a banger  Also dj vorny (r.i p) the was he mixed  i absolutely loved.      Is there a record that you ALWAYS have in the BAG (USB Stick?) that always does the business?   There are so many that I could chose but if I had to pick one id say shizzle my dizzle my dj duro and the prophet always goes down well and gets everyone stomping    Do you still play the same style as back then? How has your sound evolved over time? I still play Dutch and Italian hardstyle as its my passion and what I love. I've thought about venturing off to harder styles like gabber and raw style but never got round to it. Im loving this new hard techno though so that is definitely a genre I will be mixing very soon    Things have changed loads since most of us started out.  Whats been the 1 bad thing & 1 good thing thats happened in recent years to the scene? The scene changes all the time. Id say the only bad things is there are too many events on these days which u think wouldn't be  a bad thing but it actually is as people can't afford to attend them all so you end up having to miss out on some. Only other moan is events charging loads for a can or larger /cider £7.50 it was at one event, for not even a pint . That's just wrong. The good thing is the Internet. Makes it a lot easier to find out where and when events are.   Phones at raves.... yes or no?! People moan about phones quite a lot. Im not bothered either way. If we had camera phones in the 90s we probably would of used them. Mine phone doesn't come out muxh as I'm usually having that much of a good time I forget to get my phone out     Whats been your favourite event to play at upto now? Uprising Halloween 2022 I got to play on the main stage. This for my was a massive booking as if raved at uprising since the early 90s    CDJs VS Digital Vs Vinyl....... which do you prefer? Mixing on vinyl is my preference but most clubs only have CDJs or contrillers so I mainly mix digitally now.   What equipment do you use at home? I have a pair of pioneer cdjs and a pioneer 600 mixer and a pair of technics mrk 5 gs turntables.   Whats the scene like in your local area? Any good events we should be aware of? Hull as had a few local nights over the years. At the moment we have, humbervibe,eutopia, stompin and the experiance.  these are all multi genre events We have a techno  event  called pure techno and on the 5th of July we have a new night  called techno noise. This is at piper club on Newland avenue.    Have you started to produce you own tracks recently or have plans to?  Can you promote any to us? Unfortunately I dont produce my own music. I really haven't got the time to get into that. Ill leave that to the professionals    Which brings us to now! can you talk us through your mix please? This mix is a mixture of Italian and Dutch hardstyle. I've tried to play a variety of different hardstyle for the listeners    Thank you so much for your mix and interview LeeDee E!!   Have you got any shouts out that you would like to give!! Shout out to my  best friends that always support me liam Dixon, Danny Nolan My dynamix crew  My uprising crew  The Yorkshire raving crew  My grimsby crew chelsie, becky, Amanda, Mel  My little sister zoey  Cheers!! Kev Gee Thanks for having me on board.   Kev Gees Tracklist May 2024:- 1 - VMO Feat Kaelan Mikla - Abyss 2 - The Relic - Into The Dark Lands 3 - Ophidian - Stalker  4 - RabBeat - The Slaves Of Dawn 5 - Demanufacturer - Wytch 6 - TOA - Eject  7 - Hardez - Olbaton 8 - Miyaki Omura - Thats Me 9 - SatanisM - Death is Coming for You 10 - Kader - Unseen 11 - VMO - Welcome To The Death Rave 12 - E-Rush - Fuck You Man (ERush & DarkCreator Remix) 13 - VMO Feat Gabber Eleganza - Martello Moshpit 14 - Distorted - Reflections 15 -  Speedy Qs - No More Yin (Heisa Remix) 16 - Shuri Khan - Lessons from A Friend 17 - Para Italia - (Riddler Edit) 18 - Riddler - Second Nature (Original) 19 - Kev Gee & Devastate - Do You Know Anything About Techno 20 - Kev Gee & Devastate - Gravediggin 21 - Dj TSX - Fuck Da Shit 22 - Noice - Unleash The Beast 23 - Jimmy S - Harder They Come 24 - Hellfish - Save The Children      

Francais & Anglophone classics......... We have a lot to thank our French cousins for..... Brie, French Wine, Culture, Daft Punk, Weird square steering wheels, the odd scrap or 1000 - but dont bring the Normans & 1066  into it as they apparently werent French? (but thats another debate) What they really need thanking for is some damn good Hardcore at the end of the millenium!!  There was a point around this time that UK & French Hardcore were joined at the hip....  The Dutch & Italians were doing their thing.   And the French & UK Had their thing going on.  You can clearly hear it in the music of the time.  an exchange of ideas was taking place.  Pre and early internet.  The only way you could hear what was coming out was to buy the records...  Which at the time in Sheffield Uk was really difficult (pre internet shops.)  I really loved Tieums early SXT studio stuff.  Simple but funky, Punchy kicks & Wonky riffs.... Then you had Radium/Micropoint laying the blueprint for todays Frenchcore... Then you had the UK doing their thing with Hip Hop infused Hardcore....  Anyway I started out doing this mix as a kind of a tribute to Tieum but as the mix progressed (in true Kev Gee style) I veered off into other directions.... and played some stuff from the UK (Hellfish) , Australia (Syndicate) & USA (Delta 9) Enjoy!!!  Mixed in 1 take by Monsieur Kev Gee - Merci! 1 - Radium - Neurotic Tendencies 2 - Tieum - Turn The Key & Go 3 - Tieum & Jappo  - Fuckin Yeah 4 - Brainbruiser - Myse Sick 5 - Tieum & Jappo - Can I Hear Alleluja Muthafuka 6 - Tieum - 4 All Motherfucking French 7 - Tieum - French People Piss My Ass 8 - Radium - Renegade Return 10 - Technological Terror Crew - Uridium Projects 11 - Micropoint - Static Anger   12 - Hellfish - R2 (Ascension Of Vengence Mix) 13 - Micropoint - Running With Dogs 14 - Syndicate - Appetite For Destruction  15 - Delta 9 - Atomizer

Remember Remember the 5th of November. For all foreign peoples this was when Guy Fawkes decided to blow up the Houses Of Parliament.   He was caught after a slippery slimmy Snek on "Team Faulkes" decided to warn a mate and the mate ratted everyone out.  loose lips sink ships... or in Faulkes case. Sink a red hot poker up your arse...... Being tortured and then being chopped into 4 pieces.  The English eh?? Savage barstewards. Anyway..... Ermm Geecast! Theres a new one up!!  Its VANTABLACK..... Blacker than the blackest black..... Dont believe meh? google it...   Vantablack? Yeah... kind of like the music on this months Geecast!! The darkest.. blackest....Techno, Industrial Hardcore and proper French/UK Hardcore!!   And Dutch???  Of course.... Thats a given!  Enjoy! 155BPM - 250BPM. 1  - Starving Insect & Catscan - Merged With Silence 2  - The Silence - The End Of Time 3  - RVLT - Hood Rules 4  - Cassie Raptor - Dance With Me (Somniac One Remix) 5  -  Promo - What The Fuck? (D Passion Remix)     6  - The Silence - Full Beast 7  - The Ravenous - A Storm is Coming 8  - The Ravenous - Blood Angel 9  - RVLT - FCKDUP 10 - The Silence - Remain Calm 11 - RABBeAT - Resurrected  12 - RABBeAT -  L'Indifference 13 - Namenious - Butterfly Effect 14 - RVLT - Pure 15 - RABBeAT - Buried 16 - RVLT - Undefeated 17 - Fear Factor - Mind Of The Universe 18 - Ophidian - Time Warp 19 - Chosen few - Chosen Paradise (Formek Remix) 20 - Neophyte - Brain Cracking (Nosferatu Remix) 21 - Deathmachine - Dred (Tones Remix) 22 - Kilbourne - Plague Raver 23 - Speedy Qs - No More Yin (Remix) 24 - Diplomat & Hellfish - The Acid We Praise 25 - Hellfish - Sex Machine (Dataklysm Remix) 26 - AFQ19V - DFC76F  

Time.....  It waits for no-one or nothing....... The inevitable march forward.  From the lowest sewer dwellar... To the Queen.  From the king of the apes, to the frosted shreddies you had for breakfast this morning. But now stubbornly clings to your arse cheeks until it drops fighting and screaming to be flushed away.   Thats progress..  Well I say fuck off to progress. fuck father time.....The only things that dont march on towards a final climax is our fav music..... perfectly captured and recorded. A moment in time. an idea that a producer had that day... That is pressed unto wax..... Forever recorded.... RE RECORD NOT FADE AWAY... So here we are!!  the mid 90s to the mid 2000s!!!  Hardcore Techno Classics 2! Perfectly captured in time!!!  Featuring friend of the show!!! Uprisings very own RIDDLER!!!! Played at events all over the UK - From Helterskelter to North! by Djs from Dolphin, Scorpio & Producer! Click the links below to stream!! Thanks for your support! Thanks to RIDDLER!! Riddler B2B Kev Gee - Hardcore Techno Classics VOL 2   1 - Dark Earth - Wisdom Of The Grave 2 - Dj Wicked - Time In Uprising 3 - Placid K - G Member 4 - Unexist - Liberate 5 - Stormtrooper - Beautiful Music 6 - Tieum - You LMA 7 - Tieum - Bitch Sexuality 8 - Micropoint - Data Cops 9 - Tieum - The Bass 11 - Tieum - Overdoz 11 - The Speed Freak - Steel Finger 12 - Androgyn Network - Hard Sensation 13 - Six Million Ways To Die (Stolen Cult Remix) 14 - SRB - Crossfade (SRB Remix)   #Hardcore #Speedcore #Hardcoretechno #UKHardcore #Gabber #Holland #Belgium #Hakke #Industrial #IndustrialHardcore #Doom #Doomcore #140bpm #150bpm #160bpm #170bpm #180bpm #180bpm #200bpm #frenchcore #breakcore #crossbreed #noise #techno #shranz #industrialstrength #mainstyle  

And now for something different!!   Around 15 years ago I mixed a couple of cds showing my take on the happier & darker elements of MYBRAIN.  And thus MYBRAIN:Lightside & MYBRAIN:Darkside was born.  TRhese mixes are still very popular even today. To mark 15 years (wow were does the time go) I have decided to mix a sequal to both. This one is how the Lighter side of MYBRAIN is in 2023! The tracks are from the 90s upto around 2005/6 Enjoy! KEV GEE - MYBRAIN:LIGHTSIDE 2 1 - Triple J - Eternity (Lush Mix) 2 - Dj Dream & ELL - Wings Of Love  3 - Brisk & trixxy - Euro Love 4 - Dr Who - Love Of My Life  5 - Dougal & Mickey Seedale - Really Love Yu (DNA Remix) 6 - Slippery project - Something Like This 7 - Dj Demo & Digital Illusion - Right Time 8 - Qtex - Like An Angel 9 - Brisk & Brown - Back & Forth 10 - Brisk & Ham - Angel Eyes (Recon Remix) 11 - Sy & Unknown - Keep The Crowd Jumpin 12 - Recon - The Pillz 13 - Stargazer - The Ultimate High 14 - CLSM - Were The Music Plays 15 - Sharkey Vs CLSM - Wicked MC (AMS Remix) 16 - Scott Brown - Transect 17 - Dj Destiny - Whats Up (Dougal & Gammer Remix) 18 - Scott Brown & DMO - Really Need You #happyhardcore #hardcore #ukhardcore #oldskool #1990s #rave #kevgee 

Geecast June - Tracklist   Whats up mother fuckers! Its summer 2023! Time for BBQs... festivals and raves! and in amongst all this is the shrivelled mushroom that is Geecast! So... take this mushroom... and take a trip into the anti summer.... the other side... the mould stained wallpaper on your bathroom.... thats right... take a lick of the trip and go down the rabbit hole into the anti summer... Enjoy!   1 - Rabbeat - Cest le Vie (Bandcamp self released) 2 - Razor Edge - Gravy Train Will Burn (Dark Impact Records) 3 - Rabbeat - When The Tigers Broke Free (Dark Decent) 4 - The Relic - The Underground - (Dark Decent) 5 - Nanostorm - Bleeding Sin (The Third Movement) 6 - Lenny dee - I Called You (Cancel Remix) (Broken Strain) 7 - Visceral - The Collapse (Nekrologic) 8 - Hardez - Cyberspace (Enzyme Records) 9 - The Relic - Code Breaker (Dark Decent) 10 - False Idol - Us or Them (Thunderdome) 11 - Lenny Dee & Malke - Core To The Rotten (Industrial Strength) 12 - Lenny Dee - Forgotten Moments (Ophidian Remix) (ISL) 13 - Lenny Dee - The Dreamer (Dolphin 2in1 Remix) 14 - Satronica & Unexist - Fuck the System (Angerfist Remix) - (Industrial Strength) 15 - Epsilon - Cut You First (TNI) 16 - Hellfish - Kill The Children (Deathchant Records) 17 XXXXXXXXXXX 18 XXXXXXXXXXX   #Hardcore #Speedcore #Hardcoretechno #UKHardcore #Gabber #Holland #Belgium #Hakke #Industrial #IndustrialHardcore #Doom #Doomcore #140bpm #150bpm #160bpm #170bpm #180bpm #180bpm #200bpm #frenchcore #breakcore #crossbreed #noise #techno #shranz #industrialstrength #mainstyle  

Geecast May2023 Hello Geecasters! Summer is almost here! And with this we present some nice chilled out Ibiza classics.... Sorry. wrong script! Get those horrible earwax infested lugholes around my latest mix!!  This month is 2 years since i relaunched GEECAST! Ive really enjoyed it! Adn weve had some great guests! More to follow in the next few months! Thanks for listening & enjoy the mix! Available in Itunes, Amazon Music, Deezer and of course here on PODBEAN to either download or stream!! 1 - 14Anger - Dies Irae 2 - AVLM - Operation 3 - The Machinist - The Destruction That We Deserve (Murmuur Remix) 4 - RABBeAT - Eden 5 - Plexos - Kiss & Tell 6 - Marlen - Tryptic  7 - RABBeAT - L'Indifference 8 - RABBeAT - Resurrected 9 - Detest - Hood Acid 10 - Stormtrooper Feat Cathy B - Exhale Fantasy (Destruction Mix) 11 - Ophidian - Dark Euphoria 12 - Igneon System - Psycho 13 - RABBeAT - Buried 14 - BrxrnaDetth - Double Gum 15 - RABBeAT - Run! 16 - Dolphin - Broken Armour 17 - Sypexa - Critical Rave Overdose 18 - Butterfist - New Beginnings #Hardcore #Speedcore #Hardcoretechno #UKHardcore #Gabber #Holland #Belgium #Hakke #Industrial #IndustrialHardcore #Doom #Doomcore #140bpm #150bpm #160bpm #170bpm #180bpm #180bpm #200bpm #frenchcore #breakcore #crossbreed #noise #techno #shranz #industrialstrength #mainstyle  

2023 Eh?  How the fuck have the human race made it this far?  Hell we cant even decide how many genders there are nowadays. never mind make our way on our intergalactic journey through the stars. Weve also decided that anyone named Karen is a twat.  (what if all space aliens want to be non binary and call themselves Karen??) sorry to all the Karens in the universe. We love you we really do. Maybe after Karen the space alien from planet Zog has listened to the latest Geecast. THEY/THEM may change their mind about the human race & decide to wipe it off the universe map..... And we so deserve it! But yeah.... Get your alien gill/ears or whatever you listen to music from over this... 1 hour of banging Industrial Hardcore... And if you bump into ET... Tell him I said hes a cunt. 14Anger - Louder Than A Thousand Thunders - Motormnouth Records Starving Insect - The Spike Fields - Prspct RaBBeat - Eden (self released) The Machinist - The Destruction That We Deserve - Extreme Is Everything Richie Gambino - Here Is The Tempo - Prspct RaBBeat - L'indifference (Self Released) Syprexa - The Much Needed Slumber Was Interuppted By Sobbing From The Basement - Motormouth Records Detest - Die In Hell - Oblivion Underground Khaos Engine - Most Broken (TOA remix) Motormouth Records TOA & The Satan - The Rule - Genosha 175 DjIPE & igneon System - Bass To The Neckline - Heresy 14Anger & Dep Effect - Dumpster Death Dance - Prsct RaBBeat - Isolation (Self Released) RaBBeat - Suicide By Soap (Self Released) Thorn Industries - We Run This (Unreleased Dub) DjIPE & TOA - Stone Cold Killer - Heresy TOA & Pythius - Dream Trap - Genosha 175 Detest - God - Oblivion Underground Syprexa - Funk Formula - Motormouth Records Butterfist - in front Of Your Eyes - Oblivion Underground Want me to play at your event or radio show/podcast?  please drop me a message at kevgee1976@gmail.com

In the finest of Xmas Kev Gee mixes... I have done a set that would would make the Anti Santa Proud.....   Starting at 145 bpm and working up to 220bpm to finish...We have the filthiest hardcore known to man.   A set so dirty that Santa would refuse to deliver it. And the elves would rather toss in the bin....   Welcome to GEEmas.......   A tracklist you say????   NEIGH!!!!! Just download and play it to your auntie Edna whilst drinking Brandy and Xmas pud.....    

