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Im the ghost of Christmas past. And im here to share some early millenium Banging Trance & Hardcore courtesy of Mr Jake Nicholls & D-stroy... Woooo Woooooooo............

Its now part 3 of our Northern Gathering Reunion!

Please enjoy & share the mixes whilst your neck another baileys & mince pie!! (and maybe a sneaky Gary?)

Interviews below!

Merry Xmas you filthy animals! 

Kev Geex

So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering?

I'd been resident at Uprising for a number of years at the time and was asked by Firthy 'king of the forest people' if I’d like to play for his station, it was something different at the time and lots of other great lads were involved too, it was a lot of fun.

What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Where was it held?

As I recall, we were all at DJams, Bombjack, Martin, Tommi etc.. were all there, it was a brilliant atmosphere. 

My set for this Xmas special is a fairly accurate snapshot of that era.

What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays?

There seemed to be a lot more going on, loads of cool people and parties, it was a really enjoyable ride. 

It’s hard to compare the two eras though, as the dynamic has changed a lot since. In a way I think much of it felt more underground at the time as social media didn’t really exist, everyone was in it more for the fun and not for page likes. More noticeably you didn't see anyone on their phone trying to record anything, the dancefloor was fully dialled into the music & it all added to the atmosphere. So much different to how it is now.

What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc?

I’ve been producing trance and hardcore, and DJing here and there, I’m grateful to have played in the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Thailand, HTID in the sun, and Ibiza a few times since.

What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees?

Far too many to list 😂

If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be?

If oranges are orange, why aren’t bananas called yellows?

Can you talk us through the mix? Why did you chose these tracks?

It’s a cross section of tracks/sounds from that time that still work so well, some big hard trance with darker contrasting elements.

What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now?

I'd say social media influences (positive and negative) and attendances, I think a lot of the excitement was in the suspense. As Keith touches on, everyone was working hard and waiting all week for the next event, only having the memory of the last party or someone else’s feedback or a tape pack or flyer to go on. 

Less was definitely more, that Friday feeling was off the chart.

Thank you for the mix!!

No worries, I really enjoyed it 😉 

Any shouts?!!

Big shouts to all of my good friends & close ones, they know who they are, I met some fantastic people in the scene over the years and I've had some fantastic times.

An extra special mark of love and respect to the friends we’ve lost over the years, 2020 especially. Gone but never forgotten x

Merry bastard Xmas & Bah HUMBUG to you all!!

No not really! I hope your having a nice build up to the not so big Xmas 2020!

So lets lift the gloom & take you back to times when we didnt care what time we rolled in from a night out & how much we pissed the neighbours off!! (Right Kathy & Andy?) 

This one features 2 SUPERB mixes from Northern Gathering Residents Andy Mollins (AKA D-Jam) and everyones favourite cap wearing happy hardcore head & Uprising new talent Dj winner KS1!

Both mixes are BANG ON! Get listening and sharing! You'll be back in 2005-06 without a care in the world before you know it!!

And please read the interviews Below!

Mix 1 D-jam

Mix 2 KS1

Interview questions!!

Interview 2 KS1!

Hello!!

Can you introduce yourself to us and tell us a little about yourself?! ASL, Straight, BI, Up for experimentation etc?!

KS1 or nowadays Keith Stanage, from Scunthorpe, meh

So can you talk us through how you became involved with Northern Gathering?

I bothered the bejesus out of Martin Space after meeting him at Long Eaton.

What can you remember about your first set? Tunes played? other djs there? Were was it held?

 A welcoming, family get together atmosphere second to none! I didn't know many people there when I arrived but I did when I left.

Can you tell us about any funny stories from Northern Gathering?

Yes, but I still speak to some of these ppl so I won't. Andy is responsible for most.

What do you think of that era of Rave compared to nowadays?

We worked all week and let rip on the weekend. It was a family gathering, didn't matter the event! You could go on ur own and meet people there you knew or would know very soon.

There was very little of this bookings for bookings that goes on now, it was talent being booked for talent.

