Here is another complete tape pack from 1997 that’s been making the rounds the last few weeks. The sound quality is very good to excellent on all the recordings and each recording has a wide variety of tunes from across the genre.

Highlights:
- The Kenny Ken set is surprisingly dark, especially in the latter half of the mix after he rinses Alex Reece’s “Pulp Fiction”.
- Hype is Hype…he was balls deep in the jump-up sound and just does his thing.
- Krome is kind of interesting because of the novelty (best known for The Slammer). He was not a regular DJ on any of the bigger recordings from this time period, but fits in with an all jump-up mix. I did like hearing Special K’s “Danger” though!
- Dr. S Gachet’s set is easily my favorite…he plays a bunch of super dark tech-step (ala Penny Black & No U-Turn). Despite their popularity now it was rare to play a lot of those records out to big clubs and hearing this mix was a nice change of pace.

DJ Sets:
DJ Hype
Kenny Ken
Mickey Finn
Krome
Randall
Ray Keith
Dr. S Gachet

MCs are Rage, Junior Red, and Ragga, but you don’t hear a lot of them. It sounds like they were turned down, or off, during most of the night. What you do hear is pretty solid and none of them ride over the mix.

Planet London 1997

Sound Quality: excellent
Filetype: zip/mp3
Size: 544mb
Bitrate: 179k

Sets (sound quality in parentheses):
Andy C (very good)
Ash Attack (poor)
Brockie (good)
Cool Hand Flex (very good)
Devious D (poor)
Funky Flirt (fair)
Grooverider (very good)
Jumpin Jack Frost (very good)
Kemistry (good)
DJ Rap (good)
Randall (good)
Ray Keith (good)
Rodney T (fair)
Val Pachino (fair)
MCs: Stevie Hyper D, Shabba D, Det, MC MC, Fats, Fantastic

Telepathy Vol 3 – 1994

It’s pretty cool to catch Grooverider rocking ragga jungle tunes (he starts his set with Demolition Man’s “Fire”) when that’s so far from the style of music he’s known for today. If you’ve ever listened to any UK tape packs then you’ll know that these guys are notorious for playing the same tracks multiple times through out the night. However, it’s still cool to hear the classics jammed out on dubplate 16 years ago.

Stevie Hyper (RIP) seems to be the primary MC on every set, but he’s not overbearing and killing the mix. Shabba checks in on a few but he’s not the same guy you hear today chatting to hear himself talk. Fats is doing his thing over Cool Hand Flex’s set and MC MC is only featured towards the end JJ Frost’s set. As far as I can tell Det’s familiar baritone isn’t anywhere on the recordings. I’ve never heard Fantastic so I couldn’t tell you where he fits in here.

Sound Quality: poor to very good
Filetype: zip/mp3
Size: 630mb
Time: about 43 min
Bitrate: 128k

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