Now then listeners!!   Its good to be back!!   This is the first of retrospec to our horrid little (in he UK at least) scene!!   Think Helterskelters Technodrome, Think Vibelites Tommorows World, Think North... Think Uprising.... Think Scorpio & producer... Dolphin... HMS... Think staggering out into the world at 6am from Milton Keynes and then going into work at 9am.......   Think THIS MIX.   Shouts to my heroes from those times!!   Mixed in one take... 100% Vinyl!   Enjoy!!   1 - Marshall Masters - Dont Touch That Stereo 2 - Scott Brown - Break It Down  3 - Promo - Metal Warfare 4 - Promo - Guns N Ammo 5 - The Stunned Guys And Darrien Kelly - Violet Skies 6 - Flip - Explode It (Enfusia Hardcore Mix) 7 - The Brutalist - Voice Of Your Concious 8 - Don Diablo - The Beginning  9 - Impulse Factory - Your Wake Up Call 10 - Tieum - SXT99.81 11 - Don Diablo Vs The Raven - The Arrival 12 - Lenny Dee & Darkraver - Toda Rhythym 13 - Tieum - HP 14 - Kit Fox - Da Real Thang 15 - Stroid Side B 16 - Hellfish - Techno City 17 - Mastervibe - Power Of The Herb

Hello! Its been a while! Apologies for the lack of new content! Weve all had a Pandemic to contend with as well as Life!   But im back!   And in this months shows we go back to the very start of my interest in this great music scene of ours!   The rave scene!   Back to WHISTLES, HORNS AND HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE TSHIRTS!   Back the time of dancing till the sun comes up in a muddy field. back to the time of raving with all your mates and not knowing what the night will bring!   Lets reminise! (if I spelt that right!?) 1991! Were you there? When the scene exploded in the UK?  If you were then respect! If you wernt then great to have you along for this ride! Respect to all the old Skool crew! Parsons Cross park crew! all the old Graf heads! raving and spraying!! Chris Decay Hall! Mark Storm Chafer! Steve Roche! Shaun G! James Woollen! Kerry Clark! and everyone else! Whistle crew blow!   Mixed in one take! (as always! grab some records and hit record!)   Tracklisting Kev Gee Goes Back To The Source Volume 1 1 - Altern8 - Evapor8 2 - True Faith & Final Cut - Take Me Away 3 - Powerpill - Pacman  4 - Altern8 - Frequency 5 - Cola Boy - 7 Ways To Love 6 - Congress - 40 Miles (Vocal Mix) 7 - Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation 8 - Terrorize - Just A Feeling 9 - Liquid - Sweet harmony  10 - The Prodigy - Your Love 11 - New Atlantic - I Know (Flute Mix) 12 - Awesome 3 - Dont Go (Kicks Like A Mule Mix) 13 - Rhythm Section - Perfect Love (4am Mix) 14 - Shades Of Rhythm - Extacy  15 - The Prodigy - Out of Space 16 - The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance) 17 - Liquid Crystal - You Got Me   

Welcome to Autumn. The sickly sweet sweet stench of rotting apples and pissed up wasps hell bent on causing chaos until they fall dead pissed and unuseable is in the air! and here I also find myself... with loads of new tracks to play... and happily an outlet (or at least one) willing to let me broadcast this shit.) At last I have a purpose....in a waspy chaos kind of way.... Welcome to Geecast 2021.... Covid survivor and happily didnt live stream shite during our 2 years in what seemed like a  parallel universe! Anyway enjoy the mix as it dives from hard DNB, to Techno, Hardcore and everything in between! 1 - Neurocore - Oceanicor 2 - Neurocore - Atlantis 3 - Delimit - At Dawn 4 - Technical Itch - Find Your Darkness  5 - Technical Itch - Stand Down 6 - Delimit & Coman Dante - The Unknown 7 - Katharsis & Switch Technique - Destruction (Remix) 8 - Bryan Fury - Died,Hardcore  9 - Somniac One & Deathmachine - Kill Everyone 10 - Strange Arrival - Sleeper Agent 11 - Tripped - Dance With Me 12 - Ophidian - Redshift 13 - Detest - Witchunt (2020 Remix) 14 - Ophidian - Who You Are 15 - Mandidextrous - Flight To Vienna (Producers Aerial Assault Mix) 16 - Dolphin - Death Of Theokoles  (Tones Remix) 17 - Kaoz Engine & Bryan Fury - Real Shit 18 - Ophidian - the Sky On Fire

One from the archives for the HULL crew! Just found this set whilst sorting through an old external hard drive. Around ten (I think?) years ago I was asked to DJ for RHouse.  I was asked to play my normal style of Hardcore & Crossbreed.  Maybe some of the Hull crew can fill in the blanks. Who else was on the line up? Were was it held? I used to record my live sets using an MP3 recorder so I think this was the actual live set.  I dont think the set was released on any tape packs as far as i recall.   Things I remember from the night. It was really busy! Was it a Birthday party or something? I also brought two mates along who had been on the piss all day and wanted to carry on their session. they were not ravers at all & it was abit of an eye opener for them! And secondly I got a speeding ticket after getting flashed on the way back home!   Music on the set is a mixed bag of Hard DnB, early Crossbreed & Industrial, and Frenchcore! This is a good set for the gym freaks! press play & lets have it!!    

