Dj Noël - Classic House Archive

More summer anthems from the Bethnal Green days. Lots of Full Intention remixes here, including a retake on Frankie Knuckles’ classic Tears and Jocelyn Brown’s It’s All Good, which was an old Sunday morning favourite of Andie Tickner back in the day. There’s also one of my early attempts at a live mash up, mixing To Be In Love over a George Morel groove. It’s not perfect but kind of works.Enjoy!project: update > update 11.1 > 11.9.991 pj happy days phats and small’s mutant disco vocal2 george morel/maw let’s groove/to be in love noël mashed it3 eclipse makes me love you sunset mix4 bob marley vs. funkstar de luxe sun is shining funkstars club mix5 frankie knuckles presents satoshi tomie tears full intention mix6 nerio’s dubwork feat. darryl pandy sunshine & happiness7 masters at work to be in love full intention vocal8 da mob feat. jocelyn brown it’s all good full intention mix9 basement jaxx miracles keep on playing re alert mix10 moby bodyrock olav basoski’s da hot funk da freak funk remix11 k klass let

Classic tracks from my Bethnal Green days. Every one of these tunes reminds me of that particularly messy summer when we partied every weekend. I’d rock up with my minidisc player and annoy your neighbours, and this disc was usually in the set somewhere before Sunday evening...Mainly commercial funky house, but beware of the trance tracks at the end!70’30” - 96 MB - AAC file - 192kbpsphats and small – turn around – norman cook remixbasement jaxx – red alert – jaxx club mixjose nuez feat. octahvia – hold on – jose’s 2000 vocal mixpete heller – big love – original 12”rythmatic junkies – the feelin’ (clap your hands) – original boney m vs. horney united – ma baker/somebody scream – club mixunderworld – jumbo – future shock worlds apart mixchicane feat. clannad – saltwater – original mixmike koglin feat. beatrice – on my way – extended vocal mixveracocha – carte blanche – original mixtilt – invisible – lost tribe vocal mix (matt darey & red jerry)

This was my first session after moving to London. I remember mixing it on a grey day in Bethnal Green, so I assume Andie Tickner and I had just taken up residence at City View House. I had just started working at Kiss 100 and was enjoying discovering London’s record shops. From memory, I think was mixed for Matt Fowler as a bit of thank you for letting me stay at theirs until I got sorted with a flat.I debated whether to upload this mix because the mixing’s pretty ropey through the first few tracks (what was I thinking of? must have been smoking while recording...) but, given that this is meant to be a comprehensive archive, the tunes should be allowed an airing for their tenth anniversary!In 1999 Cassisus had released his first album, Defected records were throwing us their first beautifully packaged 12”s and Van Helden hit No. 1 with udon’tknowme. Enjoy...project:update > update 8/1 | march 991 cassius cassius 99 - remix / long version2 stardust music sounds better with you - bibi & dim’s anthem from

I remember that I’d been wanting to lay down a soul session for a while. I’d done the odd soul tape, but found RnB difficult to beat mix as the bpms can vary so much.Anyway, I’d just started going out with John L, whose best friend was something of a soul girl. Her birthday presented the perfect opportunity to get this recorded. I did it in one evening, but it took a few hours to perfect.Between ’99 and perhaps ’05, soul / RnB / hiphop basically became chart-topping pop pap, so I’ve never really been inspired to revisit it for a dj mix. This session is anchored in earlier 90s tunes and includes some real gems - like Rajanee’s turn it up, which is still one of my favourite Sunday morning tracks.71’05” - 98.4MB - AAC file - 192kbpsnew sunday flava > soul mix > 25/11/98faith evans love like thisrobyn do you know (what it takes) paradise garage mixzhane request lineyvette michelle i'm not feeling your kelly feat. keith murray home alonebrandy feat. maze sitting on top of the worldmonica like this & like

I can’t really remember the story behind this mix which was recorded when I lived in Chorlton, Manchester. I think I wanted to pull together a selection of the different loops and grooves and riffs that had guided my taste through the recent years. The session journeys through funky house grooves, through fat speed garage b-lines, to a handful of pre-trance up-tempo favourites. I love the total recall track. I think it was in a box of 12s that got nicked when I was moving to London. Naline & Kane’s Beachball will always be a fave too. “instrumental…” > 3/11/98 ‘…in my education: something old/new/borrowed/looped’ gat décor - passion - original mix full intention - you are somebody - string express dub pj - happy days - original mix sex-o-sonique - i thought it was you - 12” version artful dodger - the messanger - a d stateside mix total recall - feel it baby - disco dub edit d’influence - falling - bo

