The Record Drop

FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recordings) sits right at the fault line where Chicago house crossed the Atlantic and rewired the UK. While the name itself comes from Decca’s post-war high-fidelity recording tech, the label’s real cultural impact landed decades later, when London Records relaunched FFRR in the mid-to-late ’80s as a home for emerging club music. At that exact moment, Chicago house was exploding, raw, drum-machine-driven tracks from pioneers like Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle, Marshall Jefferson, and Lil’ Louis were reshaping dance floors, and the UK was hungry for it.

FFRR became one of the key conduits for that sound. By licensing, releasing, and heavily promoting Chicago house records in Britain, the label helped translate a gritty, underground Black American club culture into a mainstream UK rave and house movement. Tracks like Baby Wants To Ride, French Kiss, and Tears didn’t just chart — they educated an entire generation of DJs and clubbers. In short: Chicago invented it, FFRR amplified it, and UK dance culture was never the same again.

Tracklisting:

01. Club House - Deep in My Heart (Funky House Version)
02. T-Empo - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (T-Empo Mix)
03. Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Andy Mowat Remix)
04. Jamie Principle - Baby Wants to Ride (X-Rated Version)
05. Prince & The New Power Generation - My Name is Prince (LP Version)
06. Orbital - Belfast (Sasha vs The Light Remix)
07. Together - Hardcore Uproar
08. Sterling Void - It’s All Right (House Mix)
09. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Remix)
10. Degrees of Motion - Shine On
11. Sex-O-Sonique - I Thought It Was You (12 Inch Mix)
12. Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Club Mix)
13. DSK - What Would We Do? (Clay & Deller’s ‘Industry Standard’ Mix)
14. Sagat - Fuk Dat (Raw/Radio Edit)
15. Tinman - Eighteen Strings (Full On Kitchen Mix)
16. Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me (12 Inch Mix)
17. Quake - The Day Will Come
18. The Good Men - Give It Up (DJ Quicksilver Remix)
19. Goldie - Inner City Life (Rabbit in the Moon’s Vocalic City)
20. Crescendo - Are You Out There

 

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This episode salutes one of the wildest and most instantly recognizable labels of the 90s underground: Tinrib Recordings.

Founded by Captain Tinrib (Jon Bell) around 1995, this wasn’t your polished trance label, it was hard house with a grin and a gut punch. Tinrib fused hard house, acid techno, and hard trance with a hint of circus chaos into a sound that was as theatrical as it was floor-destroying.

Everything about Tinrib screamed personality, from its cheeky artwork and nautical puns to its unapologetic wall-of-sound production. It was the sound of late-night warehouses and too-loud systems, where the fun was as important as the drop.

This mix celebrates that era: the Captain, the crew, and the records that made the Tinrib fish swim forever upstream!

Tracklisting:
01. D.R. Base - Piranha
02. D.R. Base vs Karim - Barracuda
03. D.R. Base - Beat the System (V.A.T. Remix)
04. Chris C & M-Zone - Mackerel - Lord of Remix
05. D.R. Base - Don’t Stop
06. Fierce Base - Power Trip
07. Captain Tinrib - Manta (Hot Bird 3 Mix)
08. The Captain & Pete Wardman - Bimbobop
09. Weirdo - Photic Zone
10. Captain Tinrib - 2001 - The Final Frontnose (Weirdo Remix)
11. Weirdo - Shake Me
12. Captain Tinrib & Steve Thomas - Get Down 2000
13. The Captain & Max Alien Thing - The Duster
14. The Captain & Karim - Up In the Air
15. Commander Tom - Eye Bee M (Captain Tinrib Remix)
16. Opal - Hoover Groover
17. D.R. Base vs Karim - N.W.A. (Hard as Nails Mix)
18. Ganesh - Captain Tinrib’s Back Again
19. Captain Tinrib - Blue Oyster (Captain Tinrib Remix)
20. Stimulant DJ’s - Hoovertime (Captain Tinrib Remix)
21. The Captain & Karim - Show Them We Can Do This

In the 90's, North American record labels wanted their cut of club culture and while the artists were solid, the labels - in their infinite wisdom - wanted to make as much money as possible so they came up with the term "Electronica". An umbrella to sell a rapidly growing but hard-to-categorize movement: techno, house, trip-hop, drum & bass, and big-beat all living under one shiny word.

Where “techno” sounded cold and niche, “electronica” was sleek, futuristic, and accessible, a way to present artists like The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Underworld, and Fatboy Slim as the next wave of pop culture rather than club subculture. It described a sound that fused analog grit with digital polish, where machines could feel human and rebellion could groove. It wasn’t just about beats; it was about a generation discovering that laptops and samplers could be as expressive as guitars and drums — and often a hell of a lot louder on the dance floor.

So, we're going to revisit some of these seminal artists in this episode. Let's pack our bags, jump in our Delorean and head back in time to explore.

