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Taking you on a nostalgic journey back in time through big-name interviews with the legendary DJs, MCs, producers, promoters and pirates who got you dancing through the rave-era, and who you’ve loved ever since.
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To you the ROAR Crew, We are proud and humbled to today celebrate ROAR’s first birthday by bidding you farewell, and sending out a MASSIVE thank you for all of your support, in whatever shape that took, since our launch this time last year. ROAR was always meant to be a lockdown project to bring a smile to the faces of ravers while journalistically chronicling the rave scene and with raves on their way back, lockdown (sort of) lifting, and Latch expecting his second kid in September and having to do some paid work, our first birthday this week seemed...
HOSPITAL RECORDS co-founder & CEO, LONDON ELEKTRICITY, speaks publicly in an interview for the very first time about allegations of racism that consumed the label in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement, in this the final part of ROAR’s engrossing marathon three-parter with one of the most influential figures in rave music. The DJ & producer AKA TONY COLMAN admits he was initially “furious” Hospital had been accused of being a racist organisation by Black former employee CHRIS INPERSPECTIVE, which went viral online causing a huge storm in the jungle drum and bass scene....
HOSPITAL RECORDS co-founder and CEO TONY COLMAN reveals exclusively to ROAR about his decision to step down after a difficult last year, in part 2 of our exclusive mega-interview. Some 12 months after the label was caught in a storm of allegations of racism, Tony AKA DJ and producer LONDON ELEKTRICITY explains he wants to focus on performing and producing as he moves into his sixties. Beginning with a discussion about how his label’s rise coincided with New Labour’s landslide 1997 General Election win which was set to the sound-track of D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better and ‘Cool Britannia’,...
ROAR gets typically deep with LONDON ELEKTRICITY, one of the most influential names in the current drum and bass jungle scene, and co-founder of arguably its biggest label HOSPITAL RECORDS. Through his work Hospital, the DJ, producer and event promoter AKA TONY COLMAN has been hailed by some for changing the face of drum and bass and jungle by helping push it to a more mainstream audience. But last year Tony and the label faced allegations of racism by a Black former staff member and the wider public. In this mega three-part interview no stone will be left unturned and...
Rave originator JUMPING JACK FROST rounds up his three-part interview with ROAR by moving into the modern day and assessing the many positives, and some negatives, of the current drum and bass scene, while comparing the then and now. Praising ANDY C for his huge success which continues to push the music into the mainstream, Frost AKA NIGEL THOMPSON also addresses recent claims of racism and ‘whitewashing’ which came to the fore when his label V RECORDINGS was not featured in last year’s Drum and Bass Arena documentary about the history of the scene, and why until recently there have...
ROAR gets gritty with JUMPING JACK FROST in the second of our three-part interview as he opens up about the dark times that he and the jungle scene endured and how both have thankfully bounced back…and some! In typically honest fashion, the unashamed former bad-boy from the streets of Brixton AKA NIGEL THOMPSON admits he revelled in the violent times jungle experienced in the mid-90s, before he helped change the face of drum and bass by winning the Mercury Music Prize with RONI SIZE & REPRAZENT, who Nigel and his V RECORDINGS co-owner BRYAN GEE had discovered several years earlier....
ROAR meets one of the DJs who helped shape the early rave scene in JUMPING JACK FROST for a typically frank chat with this larger-than-life personality. In the first of three parts of this romping journey through his fascinating life, the jungle and drum and bass legend talks about how came from the streets where violence and robbery was a part of life, and was in and out of Her Majesty’s Pleasure before finding a home in the emerging rave scene even though it was seen by many of his peers as ‘devil music’. Frost AKA NIGEL THOMPSON was one...
This week ROAR meets MISTRESS MO, one of the ‘90s rave scene’s most prominent females, for a fascinating dive into the old skool. The DJ and promoter AKA MO JONES discusses how she went from a teenage raver who’d just learned to drive and would spend every weekend haring around the country attending often “dodgy” free parties, to one of the UK’s leading events organisers. Mo tells the story of how her popular Birmingham-based old skool event FLASHBACK came about and what were the ingredients to its success. She also gives her thoughts as to why there were so few...
MAMPI SWIFT concludes his frankest interview ever, by speaking to ROAR regarding the commercialisation of the drum and bass and jungle scene, which has led to allegations of ‘racism’ and ‘whitewashing’ and seen industry leaders forced to do plenty of soul-searching over the past few years. Pointing to the lack of diversity in modern DnB crowds, and increasingly behind the decks, despite the genre having been invented by a melting pot of cultures, Swift AKA PHIL ANIM justifiably tackles the questions: where have all the Black people gone, how it came to pass, and does DnB have a race problem?...
In part 2 of MAMPI SWIFT’s most in-depth interview of all time, the double-drop master talks to ROAR about his infamous DJing skills and techniques which saw a rivalry develop with drum and bass colossus, ANDY C, whose success Swift reckons he could have replicated had he made better decisions at key times. Swift – AKA PHIL ANIM – explains how he honed his turntablism as a teenager through hours and hours of practice, in the same way he did with football – even claiming he’d have played professionally had KOOL FM not given him his big DJing break at...
** Hope you like the Mampi Swift artwork from our brilliant new recruit, DnB Illustrated AKA LORA JONES. Go seek out her rave art on Insta https://www.instagram.com/dnbillustrated/?hl=en and official website: https://www.dnbillustrated.co.uk/ ** ROAR combines old school and upfront for the first time today as we welcome drum and bass stalwart MAMPI SWIFT as we celebrate 30 years in the business and 25 years of his label CHARGE RECORDINGS with what is his most in-depth interview EVER. In this brutally frank and honest three-parter stripped across a week, Swift – AKA PHIL ANIM – will chart the major ups and downs...