What have you been doing since Northern Gathering finished? Do you still play out etc?

Mainly having kids. I still play out when asked but rarely, normally old skool and reunion sets, which suits me fine tbh as I can't find the passion or interest in new music... I've gone full Meldrew about it.

What lessons have you learned about the rave scene in general since the mid 00tees?

 Moderation is key.

If you could ask Doctor Gee one question what would it be?

Why can't dogs look up? Who built the pyramids? Why has Mercedes got 3 Es all pronounced differently? What if this is all a dream?

Can you talk us through the mix? Why you chose these tracks?

Hopefully a sort of "best of..." Of the tracks I played during my few brief years of medium success.

Did you mix them on vinyl or Digital or CD?

Me: Vinyl and 1 digital.

What do you think is the key difference from the rave scene of 15 years ago to now?

We're not in it and everyone is a DJ now... Maybe I'm just old but it's not the same as when I was a lad and it was all fields.

Thank you for the mix!!

Thank you for including me, then and now

Oh My Daysssssssssss!!!

Lyde if you are up there reading this we all still think about you all the time!! You will never be forgtten mate!   And for this reason we will include one of Bombjacks mixes in the packs!!

So.... What now? what happened to Northern Gathering? What about the Djs and Mcs? 

Friendships that last to this day & were built off the back of these internet events.

The download & Stream links are further down! Whilst your streaming or downloading why not read the interviews?!

We will be releasing 2 mixes every 2 days running upto Xmas!

Thanks to everyone that has helped with the Geecast relaunch this year to to all our listeners!

Stay safe & have a great Christmas with your familys!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed (often at short notice!) mixes or help to make this project a reality!!

Interview 1!! MARTIN SPACE!!

Hello!!

Welcome back GEECASTERS!!!

LOUK!!

As ever you have me playing some of my fav stuff!! This time im playing some classic 90s in one take from 170 upto 230ish! !!! as always I dont believe in sanitised nicely edited DJ sets. I press record and lets go!!!

And in hour 2 we have the one and only!! LOUK!!!

Now then LOUK!!

How are we doing on this weird year?!

Haha that's fantastic going from 170 to 230 in one take.  Top man.  Mate weird is an understatement and a half, in February all was good and I happily travelling to Reykjavik and planning what to do in the Summer etc and some forthcoming gigs we wanted to go to and then the whole lockdown happened a couple weeks later.  Never expected it in the slightest, but I don't think anyone did for that matter.  Anyway, aside from a global pandemic yeah all good cheers!

Hows you.. Missus and the new addition!?!

Ah absolutely lovely thanks, the past fifteen months have flown by and one good thing of lockdown was I got to see much more of my daughter growing up.  My wife is working hard in her final year of Uni studying a degree in biomedical science that I haven't got a fucking clue what the majority of it means but she is doing very well at it and my stepdaughter had her sixth Birthday today and is as usual very happy and full of the joys of life!

So of course many people know you from playing Techno & Hard Trance all over Europe!  But were did this all begin for you?? What were your earliest memories of the rave scene? 

I grew up listening to dance tracks on compilations and enjoying them and learned to make music on an Amiga 500 with an old issue of CU Amiga magazine.  From there there were tracks on CDs I really liked.  Cheesy to admit it but Now 26 switched me on to a lot of dance music as my parents had it and I remember stuff like Capella, Leftfield and The Good Men were on there.  There was another compilation with Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall on that escapes me but I listened to that a lot.  My cousin was going to a lot of raves in the early 90s and told me about some tapes to check out.  I actually wrote to the author of the article in CU Amiga mag a few years back and looked him up on Facebook, said about the huge thanks I have to him for how my life turned out and he's very humble and still making music.  He did a belting live version of Greece 2000 and Stella by Jam & Spoon.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGZ8WXS6_Q)

Didn't start going out properly till I was 16 in early 2002, where I ventured from a pub that never ID'd me that I still occasionally drink in now, to a club called Dance Academy where my friends were running nights.  Again, was spoiled rotten really as they did decent harder nights on a Fri (though I also went to a lot of wicked Drum N Bass ones too there) and on the Sat they had Mark EG and M-Zone down on a pretty much bi-monthly basis and a whole host of other decent DJs and locals.  Most the time the locals played harder and darker than the guest DJs and I loved the fact there was a right mash up of music in there from house through to hardstyle on a weekly basis.  

