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Oldskool Alan, OSA, Revival88 - House, garage bass , Radio presenter, djREVIVAL 88
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A quick bit about myself ive been a music lover since day dot, my first love after my dads music of course
was Disco fun, electro hip hop & breakdance, breakbeats and after a few mishaps at school ahem a
heavey metal stage , indie music, and an avid madonna fan, i found my main love house music
Over the years i became a big collector of Dj mixtapes, later vinyl, and listening to the early pirate
stations
and friends djing that i knew from college, goin out with them record buyin and me collectin there tapes and bein give the mixes weekly, this is how i eventually bought my own decks back in `1995, when the scene was quiening down, id picked bit's of vinyl up but nothin like a collection, i felt the music wasnt goin anywhere and i started reminisce and buy old stuff again, I was growing up quick and reminscing, after settling down, the decks soon became ornaments as bit by bit lost interest, i didnt touch them for yrs until id say 1997. early 98, when i first got on the Internet and i was reading pages on my computer that it all came flooding back the meories and tune names, i rekindled my love of music again
This was the start of the digital age, i discoverd forums and started talking to people with exactly the same interests as me, I started co habiting the music chatrooms and music collector sites as in napsterand p2p giant, augiognome, audiogalaxy, we all started ripping our tapes and tracking down them long lost records from our favourite sets back yrs gone, I was buyin vinyl again, collecting , ripping to digital format for backup, i had discoverd my love for music again, through this a new medium mp3, and i started to mix again, though at the time the first digital dj mixers, traktor 1 and pc dj, now its so far advanced im using Ableton Live and virtual dj with midi controller, i love my setup now the variability of my sets and the music available, i will never ever slag of a vinyl dj but music has evolved and i one embrace it. I sold up my vinyl collection and moved on, a few years ago now, i didnt have a massive collection, but what i did have was very collectable and precious to a lot of people, so i sold and got a satisfacty amount of money back from it, i felt at the time it was the right thing to do as i had settled down, and needed the space, i had digitised everythin so there wasnt one track i lost,
Nowadays im still collecting the music, buy the odd peices of vinyl to rip for my radio shows etc, but normally give the vinyl away once got my use, i play on 4 stations at the moment different styles of dance music, How i see the future at the moment, im lovin this revival it goes on yr after yr more and more people, lovin there history, id love to play out a few times, befor i grow up properly, and settle down, music is my lease of life, ive had a few problems over the last few yrs or but a lights beginning appearing i apologise to anyone ive upset, depression tends to give you an opionion , ive a few few years in me yet, so hopefully get out a lot much more
Radio Profile: OLDSKOOLALAN / REVIVAL88
Styles:
Acid, House, Italian, Hardcore, Breakbeat, oldskool hip hop and electro
I was brought up hangin around and growing up listenin to the djs from fantasy fm 101.9 and local pirate stations around sheffield 1990 - 94 and others back in the day, My musical tastes have been influenced by the likes of Asterix & space & rob gordon, nitemares on wax other djs from the sheffield bleep era, stu allan and 808 state, hype and other radio legends, Now journeying into modern deep house and soulful vocal's