Another archive session with Selina’s name in the title. At the time I was still living in Manchester and traveling to London once a week to set up a new creative team at Magic & Kiss FM. I stayed at Selina & Matt’s regularly, trying to plan my trips to coincide with weekends. This mix is one of a few that regularly accompanied up and down the M6.I’ve no idea why it’s called Selina’s Housewerk Mix. Maybe I thought thought she’d be up and down with the Hoover to it...Hearing this reminded me of a few forgotten treasures: Bob Sinclar’s ‘2-3-4-5-6-7-8 and back’ Gymtonic, the original Holiday/Music Sounds Better bootleg, even Madonna’s Substitute For Love remix can still raise a hair on the back of my neck. Enjoy xproject:update > update 6.x | ‘selina’s housewerk mix’ > 9/98stardust music sounds better with you originaldeep dish future of the futureultra nate new kind of medicine danny tenaglia mixartful dodger the messenger brownstone bootyminimal funk groovy thangbob sinclar gym tonic jose nuez in my li

I can’t remember much about this session. I recorded it to minidisc when living in Chorlton, Manchester. It’s a mix of funky house and UK garage tunes from the summer of 1998. There’s are a couple of chart tracks in the mix (Tamperer and Horney) and Mad Professor’s dub-style Teardrop at the end for some reason - a 12” I had stolen when I moved flats in London - but most of the grooves still cut the mustard.Enjoy!update 5.1 – summer 98 1 randy crawford - wishing... (detail)2 m j cole - sincere - vocal mix3 shernette may - all the man that i need - ramsey and fen mix4 nu birth - anything - nu vocal mix5 full intention - you are somebody - classic mix6 bump and flex - long time coming - big up version7 danny j lewis - spend the night - h-man man8 the tamperer - feel it - feel in the house9 plastic city - see the way - phunk diggaz remix10 the fog - been a long time - full intention remix11 novy vs. eniac - superstar - distraction mix12 mouse t vs. hot ‘n’ juicy - horney - boris gets horney mix13 spacebase - wha

Whatever happened to UK Garage? One minute it’s The Newest Bestest Thing In Town, then suddenly we’re all listening to rock and 80s-influence electro... These days it’s back underground UKG had its roots in the South (“it’s-a-Lon-don-thing”), but despite being based in Manchester, I was really into it. I loved the darker, grittier, harder Speed Garage tracks too. You’ll find plenty of them in this mix. This session was recorded some time between March and September ’98. I can’t find an exact date on any of the minidiscs. It was around the time I was DJing at Via Fossa on Canal Street in Manchester, filling in for Chris Buckley. He would often lend me his records and I had first dibs on the promos he didn’t want/sell, hence I ended up with quite a wad of Speed Garage tunes. Also, in 1998, every pop tune seemed to be released with a selection of different genre mixes (RnB, house and UKG) as record companies hedged their bets to gain a hit in any scene. This is why the l

There’s something exciting about a new bag of unplayed vinyl. Working as a radio producer at Key and Kiss, people often chucked unwanted wax my way. This mix was laid to minidisc after being handed a wad of upfront 12s by Chris Buckley. It was probably one of the weekends I filled in for him at Via Fossa. The session starts off with some smooth uk garage tracks, and moves into chunkier house. It was originally recorded in two parts as it didn’t fit on to a single minidisc. It is one of a few two-part mixes that I have now edited together - finally a continuous piece of audio after almost ten years. The transfer from minidisc to audio file, including the editing and chaptering, have been completed entirely in the digital domain, which means the resulting audio is as true to the original as when I put the needle on the record. This remains true for the majority of the mixes you’ll find on these pages. 105’16” - 146.5MB - AAC file - 192kbps . Bag

Here’s an old Manchester mixtape that was always in the car stereo. I’m a little fuzzy on when it was finished, probably mid summer 1997 guessing from the tunes in the mix. Following the double update 1.1 / 1.2, I couldn’t wait to get back into the studio and cut up a new set of tracks.I’m still quite proud of this session. The tunes are great: a beautiful summer mix of the classic Sueno Latino, Masters At Work’s groove-bound rework of Brand New Heavies’ Sometimes, fat funky remixes of Shola Ama, Ultra Nate and MK’s Always. The Rosie Gaines track reminds me of DJing at Via Fossa because one of the bouncers always requested it, and in this mix it kicks in beautifully to Sandy B’s much-sampled You Make The World Go Around. We even end with a bit of early euro trance...With this being another studio mix, all the tracks are edited and mixed perfectly. Another labour of love, making the most of weekends and down time in the studio.Update 2.0 – studio mix - Spring / Summer 971 Sueño Latino - Sueño Latino - Express

Part two of update 1.1. We pick up the tempo on this disc, but it’s not all banging stompers as there are a few blissed-out moments courtesy of Chicane and Way Out West. And I still love the deep phat ‘Huff and Puff’ track. With appearances from the likes of BT and Paul van Dyke, alongside tracks from BBE and Natural Born Grooves, you can see how this pumped-up yet euphoric sound was a precursor to the 1999 trance explosion (with a little help from Mitsubishis...). Those latter two tracks remind me of a Manchester Mardi Gras when Key 103 sponsored an event at GMEX - a particularly messy evening! Favourite of favourites here though is the closing Moonman tune. Bootyful. Enjoy! May there be many more ‘updates’! update 1.2 – march 97 1’12’10” 84.5 MB MP3 file 160 kbps bt featuring tori amos - blue skies - paulvandyk'sblauerhimmelmix huff and puff - help me make it - deepmix souvlaki - inferno -