Can you remember the first rave tape you bought?  Who was it?

To be fair I can't really, as I actually remember getting a tape pack after getting a CD pack and downloading mixes from DJs leaving a modem on all night in the late 90s.  That was back in the days it'd take about 8 hours to download 1 mix.  I remember getting a bollocking for us having a huge phone bill one month.  Was worth it for the music to be fair!  A year later IC24 came along and stupidly gave away 0800 internet subscriptions for something like £10 a month, they changed their policy after.  I think I was partly to blame downloading as many mixes as I could and fair use went well and truly out the window.  I listened to Radio 1 quite a lot and Beat 106 online in Scotland and I was into Paul Mendez from Jacob & Mendez's tunes and he did a show on there, locally there was a radio station called Plymouth Sound that had a belting dance show.  I taped shitloads of them and met quite a few of the DJs on there over the years as they worked in record shops and the like or I DJ'd on same line ups as them.   They had a strong influence on me too as well as the local nights as I was too young to be going out.  Though not for that much longer as stated above thanks to very very lapse IDing going on, especially as I looked about 14 when I was 16.  Many thanks to everyone who knew and didn't say anything as those years were fucking amazing!!! 

The Techno & Hard Trance scene has big roots in the UK from events like North, Uprising, Helterkelters Technodrome, Vibelite Tommorows World, Club Kinetic Digital & Djs like Mzone & Mark EG. Can you remember hearing them for the first time?

Yep, mates raved about Mark EG and M-Zone and I used to listen to their mixes on the german trance website and Mark's blackout audio website in real audio format.  That takes me back.  A year later mark was playing here every month and so was Mick and not just at Dance Academy but other awesome nights like Premonition, Hindsight in Exeter and others.  So I saw them shitloads!  Both have been not just hugely influential but highly supportive over the years.  I was a bit jaded with how everything was going in 2014 musically and took a much needed break and rethink, Mick very kindly rang up to see if all was OK.  Nearly everybody who plays hard trance in the south west owes inspiration to these two.  How mark mixes it up starting with techno hugely influenced too as I've always been into it as much as I have hard trance.  Mark and Mick often played at the Country Club here, and I had a lift ready for me to go to the last night but went to a small prog night in Plym instead, I did have school on Monday and thought a hangover the size of sussex miles from home wasn't a good idea.  Country Club reunions are always a decent laugh though!

Who is the most savage Hardcore Dj you have heard? 

Haha heard a few.  I DJ'd after The Speed Freak in Scunthorpe for Hard Drive once.  Thought I'd be clever dropping more purist techno after a gabber DJ and crowd parted like the red sea when I put my first tune on.  S.W Cooperation - Get To Your Place.  Everyone's place was to fuck off of the dancefloor that night DJing after Gabber.  Found out he was behind Biochip C though and he did some mental slower tracks as well under that guise, very talented.  

Whats the best gig youve ever played and why?

Had some absolutely mental ones but easily my first ever international gig, that fell on the date of my 24th birthday and was for Q Dance for Defqon 1.  Everyone was really supportive and I had lots of new material to play, and was nice to drop Shogun 1 to the Dutch.  What a birthday.

Whats the strangest thing youve ever seen at a rave?

Someone on the dancefloor at The Grove in Seaton turning their keys with their eyes closed thinking they were unlocking their front door.  I asked "You alright mate?" to get a reply of "Fuck me mate I thought I was unlocking my front door".  That has to be up there.  Also my (lack of) attempts at mixing in the early days were pretty strange as well... least I can admit it. 