Dj influences,
Sasha, Matt bell, Daz willot, nipper, john j, mike pickering, greame park, dj welly, dj hype, dj rap, ltj bukem, top buzz, seduction, carl cox, sy, dj ratty and tango
weekly oldskool stations
Mon - 6pm - 8pm www.piraterevival.co.uk
Mon - 10.00pm - 12.00pm - roughneckradio.co.uk
sundays - 9pm - 12.00pm - strictlyhousefm.co.uk
Saturdays - 4pm - 6pm - www.audiobunker.co.uk
play on and guest on numerous other stations, oldskoolanthemz.com, strictlyhousefm.co.uk
SHOUTOUTS
Just want say a massive shout out to everyone whos supported me over the yrs, you know who you are, And my major Influences,
Ste, Annie, first people i ever spoke to on the net back in 98, and stil to this day talk, All the Pirate Revival Crew - new/oldDance M, Silky, What started of as friendly chatroom playing tunes to each other on a microphone, became the huge sucess that is PirateRevival, very proud to say had a big hand in starting it too,
Massive Shout to All the PR 2001 originators, Doolz, Wagnet, penergy, Paltalk crew & Soulseek Crew 2002 onwards Jimbury, Pie, Tim Acid, Canoo, Woody, dj Fink, Murfs, Martin Destiny, Tek, Nebkins, Rizzla Moody Drift, Breakpirates, Si Darkus ,Dara, Matt clarke B2vos, Liv & Dan - Renegade Radio Crew & Djs, OSA, Butty at the helm, Cano/Saysay, Woody Cat & Manchester Crew, for the radio, so many to name Osa, but props to Ste H, Pauly, konspiracy,kingcoe, Mike W, Shooms, Stelladry, Claire Wood, all the Sasha Id Crew,Chris smith, john S, Brenden Jones, Bigup, Tat, names from the Hood,
Extra shouts to Global Dnb - Dutche, Emz, Shell, Gaz, old fammo,
+Raiders Radio Crew, Nicky Allen Abo, Daz, all up n comin producers im in touch with, and Djs Brum Legends, Glenn Aston, Dj Gersh, Shock C, Lou, Phil, all my fellow Sundays Djs, Lennie, Ratty Tango Fallout, again massive influences, John J UdergroundSystems, Barrie J, Matt Bell, Northern homebodys, Major Influences Welly & Nipper, Daz Willot Vertigo. The Southeners - Stu Perkins, Bones, Dan, Pluto and all the liverpool Crew, Massive Respect to all the Facebook Family, The Promotors, All The Groups, Rennaissance, Shelleys, all like a family again, special mentions to Ian Ossia, your words give me one hell of a lift, and Lee Softly, Blue Amazon, bigupz Bro, Met Great mates over the years through my music and travelling. that im so greatful of,
Very Special mentions to JoJo, Judith Mumma B, if want for you two id probs have given in, over past few months so thankyou so much, but givin me that push and support when needed it, X
Kez, very special shout to you, like that Sis i never wanted X
For my Last Shout to someone ive no idea how i upset - Dj Mark Archer, Legendary Producer and i still will buy a drink for oneday :(
Al :O) - OSA
18/04/2023
release day soon…
13/09/2022
I've been away from music for a while, but inspiration and the need to create brought me back to revive one of my earliest passions. Again, this is a compilation of tracks reflecting plenty of aspects and faces of the dance scene. I consider them to be true ‘B-sides’. These releases have been cr...
11/09/2022
07/07/2022
Man I fu**in loved this era \o/
REVIVAL88 - RAW HOUSE SESSIONS - FEBUARY 018 brand new beats - featuring the finest producers / labels in Underground house Music Full of promos, new releases and exclusives
05/11/2021
Two Pints with Will & Ralf Podcast | Episode 1 [S2.5]Two Pints with Will and Ralf featuring Will Mellor and Ralf Little diving into past escapades and other...
