Martin. If your interested, in Leeds before the like of KAOS/SOAK, B2B, Banana Repulic and the dare I say it ecstacy crowd there was The Warehouse on a Sat playing a wide array of Dance music (Disco, Groove, House, Techno, Northern Soul, Hip Hop etc)
But there were a couple of small clubs one of which was Coconut Grove (Sats) hosted by George and Kevin who went on to form Nightmares On Wax and Phono, cant remember who put on those nights (Thurs). Its here I heard all the early bleepy Warp, Bassic, 808, AGCG sounds along with Detriot and Chicago sounds. Then in the year or so it all seemed to fragment. There was a house/techno crowd and Rap/Soul crowd. Im not sure about Sheffield but Manchester had the Man Alive, PSV, Legend before the Hac became more Dance orientated. But you know that having had a chat with Greg Wilson. Cheers. Rav -----Original Message----- From: Martin Dust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2004 09:51 To: Mann, Ravinder Cc: 313@Hyperreal.Org Subject: Re: (313) If On 22 Sep 2004, at 08:41, Mann, Ravinder wrote: > > I can't put it down to a city but I would say the North of England. I > recall > that the take up for House/Techno was stonger in > Leeds/Manchester/Sheffield. > London was still doing its rare groove thang (and moved more towards > acid > jazz) when the North started to move from Rare Groove to House/Techno. I'd agree with this, it isn't London or Sheffield - I'm thinking more along Manchester/Birmingham/Berlin. London was way behind Manchester, Sheffield was before and Leeds I know nothing about the early scene - I don't ever remember traveling to a club there - it was always Stoke/Wigan/Manc/Sheff/Mansfield for me... I wasn't asking to start an argument, I really am interested in peoples views. > > (The club sets were a lot more open too, you would hear all styles of > music > in one night - gets nostalgic) A lot of people forget this, I remember Inner City being slammed in PWEI at the Hac - people still went nuts. Martin > > Rav >