Spring is in the air... Lambs are born... Rabbits are humping... And the foul Stench of another Geecast is incoming! After the Northern Gathering Reunion sets we get back to what we do best. Blowing your ears out! This month we feature a DJ that has run labels in Hardcore, and currently in Drum N Bass and Bass music, as well as successful rave nights, worked in record shop across the country, been a successful producer. And he survived the cut throat politics of the Hardcore scene to tell the tale. LEE UHF!! So, first Ill be playing part 1 of a classic Darkstep 2005-2010 mix & then Lee will take over with a brand new mix done just for us. So without further ado, Lee!  Thanks for joining us!   Thank you for having me Kev, Its been a while hasn't it? Always good to have a catch up with some of the old crew. Can you talk me through your early days within the rave scene? How did things start for you? I'll try my best. Haha. For me music has always been a big part of my life. In fact up to the age of 12yrs old, my Dad ran a record shop in Sheffield called Roulette Records. I spent most evenings for years after school and Saturday mornings in his shop helping out, which basically translates to me being in the big store cupboard going through 1000s of tapes and vinyls and claiming which ones I wanted to take home.  I must have had near £50k of music over the years for free from the shop looking back now, insane!  At this time in the late 80's and early 90's, I had no idea what rave music was as I was pretty young, but I was obsessed with a lot of rave music that charted such as 2 Unlimited, Snap, The Prodigy, Silver Bullet, Praga Khan & The Shamen.  In fact, when my Dad gave up the shop I got heavily into Gangster Rap (Wu-Tang, Onyx, EPMD etc) and really lost touch with anything rave sounding. It wasn't until 1995, while on a family holiday in Chapel St Leonards, Skegness that I met a guy from Lincoln who used to play Vibealite and Pleasuredome tapes, but as I was obsessed with Rap music, I hated the happy, high energy stuff that he was playing and always shot it down saying it was shit. A year later in 1996, I was back at the same holiday camp with him again and he managed to persuade me to go to a rave. The Pleasuredome, at The Zoo in Ingoldmells. It took a lot of persuading. I was only 14yrs old and was way under age (He told my parents it was a teens night lol) but once I got inside and saw the legendary big clowns head/ DJ box, It blew my mind and i ended up really, really enjoyed it. I got home to Sheffield, and had done a complete 180 with my music taste. My friend from Lincoln was sending me tapes in the post all the time to feed my new addiction and I even found some of my mates at School were heavily into it also, one being a guy you might have heard of, MC Keyes?  Where did you used to go raving?  When getting back from the holiday me and my school pals found out about a weekly running event just down the road from my house. `Uprising` and discovered the wonderfull world of MCing, which lead to me and my friends all thinking we were hot shit on the mic at 15/16yrs old. Haha So you wanted to be an MC back then, more than a DJ? Absolutely!  At 16 when I left school, I had carried on attending Uprising and through a mutual friend, I had started hanging around with a few older lads who were also into the same music, one being Martin Space. We'd all pile into Martin's house at weekends where he and his mates would be DJing while me and Keyes did the MCing. I literally had no interest in Djing at all until I kind of got forced to do it when people wanted a break from the decks. So what kit did you have when you first started Djing? Martin Space actually sold me my first set of decks. He upgraded his at the time and this is what got me off the MCing and into Djing.  They were old belt drive Soundlabs. Horrible to use, but believe it or not, I recorded my first demo for Uprising on those bad boys and got a booking from Paul-O, who I sent it to. Can you tell us who were your main influences when you first started out? Early on, I only really went to Uprising, due to it being local and weekly. Plus I never thought to venture out of the area due to how young I was. So the main influences I had were Uprising performers early on. For MCing, Domer & ELL were the best for me hands down. They hard a darker edge, quite like the gangster rap music I loved in the early 90's. Dj wise - I loved Paul-O. Always diverse, playing different genres and always the harder / party style sound, which for me is the direction my tastes were heading towards. And, like most people at Uprising I had a soft spot for Sy & Alchemist early on when they would guest spot. Later on, as I discovered my own style and sound, and this lead me to be a huge fan of Sharkey & Lomas too. Did you send out demo tapes or go to events and give the promoter a demo in person? Yes for sure, back then before we had Social media and Soundcloud etc. you had to record the demo's on a physical tape. My god it feels so weird saying that, like Im an ancient age where tapes are like chalk & slate, but for most Djs now, its an unheard thing to record something on a physical format. Before I had made a name for myself, I can safely say every club that booked me, I had attended them prior and handed in a tape to the promoter.  When I promote nights myself I have always thought the same way.  The amount of Facebook private messages I get on our event page saying "I'd love to come play at your event" with a soundcloud link, is a daily occurance. I don't think this is a good way to get promoters to take notice of you. One message I had not long ago said "u need to book me for ur nite" Oh do I? Really? lol I am completely dumbfounded how people think this is a way to get a booking, especially in the digital age. It's so easy for anyone to get a mix online and be a DJ. How can you think this behaviour makes you stand out from the sea of competition out there? You have to do even more in my eyes with everyone and their mom mixing now. I can't think of a time, when I was an unknown DJ, that I did not make an effort to support the event I wanted to play at, and actually go and get to know the promoter. To me there was no other way.  You got quite a few residencies when you first started, at events like Future Dance, Vibealite and North. How did those come about? For the exact reasons I mentioned above. I attended the events. I networked well and I called the promoters constantly. Yes, I could be annoying but I was young and hungry and I think for the most part promoters respected the hustle I gave back then. I was everywhere and speaking to everyone. The Future Dance residency came out of nowhere due to me buying records from Wax City in London over the phone every week. Dj Kaos owned the shop, and he sent me a few flyers for the first Future Dance event with an order that I had made. It was on my birthday, so me and a few friends decided to go there to celebrate it. I obviously took a bag full of demos too. I got on well with the boys that ran it, and by their 3rd event I was a playing for them. With North, this actually came from getting to know the owner Andy Bowler, by playing in the North hosted Techno rooms at Future Dance. I was a good fit for their Technology room as I was playing alot of the old Hard Trance / Reverse Bass tracks and had my own selection different from M-zone,Mark EG & Vortex. Around this time there was not alot of people spinning it in the UK this so I ended up playing most North events and tours from then on. Vibealite was also a very fun residency that I kept for quite a while, and this was achieved by (again) attending and sending demos. Around 2002 I met Gary at an event he did up North. We got chatting and he invited me onto his guest list for their first Fantasy Island event. I ended up playing an impromptu set out of nowhere and it went down so well I ended up playing every event from then on until 2006 It also led to co-promoting a couple of events with Vibealite and even hosting rooms for them at larger parties they did like Fantasy Island. And last but not least, there was also a residency at small club night called Defiance in Barnsley. Not on as big a scale as the others but just as much fun to play at. This event holds a very special place in my heart, as it gave me the idea to start promoting myself, as I realized you could do a decent event on a smaller scale at a budget. Did you always drive to your gigs or have a driver? Bit of everything really.  Early on there was a huge crew of us who would be going to raves and parties so If I was playing it was just who wanted to go at the time, and who wanted to drive or not. So getting there could be either a car full of a friends. A driver and me. A mini bus full of us. The train. A bus. You name it. Nothing stopped me getting to the parties. What kind of music did you play back then? At the very start of it all I learnt my craft Djing with the happier stuff (Quosh, Jal etc) But as I started to understand mixing more the main styles that I played were Freeform and Hardcore Techno. These 2 genres are where spent all my buying tunes and they're the sounds that got me my first bookings. So you were always into a variety of music back then as well? (Drum & Bass, Hardcore, Trance etc) I didnt like Drum & Bass at all back then. Haha, and it took me a couple of years to enjoy Trance. But eventually I was spinning everything. Trance, Hard House, Gabber, Hard Trance & Techno and I even got a few gigs doing these genre's too. I think having such a diverse music taste back then also helped me get more gigs at events outside of Sheffield.  When I gave Future Dance & Vibealite demos I would give them multiple tapes showcasing Hardcore, Hard Trance & Hardcore Techno. Reason being is that I loved all these styles equally and they had multiple rooms at their events, so as I was only starting to be booked by them, It would be impossible to be playing the main room right away. So this helped me start playing for them in their 2nd and 3rd arenas that were specific to other genres. It was great for me, as I was booked much more often and had an opportunity to play out lots more performing sets with music that I loved.  From this the Hard Trance / Reverse Bass stuff really took off for me, as there was not many people playing it back then, so there was plenty to go around booking wise.  Eventually though I lost interest in this sound when UK distributors re-packaged it as Hardstyle and made it more accessible for everyone to buy, meaning every man and his dog started playing it. The Dutch got hold of the sound then too, and the releases went all screetchy with those "Hard Bass Powaaaa" vocals. So I then started putting my full attention into just Hardcore alone. Nowadays there isn't much music I dislike. I started a DJ stream during lockdown last year where I played everything from 90s rave to 70s Disco. The whole series can be found on www.soundcloud.com/LeeUHF (Quick plug)   Tell us about the Bedlam events? How did they come about? Bedlam was the name of mine and Martin Space's house parties back in 1998- 2000 They were ace, Our mutual friend Pat would host them at his house and we even booked Djs and MCs that were known locally (DJ Max was one) It wasnt until I started getting booked at a night called Defiance in Barnsley in 2001 that I realized It was possible to put a good event on with a small budget. In June 2001 the first real Bedlam event was hosted at a The Mulberry Tavern pub on Arundel Gate in Sheffield. We had Topgroove play and although it seemed and felt a good night it was the most stressfull thing I had ever done in my life at the time. Haha. But the seed was planted and we then put on a Thursday night rave, just up the road at Uropa club and booked Sharkey. It fucking bombed... Hard. LOL It wasnt until November that year we found a function room, quite similar to the one Defiance used in Barnsley, It was situated on Infirmary Road, Sheffield and the place was called `George IV`  This really helped us elevate the event more and we were regularly putting on parties with different themes (Old skool night, North night, Future Dance night) and booked some top DJs along with it, but around late 2002 the pub got sold and the new owners were not up for us doing our events, despite zero trouble happening there and them always being full. Who was promoting these with you? Martin Space for the most part was my partner doing it, With some help from a couple of local friends we knew along the way. So when did the Total Bedlam events start and why ? in late 2003. It was at the time I was working in Reflex Records, a friend from school I had not seen in quite a few years came in the shop as he had heard I was Djing out and about. It was Mc Keyes. Obviously Keyes was the person I came up with early on Mcing and attending raves and we lost touch for a few years after I left school as he had stopped going to raves. Long story short he told me he was still Mcing and wanted to get involved back in Hardcore I suggested we could look into events and told him about Bedlam. The idea was for us to do something totally different and on a much bigger scale, We did our research, Found a big popular venue in the centre of the UK (The Venue in Long Eaton) and Total Bedlam was born. We started with 2 huge events in April 2004 both of them had huge line ups including Force & Styles, Devastate, Vortex, Hixxy, Storm, Whizzkid, Demand, Jay Precott & Frantic they also had 3 rooms to put music in enabling us to bring in a seperate new talent room and a Techno room. Our idea was with it being central we could showcase the best of everythng across the country and try and bring the Yorkshire scene and the rest of the country to one spot. Unfortunately it did not work that way down the line. Not many people in Yorkshire were willing to go to raves outside of the area, despite us booking Mcs & DJs from there so as time went on we catered more for our crowd that was there and what they wanted. I would loved to have supported my roots alot more back then but our crowd dictated what we did, It wasn't all bad though as it went on to gain some huge success being voted No.1 Monthly event in the UK by Mixmag and we were notorious for bringing alot of `firsts` to the UK rave scene in the form of Foeign DJs, B2Bs and Live PAs.  Doing Total Bedlam really got me to understand more about music culture and rave culture on a larger scale, as we got to really feel the high's and lows of this from being involved at this level. Big lessons were learnt, good and bad. You also get a lot more haters when running events, trust me. Few little known facts about Total Bedlam Joey Riot & Dj Kurt met at Total Bedlam and I persuaded them to play B2B for us which was a catalyst for them starting their partnership up. There's a story about how Brisk & Seduction absolutely hated each others guts. They did not speak to each other for years. We booked them in the same room on the same night one time (Accidently of course) We narrowly avoided a fist fight but we did actually get them to hash it out and talk. A couple of months later Brisk was playing Uproar. Haha  We were also the first event outside of London to Book Finnish Freeform DJs There was numerous times Mixmag mentioned us as the best monthly event in the Midlands When we put our 1st Birthday event on, out of nowhere HTID put on a free party at Air in Birmingham. This seemed to anger a lot of the internet (ush.net for one) and the backlash was so big Hixxy called me asking me to post something online saying I was alright about it.... Righteo! Theres some recordings on the events of me Mcing.. The last time I ever did it  (Most Total Bedlam & Bedlam sets can be found at www.mixcloud.com/BedlamRecords So talk us through how you started producing music? Okay well around 2002 Brian Topgroove invited me and Martin Space to his studio up in Hull, Me and Martin had spoken about doing some music ourselves so it was a great opportunity for us. We made a bootleg of Deep Incision by Helix... It had Human Traffic movie samples and It was terrible. Haha. After that I really caught the bug for it, but Bri had decided to focus all his efforts into improving himself in the studio and making tunes for his trance label so did not have time to do much more with us, but he did introduced me to Dave Devastate who had moved his studio into the same building as Bri up in Hull and I carried on from there with Dave. Obviously with me wanting to write Hardcore Dave was a great fit as he was already wel known for his huge hit releases on the Blatant Beats & Next Generation labels. I was up with Dave every month writing tracks and he would engineer and put my ideas together while teaching me bits and bobs along the way.  So how did Bedlam Records come about? We wrote A LOT of music over 2003 and 2004. and naturally I wanted to get it out, so with Daves direction and advise I put Bedlam Records together mid 2003.  How did you set it up?  Dave pointed me to the pressing plant and to the distributor, and I paid for artwork to be done for releases. It also helped that I worked in a record shop (Reflex Records) at the time, which was great to help promote it. What tunes came out and what artists involved etc! You can find the releases on discogs but our first 5 vinyls were by Me, Devastate, Riddler, Freestyle, Mc Domer, Invader, Adam J, Vinyl & Devotion You mentioned you worked in Reflex Records, Sheffield. How vital was that in helping you get contacts/networking within the Underground scene? It had its plus points but also negatives to go with it.  The good points were that I never missed music being released. Nothing got passed me.  I also got on great with distributors like Simon Underground at UM and Jay at Alpha Magic who always hooked me up with test presses and early promos before they were due to be released in the shops. I was making sure I was selling more music than any other shop, so this really kept the distributors happy who were pushing the releases to us.  I was the head buyer for most of the music there. and I did a bloody good job of it. Having upfront music was great for me. Along with my own label stuff, it was a time when people started booking DJs for having original music and not what everyone else could get and play. I also got to know everyone buying the records too, making some cool friends and acquaintances during that period. On the downside you had to work Saturdays and I was severely underpaid I obviously did not learn my lesson with this though as I ended up working at Hard To Find Records in Birmingham years later. Haha. Is there anything you really miss about those early days? Event wise I miss undiscovered events and not knowing everything there was to know about a rave until you actually got there. The unknown was quite exciting and turning up somewhere that was fully banging was always a nice surprise Music wise I miss the hunt.  Getting on a National Express coach every Saturday when I was 17yrs old, to an unknown city to find a record shop you saw on the back of a Vibealite or Slammin Vinyl flyer.  You`d turn up and find a gem like Selecta Disc Nottingham .Or get a big fat `L` landing at a marketplace in Chesterfield not selling anything at all. It was 50/50 most weekends but it was an amazing time for me. You didnt have discogs or Youtube etc so most music was new and unknown and travelling around was the only way to find the tunes you wanted. Especially if you liked a lot of genres like me. I did this every weekend for over a year when I first bought my decks, I look back on this really fondly as we had such a laugh travelling up and down the country Now days with social media you know everything about every event and Dj now and track now. Thats not where the excitment is now. And things you dont really miss?! Swings and round abouts though. I guess It is quite nice to have every tune ever at your finger tips now.  And I definitely do not miss having to carry a 40kg Record box anymore (My back wouldnt handle it either) Moving into recent years can you talk to us about your switch away from Hardcore & Harstyle and into Drum & Bass? With Hard Bass It got really stagnent when the UK Distributors got a hold of all the big releases as I said earlier so that frazzled out for me around 2005 I was still releasing and DJing hardcore up until 2010 but I wont lie, my love had fizzled out over time. The main reason for it fizzling out was  when a friend of mine helped me to discover a sound in Drum & Bass I never knew existed named `Neurofunk` It was all quite sudden really but I went to a legendary night supporting this music in London called `Renegade Hardware` Up until this, I thought the hardest and darkest D&B you could get was Dillinja. But on this night I discovered Noisia, Spor & Black Sun Empire. I walked out that club finding a brand new love and as it was such a new sound I had found I got the buzz I got back in the day from hunting for music, and I was now out to discover as many producers as possible making it. From then I found a lot of Drum & Bass that was a lot harder, It had a lot of Hardcore Techno elements too and it really appealed to me a lot. The artists I was really feeling back then were Current Value, Ewun, Evol Intent, Dylan & Tech Itch. This new found love taking me back hunting really got my disinterest for hardcore to grow and I just eventually stopped buying and listening to it. Looking back now my original loves were Freeform & Hardcore Techno. Neurofunk for me is the D&B Equivelent of Freeform while the Harder side of D&B is almost Hardcore techno.  What goes around comes around I guess. Tell me about your D&B project Drtbox?  Well aound 2007 I was still DJing D&B under `Lee UHF` and I was promoting a multi genre event called `RAW` (Sets can be found at www.mixcloud.com/Raw_Birmingham) We booked a world champion beatboxer in 2010 called Reeps One and he brought along a DJ with him. They did like a DJ vs Beatboxer battle set and it was amazing. It inspired me to try something similar.  My idea was to find a beatboxer, a Drummer & an MC and tour performing sets live. This is how Dirtbox was born, it was basically a band. But doing this got me some insane gigs around the world and really helped me to get my name out especially being a small fish in such a big pond as the D&B/Bass music scene. I ended up touring a lot. Playing across the pond in Australia, USA, China, All over Europe, Canada, Dubai & loads more. Its been an amazing experience doing that the past 10 years and very humbling. Since mid 2019 though, we stopped playing together regularly as its really hard getting 4 people together constantly to practice and tour abroad, so I am back to my Lee UHF alias doing sets alone... For now The name lives on though in the form of a clothing brand and a record label Ahh so are you still running labels now? Yes still in the thick of it all.   Dirtbox Recordings is the first D&B label of mine and is doing exceptionally well. (DirtboxRecordings.co.uk) We havent done any vinyls as yet due to the current climate with music but its getting alot of support from some really huge names in Drum & Bass such as Noisia, Benny V, Mollie Collins, Drumsound, Ray Keith, Koven, Aphrodyte, Freqax & Doc Scott to name a few I also run a Bass House label called `R U SRS?` (Pronounced "Are you serious") Its just a bit of fun for me as a project but its getting huge support at the moment from people like DJ EZ, Flava D, Korrupt FM, Marcus Nasty & Djs on Kiss FM & Rinse FM radio stations. ( RUSRS.co.uk ) And more recently, I have launched a brand new label, VTO Records. Which is co- run with a friend of mine. (A former freeform producer from the early 2000s now turned D&B producer) Dan Traced. This project is something for us to sign as much music as possible from around the world under the Neurofunk banner and I also wanted to seperate this sound from what I have planned on Dirtbox ( VTORecords.co.uk )  The first release lands in June and I am proper fucking excited for it. So what about writing your own music? I still do, but my output is nowhere near what I would love it to be.I released an EP on Dirtbox in October and I have one in June too. There is also a Neurofunk/Hard D&B album I released a few years ago that you can download for free ( www.soundcloud.com/DirtboxRecordings )   Drum & Bass is so fuckling hard to make, I was not fully able to write music on my own until 2009 and when I started attempting Drum & Bass in 2012 I had to learn a lot of new stuff.  It seriously is another level of skill to writing hardcore and it takes a lot longer. Im still way, way off anything I consider to be the highest qualty. Back in the day it wasnt unknown to just knock out a full hardcore track and start a new one in just one day, but for Drum & Bass It can take weeks or even months to get something finished  Being older also has its disadvantages as I have alot of new responsibilities now running my own businesses and spending time with my family so sat 12hrs a day making music is unfortunately not something I can do as often as I did when I was younger. How different in the scene in Birmingham compared to Yorkshire? Depends really. If I was to comment on the Drum & Bass or House music scene, which are the 2 biggest music genres in both cities. I would say they are very very similar. In Sheffield for example, just like Birmingham you have your older clubbers who like the classic nights, You get your rudeboys who like your `Jump Up D&B` and your house music posers. In both cities you also have huge Universities full of youngsters wanting all this music so I dont see much difference at all. Hardcore wise, Im not so sure about Yorkshire any more. Are there any regular hardcore nights happening? Obviously Uprising, Dizstruxshon and the like are one in a million. Very very different than any other Hardcore city or region in the world Birmingham had a really good Hardcore scene in 2004-2009 with a few regular nights and of course the mighty HTID, Uproar & Hardcore Heaven doing regular parties here. You dont see many of those now though in the whole country let alone Sheffield & Birmingham You've also played at events around the world, how do they differ from the UK in organisation & scale? Not many differences. You get your huge, huge festivals and your underground, more intimate clubs also every where you go. It does depend on the sound though Europe has huge festivals literally only playing Neurofunk D&B. far more big events there than the UK. One thing I do find abroad in some places is the level of excitment people have for you being there. Its unmatched due to the fact some places dont get to see alot of Djs from abroad often.  Australia for one. These guys are 1000s of miles away so they dont get many events where as with Hardcore & D&B in the UK we have been spoiled over the years. Between September & November in Birmingham you will find D&B parties constantly 2-3 times a week. All at capacity too. Drum & Bass has most certainly given me great opportunities travelling. I feel truly blessed to have touched every contenant on earth and to have played music on it. What do you have planned next? Any new music or events on the horizon? Of course, Im not happy unless Im busy, The labels will be releasing constantly through the year again like last (COVID or not) and the new label VTO Records launches in June. Events wise I do have some plans for something when things get back to normal and it will be outdoors but I cant say much more than that until have things set up after the Pandemic restrictions ease up. Gigs are not on the top of my list at the moment though as I have had my first child recently and I dont think I could bare to fly away from her for the night just yet. Any plans to make Hardcore again? Maybe even some Crossbreed?! Hardcore.. Ummm, I am not against it. But I have had nothing inspire me to do it. Crossbreed & D&B you will see a few releases by me this year 100%  Vinyl or CD/Digital? The age old debate!  You pro digital?   No Im just pro-music, and pro-innovation. I dont care what you play music on I just care that its great and inspires me.  People get so torn up about this debate its hilarious because  none of these people could tell you if a WAV or a vinyl is played in a club unless they saw inside the DJ box. I always say you're not exactly learning chess or are qualified to fly a rocket if you Dj on vinyl. I learnt a 3 year old once how to mix 2 records together. So people need to get off their high horse on that one. Makes no sense to me. Its all about how you make the music sound and how you get a crowd to pay attention. If thats beat juggling on turntables like a DMC champion or using a CDJ in a ridiculously profound way with effects and live edits. It doesnt matter both have the same outcome, so neither side are right when they debate whats best. I see benefits in both angles. Although I always wonder why DJs rock up with a boatload of MP3s and then expect punters to buy vinyl when they are not playing it themselves?! I dont think its expecting punters to buy vinyl If you are releasing music you are wanting punters to enjoy your music. No matter how they play it or pay for it. I think its great when producers put out a few options for us to choose from. But I dont know any out there spinning MP3s and forcing vinyl down our throats. 99% of music released is digital anyhow. Personally I use Mp3s for convenience and to take a bigger selection. Carrying vinyl is rough lol. But I still do vinyl sets as it just keeps it interesting for me and I have a great collection so I want it to be put to good use  I think the main flaw of download music now is the fact its very "throw away" theres tons of it out as its easier to release, so you do get a lot of stale poorly made music. When you only had vinyl to release it on for DJs, it was expensive so you were a lot more choosy about the releases you paid to press up because the financial investment to pressing them up was a lot greater. It is harder now to promote music though masses of releases every day.. Anyone can set up a digital label nowadays but the big difference in a quality one is understanding the quality control. promoting it properly and promo'ing the music to the right DJs. I look at each release I put out by deciding firstly would I release it on vinyl given the chance and second am I going to spend money promoting it? Ok then! The Mix!! Can you talk us through? Why did you chose these tracks?! Okay so I have put together a selection of Neurofunk & Hard edged Drum & Bass for you. I thought since alot of people would be seeing and hearing this who were possibly familiar with my hardcore I would do something to help them get familiar with what I do now. Theres a few older bits thrown in but also alot of promo material from my label so you are getting some exclusives right here fella. Thanks! Thank you kev. Its been great And finally!! Any Shouts?!!? Of course. Obviously a huge thanks to yourself for having me onboard letting me talk some shit, Its been really nice to reminisce. Also, everyone from my journey in the late 90s to the present day. If you Dj'd with me, for me or even booked me. Thank you. Lots of people have given me chances also along the way to, and I am truly grateful. What people don't know, is that behind events, labels and DJ tours, there are a lot of colleagues behind the scenes that are intricate in making things work, Diaries, Drivers, Artwork, Distrubutors,  Sound Engineers, Promoters. The list is endless but I've never forgot anyone and Im forever grateful even if we have not spoken in a long time. And finally a big shout out to Lucy, my missus who literally looked after our  daughter all day without my help to do this interview and mix haha. She`ll deserves a medal for what she does x   Kev Gees Darkstep Classics Part 1 2005-2010 1 - Audio - Delusional 2 - Current Value & Donny - Nightmare Man 3 - Dylan & Bkey - Slave To Life (Limewax Remix) 4 - Audio - Warehouse VIP 5 - Current Value - Fear Machines (Remix) 6 - Nanotek - Fresh Hell 7 - Limewax - Strike From The Land 8 - Mystification - Computers 9 - Current Value - You Cant Play God 10 - Limewax - Pain 11 - SPL - Denied 12 - Raiden - RM Bleeps 13 - Current Value - Addict 14 - Proket - Norilsk 15 - The Panacea - Burning Like Fire (The Sect Remix) 16 - Evol Intent Feat Blip - Flipside 17 - Evol Intent - Middle Of The Night 18 - Current Value - Clear Blue Water   Lee UHFs Tracklist:- 1/ ID- Traced- Forthcoming (VTO Records) 2/ Agressor Bunx- The Offering VIP (Eatbrain) 3/ Phace & Subtension- For Good (Neosignal) 4/ Phace- Caged (Vision) 5/ Phace- Spray (Vision) 6/ Traced- The System (Dirtbox Recordings) 7/ Lee UHF- Epic Ping Pong (Dirtbox Recordings) 8/ Lee UHF- That Wiggy Thing (Dirtbox Recordings) 9/ Full Kontakt & Deejay Delta (Dirtbox Recordings) 10/ Lee UHF & Rogue- The Music (Traced Remix) Forthcoming (Dirtbox Recordings) 11/ Burr Oak- Teleporter (Blackout) 12/ Jade & MNDSCP- Dangerous (Korsakov) 13/ Killbox- Cypher (Ram) 14/ Resurgence & O`Den- Chicago Style- Forthcoming (Dirtbox Recordings) 15/ 3rdknd- Pingers (Neonlight Remix) (Barcode) 16/ Gancher & Ruin- The Sect (No Music Allowed) 17/ Donny & Katharsys- Cause & Effect (Barcode) 18/ Mefjus- Suicide Bassline (Panacea VIP- Lee UHF Edit) (Unreleased) 19/ Jade- This Is Neurofunk (Unreleased)  