05/11/2021
January 29th 2022 join us Southbank Centre for our epic show with The Outlook Orchestra tickets are selling fast don’t sleep on these!! 🚧👌🏿
05/11/2021
07/10/2021
5 track album
05/10/2021
HATE Podcast 252nd with Ben Sims. Download available at 10.000 listens. Follow here: https://soundcloud.com/ben-sims https://www.instagram.com/bensimsofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/bens
29/09/2021
RIP WHAT A VOCALIST
29/09/2021
Ooh it’s been a while Paul Woolford promo in the inbox 🙂
11/08/2021
08/08/2021
Lovin the opening tracks on this especially never befor great warm up tracks great piano production
08/08/2021
Do you know your Pacific 303 from you're Pacific 909 or indeed your Pacific 212
Well we are going to split this weeks 808 /ZTT remasters into the UK mixes and then another week for the Tommy Boy U.S. mixes. https://808state.ffm.to/pacific
The story of Pacific by 808 State goes back to November 1988 when we were invited to do a Peel Session by the man himself .John Peel (the BBC Radio One DJ) made regular visits to Manchester in the late 80s checking out all the record stores including Eastern Bloc (our base at the time) . Peel had been airing our earlier releases such as Newbuild ,Let You're Self Go and the Lounge Jays EP
We should have gone to Maida Vale Studios and jammed like we had done on BBC Radio Manchester earlier that year ,but we had the idea of just recording a few tracks and saying it was a session , Peel entertained the collusion but then his producer put his foot down. So we never did a Peel session. But we did start Pacific State with this session in mind , It was sketched out in a session in November 88 .So this was the short lived original line up with Gerald ,Martin and Me .We were playing a few random gigs in 88
,sometimes as support slots to the likes of Inspiral Carpets and ACR .Sometimes travelling by National Express up to Scotland or doing one off warehouse parties. Its not like we had a set list when we played live ,it was largely improvised .Quite often it was a duo as Martin lived outside Manchester and had a day job at the shop . Some times Chapter and the Verse would join in ,
Some times that line up would do A Guy Called Gerald gig such as the one at the swimming baths or Born In The North on The Other Side Of Midnight , Sometimes we would be on the same bill as both groups such as Dingwalls with Ed Barton and The Ritz for Steve Barkers Meltdown Xmas Special with Tackhead at the end of 88. There seems to be a lot of MCs on that recording in both groups.
So it was organic and blurry and as VooDoo Ray took off Gerald was around more intermittently .January 89 I was finishing an album as Biting Tongues called Recharge .It was using Atari Computer ,analogue synths and our usual horn section .I had time booked at the studio over the weekend to finish some recoding but we squeezed an 808 session in on the Saturday morning .A bunch of spectators turned up with Martin and Gerald from the shop -I tried out some soprano saxophone on the Pacific tape . The instrument was left there from the night before.
I think it was important that my playing was limited , if we got a real sax player in it could all turn out to be Kenny G in an instant.
The drums were changed from TR808 to TR909 and a B section was devised giving it more of a story. We mixed various sections to be edited together later. So that was in the can so to speak . The rest of what became Quadrastate came from some sessions around that time ,Sometimes just me when I could spot a gap at the studio, some of it with the Spin Masters(Andy Barker & Darren Partington) and some of it with Martin or all 4 of us.
808 had a manufacturing /distribution deal with Revolver /The Cartel ,so you got a slot to fill timing wise. Quadrastate turned out to be a bit of a hodgepodge ,but full of new ideas . The SpinMasters began to try it all out off cassette at The Thunderdome Club ,It became apparent early on that Pacific had that sweaty group hug vibe . It got some airing on the 808 State radio show early that year . Test pressings were to come out in May 89 . Meanwhile we had done Dance Yourself To Death with MC Tunes and performed it on a BBC2 program called SNUB TV . ZTT’s Paul Morley liked it a lot and came up to talk to us.He found out we had this whole eco system of the record shop supplying a top ten of imports to our radio show on community radio ,and the ability to self produce at the centre of a very exciting version of the Manchester music scene to the one he had left behind when he moved to London.
ZTT did nt ask for demos ,it was all rather based on us being a convincing team . Pacific got aired on daytime Radio One after DJ Gary Davies had heard it out in Ibiza that summer ,It also became a big Hacienda anthem that crazy summer of 89.
Once we had signed up with ZTT as a four piece that summer we had to produce an album in time to hit the winter which meant hand it in finished by the end of September! The heat was on !
But inspiration was everywhere ,so many great records coming out , so many great parties -just take it all in and breath it all out ! Now for the first time we had a budget and people could turn up more regular instead of working 3 jobs ,we could buy tape and our own computer , book studio time when we needed it , It was an expensive occupation back then.
I don't know how much you kids know about ZTT ,but it was a label put together by Paul Morley ,journalist ,writer and conceptualist and hit record producer Trevor Horn .Trevor made some very wild records but had a real sense of a radio record and how to shape drama into them.