What is the rave scene like down on the south coast?(pre covid)..

There's loads of music enthusiasts, very talented producers and DJs here so there's still some nights, but sadly there aren't that many venues that can hold the capacity so like anywhere sadly the scene is a fraction of what it was when I started going out.  Even more so now post covid!

Your well known for your collabs with Nick the Kid... How did this come about?

Met Nick at a free party near Exeter in 2002 called Lunatech, liked the set he played and then went on my own to his Hindsight night in Exeter that Dec.  Got the coach up and it finished at 1 so I went to dance academy after when I got back to plym at 2.  Really enjoyed the music, so went up with some mates from Plym often to Hindsights, met nick a few times, gave him some of my very early really ropey tunes and we liked a lot of the same music and were both cubase users so worked with each other.  Dreams was made, and somehow ended up getting signed to Drizzly one of our fav labels so we were mega stoked.  This was actually before I started mixing as that came after Production he was one of the first to book me.  I worked with Nick lots over years and we've played a lot of sets b2b and had a hell of a lot of fun in doing so.  Every time we meet up we always have a laugh.  His HTE label is going strong and fair play he works his socks off. 

So your quite a well known and skilled producer... When you go into the studio.. can you talk us through your process? Do you have ideas down before? or is it a more organic scenario?

Ah thank you, It varies on my mood that day.  Sometimes I listen to music before I go in, but then find I end up taking influence from what I listen to and go 'ah what can I do to sound like track X today' works.  When I engineer for others I ask them to bring 4/5 tracks that they like so I can get a similar vibe and listen to their ideas.  For my own stuff it could also be I buy a sample pack and cut up some loops and play with some synths. I try to get the best out of very limited equipment and some very bodged set ups.  You should have seen the laptop I made some of my biggest tunes on that make me cringe now.  It would take 30 mins to export a track then i'd forget to unmute a synth.  Everyone here took the piss out of me for about 4 years for making tracks with some decent synths on a monitor that had a cone that was bent and a monitor screen that was so small.  You'd be surprised at the tunes that somehow come out of it but all I can say is many thanks to Jon Doe for turning my premaster WAVs into something amazing.  He's saved the day a good 300 times now.

Many people know you in the Hardcore scene, even though you dont produce straight 170+ bpm stuff.....  what draws you to this side of things?

Probably how pitched up I play things, I used to tweak my decks to go to +16, also enthusiasm and how fast I talk.  I'd say it's more likely the latter.

So whats going off in the world of LOUK? I suppose you have 100s of tracks ready to go since lockdown has hit right?!

I did produce a lot during the first lockdown but now my daughter has my studio room and old office as her bedroom I haven't hardly made anything at all.  I bought a Polyend Tracker recently and made some techno jams but after making about 200 tracks in the past 5 years I'm glad of the break.

The last question was abit of a joke tbh... covid has probably hit the scene hard in that people aint meeting up and sharing ideas and concepts.  But we must take the positives yeah?! tell us a positive thing from the last 6 months!?!

Hearing Daisy say 'Dada' for the first time is up there.    

So how healthy is the Techno/Hard Trance scene at the moment?

Aside from the lack of venues, both are very healthy.  I'm sending out lots at work from both genres.  Quite funny actually as some EPs have crossed over and I've sent techno to hard trance DJs and vice versa.  I spoke to Justin from German Trance this week who's setting up his labels again, that's welcome news.  I'm still pressing vinyl on my Syntax Error label (albeit techno) but from some old hard trance producers.  Release 001 had a track from Michael Wells/Technohead/GTO and 002 had a track from Andreas Kraemer.  There's one on 003 by two friends from Rotterdam called Erik Pijl and Stephanie Noordermeer that everyone likes in the feedback because it's proper trancey.  Check it out!

Further on that tip - which producers are doing it for you at the moment?

I've got my crossover head on here so from the techno world Surgeon, Dax J, Stranger/TAFKAMP, SHDW & Obscure Shape and in the trance world Renegade System, Scot Project, Stoneface & Terminal, Tasso.  JK Walker is back producing stuff again which is amazing news too!!

