Dr Gloom

New cross is a bit rough but it's got the Amersham Arms - quality boozer

Completely agree. Anyone that doesn't share this view isn't a real supporter IMO.

I'm feeling surprisingly chipper for a Sunday night. Usually have the fear about work creeping at this stage. Nice weekend, good mix of seeing family, doing chores at new house and having a few drinks seeing mates on Saturday night.

Fit as a lop and even wearing joggers, trainers etc for work so looking the part as well The guy who is overseeing our program has u's down for 5 exercise sessions a week. That can be 3 gym visits, a long walk, a bike ride or 30 minutes using our home equipment etc. Definitely going to try and stick to the five sessions during the course. I was that hyped yesterday I wanted to go back to the Gym! All good stuff so far. nice one. it definitely gets the endorphins going doesn't it.

how you feeling today CT? keep it up! try to do another session no more than 48 hours after your last one if you can

it's friday, which is good. though tomorrow, i have to clean thick dust from my new house and paint walls.....not good.

so-called accountant tbh

aye, that's exactly when i went off them. when they started getting big in america and headlining festivals. they just went a bit too rocky for me. snob tastic tbh

beyond that period, calibre, marky, high contrast, zinc and marcus intalex were among my favourite djs. i got into what the chinstrokers call the more liquid sound after about 2000 when the mainstream turned into a weird blend of nu school jump up cheese. i think they call it clownstep these days ....total garbage and kind of coincided with me stopping buying tunes, playing out, getting older basically. of the new generation, d-bridge does some really interesting stuff these days - he used to be part of bad company. it's sort of half time dnb. hard to explain. not quite dubstep or dnb...somewhere inbetween but well worth checking out. technical beats and proper basslines.

yeah. it's got some belters on it. i loved that era. wind to 1.37 in on this one for that reese bassline. OMG Love that tune, G-Man.Two of my favourite jungle compilations are these two: http://www.discogs.c.../release/191884 & http://www.discogs.c.../release/195248 Who were your favourite DJs from back then? I'd have to go with those two above plus Ray Keith, Mickey Finn, Nicky Blackmarket, DJ SS, DJ Ron and (the also gorgeous) DJ Rap. of the classic party tune jump up djs, probably micky finn. i think andy c or dj hype were probably the best of that lot technically. andy c was quite young then but he blew up the scene pretty quick. his later sets turned to pure cheese but when he started out in the mid 90s he stood out because his mixing was just ridiculous, never dropped a beat, and double drops all over the shop. skibadee back then was just a stupidly good mc then as well, saw the two of them play together a fair bit over the years. skibba turned totally crap after a while too. i actually knew nicky blackmarket quite well funnily enough. i spent most of my early years in london hanging around blackmarket records. if you did your best to make friends with him (kiss his arse basically), he'd sort you out with all the latest white labels.

without a doubt. that's the album that turned my head away from indy guitar stuff. the rest is history. although the prodigy went on to bigger things, i don't think any of their following albums matched that hardcore sound of experience. not one bad track on it tbh

essential hardcore was one of the first cds i ever bought

love all that stuff mate. got them all on vinyl.

and for the jump up crew, here are some of my other old school faves. you need good bass on your speakers for these three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PK36ZmJno

yeah. it's got some belters on it. i loved that era. wind to 1.37 in on this one for that reese bassline. OMG

ah, i love it. deserves to be on the list for metropolis alone. one of my favourite ever tunes. ....

Cheers mate. Can you put them in order? I know it's hard but needed for my puroses. Nice to see Goldie and 8o8 state in there. **Thought the roni size was over-hyped at the time. in order of preference. not sure i can. they all cover differnet periods of life. i think the ed rush and optical - wormhole - period was my favourite (around 1997) because i was at uni getting off my tits most weekends and discovering raving to dnb. there wasn't much of a dnb scene up in the north east when i was a bairn, my raving education was mainly at the shindig at the riverside or megadog nights at the unversity. moving to sheffield for uni and discovering dnb raves was something else - the energy levels, the darkness, the mcs - everything about them was different and exciting. it's been my favourite form of dance music ever since.

it's friday and i'm feeling darkside. grrrrrrrrr

for parky: my top 20 electronic albums, roughly in chronological order of me discovering them prodigy - experience the orb - adventures beyond the underworld ltk bukem (and crew) - logical progression guy called gerald - black secret technology orbital - the brown album 808 state: pacific state leftfield - leftism goldie - timeless st germain - boulevard roni size reprazent - new forms adam f - colours coldcut - journeys by dj massive attack - mezzanine ed rush and optical - wormhole mr scruff - keep it unreal 4 hero - two pages nightmares on wax - smokers delight high contrast - tough guys don't dance calibre - second sun chase and status - more than a lot i wanted to throw in entroducing by dj shadow too (a classic post club chill out album) but probably falls more under hip hop...

i don't think bukem was over rated. i used to love the good looking crew. when conrad starts spitting over the western it still sends shivers up the back of my spine, almost 20 years later. obvioulsy the production has moved on massively when you look at the calibre stuff i posted. the main thing that strikes me is how much faster new dnb is

brilliant

I would welcome it. The atmosphere would soon return if the gallowgate end reverted to terracing. Would probably raise capacity to over 60k too

box jumps make me feel like my heart is going to implode. it's the breathing that always fucks me up (too many smokes in my misspent youth). love it though

please tell me that's before they've been in the oven

not a fan of the patak's pastes meself like. they never taste quite right to me. mr viki's is a better bet, though not as readily available a brand as patak's. obviously, making your own paste from scratch is always a better bet but then who can be fucked to do that on a school night?