We spent sometime talking through some of these ideas and so we completely re recorded Pacific
as the version called Pacific 202 for the 90 album. Its faster and visits more stops on its trip ,Even then it was edited down to 3.58 to become Pacific 707 for the 7 inch radio single . Radio did indeed take to it and by November 89 we managed to heave it into the top 10 preceding the release of our first ZTT album “ 90” in December that year . Pacific 303 was a variation of 707 as an extra mix for the 12 inch single
Such were the time pressures back then on studio time ,we could nt. get in our preferred studio Square One in Bury and we went to Square Dance in Derby where my college mate Danny Spencer worked (he of Candy Flip) This one has the cuban chant and some added flutes and is heavier on the percussion front . We tended you use this version at gigs in 1990 .Completing the 12 inch was a one minute advert for Cobra Bora that would be on the up coming album. Again I think it was because we were rushing to a deadline that it was nt a finished piece.
In order to sustain your weeks in the chart back then it was ok to release a second batch of mixes
Again working against the clock and available studio time we knocked up Pacific 909 Mellow Birds Mega Edit plus Bonus Bird Beats ,which really is going off at a tangent .We recorded this one evening in Spirit Studio ,Some nice melodies and bass from the D50 , no sax on this -Bass Clarinet is the wind instrument. Lots of Roland R8 & 909 drum machines
The video for Pacific 707 was made by Howard Walmsley ,who s soprano sax I borrowed that day
He shot some silhouette footage of the band and the rest is made on a Video Fairlight ,very high tech at the time.
05/08/2021
Ben Sims Symbolism imprint drops its first compilation with a host of techno's established and emerging talent contributing to a twenty track collection....
05/08/2021
Played music and enjoyed by both these producers so would like to pay my respects so sorry to hear of there passing 😞 RIP
21/07/2021
Spencer Parker delivering a Monster sound
21/07/2021
Nod to the past and some personal hero’s added to the. Remixes
21/07/2021
Raw underground house sounds to take any dance floor apart
21/07/2021
Massive from Luke lovin the beakdown takes your head to bits and rearranges it
21/07/2021
Great House Release, great productions comin out of Australia
21/07/2021
GREAT HOUSE MUSIC from Dalfie - sounds to compliment any mix
21/07/2021
Massive Atmospheric Breaks - the production great especially lovin the flutes
21/07/2021
Sizzled delivering quality underground house sounds easily one of the best labels for me over the last 2 years in there genre
21/07/2021
HUGE UNDERGROUND WAREHOUSE SOUNDS ON THIS SELECTION
21/07/2021
Great underground house vibe runs right thru this selection
21/07/2021
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION ON THIS some wicked sounds
21/07/2021
11/07/2021
Quality
09/07/2021
Always quality from Kev - great selection
11/05/2019
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08/05/2019
Respect Lee for the quick delivery
22/04/2019
Sounds Of The Saint - Housemasters 'Bunny Bash' Special 2019
Sounds Of The Saint - Housemasters 'Bunny Bash' Special 2019
Recorded live 21/04/2019 on Housemasters-radio.com as part of the Easter Bunny Bash. Been digging through an old hard drive last couple of weeks and pulled some party tunes from 3-5yrs ago, some music should not be forgotten....Hope you enjoy the rewind !!!
05/09/2018
REvival88 - Raw house - Bass sessions vol 1 sept
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RAW HOUSE SESSIONS This featuring sounds a little harder - promos and latest releases 90 minute uninterupted - underground muhouse selection tracklisted
05/09/2018
REVIVAL 88 - ELITEDJS BASS - SEPT018
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REVIVAL 88 - ELITEDJS BASS SESSIONS - UPFRONT UNDERGROUND HOUSE MUSIC SUPPORTING THE BIGGEST LABELS , PRODUCERS, PROMO GROUPS THIS MIX FEATURING END OF SUMMER TASTEMAKER PROMOS FROM , TOOLROOM RECS FREIND WITHIN , WEISS FEEL MY NEEDS - GORGON CITY REMIX TRACKLIST TBA SOON T
01/09/2018
Revival88 - and this is FRRREsh vol 1 sept
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REVIVAL 88 - UNDERGROUND SELECTION - - THE SOUND OF NOW UPFRONT UNDERGROUND HOUSE MUSIC, PROMO & LATEST RELEASES
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