Also to new producers... what tips and advice would you give them?

I have 3

1) Don't be afraid to take inspiration from others, as everyone does and if you are stuck for an idea and want to learn your Sequencer (I hate the term DAW).  I spent hours in the early days copying Out Of The Blue by System F, and Junk Project - Beats Bring Silence, Pablo Gargano - Everyone's Future etc to learn from for my own tracks.

2) Also there are a bunch of free plug ins that I use on nearly every tune, have done for years.  You don't need to spend thousands!  When lockdown happened I linked to a load of resources for producers, here you go: http://www.louk.co.uk/selfisolation/

3) If you are having a day where what you are doing sounds shit, take a break or even return at another day.  I've done it many times.  You'll thank yourself.   

If your were stranded on a desert island and could only choose 5 records to take... which would these be? Can you explain why and provide links for our listeners?

Depeche Mode - The Singles 81-85 - Huge fan of Depeche Mode but most importantly their early work.  

Putting all those in youtube will provide links to listen.

Of course up North (dj sets wise) we know you from Uprising... Can you remember the first time you heard an Uprising set? Of course the mid 90s sets from Kenny Sharp must have made an impression?

Yep.  I did my foundation year at Bradford Uni, but spent nearly every weekend in Leeds going to nights like Cypher, Tekfresh, Northern Lights etc and for various other reasons as Leeds was 100000x better and like a fiver to get to.  Sadly I just went there the year The Orbit closed which was a fucker.   The record shop there The Disc sold Uprising CD packs and I bought one with M-Zone and Frantic on it and another with Topgroove and Jon Doe.  Listened to those lots and got more over the years.  Kenny is someone I heard a bit later on but he's played some absolute beasts over the years, and made some gems and is again another legend!

Your good mates with Uprising resident Jake Nicholls.... How did this develop?

A mutual friend (DJ Invader) told me years ago I play similarly to Jake, and in the days of Myspace I looked him up and followed him.  We sent each other many mixes.  He put me onto Brian and very kindly sorted out a booking and that was the first of many.  Still remember my first set at Uprising in 2008, where my mate Ralph drove up to Sheffield in his 106 and it took about 6 hours from Plymouth.  Made it just in time.  Jake is without a doubt one of the nicest people in this whole scene I've met, he is ridiculously knowledgeable about the music scene and I love his influence from many genres.  He DJ'd with me in Holland and at Nature One oozes enthusiasm.  He's become a really good friend coming to my stag do in Berlin and also we went to each other's Weddings and I mished all the way to Doncaster to play at his 40th.  Wouldn't do that for many people.  His mrs always says she gets lost when we talk to each other as we both speak 1,000,000 miles an hour about music.  

Alot of people say an Uprising crowd is abit... shall we say... rough... Is this true compared to other events you have been too?

Haha no not in the slightest, i've been to moody raves at Slammin Vinyl where in the DnB arena knives were being pulled and people were being mugged, And when I lived in Birmingham people were getting shot outside nightclubs.  What the fuck is that about on both counts?!  Plus I've played in the Ukraine, don't think that will happen again in a hurry.  I will say this the Uprising crowd know their music far better than most in Europe.  I remember playing there once and someone asked me if I was going to drop my new tune I had made and uploaded to soundcloud that afternoon that night, and said they listened to a mix of mine and could ID the really rare tracks.  

So what equipment are you using these days? what djing and studio gear do you use?

Of course!  My studio equipment is currently at a few friends houses as I've let them borrow synths and speakers as they are learning to make tunes while I take a much needed break from engineering.  But it was an Access Virus Ti Snow, A Roland JV2080 I borrowed off my mate, An SSL2+ Audio Interface, A Behringer Pro-1, Behringer TD-3, An M-Audio Oxygen 49 Controller Keyboard, Alesis M1 MK1 Monitors, A TC Electronic June 60 and a Midas DM:16 Desk.  That and a PC running both Cubase 9.5 and Renoise.  That's all I used for production really.  DJ wise both my wife and I mix and we have a pair of 1210s and a Behringer Mixer.  When I play out I mix on CDJs though.

