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Does everyone agree I've given evidence of at least one magazine stating November on the cover, even though still in September yeah?

Right, so – the problem with this @djkryptonn is that some of these dates - especially here where you are correcting, are hopelessly vague. When I was going through, I was attempting to put any explicit date stated on the cover in single quotes, italicised, so that we could know that this was an explicit date given. Any where a date wasn't explicitly stated, I placed a question mark in square brackets, so to indicate this was an estimation of the issue's nominal date The quandary with this being, is that whatever date, usually a month, given on the cover is usually a very poor indicator as to when the magazine was actually published. For instance, from visting WH Smiths just now, there are magazines out right now with November on the cover, despite that we are still currently in September(!): Prospect - November 2024 Cosmopolitan - October/November 2024 From what I understand, the industry standard has been for a very long time to have a month date on the cover of the month proceeding, with this slipping to even more than that on occasion, like as seen here with 'November' issues published towards the end of September. I think I first noticed this with an issue of Your Sinclair in the 90s. This would as well be the same problem I have with some the dates you sometimes cite @jj of like Month/Month. Like, which is it? Is it the earlier month? The later month? It can't be both Ideally, I would like to drill down a little more specifically on the publish dates of these magazines. You can see I have done that with Ravescene, which I'm confident are reasonably accurate given that the publication was based around week boundaries. Other magazines published around month boundaries we might have to accept in more woolly terms like 'mid-month' or 'late-month' but this still would be helpful. I would propose that we list as #issue, with any 'explicit date' in single quotes otherwise simply yyyy, then followed by a more accurate date in form (p: dd/mm/yy). Sometimes this will be estimated, other times this might be something actually stated (the Blaze magazines seem to have stated quite frequently when the next issue was due). I'm not too sure how we might differentiate that however.

Video posted on this. Has he credited you I wonder

Ha ha, couldn't resist - no that's not a version of "Set It" I've heard before, it's different to the release from early 1999 (which DJ Kane has disclaimed knowledge of) and also got vocals from "Let Jah Be Praised" interspliced so definitely a unreleased vip. I don't think it's two tunes there either but just the one Set's also running at around 175-176bpm there, pushing to 178 though drops to 173 for "Set Speed"... and hmmm gets even slower for "Reality" / "Roll On" (~170bpm). Interesting

That Saturday line-up - of Pressure X & Times Two, into Easy D (with MC Stingray?) and then DJ Kane looks familiar. I think that was in place from at least spring 1993. For some reason I used to listen in a lot on that Sat morning time slot

There were no timetables that I saw, but Kool FM did start a column in Atmosphere mid 1998 onwards The Ron/SL 'Supreme Team' show was tradionally always a Friday if I remember but always seemed to miss that one for some reason

James St. Bass 'Hard Drive', CIUT 89.5FM (Toronto) - Sun 22nd Nov 1992 - with guests DJ Phantasy / Rufige Kru (Goldie, DJ Freebase) / N.R.G. / MC Reality Listen: Goldie [71m29s] Sigma 7 (original source) [71m29s] Kaotic Chemistry - Illegal Subs [Moving Shadow] DJ Phantasy – Lets Get It On [Phantasy Recordings] Metalheads - Kemistry [Synthetic Hardcore Phonography] DJ Phantasy - Gonna Rock Your Body [Phantasy Recordings] Metalheads - Knowledge [Synthetic Hardcore Phonography] - cut - DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini - Everybody Is Under the influence [Phantasy Recordings] N.R.G. - He Never Lost His Hardcore (Remix) [Chill] N.R.G. - Get Funky In The Place (Mozart Remix) [Chill] DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini - Never Try The Hippodrome (Remix) [Spooky Tunes] N.R.G. - I Need Your Love (Real Hardcore Mix) [Chill] Bodysnatch - Euphony [Big City] - cut - Black 'Ash – Cosmology [Chill] Doc Scott - N.H.S. (Grooverider Remix) [Absolute 2] Nasty Habits - Let's Go (Cold Remix) {Reinforced] Manix - When You Hold Me Close (92 Mix) [Reinforced] Kid Twist / Phantasy – Do Or Die [Spooky Tunes] 4 Hero - The Element (High Noon) [Reinforced] Metalheads - Sinister [Synthetic Hardcore Phonography] - END - Broadcast following the night of Loon-EE-Tunes at Cinespace Film Studios, approximately between 4:40-6pm EST. There is also a write-up on Phantasy's experience in Canada in Blaze magazine #12 'June '93' (p: 19/5/93)

I can't seem to find a tracklist for that DJ Phantasy & Goldie radio broadcast in Canada anywhere so I'm going to post one here.

