lightning strikes twice

Musiquarium was a phenomenal radio show back in the early ’90s, playing all the early rave sounds, and a whole lot more.  I spent my teenage years glued to it and wherever else I could get the sounds.  While I’m still a music fiend, I’d pretty much forgotten most of the tunes that were such a formative part of my youth… I was a little embarrassed by the idea of rave music actually — you know “bang bang bang piano piano”.  Now I tend to listen to soul/funk/hip-hop with quite a bit of rather serious detroit techno too, which is all very different from my early years.

Anyway, Nik Fish, the man behind Musiquarium, has posted some mixes online of all the top tunes from back then, and I can’t tell you how AWESOME it has been to listen to them again.  They’ve reminded me of how all encompassing the rave scene was at the time.  Big parties, all night long, amazing music, lots of friends from ALL over Sydney, who I only knew from Saturday night parties, and some of whom I still see around.  The new Musiquarium mixes have almost straight away become some of the most treasured bits in my music collection.

Some of the big artists: Fargetta, Anticapella 2, Capella, Dream Frequency, Andromeda, just as a start