In this fascinating episode, Ruffneck AKA PATRICK VAN KERCKHOVEN talks about how, taking inspiration from UK and US music in the late 1980s, he accidentally helped create the blueprint for the current massive Dutch rave scene which regularly hosts huge hardcore festivals and multi-arena events, by first failing to make Chicago house, and then creating a load of aliases to his famous label to make the scene appear bigger than it was. Patrick will also tell how Scottish rave Rezerection where he’ll be appearing at a reunion later this year became a second home for him in the ’90s, and...
ROAR meets CHRIS PAUL, leading ‘90s musician, DJ, producer and Top of the Pops Star with ISOTONIK, who started his career as a cop before becoming the UK’s most prolific promoter, sometimes putting on up to five raves a weekend, including most famously his successful ORANGE event and even spun rave tunes for the QUEEN MUM and PRINCESS DI! In this in-depth one-part interview, Chris talks about how, as a DJ at CAMDEN PALACE and THE HIPPODROME, he bought acid house to the masses and created a generation of ravers, created buzzy rave brand Orange with a little help from...
** HIXXY WILL BE JOINING US FOR A LIVE WATCH-A-LONG WHEN THE EPISODE GOES OUT AT ITS LATER TIME OF 8PM (WEDNESDAY) FOR YOU GUYS TO HAVE A NATTER AND ASK HIM ALL THOSE BIG BURNING QUESTIONS OF YOURS ** Our in-depth four-part interview with HIXXY rounds up as we get the four-beat happy hardcore don’s take on the current upfront hardcore scene after a difficult year of not playing out, why it’s ended up where it is, and where it might go next after the pandemic is over. Hixxy AKA Ian Hicks also takes a load of your questions....
DJ HIXXY shows how he has remained one of the top dogs of the rave scene with another fascinating journey through the ups and downs of his career and the hardcore genre. Starting with happy hardcore in a perilous state at the turn of the century, the DJ, producer and promoter AKA IAN HICKS talks about the disaster that was HELTER SKELTER Millennium Jam, how his trance-influenced RAVER BABY label helped the rebirth of happy hardcore, explains where the term ‘UK Hardcore’ originated, and revisits his success putting on events under the HTID brand. Plus, despite Ian being sick of...
DJ HIXXY dives deeper still in part 2 of his four-part ROAR interview, as the South Coast happy hardcore don reveals the incredible story of how he broke his neck TWICE in the ’90s and how it has impacted upon his ability to perform ever since. Hixxy AKA IAN HICKS also discusses the impact of ecstasy and game-changing nature of Slipmatt’s SMD1 on the rave scene, talks about how he created the hugely successful Bonkers compilation, and addresses the mid-90s scene split and the later artist meeting to save hardcore, which included suggestion of a name change for the genre....
Happy Hardcore don and Bonkers creator HIXXY AKA IAN HICKS sits down for a full and frank four-part interview with ROAR where no stone is left unturned. In this special first episode which is dedicated to the recently deceased rave producer friend SQUAD-E and sees Ian pay tribute to his close friend ahead of his interview the renowned South Coast rave artist discusses the role his area played in the creation of four-beat hardcore, and what attracted him to the more uplifting sounds. Taking in his early days as a music-obsessed teenage raver and DJing out for the first time,...
ROAR wraps up our two-part interview with jungle originator KENNY KEN, bringing you yet another fascinating insight into the history of a genre currently undergoing an exciting resurgence. First harking back to the ‘90s, Kenny AKA KEN DELSOL talks about the 1994 split between jungle and hardcore and how jungle found massive worldwide success after it morphed into what we know as drum and bass but admits the scene has had issues with “two faced” people. Kenny also tells how he hung up his raving boots in the mid-2000s to focus on his career, including producing, which he says he’s...
One of the original junglist originators KENNY KEN is welcomed onto ROAR for a fascinating and unashamedly outspoken two-part romp through his incredible life and career. Having spent much of his younger years in and out of Her Majesty’s Pleasure for low-level criminality, Kenny AKA KEN DELSOL tells The ‘90s Rave Podcast how accidentally finding the early rave scene helped him turn his life around, admitting: “Without it I’d either be in prison…or dead.” Telling the story of how he went from how he went from a sweaty raver who manned London’s tube stations in the week and idolised the...
Rave and Radio King of the Northwest STU ALLAN completes his interview with ROAR by giving his take on the birth, death and rebirth of happy hardcore, and how his shows on Piccadilly Radio and Key 103 inspired a generation of new ravers. Plus Stu tells how he’s managed scene politics and discusses how he’s coped without gigs during the pandemic. Watch Donate ENJOY ALL THIS GREAT RAVE CONTENT? IN THAT CASE WE NEED *YOUR* SUPPORT TO KEEP GROWING AND DEVELOPING! With lots of big plans and costs increasing, we have a new membership scheme where you can support us...
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great interview. what a sound guy.... Kenny Ken and hype d at their best, back in the day.... https://youtu.be/tH3vbUu5zxw
Great interview. Sounds like a good guy deep down. Good luck for the future MC Flux
Cracking interview, sound like tops guys. Energy 97, what a night, what a set. From heart of gold, have it all, steam train.. whats tracks... still makes hairs stand up on the back of your neck. thank you for great memories
don't think Doc Scott was talking about covid raves, he was talking about venues dying and the rave structure as we know it not seeing any support, pushing people underground
disappointed to hear slipmatt admit to playing shit like toytown just because he thought it was popular. I was in the crowd at united dance when he did that and when he started playing that ridiculous shit I called it a day. that tune killed the scene!
would like to hear from DJ seduction and DJ Druid