I’m uploading this in December 2009. I’ve stumbled upon a box of old mix tapes from the mid 90s and this one’s a corker, full of main room peak time vocal anthems. According to my scribbles on the inlay card (pictures attached to the file) I originally mixed this for Tony Mellor after a lost weekend at The Fridge in London. It may have been Pride weekend when I travelled down with Chris Buckley, Mark & Darren. Anyway, I remember mixing this on a sunny day in my flat in Chorlton.Highlights include the opening pumped-up version of Where Love Lives, Moné’s Movin’, and The Happy Clappers’ Can’t Help Myself. The Lisa Marie Experience deliver ripping remixes of Helicopter’s classic On Ya Way and Nu Soul’s Hide-A-Way. The Naked Music NYC track has just been sampled and release on Defected.Enjoy!Late Summer Mix - 1996, mastered from cassette and chaptered 28 Dec 2009Side A 1. Andrew Pearce vs. The Reese Project Where Love Lives (The Serial Diva Mix 1) 2. Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (Morales Always Club Mix)

This is one of my first mixes recorded in a studio. I’d just moved into Matt’s in Stetford and he kept getting burgled so I stored my decks at work. This was in the days when Piccadilly Radio was based in Piccadilly Plaza (Manchester). The commercial production studio was separate from the rest of Key103 and I was often working weekends uploading commericals... so of course it wasn’t long before I’d plugged my Technics into the desk.Anthony (‘Subbo’) and I would have a few beers, get stoned out the back and play tunes.With this session I learnt how digital editing could allow you to perfect a mix, restructuring songs as I wanted them, and also how prestigious it felt to have a mix burnt to CD - few people burnt CDs in 1995 as it was far too expensive. This mix spawned ideas that later became the Update 1 CDs.studio mix – Aug 95Billy Ray Martin – running around town – bt remixBilly Ray Martin – running around town – original mixMone – we can make it – joe t vanelli remixJodeci - freak – mk dubEBTG – missing –

I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.All this seems pretty fitting as Ju

I recently found a site full of CD singles from back in the day and, well, filled my boots, replacing worn-out vinyl with digital copies and filling a few gaps in the collection.Having spent years just heading for the lead mix on a 12” it was interesting to rediscover some of the lesser-played mixes. Here’s a session of those alternative cuts, mainly dub versions, with a few of the smoother classics thrown in for good measure. Most of the tunes are from 93/94, and the session was thrown together for Matt on his birthday 2010.Enjoy!Club Dubs - alternative dub cuts of house classics from 1992 - 19961. Martha Wash - Give It To You (Maurice's Underground Playground)2. Sounds of Blackness - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Chuff Chuff Dub)3. NY's Finest Victor Simonelli - Do You Feel Me (Club Mix)4. Trey Lorenz - Photograph Of Mary (MAW Dub)5. Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)6. Sole Fusion - We Can Make It [Underground Network Mix]7. Michelle Weeks - Don't Give Up (M&S Epic Dub Mix)8. Greg Fenton Pres. S

Classic old skool handbag house from our days at Manchester’s first Saturday gay house all-nighter, later to become Danceteria. Although the tunes are from the early 90s, I produced this mix in April ’98 for a birthday party at Maple Ave, Chorlton. Includes: The Fog, Loni Clarke, MK, Joe Roberts, Bassheads, Judy Cheeks, K-Klass, Shy One and more. I think most people already have a copy of this somewhere, but I’m uploading it anyway. 70’11” - 65MB - AAC file - 128kbps 1 liberty city - if you really love someone (murk remix) 3:34 2 joe roberts - lover - (k klassic mix) 2:56 3 colourblind - nothing better 2:09 4 jeanie tracy - it's my time (jules remix) 3:48 5 k klass - let me show you love 3:28 6 mk - burning 4:10 7 the fog - been a long time 2:46 8 shy one - another man (matthew roberts mix) 5:03 9 shawn christopher - make my love (stonebridge mix) 4:17 10 loni clarke - u (k klassic mix) 2:43

More tunes from the good ol’ days of skipping across that filthy carpet on Sunday mornings. Sing along with T’empo, Janet Jackson, Brand New Heavies, Jinny, Inner City, My Friend Sam and more. Volume 2 was mixed 27 Dec 1999 for Millennium New Years Eve party in Bethnal Green, although most of the tracks are circa 1993 (hence the date above). 71’36” - 66.4MB - AAC file - 128kbps 1 t'empo - saturday night sunday morning 7:32 2 janet jackson - if - brothers in rhythm remix 3:38 3 brand new heavies - back to love - graeme park club mix 3:27 4 taylor dane - can't get enough of your love - c&c extended club mix 3:41 5 greg fenton presents silver city - love infinity - zanzibar mix 3:45 6 inner city - pennies from heaven - kevin's tunnel mix 3:30 7 eric perez project - release - matthew roberts mix 0:30 8 eric perez project - release - classic mix 1:15 9 rupaul - house of love - t'empo's kitsch bitch club mix 3:43