Hello & Welcome to wet & windy Doncaster as our wonderful British Summer falls flat on its arse before its even begun! Because of this, My new Geecast mix takes on a distinctly anti summery feel this month! This month Ive banged out a load of new recent tunes from the scenes heavy weights! Hitting like an uppercut from a prime Mike Tyson! If you would like a Mix for either your podcast or live radio show then please fee free to email me at kevgee1976@gmail.com Thanks for your support! Enjoy! 1 - Dolphin - Phonaestetica 2 - Current Value - That Smile 3 - The Outside Agency & Current Value - Listen To Me VIP 4 - Deformer - Happy Hentai 5 - Deformer - Moment of Violence 6 - Dolphin Hollow Ground 7 - Micron - 1994  8 - Detest & Tripped - Bag Of Dicks 9 - Adamant Scream & Thrasher = Disorder 10 - Dither - Techn0 11 - Nvitral - King Of The Underground 12 - Detest - Drop This 13 - Dolphin - Alright 14 - Hellfish - Run That Ruff Stuff 15 -  Dolphin - Descention 16 - Ultragore & The Breakline - Aguza 17 - Ophidian - End The Earth III 18 - Dolphin - Ebbs

So we come to the final few sets of our Northern Gathering Reunion mission!!   This time we pay tribute to our dearly departed friend Lyde Fox AKA Bombjack.  I have an old favourite set of his called Brisky Business which he gave out to people at raves & also to friends & promoters.  Called Brisky Business because it used tracks that Dj brisk used to be well known for and also mixed in the Brisk style! Expect lots of bouncy hardcore beats, choppy breaks & fast tempos!! RIP Lyde & I hope your up there stomping away!   Secondly we have Dj Sidewinder! Now Scott is one for playing in a similar style - Fast bouncy hardcore & high tempos. he also has a fondness for the Silk Cuts rip of Bellisima. Which is fine by us! Scott does not have any DJ equipment anymore but has asked for us to include this mix!! It does as it says on the TIN! Sidewinder - Funcore International! 

Happy New year folks!   As we enter the final few days of this terrible year, we look back at to a time when things were better! To a time when you could smoke in nightclubs, party all night long & roll in from a night out & then somehow go to work 2 or 3 hours later & be fine! To a time when garys cost £1 and you needed about 10 of them.  To a time when we didnt have smartphones & we didnt record everything on them.  To a time when people actually went to record shops & met new friends, and forged partnerships & networked by being face to face, rather than over the internet.  To a time when Social Media didnt exist and Rave Forums were the place to get information on what the weekend would consist of!!   SO! On tonights show we feature Kivo's very own Hard style King Dj Skegster!  The guy who launched JADE & helped the youth of the area! Many who may have taken different paths if it wasnt for him! And he can mix a great set as well!! And then for mix 2 its myself playing the Hardcore that I enjoyed at the time! And also the first stirrings of what is now known as Crossbreed. But back then it was given the title Core & Bass. But to me it was all just Hardcore! As always mixed in 1 take with no editing!   Please Read Skegsters ace interview below! I have not supplied one as I cant interview myself hah!    Mix 1 - Skegster Mix 2 - Kev Gee   Interview questions!! Hello!! Can you introduce youself to us and tell us a little about yourself?! ASL, Straight, BI, Upf or experimentation etc?!  Hi, my name is John but i'm probably better known as Skegster. I used to be really into large chested blonde ladies back in the day - but these days I seem to be sat in my flat, alone and doing puzzle books or 1000 piece jigsaws - or something like that.    So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering? I'm not sure exactly how it came to fruition but back then I was running the JADE events every month in Kiveton and I met people like Firthy, D-Jam, Martin Space etc through the events and also through going out raving to Uprising and those kinda places.    What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Were was it held? Lets just be clear - this is part of my life that is kind of a big blur. I was running on stimulants and little sleep - so it's all a bit of a haze tbh. I remember playing sets in D-Jam's kitchen and also up in Bombjacks bedroom as well at the events at the Adelphi and NCPM.  Can you tell us about any funny stories from Northern Gathering? I can remember waking up at D-Jam's one time with MC Trigg shouting something to Firthy over and over again, I was confused and I looked over in the kitchen and Bombjack was laid asleep under the kitchen table on the laminate flooring.  (cue very strong Barnsley accent)  'Fiiiiirthy, if tha wents a lift thaz guna av t wek up man, av gut t git t coooooooowut' I later worked out what Trigg was shouting; (Firthy, if you want a lift, you're going to have to wake up up man, I've got to get to court).  You had to be there to know how funny it was haha.  I also remember having acid at Andy's and we were watching Salad Fingers on YouTube; it fried my head. I had an idea to trick Tommy-T to watch it but then switch it for some gay porn for a laugh, me and I think Firthy managed to switch the screen to the gay boys in action and we were expecting him to freak out off his head on acid, he just sat there and said, 'this is naughty this, it doesn't bother me'. And he just sat and watched it. Not what we expected but it was Tommy after all - mad head hahah.  What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays? It's absolutely cliched to come out with the same sort of response that I used to hate from the old school crew that would say about our era of raving - that it wasn't the same and isn't as good as the old days.  There's so much truth in that tbh - things are clearly nowhere near as good from my perspective. But I also now believe that we should let the young ones have their era and let them party in whatever ways they prefer these days. I also recognise the absolute monumental changes in society as a whole since the NG days and that was bound to change the way people enjoy a night out. I believe social media has completely changed the way the rave scene works.  What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc? DJ wise, I progressed from playing in the back rooms at all the events to pushing onto the main arenas at places like Uprising, Dizstruxhon amd TFI. I still play gigs and i'm still pushing the hardstyle sound at hardcore events all over the region.  Personally, I am still a youth worker and I'm now a Dad to two wonderful girls; Gabriella (9) and Florence (6). Also still support the mighty Sheffield Wednesday (keep your jokes to yourselves!) What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees? I've learned that although it's good to let loose, enjoy yourself and party hard when you are younger, it's also important to know your limits, to know when to stop and also that there's more to life than a rave scene (I would've found this very hard to understand at one point). If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be? If I hadn't had drugs for almost a decade and someone slipped half a gurner in my cup of cocoa; how bad do you think my jigsaw would turn out? Can you talk us through the mix? Why you chose these tracks? I had to rack my brain to work out which era of hardstyle was relevant to the NG days, a lot of time and events have passed since then. It's quite an interesting period in the change of Hardstyle music; the Dutch had first got hold of the traditional Italian sound and started adding their big subby drums. This was the first time i'd played some of these tracks since the NG and I loved it. Brings back memories from a very 'free' time in my life - we would party any time, any place and with zero worries. Take me back! Did you mix them on vinyl or Digital or CD? I mixed them digitally but using some re-mastered vinyl rips.  What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now? Social media and its control over society and of how people want to be seen and how they conduct themselves. You can't let loose these days without someone recording you and uploading it somewhere to take the piss. Drugs - they are completely different and I think in-turn have affected the moods and feeling in some events. There doesn't seem to be so much hugging and affection these days, everyones kinda just in their zone, doing their thing. It that even makes sense haha. Thank you for the mix!! Any shouts?!! Big shout to all NG crew, miss you guys. Special mentions to Firthy for being there for me 24/7 and also to Bombjack and Tommi-T, love always my boys, RIP xx   Kev Gees Tracklist:- 1 - Intro 2 - Hellfish - Money For Fish 3 - Buzz Fuzz - Wake Up 4 - Stormtrooper - Todesvogel 5 - Ophidian - Predator & Prey 6 - Nospheratu & Ophidian - Psychiatric Ass 7 - The Outside Agency - Antichrist 8 - Project Omeaga - Prednison Attack 9 - Enzyme X  - Dissonant Poetry 10 The Outside Agency - Screaming Pheonix VIP 11 Unexist - Fistortion 12 Jappo & Lancinhouse - EXLXAXL  13 IGOR - Crowdrocker 14 Paul Blackout - Simulated Demons 15 Dj Hidden - Times Like These 16 The Outside Agency - International Karate Nightmare 17 The Outside Agency - Yie Ar Kung Fu 18 Torsion - The Fire Funk

Wooooo   Woooo   Erm WOOOOO!   Im the ghost of Christmas past. And im here to share some early millenium Banging Trance & Hardcore courtesy of Mr Jake Nicholls & D-stroy... Woooo Woooooooo............   Its now part 3 of our Northern Gathering Reunion!   Please enjoy & share the mixes whilst your neck another baileys & mince pie!! (and maybe a sneaky Gary?)   Interviews below!   Merry Xmas you filthy animals!    Kev Geex   So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering? I'd been resident at Uprising for a number of years at the time and was asked by Firthy 'king of the forest people' if I'd like to play for his station, it was something different at the time and lots of other great lads were involved too, it was a lot of fun.     What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Where was it held? As I recall, we were all at DJams, Bombjack, Martin, Tommi etc.. were all there, it was a brilliant atmosphere.  My set for this Xmas special is a fairly accurate snapshot of that era.   What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays? There seemed to be a lot more going on, loads of cool people and parties, it was a really enjoyable ride.  It's hard to compare the two eras though, as the dynamic has changed a lot since. In a way I think much of it felt more underground at the time as social media didn't really exist, everyone was in it more for the fun and not for page likes. More noticeably you didn't see anyone on their phone trying to record anything, the dancefloor was fully dialled into the music & it all added to the atmosphere. So much different to how it is now.   What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc? I've been producing trance and hardcore, and DJing here and there, I'm grateful to have played in the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Thailand, HTID in the sun, and Ibiza a few times since.   What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees? Far too many to list

