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Dad Dancing: Hitman and her, Manchester 1990

Another class bit of action from the hitman stable. Pete hitman waterman and michaela strachan visit a cheesy meat market with blokes in ties watching dancers in pants. A simple formula to be sure, but highly entertaining. Here we have … Continue reading

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Dadcast 10 – Big Daddy

DOWNLOAD: Dadcast 10 – Big Daddy Techno Here is the massive list of trackage: System 01 – Drugs Work [Tresor] DJ Valium – Running In October [ Tobias Schmidt – Wagging Tail [Tresor] Digital Princezz – ?? [Mutter] Dave Tarrida … Continue reading

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Dad Chat: Paul Reset

As a recently anointed Techno Dad himself, DJ, producer, blogger, renowned beard wearer, label runner and all round electronic good egg Paul Reset has been doing the duties on the 1s and 2s for many years round The Hood. The … Continue reading

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Dadcast 9: Production Unit – Mature Cheddar

The day every DJ dreads has finally come: someone has asked you to play at their wedding. The question is, how do you deal with it? Some simply refuse point blank. Rude, but probably wise. Others take the plunge and … Continue reading

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SNUB TV: Boys Own

We found this Youtube clip of Terry Farley and Audrey Weatherspoon (hair by Timotei) talking about setting up the Boy’s Own label, which grew out of their football-and-acid-house fanzine around 1990. Some of these tunes are seriously dated (Weatherall sure … Continue reading

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Radio Soulwax: This is Belgium Part Two: Cherry Moon On Valium

One of the things that really annoyed us Techno Dads back in the day was the weird BPM arms race that occurred from 1992 onwards in rave music. You actually got numpties making 300bpm gabba records, while Scotland went resolutely … Continue reading

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Dad Trax: Luke Slater – Love (Loved)

Massive respect to Luke Slater for, like Richie Hawtin, having more hair now than he did in the 90s. Appropriately enough this is one of the all time classic wind in your hair techno tunes. Perhaps Mr Slater has grown … Continue reading

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Dad Trax: Genaside II – Narra Mine

Another example of the early breakbeat/jungle/reggae/rave/hiphop crossover, with a bit of wide-eyed ecstatic-idealism in the vocals, and some very dated but nice gated pads, this record from 1991 (that year again) has the distinction of containing the craziest rave MCing … Continue reading

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Dad Dancing: The Orb on Top Of The Pops

The standard dance music TV appearance in 1992 involved pretending to play a keyboard in a bomber jacket while a lady in a bra threw arm shapes. The Orb took to mainstream pop music TV wearing white boiler suits, sitting … Continue reading

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Dadcast 8 – Acoustic Dads

DOWNLOAD: DADCAST 8 – ACOUSTIC DADS Download only I’m afraid, until I sort out my hosting. In honour of the great acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch, who died this week, we donned a cardigan and dug around in our collection for … Continue reading

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