What are your thoughts on vinyl vs cd/mp3? I love having hard copys of tracks but you cant beat having a stick full of tracks verses lugging a crate of vinyl around yeah?

Mate i'm still pressing vinyl and still buying records on discogs when I send out pretty much everything on MP3/WAV and probably will never play a vinyl out again except for at home.  You can't beat it.  Like both formats to be fair but agree I can pick up a record and tell you pretty much where I was when I first heard it/bought it and something about it.  Hard pressed to do that with an MP3!

So can you talk us through your mix? why did you pick these tracks?

Yep, many tracks on here greatly influenced me but quite a few of them I haven't put on mixes.  Or they were tracks that were on tapes/sets I donwloaded and listened to repeatedly the last 20 years and only recently found names.  One was from a Mauro Picotto mix from 1998 that got ID'd the other week.  Also I put the last track of my first ever Uprising set on there (High Voltage - Bombs Away), and I tried to do a mix of various tracks in the hard trance world that just blew me away, it includes early productions from M.I.K.E/Push and Vincent De Moor under other names.  Plus Sunbeam still sounds great the 908,000,000th time I listen to it.  Hope you all enjoy!

Awesome dude!! Many thanks for your mix!  Shout outs here please?! 

Yeah of course, to yourself for doing this interview!  To Sammy, Darcie and Daisy for always being there, to Jake & Hannah, Mark and Mick, Nick and Flick, Tony Horgan, Bri, Kenny, Ben Invader and to all my friends and family, to Tom, Ian and all the promoters who first gave me a chance and anyone who has taken the time to get in touch over the years, who've let me release their music and/or put up with my dodgy mixing.  

LOUKS Trance & Techno mix from 90s to present!!

Kai Tracid - Tiefenrausch (A.S.Y.S Remix) [Tracid Traxxx]

Kev Gees 90s Tehcnodrome 2 fingered salute tracklist!!

Negative Burn - Gates Of Hell

The nights are drawing in and there's a shiver coming down the spine of the world as the Geecast launches another foul mouthed tirade of sonic swear words at your earlobes!

YES!

That's right! This month is a belter! Hitting your face like a punch from a prime Mike Tyson!

Prepare to be amazed as Geecast head honcho Kev Gee lulls you into a false sense of security with his usual nice melodic starter followed by the main course of rotten, mouldy, moth eaten Hardcore & Hard Drum & Bass!!  And for your pudding we have the Legendary Dj & producer Dj Riddler ready to give you the monty python after 8 mint sketch (youtube it kids!)

And of course no Geecast is complete without a few words from the co conspirator himself.

So download, share, listen far & wide!! We are now available on Deezer, Spotify, Youtube, Tune in radio and more!!

How are we today! I hope youve served us up a nice sweet tasty sickly mix of Hardcore & Gabber?

Are there any producers out there who you really admire?

Which label(s) do you enjoy playing the most?

Can you talk us through your mix? tell us why you chose these tracks?

Thanks for your mix!!  Any shouts?

The set includes tracks from;

Myself

Kev Gee!

Kev Gee's Tracklist

1 Intro

WELCOME BACK FOLKS!!!

PS - No dicks pics. Although bobs and vagene is ok. 

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Tracklist below!!

Welcome back folks!! Its time for some more motherfucking Geecast Ya'll!!

So mr Rampage!!

I have always been into millennial Hardcore, but now im more of a fan of 90s 909 kick hardcore and industrial, its hard to really explain the stuff i like its like a massive cross between frenchcore, gabber, uptempo and drum and bass, it falls under the category if you want to be anal about sub genres of "crossbreed" but do find myself playing lots of different genres now.

Kev Gee - 175+ Or Go Home!! (tracklist)

Rampage - Millenium Hardcore Mix!!