R.A.W. & MC ? (MC Question Mark) - Live @ Audio Impact 4/13/1998 - 13.04.1998 Listen: mrmarcanthony1 [76m51s] Mixtape Magic [77m01s] [previous dj] Dillinja - Hard Noize >Mary J Blige - Real Love (Hip Hop Mix) [Uptown] >??? >Gang Starr - You Know My Steez [Noo Trybe] >Original Concept - Can You Feel It [Def Jam] Potential Bad Boy – The Warning (Remix) [Third Eye] Fate - Random [Eastside] Fat Beats - "Battle" [Fat Beats, FAT001] Majistrate – What's Up? [Splash] Soul Controller - Clones [Preponderance] ??? Ambisonics - Project 5 [Flex] ??? Sappo - Go On Bad (Remix) [Flex] Danny Breaks – Step Off (Splash Remix) [Droppin Science] Stakka & K.Tee - Dream World [Liftin' Spirits] Source Direct - The Cult [Metaheadz] Firefox & Suvivor - Back Out Of Dis [Philly Blunt] Splash Collective - Tremble [Splash] DJ Die - Reincarnated [Full Cycle] ??? David Byrne - You Don't Know Me (Painful Mix / B-Boy 3000 Remix) [Luaka Bop] Peshay - On The War Path [Street Beats] Lion Of Judah - Set It (DJ Kane Remix) [Congo Natty] DJ Zinc - What Is It [Ganja] Gang Related & Mask - Sky [Dope Dragon] DJ Stretch - Take It Slow [A-KO] Tonic - 24 Break Shit [K Power] Elementz Of Noise - Hit The Deck [S.O.U.R.] The Specialist – Garbage DJ [Dread] Fate - Step On (A-Sides Mix) [Splash] Marvellous Cain & Bizzy B - side B [Evolution, EV 01] Recorded at Audio Impact in San Francisco, possibly from a 'True Playaz' night

This isn't quite right, adverts were on the top of the odd hours on Kool FM - so for instance Brockie's show was traditionally always ~11:25pm - 1am on a Sunday night, with a final set of adverts right after When Remadee says that it must mean they've been called to do an additional hour for some reason. So, a ~9:25pm - 12am slot essentially. The other thing I didn't mention was my recording from (I think) 10.02.1996 also has Photek - UFO played, but is not this instance. So one of the other february dates, basically. They also play this as the final tune which I haven't yet been able to identify, any ideas? (unknown - poss. a Tonic special) - ''...we can all get by if we want now...''.mp3

Right, so I think they changed their slot to Saturday nights at this time, I previously mentioned about a Trace & Ryme Tyme set that was on a Saturday, and I have some bits of what I think was the following week being Tonic & Remadee - that is, the 10.02.1996 I see also Remadee at 36:44 mentions "Right, midnight we a cruise to? Ok..." so looking at a 10:25pm-12am slot here?

Right so I've just turned up my brief notes I'd made on this: Is this the correct date, yeah? I had realised it was October, but hadn't narrowed the precise day for it. They're playing tracks from the Enforcers - Above The Law album throughout, and did note that Funky Flirt in it mentions about Kool Skool being at the Lazerdrome "yesterday", and also with the next show being moved to a new slot of Wednesdays starting from the 5th Nov.

Seems to be, although some of the Bryan Gee recordings posted here are faster due to the Cassette deck playback speed i think, you can hear the voices are slightly too fast also. I have a few of my own 1996 mix tapes & they are being played way faster than i play them now! There is a serious point to this, in of trying to ascertain median tempos for that period. 182bpm is faster than any of the djs on Kiss FM, for instance. It is faster than what Tonic & Remadee were doing, which from a brief check was maybe around 172-174 If we look at the Pressure Krew from Brighton, who very much made 'jump up' their thing and promoted as a sound in 1997, their label was 175 Records which points to their target being 175bpm I had been intending to do a very broad, but timestamped, summary of this. I may still do this.

One I was working on earlier. Say, this recording is at an unbelievable speed - breaking 180bpm throughout most of it. Is this normal for sets of that time? When I was spinning back then, personally I was trying not to exceed 170bpm because I was wanting still to incorporate tunes in from 1994. But even at that tempo it was a stretch Thanks for that!

DJ SL & MC Skibadee - 13.12.1996 Listen: Uncle Dugs [69m11s] Take Me Back: Pirate Radio Archives [65m21s] Liftin' Sprits – Creation [Liftin' Spirits] Origin Unknown – Truly One [Ram Records] DJ Die – Something Special [V Records] Mental Power – 'Purple' (side A) [Formation Colours] DJ Die – Special Treat [V Recordings] Origin Unknown – Lunar Bass [Ram Records] Potential Bad Boy – The Calling [Third Eye] ??? bristol / dope dragon / full cycle - 'The Jeep Ride' [Unreleased] D Bridge – Bring Da Flava [Trouble On Vinyl] Swift – Slam [SOUR] Stakka & K.Tee – Ya Don't Stop [Liftin' Spirits] Firefox & Suvivor – Who Is It [Philly Blunt] Lemon D – Going Gets Tough [Prototype Records] No Fear – Pac Man [Here Comes Trouble Vol. 5] 45 Roller – Killer Bee (T.Power Remix) [The Formula LP] Aphrodite & Micky Finn – Bad Ass [Urban Takeover] Skool Of Hard Knocks - Get Down [Area 51 Records] Keen – 1,2,3 (DJ SS Remix) [Formation Records] ref: https://www.phatmedia.co.uk/flyers/event/kool-club