Pearsall presents There Must Be Future

Mixed in Edinburgh, March 2011
(76:53, 142 MB, V0 VBR MP3)

Style: UK Acid Trance

Direct link to the mix: [bad word] /sonicrampage.org/mixes/tmbaf/Pearsall-ThereMustBeAFuture.mp3

Tracklisting:
01. Disco Volante – Moonraker (Man With No Name Remix) (Transient)
02. Nuw Idol – Ikon (Zoom)
03. Sandman – Dunes (PRC 046) (Rabbit City)
04. Chris Liberator – Soul Mantra (Prolekult)
05. Razor’s Edge – The Zoo (Sourmash Remixes ’95) (Metropolitan)
06. Pi.Bert – Atmosphere (K90 Remix) (Metropolitan)
07. X-Cabs – Neuro (Bellboy)
08. Crashforce – Re-Energize (Tide)
09. Interactive – Amok! (Chris Liberator Remix) (TEC)
10. D.R. Base – Don’t Stop (Tinrib)
11. Cybernaut – Hydrophonics (Intastella)
12. K90 – This Is The Future (New Horizon Mix) (Telica)
13. Choci & Mark Sinclair – Out There (Choci’s Chewns)
14. Demonic Emotions – Stuck On Space Trip (Jon The Dentist Remix) (TEC)
15. Star Power – Nothing Can Save Us London [bad word] s Lectrolux Remix) (Stay Up Forever Remix)
16. Pablo Gargano – Everyone’s Future (Eve)
17. Ramos, Supreme & UFO – Judgment Day (RSR)
18. 1st Airborn – Blaggermaster (UK44)
19. Helix & Fury – Sanctus Dominus (XY2)
20. Lab 4 – XL5 (Pod)
21. Rob Vanden – Gates Of Oblivion (GBT)

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Atomic Energy, London
Raving at Atomic Energy, London, 1999

I remember reading once that the music that really stays with you through life is the music you love when you are 17/18.

I can believe it.

Take the music featured on this mix – these UK acid trance records hold a very special place in my heart, having soundtracked my first nights out raving at London parties like Escape From Samsara, Pendragon, and Techtonic. Not that it was necessarily my favorite music right away – those of you who have read my other essays here at Sonicrampage will know that when I was 15-17 I was a full-scale junglist, or at least as much of one as an upper-middle class white American expat could be!

My friends, however, were not, so given that I was always outvoted, if I wanted to go out and party with them, I had to accept we’d be hearing something besides jungle.

Which in our case meant that we ended up going out to trance events, since that’s what the older brothers of my group of friends liked to rave to. Like a lot of other teenage boys, we were very heavily influenced by these older brothers, since they were older, more confident, and just generally seemed a lot cooler and more mature than us. Unsurprisingly, this influence led to us picking up a number of their habits and tastes, both good and bad.

Smoking = bad
Banging hard trance = very good!

Admittedly, the hard trance thing was not so good right at the beginning. I was a junglist after all (“that [bad word] s not from the streets, maaaaan” … as if I was from the [bad word] streets!), but since I didn’t want to sit around at home on my own, I had to learn to tolerate that hippy nonsense.

As you might have guessed, in the end I learned not just to tolerate it, but to love it with a fearsome passion!

Vicious Circle
Dan Durnin and I at Vicious Circle, Sheffield, 2002