Merry bastard Xmas & Bah HUMBUG to you all!!   No not really! I hope your having a nice build up to the not so big Xmas 2020!   So lets lift the gloom & take you back to times when we didnt care what time we rolled in from a night out & how much we pissed the neighbours off!! (Right Kathy & Andy?)    This one features 2 SUPERB mixes from Northern Gathering Residents Andy Mollins (AKA D-Jam) and everyones favourite cap wearing happy hardcore head & Uprising new talent Dj winner KS1! Both mixes are BANG ON! Get listening and sharing! You'll be back in 2005-06 without a care in the world before you know it!!   And please read the interviews Below!   Mix 1 D-jam Mix 2 KS1   Interview questions!!   Hello!! Can you introduce yourself to us and tell us a little about yourself?! ASL, Straight, BI, Upf or experimentation etc?! Urm... i have no idea what UPF is, do they deliver shit?  Anyway, I'm Andy Mollins, 29 years old, Male, and I'm not 29. Used to DJ under the name D-Jam. So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering? Well, in a nutshell, back in the mystical days of MSN messenger and porn that only came in picture form, my partner at the time, had a brother who played really fast music, he shall be known as sat nav space.  This gentleman hijacked my musicality, and turned me into a part time raver with really long hair and fashion sense that can only be described as the Liam Galagher vs JJB. Anyway, to cut a long story short (unlike my hair), Me and Martin used to play around on the decks during various late night drinking sessions, he was already making waves within the scene locally. And i wanted to get more into it after seeing him smash sets out across the region.  And during this time i came across an online radio station, that was run by a little dingle elf, who was from middle earth. I got chatting to the little elf, using various online translators, and managed to get me and martin a weekly slot on the radio.  From this i became more involved with the radio, helping the elf run things and organise special one-off radio events.  This was how we came about the idea, and the rest is history. What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other DJs there? Where was it held? Well, i used to play out in the club scene from being 16, around Rotherham, when it was actually a decent night out. But my first set would have been B2B with Martin Space at the Uprisings 10th birthday party when Hardcore United hosted room 2, i was bricking myself. (I may have got the 10th birthday wrong). All i can remember is, it was hot as hell, loud as fuck, and still one of the best nights I've had in my life. Me and spacey played through so many styles it was unreal, finishing off with some absolute monsters, don't ask me the names of the tracks. it was 20 fucking years ago lol.    Can you tell us about any funny stories from Northern Gathering? Too many to mention, Martins already spoke about the one that stuck out to me, although he did leave quite a few details out that i won't go into. He knows lmao.  I do remember DJ Firthy aka the elf, missing his set due to be absolutely hammered. and he was on pretty early if I remember, he'd managed to get that smashed he spewed in the bath, and then was comatose for most of the day. And before anyone says anything, yes that happened to me, but i was on last, so i came around in time!!!  What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays? I can't comment, I'm a recluse. i spend most of my days producing or playing some game or working. I do miss it though, and the people, had some mint times.  What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc? I have been releasing a podcast, when i have time, and i produce to some sort of standard under the alias ArcAnum, nothing to shout about. And i run 2 labels, nothing that would fit into any rave though I'm afraid, my brain can't compute anything over 135 these days.  What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees? Above anything, the more ass you kiss, the further you got. Or if you have a skill that can be useful within the scene, then you'll be ok. There are a few exceptions to that rule. But very few and far between.  I know some DJ's with some serious talent's, and passion that didn't even get a look in because their faces didn't fit, or some other bullshit reason.  If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be? When are you coming to upgrade my shit broadband you slag!!!!  Can you talk us through the mix? Why you chose these tracks? I tried to recreate what I'd had done back then, i was never one to just play one style, i liked to go through the styles, easing the listeners into the set before whacking them with a hammer. Did you mix them on vinyl or Digital or CD?Digital... It's not the same, and will never be the same, just glad i lived through i time to hear a record bounce on the decks because some cunt was jumping too high in front of the decks.  What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now? Can't really comment about the now, but i can imagine it being nothing like it used to be.  Who knows, maybe there's already been talks within the ranks for party or event created by the NG team in the not-too-distant future.  Thank you for the mix!!   Any shouts?!! Yehh, everyone who was involved within the NG team. And to everyone who followed our journey along the way!!       Interview 2 KS1! Hello!! Can you introduce yourself to us and tell us a little about yourself?! ASL, Straight, BI, Up for experimentation etc?! KS1 or nowadays Keith Stanage, from Scunthorpe, meh   So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering? I bothered the bejesus out of Martin Space after meeting him at Long Eaton.   What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Were was it held?  A welcoming, family get together atmosphere second to none! I didn't know many people there when I arrived but I did when I left.   Can you tell us about any funny stories from Northern Gathering? Yes, but I still speak to some of these ppl so I won't. Andy is responsible for most.   What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays? We worked all week and let rip on the weekend. It was a family gathering, didn't matter the event! You could go on ur own and meet people there you knew or would know very soon. There was very little of this bookings for bookings that goes on now, it was talent being booked for talent.   What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc? Mainly having kids. I still play out when asked but rarely, normally old skool and reunion sets, which suits me fine tbh as I can't find the passion or interest in new music... I've gone full Meldrew about it.   What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees?  Moderation is key.   If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be? Why can't dogs look up? Who built the pyramids? Why has Mercedes got 3 Es all pronounced differently? What if this is all a dream?   Can you talk us through the mix? Why you chose these tracks? Hopefully a sort of "best of..." Of the tracks I played during my few brief years of medium success.   Did you mix them on vinyl or Digital or CD? Me: Vinyl and 1 digital.   What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now? We're not in it and everyone is a DJ now... Maybe I'm just old but it's not the same as when I was a lad and it was all fields.   Thank you for the mix!! Thank you for including me, then and now  

Oh My Daysssssssssss!!! Yes thats right!! from out of nowere we have organised the OG MOFOs back for one last HOOO RAHHH!! Who remembers the legendary NOTHERN GATHERING RADIO SHOWS? No You dont?  Sit nicely kids..... Its time for a history lesson.... Mid 2004 and Internet radio shows become a viable option now that people can listen in 128KPS quality and people can also broadcast from their bedrooms using Winamp and a plug in!!  Hardcore United is the brainchild of a young lad called Luke FIrth (No not the Fat pie Firth!! Thats DAVID Firth!)  You see Luke isnt old enough to actually goto raves so he launches an internet radio station instead. He also drafts in well known Local Dj Martin Space and his co conspirator Andy Mollins AKA DJam. These 3 stooges also come up with a plan to have all day raves at various locations around Yorkshire and getting loads of Djs to play there!! Also with the wonders of ADSL broadband you can tune in & get involved listening, chatting away in the chatroom and requesting records etc!!  The idea is a huge success with many listeners tuning in and creating a crazy vibe!! Loads of local djs also hear about this and want to be involved!  NORTHERN GATHERING is born!! Northern Gathering goes from strength to strength! Rave promoters also hear about this &Northern Gathering starts to host second rooms across the north of England. Playing to packed out sweat boxes at events like Uprising, HardDrive and many more!! But with so much fun happening, the unthinkable happens when popular Dj & Mc NG resident Lyde Fox AKA Dj Bombjack sadly passes away.  Naturally it knocks the whole of the NG team for six and his close friend Sam Foster.  In honour of Lyde, an event is organised with Mega Promoter Uprising and the event Bombkacks big bash is put on with a sell out at the legendary Adelphi venue in Sheffield. One of Bombjacks mixes is played out to an emotional and thankful crowd. Lyde if you are up there reading this we all still think about you all the time!! You will never be forgtten mate!   And for this reason we will include one of Bombjacks mixes in the packs!! Also over the last few years we have also sadly lost other NG regulars, Tommi T & Lang-E So.... What now? what happened to Northern Gathering? What about the Djs and Mcs?  I have tracked down the majority of them from EVENT 1. I am trying to recreate the same line up as is possible! I have also done some short interview questions! Were I couldnt track down a DJ. I will try & include a set of theirs if possible!! Friendships that last to this day & were built off the back of these internet events. To celebrate these iconic shows (and the websites that spawned from) Hardcoreunited.co.uk being one. So to celebrate this I have got most of the gang back who played at event 1. This was the flyer for event 1:-      The download & Stream links are further down! Whilst your streaming or downloading why not read the interviews?!   We will be releasing 2 mixes every 2 days running upto Xmas!   Thanks to everyone that has helped with the Geecast relaunch this year to to all our listeners! Stay safe & have a great Christmas with your familys!   Thanks to everyone who has contributed (often at short notice!) mixes or help to make this project a reality!!   Interview 1!! MARTIN SPACE!! Hello!! Can you introduce youself to us and tell us a little about yourself?! ASL, Straight, BI, Upf or experimentation etc?! I'm Martin Space I'm a raver and a bedroom DJ. Even now, at a ripe age of 42. I'm an 'happy go lucky' guy and I do love to 'Dance like no one is watching' at any event. No matter the genre of rave music. So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering? Me and Andy (DJam) have been jamming on the decks for 2 years and converting Andy from Speed Garage to UK Hardcore/Freeform. Taking him out & about and showing him the UK rave scene. Mainly, around Yorkshire & Humber. Andy and his new found obcession, he was scouring the internet and forums. Came across a very young Luke Firth from Barnsley, doing internet radio shows. Andy was intrigued 'what better way to showcase your skills, play the best records at that time and having a blast whilst doing it. Andy contacted Firthy on MSN Messenger (can you remember that?) and said we need to meet up and have a collab and create our own internet radio show. With Firthy's know how, Andy's drive and me, an up & coming and establised DJ in the local scene...it was a partnership, which was going to rock the world wide web. The rest was history and Hardcore United was created. Then, we all come together, with a monthly, 12 hours online marathon radio event called 'Northern Gathering'.   What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Were was it held? My first solo DJ set was at Bedlam on Saturday 9th June 2001. It was at The Mulbery Tavern, Sheffield. I was asked to play a 'Hard House set' (even though I was an UK Hardcore/Freeform bedroom DJ at the time) and I can remember three distinctive records I played: O.D 404 - 9 Bar on Kaktai Records. Vinylgroover & Redhead - Move Your Body on Nukleuz Records. Charlotte Birch - Gladiator on Bulletproof Records. Can you tell us about any funny stories from Northern Gathering? It was all about fun and they were loads of giggles along the way. One sticks out and it will always be remembered. There is a song/record in this story and triggers the memories from the night (its not one you are going to think of, still today!) Northern Gathering radio event on tour, Summer 2006. It was when we all went and played at Looney Tunez, Chapel St Leonards Nr Skegness. Middle of nowhere and very remote. This place was rocking...indoor and outdoor. The club had low roofs, sweat and condensation dripping of the ceiling, the sound system was banging! Smiles all round. Varied music genre was played all night, from DnB, Techno, Hardcore, Trance, Hardstyle, Makina and much more. But, what stood out was the outdoors. Please picture this...a 40ft lorry trailer (curtain sider), with the sound system filling the trailer. The DJ/Producers set up was on the ground and at the end of the trailer. A full live PA set up, plus turntables & mixer. The music played outdoors, was very experimental and random. But, it was LOUD!! Now, this event had 'camping facilites' but decided to place the site, in front of this lorry trailer. So, when we all decided to chill in the tents for a bit (approx. 3am because I had a drive back to Rotherham). The guys who are still playing on this outdoor PA system, decided to play 'Groove Is The Heart by Deee-Lite 'REMIX' at about 250bpm!!! Speedcore...boom! Okay, we are not sleeping haha! There is more stories from the same night but I'd be talking all day and night. What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays? Wow, I really can't comment fully? I'm always going to be biased and say the 90's/00's was the best times. They were because we was there, we witnessed it every weekend. Meeting new friends from all across the UK. Travelling to and from London, Manchester, Nottingham, Skegness and Scarborough. Even, several festivals in Holland. What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc? We (me and Linzi - my little raving dude) still goto raves/events but only on a few occasions. We experimented with different music events ie Gatescrasher, Passion, Hellfire and even went to the Decibal Festival nr Eindhoven, Netherlands in August 2018. We still love going to our favourite event, the mighty Uprising in Sheffield (when there isn't a pandemic causing rife). I play out for mates only now-a-days. I've played at Chris Murrey (Pursuit) event in Hull with Dave Hunt (Devastate), a few times. I do an annual birthday party for Chris MacFarlane (Macca), a mate we've known for years, locally in Rotherham. Macca is a Speed Garage DJ and books other Speed Garage DJ's for his yearly, birthday party. Then, I come along, for the last set, play either German hard trance set or Hardstyle. They love it!! What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees? Take no nonsense of the 'top jocks & artists' and make your own journey. Make your own ideas come to reality, if you would like to make good music. So what, it will no be on the top 10 of Beatport or played by the big names in the scene. Just have fun and make the music you would love to hear, on the dancefloor. Trust me, I've experience it. Its an amazing feeling.  One memory comes to mind. I played at Hardr:ve @ Baths Hall, Scunthorpe. I was playing after Brisk and before Scorpio. This was the opportunity I could play a new studio recording. Listening to it on a live system. It was written by me, Andy DJam and Dave Devastate, engineered by Dave. It was called 'Numb' (Linkin Park remix) and all I can say is 'WOW!!!' Sounded crisp and the  dancefloor was packed. When the main break come in and the vocals started "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface" My whole body was covered in goose-bumps, seeing everyone on the dancefloor 'singing there heads off'. I had to appreciate the ravers by taking my headphones off and going to the front of the stage , high five'in everyone, going along the front stage.  You can't get any better feeling. When you and your mates, getting together in the studio, throw a load of ideas about and coming up a banger...for that amazing memory. Plus a great bonus, Jay (Fastraxx) signed the track and pressed onto vinyl. Devastate Vs DJam & Martin Space - Numb on Distinctive Vinyl (DV002). If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be? Can you come and upgrade my fibre broadband at mates rates....FOC haha! Can you talk us through the mix? Why you chose these tracks? The intro is a special which I created back in 2006, when we sadly lost our good mate and Northering Gathering Resident, Lyde Fox aka DJ/MC Bombjack. Listen to it carefully, there is a clip of Bomby saying 'Martin Space' when we did a set together, at Rush Hour @ The Venue, Long Eaton. nr Nottingham. Also, a small slip of a good friend, Kurt (Mc Shame/Seamus) who performed with me @ the same event, with Bomby. I decided to do a late 90's/early 00's Hardcore/Freeform mix for the Northern Gathering Reunion Geecast. Every single records, takes me back to the year of 2000, where we went raving (as ravers), very single weekend. So many brilliant memories!  This mix is about what we use to do and the journey we use to take, every weekend. I worked and stayed in Oxford through the week. I then drove back to Sheffield on a Friday afternoon, get ready, watched Human Traffic and travelled to London. Goto Future Dance at Castle Studios, that same night. Meet amazing people and new friends, enjoy the night away and then travel back to Sheffield, the next Saturday morning. Get home, have a few hours sleep, shower and then get ready to go to go Dizstruxshon @ Baths Hall, Scunthorpe or Elation in Manchester. Pretty dam bonkers!!  But, we had the time of our lifes and every single record on this mix, represents us at that time. Love and respect to the party people (Linzi & Lee UHF) who took this journey. This was the beginning of me, being me...Martin Space the DJ/artist. DId you mix them on vinyl or Digital or CD? Mixed on CD's, from ripped vinyl to mp3 (you'll hear a few crackles). What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now? Vinyl and fewer or any high street record shops left. Nothing better, getting paid (with your minimum wage) and wax the lot, on new releases. Every weekend! Internet and mobile phones have killed the optimism of a good rave/event/festival. Lets take it back and get the communication through the word of mouth/flyers/radio. I know it will not happen... Thank you for the mix!! Thank you for giving me the opportunity and giving me a reason to turn on the decks, press record and just having a blast! Reminise the good times. Any shouts?!! To all and everyone who I have met over the years and become good friends, through raving & the music. Just want to pass on a tribute to Bombjack, Lang-E and Tommi T, may you rave in peace, up and above. We will meet you again. Shai Mc 3-Style quote "RIP...VIP".  