(Tracklisting to follow!)

Hello Geecasters!

Please comment and share!! and download!!

Dan has been quietly building up his considerable deck skills over many years and with a pretty solid and record collection of various HARDcore sounds!! You want Trancecore? You got it!! You want some Dutch Fucking Gabber? Well here have a slice... You like that? You want some American Industrial Strength shit? Choke on it BEEATCH!!

Hello Mr Bryant!! Hows you doing? Thanks for putting forward this Geecast mix!

So can you tell us were your love for Hardcore began? were did it all start off for you?

I'd say my love of hardcore started with growing up in the 90s surrounded by all the rave sounds, I first bought a prodigy tape (out of space) at the age of 8 from hmv, thought I was the bees knees haha.

I guess that started off the bug right?!

So Djing. Did you always want to get into that side of things?

Can you tell us abit about your mix? Why did you pick those tracks?

Can you tell us what equipment you use? (DJing and if so production wise.)

What are you favourite labels and why?

Who is your favourite producer of all time?

Who is your favourite DJ of all time?

Finally do you have any shout outs?!

And thank you Mr Gee for having me on, take care and catch you soon mate.

Tracklistings:-

Kev Gee - Technodrome, North & Tomorrows World Classics

1 Syphax - At War

Dan Bryants Mix:-

1. Bardot viva le revolution

To listen to the mix please scroll to the bottom & hit the play or download button!

And why not read through the interview whilst your listening?

1st hour I play what ever the fuck I want! The second hour is the guest mix from Mr Jake Nicholls!

On todays Geecast we are delighted to welcome Jake Nicholls & his unique blend of Trance & Techno. For those that dont know Jake is from the UK & has played all over Europe. He has a growing discography of productions & remixes for labels including Joyride, Hard Trance Europe & High Fish.

So Jake, thanks for your mix!! Can you tell us. How did you start out on your Underground music journey?

So when you first started out. Was there any intention of getting into the djing & production side of things?

When you first started producing. Did you find it easy? Or did you slowly learn things as you went along. What was your first track that saw a release? And when did you start making it?

Are there any artists that you like to work with on production? Co-producers that you find easy to create great music with?

What is the process involved in creating a track? Example - is it just going in the studio & playing at stuff until something sticks? Or is it that something just pops in your head whilst watching TV and you just have to get it down before it leaves you?!

What equipment do you use for DJing & Production?

Do you have any upcoming releases that we should know about?

Can you remember your first DJ gig? were was it & did you get a recording?

You’ve played abroad at events & including Ibiza. How does the European crowd compare to the UK?

You’ve been dj’ing and producing for well over a decade now & built up quite a following. Did you ever think looking back that you would end up dji’ng all over the world & producing records for some of the best hard trance labels?

Are there any djs that you like to play B2B with? I would imagine that trance isnt really a genre that lends itself well to B2B sets.

Your blend of trance & techno is certainly unique. Do you have to wade through lots of websites to find that track which hits the right spot?

What are your opinions on digital vs vinyl. nothing beats crate digging right?!

And expanding on that. What are you thoughts on losing record shops?! Half the fun used to be going down to your local record shop every week & meeting like minded people whilst finding that "tune" that no-one else had. What record did you find whilst digging that is your most prized possession?!

There are some great producers & djs around in your scene. who do you rate the most?

Are there any young producers & djs who you really rate?

To producers & djs just starting out. What advice would you give them?

Social media is now playing a bigger slice of things these days with people "buying" likes & having slick photos & ads. Do you ever wish things could go back to just being how good you were at mixing & tune selection? How do you think things will change in the next 5 & 10 years?

Finally moving onto the mix you have submitted. Can you talk us through the process of how you selected those tracks & what do you look for in your selections when your building a set?

Do you have a fav track off the mix that you like more than most? why is that?

When you dj, do you try & put as many tracks as possible in? or do you like to blend & ramp up the BPMs slowly?

And finally thanks for submitting your mix!! Would you like to give some shout outs!!