Tracklisting:

01. The Crystal Method - Comin’ Back
02. The Crystal Method - Now is the Time
03. Orbital - Monday
03. Underworld - Surfboy
04. The Chemical Brother- It Doesn’t Matter
05. The Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats
06. Fluke - Squirt
07. Underworld - Rowla
08. Front 242 - Happiness (Underworld ‘Dance’ Mix)
09. Fluke - Reeferendrum
10. Underworld - Pearl’s Girl
11. Leftfield - Phat Planet
12. Faithless - Tarantula
13. Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix)
14. Orbital - Lush 3-2
15. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On
16. Fluke / Nine Inch Nails - Setback / The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum)
17. Fluke - Amp
18. Faithless - God Is A DJ
19. Leftfield - Open Up
20. The Crystal Method - Cherry Twist
21. The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
22. Leftfield - Space Shanty
23. Underworld - Cowgirl
24. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (Plug)
25. Depeche Mode / Madonna - Barrel of a Gun (Underworld ‘Hard’ Remix) / Ray of Light (Sasha’s ‘Ultra Violet’ Remix)
26. Propellerheads - Bang On!
27. Moby - James Bond Theme (Extended Mix)
28. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Bad Life (Kemek the Dope Computer Mix)
29. Geek Ghastly - Rage Against the Terror

 

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Do you remember WEMF out of Toronto? Jon the Dentist does! 

WEMF was one of the early big-deal outdoor electronic music festivals in Canada and ran annually from the mid-’90s onwards. It was originally formed as a collaboration between Destiny Productions and Boscaland Records (Jon the Dentist's label) and was called "The World Trance Music Festival" but quickly grew beyond just a trance festival. 

At its peak it drew thousands, spanned multiple days, and offered a wide palette of trance, house, hardcore, goa-psy, drum’n’bass. In short: a key part of the golden-era rave / festival culture in Canada. 

In this episode, Jon the Dentist will take us on a journey through his memories and music of that festival and how it came to be. 

Tracklisting:
01. Depeche Mode - PIMF
02. X-Press 2 - London Express
03. Hardfloor - Trancescript
04. Hardfloor - Bang the Acid
05. Storm - Storm Animal
06. Trope - Amphetamine (2001 Remix)
07. Casseopaya - Carma in an Ocean of Joy (DJ Misjah Remix)
08. DJ Misjah - Karin’s Paradox
09. LSG - Let’s Go Fishing
10. Human Resource - Dominator (Armin Van Buuren Extended Remix)
11. Jon the Dentist & Ollie Jaye - Imagination (Untidy Dubs)
12. Barabas & OD1 - House Forever
13. Well Paid Scientists - High Noon in Gotham City (Jon the Dentist ‘Big Club’ Mix)
14. Miss DJax - Ghost Train
15. Jon the Dentist - Terminate (Yves de Ruyter Remix)
16. Push - Strange World
17. Union Jack - Two Full Moons and a Trout (Freedom Fighters, Domestic & Pixel Remix)
18. Blank & Jones - After Love
19. Vincent De Moor - Sunflower
20. Blank & Jones - The Nightfly
21. Commander Tom - Are Am Eye
22. Adam F - Metropolis
23. Beatsole -

Prolekult was a UK underground label that thrived in the early–mid ’90s, known for pushing raw, uncompromising progressive techno and acid trance. Its releases carried a darker, edgier energy compared to mainstream club records of the time, often leaning into stripped-back grooves, hypnotic builds, and politically tinged artwork that gave the label a distinctive identity. Prolekult became a cult favorite for DJs who wanted something deeper and heavier for late-night sets, standing out alongside other imprints like Hooj Choons and Additive. Though relatively short-lived, the label’s catalog left a strong mark on the underground, and many of its 12"s are still highly sought after by collectors today - especially the coveted "Prolekulture" double LP! 

Tracklisting:

01. Francis Dubois - Fembot
02. Yellowknife - Pitch Bend
03. Joshua Collins - Rain
04. Snitzer, Humate & Mc Coy - Oh My Darling, I Love You
05. Peace Division - So You See Me? (Sshh Remix)
06. Gardner & Thomas - Control (Blackwatch Remix)
07. Spinning Atoms - Summer School
08. DJ Randy - Techno Train
09. Bad Man - Lover Man (Another Mix)
10. Dream Plant - The Mighty Machine (The Kinki Roland Remix) 
11. Wippenberg - Neurodancer (White ’n’ Wood Remix)
12. Razor’s Edge - Sleepless (Barrel Beat Remix)
13. Sourmash - Pilgrimage to Paradise (The Hardfloor Remix)
14. Traumatic - Acid Voices (Mandala Remix)
15. Jon the Dentist - Acid Phases
16. House Trap II - High on the Edge (Chris Liberator Remix)
17. Chris Liberator - Soul Mantra
18. DJ Randy - Overmodulate
19. DJ Randy - Digital Mass
20. Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth (Original Mix/Red Jerry’s ’94 Remix)
21. Spinning Atoms - Bubble Memory
22. Gee Shock - The American (Crashing Dad’s Car Remix)
23. Lawrie Immersion - Crusty Mills SH101
24. Chris Liberator - Typhoon
25. Watchmen - Cut the Midrange (The Chris Liberator Remix)
26. Snitzer, Humate & Mc Coy - Oh My Darling, I Love You (Heavy Mix)

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