Welcome back GEECASTERS!!! As always we keep our BLINDS OPEN to sounds we may not hear on a day to day basis!! And as ever pushing this concept.. we have one of the UKs finest Techno & Hard Trance Djs & Producers..... The one and only  LOUK!! As ever you have me playing some of my fav stuff!! This time im playing some classic 90s in one take from 170 upto 230ish! !!! as always I dont believe in sanitised nicely edited DJ sets. I press record and lets go!!! And in hour 2 we have the one and only!! LOUK!!! Now then LOUK!! How are we doing on this weird year?! Haha that's fantastic going from 170 to 230 in one take.  Top man.  Mate weird is an understatement and a half, in February all was good and I happily travelling to Reykjavik and planning what to do in the Summer etc and some forthcoming gigs we wanted to go to and then the whole lockdown happened a couple weeks later.  Never expected it in the slightest, but I don't think anyone did for that matter.  Anyway, aside from a global pandemic yeah all good cheers!     Hows you.. Missus and the new addition!?! Ah absolutely lovely thanks, the past fifteen months have flown by and one good thing of lockdown was I got to see much more of my daughter growing up.  My wife is working hard in her final year of Uni studying a degree in biomedical science that I haven't got a fucking clue what the majority of it means but she is doing very well at it and my stepdaughter had her sixth Birthday today and is as usual very happy and full of the joys of life!     So of course many people know you from playing Techno & Hard Trance all over Europe!  But were did this all begin for you?? What were your earliest memories of the rave scene?  I grew up listening to dance tracks on compilations and enjoying them and learned to make music on an Amiga 500 with an old issue of CU Amiga magazine.  From there there were tracks on CDs I really liked.  Cheesy to admit it but Now 26 switched me on to a lot of dance music as my parents had it and I remember stuff like Capella, Leftfield and The Good Men were on there.  There was another compilation with Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall on that escapes me but I listened to that a lot.  My cousin was going to a lot of raves in the early 90s and told me about some tapes to check out.  I actually wrote to the author of the article in CU Amiga mag a few years back and looked him up on Facebook, said about the huge thanks I have to him for how my life turned out and he's very humble and still making music.  He did a belting live version of Greece 2000 and Stella by Jam & Spoon.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGZ8WXS6_Q) Didn't start going out properly till I was 16 in early 2002, where I ventured from a pub that never ID'd me that I still occasionally drink in now, to a club called Dance Academy where my friends were running nights.  Again, was spoiled rotten really as they did decent harder nights on a Fri (though I also went to a lot of wicked Drum N Bass ones too there) and on the Sat they had Mark EG and M-Zone down on a pretty much bi-monthly basis and a whole host of other decent DJs and locals.  Most the time the locals played harder and darker than the guest DJs and I loved the fact there was a right mash up of music in there from house through to hardstyle on a weekly basis.     Can you remember the first rave tape you bought?  Who was it? To be fair I can't really, as I actually remember getting a tape pack after getting a CD pack and downloading mixes from DJs leaving a modem on all night in the late 90s.  That was back in the days it'd take about 8 hours to download 1 mix.  I remember getting a bollocking for us having a huge phone bill one month.  Was worth it for the music to be fair!  A year later IC24 came along and stupidly gave away 0800 internet subscriptions for something like £10 a month, they changed their policy after.  I think I was partly to blame downloading as many mixes as I could and fair use went well and truly out the window.  I listened to Radio 1 quite a lot and Beat 106 online in Scotland and I was into Paul Mendez from Jacob & Mendez's tunes and he did a show on there, locally there was a radio station called Plymouth Sound that had a belting dance show.  I taped shitloads of them and met quite a few of the DJs on there over the years as they worked in record shops and the like or I DJ'd on same line ups as them.   They had a strong influence on me too as well as the local nights as I was too young to be going out.  Though not for that much longer as stated above thanks to very very lapse IDing going on, especially as I looked about 14 when I was 16.  Many thanks to everyone who knew and didn't say anything as those years were fucking amazing!!!      The Techno & Hard Trance scene has big roots in the UK from events like North, Uprising, Helterkelters Technodrome, Vibelite Tommorows World, Club Kinetic Digital & Djs like Mzone & Mark EG. Can you remember hearing them for the first time? Yep, mates raved about Mark EG and M-Zone and I used to listen to their mixes on the german trance website and Mark's blackout audio website in real audio format.  That takes me back.  A year later mark was playing here every month and so was Mick and not just at Dance Academy but other awesome nights like Premonition, Hindsight in Exeter and others.  So I saw them shitloads!  Both have been not just hugely influential but highly supportive over the years.  I was a bit jaded with how everything was going in 2014 musically and took a much needed break and rethink, Mick very kindly rang up to see if all was OK.  Nearly everybody who plays hard trance in the south west owes inspiration to these two.  How mark mixes it up starting with techno hugely influenced too as I've always been into it as much as I have hard trance.  Mark and Mick often played at the Country Club here, and I had a lift ready for me to go to the last night but went to a small prog night in Plym instead, I did have school on Monday and thought a hangover the size of sussex miles from home wasn't a good idea.  Country Club reunions are always a decent laugh though!   Who is the most savage Hardcore Dj you have heard?  HMS for me haha!?! Pure brutal!! RIP HMS!! Haha heard a few.  I DJ'd after The Speed Freak in Scunthorpe for Hard Drive once.  Thought I'd be clever dropping more purist techno after a gabber DJ and crowd parted like the red sea when I put my first tune on.  S.W Cooperation - Get To Your Place.  Everyone's place was to fuck off of the dancefloor that night DJing after Gabber.  Found out he was behind Biochip C though and he did some mental slower tracks as well under that guise, very talented.       Whats the best gig youve ever played and why? Had some absolutely mental ones but easily my first ever international gig, that fell on the date of my 24th birthday and was for Q Dance for Defqon 1.  Everyone was really supportive and I had lots of new material to play, and was nice to drop Shogun 1 to the Dutch.  What a birthday.     Whats the strangest thing youve ever seen at a rave? Someone on the dancefloor at The Grove in Seaton turning their keys with their eyes closed thinking they were unlocking their front door.  I asked "You alright mate?" to get a reply of "Fuck me mate I thought I was unlocking my front door".  That has to be up there.  Also my (lack of) attempts at mixing in the early days were pretty strange as well... least I can admit it.      What is the rave scene like down on the south coast?(pre covid).. There's loads of music enthusiasts, very talented producers and DJs here so there's still some nights, but sadly there aren't that many venues that can hold the capacity so like anywhere sadly the scene is a fraction of what it was when I started going out.  Even more so now post covid!     Your well known for your collabs with Nick the Kid... How did this come about? Met Nick at a free party near Exeter in 2002 called Lunatech, liked the set he played and then went on my own to his Hindsight night in Exeter that Dec.  Got the coach up and it finished at 1 so I went to dance academy after when I got back to plym at 2.  Really enjoyed the music, so went up with some mates from Plym often to Hindsights, met nick a few times, gave him some of my very early really ropey tunes and we liked a lot of the same music and were both cubase users so worked with each other.  Dreams was made, and somehow ended up getting signed to Drizzly one of our fav labels so we were mega stoked.  This was actually before I started mixing as that came after Production he was one of the first to book me.  I worked with Nick lots over years and we've played a lot of sets b2b and had a hell of a lot of fun in doing so.  Every time we meet up we always have a laugh.  His HTE label is going strong and fair play he works his socks off.      So your quite a well known and skilled producer... When you go into the studio.. can you talk us through your process? Do you have ideas down before? or is it a more organic scenario? Ah thank you, It varies on my mood that day.  Sometimes I listen to music before I go in, but then find I end up taking influence from what I listen to and go 'ah what can I do to sound like track X today' works.  When I engineer for others I ask them to bring 4/5 tracks that they like so I can get a similar vibe and listen to their ideas.  For my own stuff it could also be I buy a sample pack and cut up some loops and play with some synths. I try to get the best out of very limited equipment and some very bodged set ups.  You should have seen the laptop I made some of my biggest tunes on that make me cringe now.  It would take 30 mins to export a track then i'd forget to unmute a synth.  Everyone here took the piss out of me for about 4 years for making tracks with some decent synths on a monitor that had a cone that was bent and a monitor screen that was so small.  You'd be surprised at the tunes that somehow come out of it but all I can say is many thanks to Jon Doe for turning my premaster WAVs into something amazing.  He's saved the day a good 300 times now.     Many people know you in the Hardcore scene, even though you dont produce straight 170+ bpm stuff.....  what draws you to this side of things? Probably how pitched up I play things, I used to tweak my decks to go to +16, also enthusiasm and how fast I talk.  I'd say it's more likely the latter.     So whats going off in the world of LOUK? I suppose you have 100s of tracks ready to go since lockdown has hit right?! I did produce a lot during the first lockdown but now my daughter has my studio room and old office as her bedroom I haven't hardly made anything at all.  I bought a Polyend Tracker recently and made some techno jams but after making about 200 tracks in the past 5 years I'm glad of the break. The last question was abit of a joke tbh... covid has probably hit the scene hard in that people aint meeting up and sharing ideas and concepts.  But we must take the positives yeah?! tell us a positive thing from the last 6 months!?! Hearing Daisy say 'Dada' for the first time is up there.         So how healthy is the Techno/Hard Trance scene at the moment? Aside from the lack of venues, both are very healthy.  I'm sending out lots at work from both genres.  Quite funny actually as some EPs have crossed over and I've sent techno to hard trance DJs and vice versa.  I spoke to Justin from German Trance this week who's setting up his labels again, that's welcome news.  I'm still pressing vinyl on my Syntax Error label (albeit techno) but from some old hard trance producers.  Release 001 had a track from Michael Wells/Technohead/GTO and 002 had a track from Andreas Kraemer.  There's one on 003 by two friends from Rotterdam called Erik Pijl and Stephanie Noordermeer that everyone likes in the feedback because it's proper trancey.  Check it out!     Further on that tip - which producers are doing it for you at the moment? I've got my crossover head on here so from the techno world Surgeon, Dax J, Stranger/TAFKAMP, SHDW & Obscure Shape and in the trance world Renegade System, Scot Project, Stoneface & Terminal, Tasso.  JK Walker is back producing stuff again which is amazing news too!!     Also to new producers... what tips and advice would you give them? I have 3 1) Don't be afraid to take inspiration from others, as everyone does and if you are stuck for an idea and want to learn your Sequencer (I hate the term DAW).  I spent hours in the early days copying Out Of The Blue by System F, and Junk Project - Beats Bring Silence, Pablo Gargano - Everyone's Future etc to learn from for my own tracks. 2) Also there are a bunch of free plug ins that I use on nearly every tune, have done for years.  You don't need to spend thousands!  When lockdown happened I linked to a load of resources for producers, here you go: http://www.louk.co.uk/selfisolation/ 3) If you are having a day where what you are doing sounds shit, take a break or even return at another day.  I've done it many times.  You'll thank yourself.    If your were stranded on a desert island and could only choose 5 records to take... which would these be? Can you explain why and provide links for our listeners? Depeche Mode - The Singles 81-85 - Huge fan of Depeche Mode but most importantly their early work.   Madness - It Must Be Love.  Mine and my wife's first dance, and plus what a band.  Sunbeam - Outside World - A track that's brought happiness to so many people, next level.   Vapourspace - The Cold Air / Gravitational Arch Of 10 - everyone loves Gravitational Arch Of 10 (even though it was meant to be called Gravitational Arc Of Io), and it's a belter and a half but I love the ambient tracks on the other side, especially this one.  Synths are unreal! Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - I'm stuck on a desert island may as well enjoy the weather and chill out!! Putting all those in youtube will provide links to listen.     Of course up North (dj sets wise) we know you from Uprising... Can you remember the first time you heard an Uprising set? Of course the mid 90s sets from Kenny Sharp must have made an impression? Yep.  I did my foundation year at Bradford Uni, but spent nearly every weekend in Leeds going to nights like Cypher, Tekfresh, Northern Lights etc and for various other reasons as Leeds was 100000x better and like a fiver to get to.  Sadly I just went there the year The Orbit closed which was a fucker.   The record shop there The Disc sold Uprising CD packs and I bought one with M-Zone and Frantic on it and another with Topgroove and Jon Doe.  Listened to those lots and got more over the years.  Kenny is someone I heard a bit later on but he's played some absolute beasts over the years, and made some gems and is again another legend!     Your good mates with Uprising resident Jake Nicholls.... How did this develop? A mutual friend (DJ Invader) told me years ago I play similarly to Jake, and in the days of Myspace I looked him up and followed him.  We sent each other many mixes.  He put me onto Brian and very kindly sorted out a booking and that was the first of many.  Still remember my first set at Uprising in 2008, where my mate Ralph drove up to Sheffield in his 106 and it took about 6 hours from Plymouth.  Made it just in time.  Jake is without a doubt one of the nicest people in this whole scene I've met, he is ridiculously knowledgeable about the music scene and I love his influence from many genres.  He DJ'd with me in Holland and at Nature One oozes enthusiasm.  He's become a really good friend coming to my stag do in Berlin and also we went to each other's Weddings and I mished all the way to Doncaster to play at his 40th.  Wouldn't do that for many people.  His mrs always says she gets lost when we talk to each other as we both speak 1,000,000 miles an hour about music.       Alot of people say an Uprising crowd is abit... shall we say... rough... Is this true compared to other events you have been too? Haha no not in the slightest, i've been to moody raves at Slammin Vinyl where in the DnB arena knives were being pulled and people were being mugged, And when I lived in Birmingham people were getting shot outside nightclubs.  What the fuck is that about on both counts?!  Plus I've played in the Ukraine, don't think that will happen again in a hurry.  I will say this the Uprising crowd know their music far better than most in Europe.  I remember playing there once and someone asked me if I was going to drop my new tune I had made and uploaded to soundcloud that afternoon that night, and said they listened to a mix of mine and could ID the really rare tracks.       So what equipment are you using these days? what djing and studio gear do you use? Of course!  My studio equipment is currently at a few friends houses as I've let them borrow synths and speakers as they are learning to make tunes while I take a much needed break from engineering.  But it was an Access Virus Ti Snow, A Roland JV2080 I borrowed off my mate, An SSL2+ Audio Interface, A Behringer Pro-1, Behringer TD-3, An M-Audio Oxygen 49 Controller Keyboard, Alesis M1 MK1 Monitors, A TC Electronic June 60 and a Midas DM:16 Desk.  That and a PC running both Cubase 9.5 and Renoise.  That's all I used for production really.  DJ wise both my wife and I mix and we have a pair of 1210s and a Behringer Mixer.  When I play out I mix on CDJs though.     What are your thoughts on vinyl vs cd/mp3? I love having hard copys of tracks but you cant beat having a stick full of tracks verses lugging a crate of vinyl around yeah? Mate i'm still pressing vinyl and still buying records on discogs when I send out pretty much everything on MP3/WAV and probably will never play a vinyl out again except for at home.  You can't beat it.  Like both formats to be fair but agree I can pick up a record and tell you pretty much where I was when I first heard it/bought it and something about it.  Hard pressed to do that with an MP3!     So can you talk us through your mix? why did you pick these tracks? Yep, many tracks on here greatly influenced me but quite a few of them I haven't put on mixes.  Or they were tracks that were on tapes/sets I donwloaded and listened to repeatedly the last 20 years and only recently found names.  One was from a Mauro Picotto mix from 1998 that got ID'd the other week.  Also I put the last track of my first ever Uprising set on there (High Voltage - Bombs Away), and I tried to do a mix of various tracks in the hard trance world that just blew me away, it includes early productions from M.I.K.E/Push and Vincent De Moor under other names.  Plus Sunbeam still sounds great the 908,000,000th time I listen to it.  Hope you all enjoy!     Awesome dude!! Many thanks for your mix!  Shout outs here please?!  Yeah of course, to yourself for doing this interview!  To Sammy, Darcie and Daisy for always being there, to Jake & Hannah, Mark and Mick, Nick and Flick, Tony Horgan, Bri, Kenny, Ben Invader and to all my friends and family, to Tom, Ian and all the promoters who first gave me a chance and anyone who has taken the time to get in touch over the years, who've let me release their music and/or put up with my dodgy mixing.     LOUKS Trance & Techno mix from 90s to present!! Kai Tracid - Tiefenrausch (A.S.Y.S Remix) [Tracid Traxxx] Ricky Le Roy - One Day (Big Bass Mix) [BXR] Marco V - Tolerance [Free For All] 2 Emme - Colours [Underground] V-One - Dead Cities [Bonzai Trance Progressive] Lars Hohler - Dreamland [Planet Earth Tunes] Sidewalk - Oasis [Funny Vinyl] Repulsor - Double Action [Drizzly] Mr Hyde & Joe-X - Oxygene [4th Dimension] Oliver Lieb - Subraumstimulation [Data] Dual Mount - Touch Me [Tesseract] CJ Bolland - See Saw [Mole] Next Generation - The Earthquake [Ipnotika] Marcos & Jay Walker - Night Finder [Active Media] Zombie Squad - A New Decade [Zombie] Sunbeam - Outside World [Suck Me Plasma] Maurizio Braccagni - Megamix Maranza [Brainstorm] High Voltage - Bombs Away [Sys-X] Les Diaboliques - Querelle [Lunatec] Quick Reverse - God's Reason [Bonzai]   Kev Gees 90s Tehcnodrome 2 fingered salute tracklist!! Negative Burn - Gates Of Hell The Raven - A New Hope! Don Diablo Vs The Raven - The Arrival The Brutalist - The Voice Of Your Conscious Mastervibe - Friday Matrix & Wargroover - Neutron Bomb Tieum - You LMA Mastervibe - Alienz The Outside Agency - Break It Down Mastervibe - Power Of The Herb Tieum - HP Hellfish - Techno City Tieum - K1000 Vs Ner Clarkee - I Am God Here Diplomat - Cool & Deadly Technological terror Crew - The Ripper (Remix) Men In Black - Guitar Man Overcast - Attack

The nights are drawing in and there's a shiver coming down the spine of the world as the Geecast launches another foul mouthed tirade of sonic swear words at your earlobes! YES! That's right! This month is a belter! Hitting your face like a punch from a prime Mike Tyson! Prepare to be amazed as Geecast head honcho Kev Gee lulls you into a false sense of security with his usual nice melodic starter followed by the main course of rotten, mouldy, moth eaten Hardcore & Hard Drum & Bass!!  And for your pudding we have the Legendary Dj & producer Dj Riddler ready to give you the monty python after 8 mint sketch (youtube it kids!) And of course no Geecast is complete without a few words from the co conspirator himself. So download, share, listen far & wide!! We are now available on Deezer, Spotify, Youtube, Tune in radio and more!!   Hello Mr Riddler! How are we today! I hope youve served us up a nice sweet tasty sickly mix of Hardcore & Gabber? I'm good thank you mate, and yes, about 1 hour 30 of suitably grinning good times deng lined up. Some retro tracks that I always loved, working through to newer/recent tracks that have ticked the boxes of late. So can you talk us through the Riddler world? Who were your main influences when you first started out? As a young lad at my first raves I always enjoyed Clarkee, Paul'O, Brisk, Scorpio, Producer etc.. dj's along those lines that I felt played with a bit of an edge. I loved the way Fergus and Mzone played across the board too, techno, happy, hard trance, gabber etc.. just great sounds all fused into one with balls, a real lightbulb era. When lownoise and Theo came to Doncaster warehouse, they really changed things, fantastic mixing and unique tune selection, it was a real contrast to the other DJs I was hearing at the time. Can you remember your first rave? who was playing, where was it etc? It was Doncaster Warehouse back in the day, me & my mate Sy Shillito (RIP) went to see Carl Cox & Producer, an amazing night. You started out like many of us in the early to mid 90s. Can you remember the first hardcore record you bought? I bought Prodigy, Messiah and other 'early rave' 12's, but proper hardcore as we know it was Ultraviolence ‎– I, Destructor (The Lenny Dee Mixes) still amazing. After hearing 'that' Sterns tape things seemed very different. If you had to go unto a desert island & could only take ONE Hardcore record, what would it be? Haha that's probably the hardest ever question, for any genre as there are so, so many! I wouldn't know where to start with that one

WELCOME BACK FOLKS!!! After a short Hiatus and a while chilling & spreading corona all over the UK & Europe im pleased to be back with you miserable bastards back home!! And what a sight you are!! You sexy Bastids! As im too sexy for my shirt (so sexy it hurts) I was just too sexy to share this months Geecast with anyone ELSE!! Selfish? too fucking damn right!! So whats in store for you this month? ( My birthday month!!) WELLLLLLLLL!! Listen & find out! Press play or click download & listen whilst you work it on the catwalk!! And if you think you are sexy enough to appear on a GEECAST episode then drop me an Email @ kevgee1976@gmail.com or message via Facebook! PS - No dicks pics. Although bobs and vagene is ok.  PPS If you are one of those rich people that can afford Apple products then you can subscribe to my podcast just by searching for "Geecast!" in the podcast section! And each new episode will download automatically!! How cool is that!?! Tracklist below!! 1  - End.User - Storm 2 - Technical Itch - Paradox 3 -  Splinter Cell - Apocolypse 4 - Shadow Sect & Lucy Furr - In The Shadows 5 - Deathmachine - Perimeter 6 - Lowroller - My Style 7 - Densha Crisis & Tymon - Garlic 8 - Jake Nicholls - Excessium (White Pasta Remix)  9 - Ophidian - Demimonde 10 - Savage & Hallucinator - Savages 11 - Ophidian - The Pheonix  12 - End.User & Aaron Bianchi - One Of The Brightest Stars In The Sky 13 - Hellfish - Deck Fuel (2019 Remaster) 14 - Dj Producer - Underground Funk (Xaturate Revision) 15 - Micron A.T.I.P 16 - Xaturate & Miss Hysteria - Rotten 17 - Savage - Simple Evil

Welcome back folks!! Its time for some more motherfucking Geecast Ya'll!! And what a monster of a 2 hour mix we have for you today!! Featuring the sounds of Barnsleys hardest (thats music kids) DJ! And of course we have ME for the first hour playing some more storming sounds that you wont be hearing in a covid infested night club anytime soon! But enough of me!! Lets chew some PHAT beats and whilst listening to it, you can read up on what makes this lad tick!! So mr Rampage!! Welcome to GEECAST!!! Thanks for having me :) I remember the original shows you used to run way back when, they always stuck out as what even is this stuff, never did i know that one day id be down the same path. Remember sat there with laptop listening t a live stream was some serious time ago maybe 1314 years ago and you did a shout out to gabberdeen, what a stupid thing to remember hahahahaha   Hows you feeling today? Im feeling great today, ok im lying it was a pretty rough start to the day, yesterday was the first BBQ with guests we have had this year and fair to say i had a few, then a few more, and a few more than that hahahaha ended up live playing hardcore techno and some old 90s harder edge hardcore till about 2 this morning. How times change that this is now a heavy night hahahaha what happened to the good old days of weekend parties :( but yeah paid for it this morning. So why did you name yourself after an old videogame?! Its a classic by the way!! Its a pretty long story but i never had a DJ name, i then started playing out and at first i was called DJ Stevros, that is a story within its self. Me and a couple of lads decided to run a little night in a boozer a friends mum worked in and we called it hardcore rampage. We only did a few but the name rampage kind of fitted the lifestyle i was living, it was always very hectic and i was always on the rampage so it just stuck.   So tell us about yourself! Were did things start for you in the filthy world of rave? Growing up i was into skater punk music, i moved to Barnsley and one of the first lads i met over here (MC Winston B) was mcing and well networked and he introduced me to it. I was only really into Gabber and some Hardstyle stuff, i frist attended a proper rave in 2005 halloween at adelphi and that was it, all down hill from there   When did you first get interested in DJing? With Winston and Jinx been only a few friends that i knew i kind of wanted to fit in? deano had left his decks and vinyl at mine and i started to have a play around, i asked him to teach me and he said it was something that couldnt be taught and im glad as it gave me even more reason to learn. It was on some numark belt drives turn tables about 16 years ago i think.   Ok so, everyone knows that every DJ starts off with shitty equipment... What was your first set up? i had some kam belt drives that when you touched them they stopped hahahaha and a numark mixer that had a built in kaos pad sampler, i always found it funny sampling mcs and then dropping random lyrics when they put mic down and watch peoples heads fall off hahahahaha   When did you feel brave enough to start sending demos out? I cant fully remember when but i do remember that i sent my very first demo to rasper, i found a copy years later and cried myself to sleep. What was your first gig and were was it? i honeslty cant remember my first booking at some one elses event, whe i moved to barnsley town centre i met up with a new set of lads and one of them siad he could get a venue, i was quite well connected and said i had equipment and knew alot of djs ect and that is how Hardcore Holics first started around 2005/6   Do you still have the flyer? most djs collect flyers of thingselves the egomaniac wankers! No mate i havent kept anything its all been lost over the years.   So Hardcore... What styles do you play? I didnt make my name for hardcore funny enough it was with Reverse Bass Hardstle, i did really well with it to be honest got to the semi finals of the bionic dj comp but i dropped out as i wasnt too happy about the way the final was going to be ran and then i entered the zodiac DJ comp and got to the semis with them, i ended up as a resident of sorts there anyways as did alot of other djs that entered and between us and other event organizers we started a new breed of djs and mcs. I have always been into millennial Hardcore, but now im more of a fan of 90s 909 kick hardcore and industrial, its hard to really explain the stuff i like its like a massive cross between frenchcore, gabber, uptempo and drum and bass, it falls under the category if you want to be anal about sub genres of "crossbreed" but do find myself playing lots of different genres now.   Admit it... you just wanted to dj to look cool for the birds didnt ya?! It all started as i just wanted to fit in, and suppose i did, i have good friends from all over the place now and that is more important than the music the scene anything. How would you describe your djing style? I like to think its smooth i love long mixes and transitions, im not a fan of choppy choppy or scratchy scratch, i like to mix over every drop cut for samples but nice and smooth and steady usually, but then again thats all out the window when your 10 beers in. Youve been djing for some time now, so what tips would you give to a young DJ just starting out? If you wanting to make money, your in the wrong game, if you dont like politics dont bother, i kind of wish id stayed a raver as everything changes when you start hunting for bookings. Then if hou still want to carry on just enjoy it, its rough at first the nerves the jitters, learn to channel that to positive enery and youll have a blast :) ooow and always try to do bookings sober you might think you sound absolutely amazing 3 bags deep, chances are you wont be booked again hahahahaha   What are you thoughts on MCs? Alot of DJs seem very marmite to them tbh?! Before i answer this it is my opinion as i hard head, i find that if you into uk hardcore or makina then your going to love 125 mcs screaming down the mic over every vocal and want to be 15x louder than the music, or you could just save some money and not have a dj and just 783 mcs a night??? Yeah im not an mc fan, i like hosts space is my favorite in all honestly then ribbz shocker ect ect   What Equipment do you use nowadays? ive had all sorts over the years and its funny how things go around so i had kam belts, then a few pairs fo 1210s then none for a bit then sold my vinyl and bought some ndx800s to keep up with the digital era, then pioneer 100s then 1000s then 900s then 2000s then a pioneer rb and now im back to my 1210 fully customised with an allen and grief i mean heath 43c with timecode to serato   Do you collect vinyl still? how big is your collection? I am addicted to vinyl, i dont even know how i have a roof or family left, im worse now than i have every been and i think its because there has been so much ive wanted over the years that now i have a little more spare cash im buying them now. As i write this the misses has asked me to put that you cant message me asking if i want to buy your vinyls, i just have too many to buy and the list is huge and ill run out of paper and money   Ok so your guest mix is a classic millenium Hardcore mix.... Ophidian - Butterfly is a sure fire banger isnt it?! talk us through the mix abit? Why did you choose these tracks? This is a mad one, when you asked me if i would like to put up a mix it wasnt going to be this genre at all, i very rarely play this stuff anymore, but it goes back to when i came away from reverse bass this is the style i went to before finding crossbreed, The opening tune butterfly vip is one of my all times favorites, i remember DJ Kel-Y playing this and that was it i still to this day can not get it out of my head, the kicks the piano riffs are just insane! There is a reason Ophidian is god and its because of tracks like this! Whats your GO TO track? that you know will get the crowd going? Thats a tough one as i dont DJ out anymore i hung up the gig headphones a while ago, i have a toough family life and with work and everything i just dont fins the time anymore so i just DJ for me, it my own space and place where i can disappear and just leave the world and propblems behind, for that little amount of time i have no worries, no problems nothing just me and the wax. Now if you asked what my favourite tunes to play are it would probably be ophidian - monster - crossbreed jimmy the sound - blown up - hardstyle hyperact - best friend bouncy techno Talk us through how you plan a dj set? Do you play off the cuff? Or do you have an idea going in what to spin? if i do live sets thats very rare these days i like to plan the first section its is usually the lighter and happier stuff then goes deep and dirty from there, at home i dont care i play what i want becasue its just for me :) Whats your thoughts on the future of Hardcore? Were do you see it going in the next few years? I hope that we go back a little in time i dont like the way hardcore or hardstyle has progressed at all, it is all very samey mainstream stuff that have short intros and outros, i do like this festival hardstyle with silly vocals and crowd interactions. I would love to see bouncy techno make a come back its awesome 90s hardcore (not happy) was amazing Thanks for your mix mate! I really enjoyed listening to it!! Cheers dude its not the cleanest, it was done on vinyl (serato) but it has some of my favorites from that era moving on to some harder stuff at the end :) Shout out time!! - Who do you want to say thanks to? I want to shout to a few scene related people Winston B and Deano - for showing me a whole new scene and planting the seed that has cost me so much money it is unbelievable, on to mista devlin for letting me come help at audio hallucination and then we really pushed that wide open hitting near on capacity every event and showing the local scene that you dont need the same old yorkshire line ups to fill venues, to James Lee (Jim) for well just being a legend to Johny Humpries for saving my life (a story for another time) Bucky for pushing my name and believing in me with zodiac and then the misses that puts up with my gear everywhere all the weekends i went out and she stayed at home looking after the kids and more recently for letting me spend every spare penny i have on vinyl - Wax addiction is real!! Cheers kev and next time you will get the rougher crossbreed that i did plan on doing for you this time Steve - Rampage   Kev Gee - 175+ Or Go Home!! (tracklist) 1 - Kenji Kawai - Making Of Cyborg (Remix) 2 - Technical Itch Vs The Panacea - Semisation 3 - Deathmachine - Magnestism 4 - Somniac One - Thunderbones Revenge 5 - Splinter Cell - Mechanical Mindz 6 - Vein - Defilers Note 7 - The Outside Agency - The Opposites 8 - Max Shade - 666 9 - Broken Code - Subconcious Mind 10 - Splinter Cell - Apocolyse ? 11 - The Outside Agency - Opposites 12 - Vein & Gancher & Ruin - Evil Breed 13 - The Satan - Destroy Everything 14 - Syndrome - The Hand Of God 15 - Hellfish - Fuck Em Up! 16 - Akira - Pute 17 - Striker - make it clap   Rampage - Millenium Hardcore Mix!! (Tracklisting to follow!)  

Hello Geecasters! Its time for Mays installment! And what an episode it is!! This month we feature the sounds of Midlands DJ Dan Bryant! And of course the sounds of ME!! Kev Gee for the first hour! This month im playing some stuff from the 90s!! I hope you all enjoy it! Please comment and share!! and download!! Dan has been quietly building up his considerable deck skills over many years and with a pretty solid and record collection of various HARDcore sounds!! You want Trancecore? You got it!! You want some Dutch Fucking Gabber? Well here have a slice... You like that? You want some American Industrial Strength shit? Choke on it BEEATCH!! In Geecast style we had a word with Mr Bryant to see what makes him tick (in a not very Tourrettes way) Although that would be cool!! Hello Mr Bryant!! Hows you doing? Thanks for putting forward this Geecast mix! So can you tell us were your love for Hardcore began? were did it all start off for you? Alright Mr Gee, thanks for having me on. I'm well thanks, hope your good also. Crazy times at the moment! I'd say my love of hardcore started with growing up in the 90s surrounded by all the rave sounds, I first bought a prodigy tape (out of space) at the age of 8 from hmv, thought I was the bees knees haha. Can you remember the first rave you went to? were was it and how old were you? My first taster of raving came after everything closed in town on nights out.. Off to the warehouse. Many many moons ago, 18 haha. I guess that started off the bug right?! The gabber bug really started for me when I attended a total bedlam night with a couple friends that were djing.. Some great times around that era. So Djing. Did you always want to get into that side of things? The djing side of things came as a proggresion really, I was quite deck shy to start with. Maaaany hours locked in my deck room with supplies and a piss bucket sorted that though haha. Can you tell us abit about your mix? Why did you pick those tracks? Yeah sure, its a reflection of my preferred style to play and to listen/rave to. I like to play progressive aswel, as I feel this is what I would want if I was on the dancefloor. Do you get to play out anywere (pre covid?) Thankfully I got to play at Rehabs birthday event in feb . played b2b with DJ Dstroy which was an absolute honor. Great set and loved every minute. Can you tell us what equipment you use? (DJing and if so production wise.) The setup I'm using at the moment is quite cheep and cheerful really, ive got a trusty djm 600 mixer and a pair of Gemini mdj 900's.. Does the job for me. Looking forward to replacing my old 1210s asap though. What are you favourite labels and why? I'd say over all my favorite labels are mokum, ruffneck, Rotterdam records, ruffbeats ect. I love those old dutch sounds. Depending on mood or wherever my sets progress I love the harder stuff aswel, industrial strength, bloody fist, strike, beast, Deathchant and such. Who is your favourite producer of all time? My favorite all time producer has to be Lenny Dee. I think Ophidian stands out above the rest for me also but Lenny Dee spans such a massive timeframe with his work and so many great releases! Who is your favourite DJ of all time? My favorite DJ is Bass D but that's a close call with DJ Panic and DJ producer. Producer always impresses me with his cut and scratch style, but unfortunately I prefer his days of playing events like big nasty dragon, tearing the old dutch stuff a new one. Bass D and panic are always a go too for me if I want to listen to a quality early dutch hardcore set. Finally do you have any shout outs?! I like to give a shout to all of the Rehab crew, especially Jonjon and Sami. A great little event going from strength to strength, giving a brilliant platform for myself and others to play the music we love. Cheers guys. And thank you Mr Gee for having me on, take care and catch you soon mate. Thanks for submitting the mix! Kev Gee   Tracklistings:- Kev Gee - Technodrome, North & Tomorrows World Classics 1 Syphax - At War 2 Dj Fuckface, Dj Chrizz - Suffer 3 Monty & Jay Pressott - R U On Drugs ( Jake & Jays Remix) 4 The Brutalist - The Voice Of Your Conscious 5 Omar Santana - Bone Bastik 6 Men In Black - Guitar Man 7 Chosen Few - Name Of The DJ (Buzz Fuzz Mix) 8 Leviathan - We'll Tear Your Soul Apart 10 Mastervibe - Power Of The Herb 11 Wargroover - British Nightmare 12 Robert Wagner - Listen Carefully 13 Don Diablo Vs The Raven - The Arrival (1 & 2) 14 Technological Terror Crew - Purity Of Oblivion 15 The Speedfreak - Freak Tonight 16 Tieum - Destruction (Radium Remix) 17 Tieum - Funky Shit 18 Tieum - Turn The Key & Go 19 Hellfish - The Crippler (Filters Of Fury Remix) 20 Syndicate - Appetite For Destruction   Dan Bryants Mix:- 1. Bardot viva le revolution 2.De jongens van zuid rotjeknor 3.Lunatic asylum chaos effect 4.Pralizer bizarcore 5.Technohead Mary Jane 6.Duo pennotti the beat goes 7.Technohead passion 3 8. Lenny Dee and DJ edge silence of eternity 10. Chosen few the break 11. Buzz fuzz d leria 12. Skorp and Pila mindcontroller 13. Project x Mary go hard 14. Dano and nico master machine 15. Negative burn gates of hell 16. Ectomorph mindblower 17. Ceasefire who's afraid of noise 18. Lenny Dee forgotten moments 19. Short circuit get a little deeper 20. Critical mass psychotic break 19. Riot squad nonshlen tustokken 21. Somebody from Rotterdam god damn Rotterdam 22. Mc drokz and count negative death of a zombie 23. Jeremy throw 24. Nasenbluten blows t the nose 25. Short circuit take me to the top 26. Clarkee I am god here 27. Mutoid fucking mind

To listen to the mix please scroll to the bottom & hit the play or download button! And why not read through the interview whilst your listening? 1st hour I play what ever the fuck I want! The second hour is the guest mix from Mr Jake Nicholls! On todays Geecast we are delighted to welcome Jake Nicholls & his unique blend of Trance & Techno. For those that dont know Jake is from the UK & has played all over Europe. He has a growing discography of productions & remixes for labels including Joyride, Hard Trance Europe & High Fish. As well as his Trance & Techno. Jake also djs under an alter ego as 'The Riddler.' Where he plays hard but uplifting Hardcore & Gabber. He is also a long running resident of legendary UK Rave night Uprising which is based in Sheffield, which has been hosting events since 1995. So Jake, thanks for your mix!! Can you tell us. How did you start out on your Underground music journey? No worries mate, thanks for asking me, I really enjoyed it! Its hard to pinpoint, but it must be some time around hearing the early Prodigy & Messiah tracks, the Experience album and hearing Fantasy FM (Blame, Music takes you always stood out for me, timeless) One of my good friends, Simon Shillito (r.i.p) was an amazing source of good music right from second school, we always swapped tapes & went to events when we were young So when you first started out. Was there any intention of getting into the djing & production side of things? I didn't have intention of playing out, just wanting to learn more about the music, absorbing dj sets & understanding how it all worked, mixing tracks etc.. the whole scene was truly captivating back then. No internet or social media made the search for good events and tunes 100 times more rewarding. When you first started producing. Did you find it easy? Or did you slowly learn things as you went along. What was your first track that saw a release? And when did you start making it? Frustratingly Ive never found it easy, the ideas come to me quite quickly but transferring them all into a track is something else. Sketching out in the daw can be rewarding, but the arrangement is always a hard slog I find. Im grateful to know many talented engineers who I've worked with over the years, who have helped breathe life into my ideas. Are there any artists that you like to work with on production? Co-producers that you find easy to create great music with? Nick Coles (Nick the kid) is awesome in the studio, a really fast workflow & we gel really well on ideas, top bloke. Wayne (Triple XL) is another force in the studio. Extremely versatile but I think that's due to his appreciation of so many banging styles. And of course could never forget Dave Devastate, studio genius & a joy to make tunes with. What is the process involved in creating a track? Example - is it just going in the studio & playing at stuff until something sticks? Or is it that something just pops in your head whilst watching TV and you just have to get it down before it leaves you?! Ideas can come from anywhere, elements of a track I already like, a soundtrack, samples from films etc.. getting them to work within a track is another. I write down and save what I can as & when. I remember having the same idea in my head each time I woke for a week with Impossible Dream (2003) that was a positive sign & all the ideas/elements came together so well. What equipment do you use for DJing & Production? For dj'ing these days its the industry standard Pioneer all the way. Everything is considered & the quality is there, such fun to use. For production its cubase. Do you have any upcoming releases that we should know about? There are few concepts in progress that will hopefully see the light of day. Can you remember your first DJ gig? were was it & did you get a recording? I helped a friend in one of town centre pubs, playing eurobeat, pop/house & club tracks etc.. and slipping in bits of rave when he went outside for a tab. The proper booking was at a smaller club in Doncaster, where I had a proper playlist of then trance. Sadly no recordings were made. You've played abroad at events & including Ibiza. How does the European crowd compare to the UK? Im grateful to have played outside the UK, the crowds have always been really up for it and enthusiastic Ive found. In the UK I predominantly play at rave events where its a case of the harder the better, outside the UK has been mainly clubs & club nights, a different trance/techy sound. You've been dj'ing and producing for well over a decade now & built up quite a following. Did you ever think looking back that you would end up dji'ng all over the world & producing records for some of the best hard trance labels? Not at all mate, it's been such a wild ride, a dream come true in many ways & the most fun. Ive met some amazing people along the way, my wife included, and many others of which are now dear friends. Are there any djs that you like to play B2B with? I would imagine that trance isnt really a genre that lends itself well to B2B sets. Thats true, it doesn't always work that well but Topgroove is always a winner for a good B2B, as is Nick the kid for some wicked sets in England and Ibiza, Louk, and Bobby Hardgroover too. All on the money for coming up with the goods, and knowing what and when. Your blend of trance & techno is certainly unique. Do you have to wade through lots of websites to find that track which hits the right spot? Cheers mate, it can be time consuming to locate the right track that work well & tick the right boxes, but rewarding and worthwhile though. What are your opinions on digital vs vinyl. nothing beats crate digging right?! It doesn't at all, some of my happiest days have been spent in record shops. Playing out a new release was always amazing, they had such longevity whereas now nothing is sacred for long before its been remixed time & again before the month is out, which is a good and bad thing I guess. On the flip side having digital media is a godsend when playing abroad, taking all your best tunes in the hand luggage is fantastic. And expanding on that. What are you thoughts on losing record shops?! Half the fun used to be going down to your local record shop every week & meeting like minded people whilst finding that "tune" that no-one else had. What record did you find whilst digging that is your most prized possession?! It's the saddest result of the digital age, knowing that they've mostly all gone leaves an empty feeling. I guess with the transfer of new music to streaming, mp3 sales etc.. it was in the pipeline but still, the reality is a shame. Any Jam & Spoon record was always a happy find. Hands On Yello was a special find at the time, seeing it on MTV then finding it at Rhythm Nation on Saturday morning. Good times. There are some great producers & djs around in your scene. who do you rate the most? There are many, but those that standout are Louk with his Hidden Agenda techno guise https://www.discogs.com/Hidden-Identity-Melodica-Remixes/release/13624643 Locally, Jamie Trax is making good waves, he's really established his sound & come so far, it's great to see. For sounds that I play, Im a massive fan of Chris Menzi (Switzerland) ConnecteD (Sweden) Nostic (The Netherland) Dizmaster (Denmark) Roby Rage (Italy) S.H.O.K.K (Switzerland) C.O.L.D (Germany)there are so many really good producers out there right now. I would be great to see a resurgence of this sound back in the raves (once all the chaos has subsided) Are there any young producers & djs who you really rate? Chris Grabowski aka C.O.L.D and Greg (Dark Sector) are both under-rated producers who create fantastically fresh quality music. To producers & djs just starting out. What advice would you give them? Stay true to your sound and persevere, anything worthwhile takes time. Social media is now playing a bigger slice of things these days with people "buying" likes & having slick photos & ads. Do you ever wish things could go back to just being how good you were at mixing & tune selection? How do you think things will change in the next 5 & 10 years? In many ways I do. Back in the day a dj was a dj & wasn't expected to be any more. It was and still is a task in itself sourcing tracks and considering everything that goes into making a good set (John 00 Fleming has touched on this a lot in his videos and live chats/posts) These days a constant feed of updates through a strong social media presence is expected, whilst many event flyers are hard to absorb without great scrutiny through a barrage of artist logos, in most cases overshadowing the branding of the event itself. Im unsure what the future will hold, but it all looks set to continue. Finally moving onto the mix you have submitted. Can you talk us through the process of how you selected those tracks & what do you look for in your selections when your building a set? I wanted to work through some favourites that have always stood out for me, and that still sound fresh into some more upfront trance/techno, and a few current pay/harder psytrance elements towards the end. Strong rhythms and emotions are important, and an interesting set structure, something I'd like to dance to myself. Do you have a fav track off the mix that you like more than most? why is that? That would be Delta Lady ‘Anything you want', I've loved that since I first heard it in 1993. A wonderful hypnotic groove & good feelings all the way, still sounds so fresh to me. When you dj, do you try & put as many tracks as possible in? or do you like to blend & ramp up the BPMs slowly? It depends on the crowd, the set Im booked for, so many factors. Its always nice to be in the zone & work through a good few sounds/genres during a set. And finally thanks for submitting your mix!! Would you like to give some shout outs!! Shouts to all my good friends for the years of support, the amazing events & great labels Ive been involved with, you all know who you are ;) Thanks!! Kev Gee!!

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So. Here we are. Geecast is back. and in the words of Bruce Forsyth….. Nice to see you, to see you nice. But less of the cheese. You want music right? You want slamming DNB dont you right? Well have no fear. Feast your (xmas pun incomming) Mince Pies on this. The tracks that i [...]

Kev Gee returns to his Drum N Bass roots with his first FULL Drum N Bass set in many years. I first started playing Drum N Bass when i got my first set of decks back in 1997. Back then Techstep was king of the DnB Scene & Artists such as Ed Rush & Optical, [...]

Hi & welcome back to GEECAST!! As the weather carries on pissing it down, & weve all had to leave our BBQ plans & assorted shorts, bikinis (for the ladies) and summer plans on hold. I thought it nice to knock a quick mix out in anticipation for tonights festivities in the place called ‘Hull’ [...]

So here we are guys. The mixes are now coming thick & fast & this one steams in with the force of a sumo wrestler! This is a mix Riddler, (AKA Uprisings Jake Nicholls) and myself knocked up in one take on friday. Expect the unexpected as this mix twists and turns through hard party [...]

Kev Gees coming back from the dead….yeah coming back from the dead…Kev Gees coming back from the dead…and i’ll put a freaking hole in ya head!! Ok Ok…less of the House Of Pain lyrics! This is my first studio mix in quite some time…and is alittle rough around the edges, but hey! I enjoyed it [...]