Rich B History: Mixtape February 1997

My House is Your House and Your House is Mine. 135bpm

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1. Your Serve by Mrs Ping & Mr Pong

2. Bass Goes Boom by Rich B & Matt Kootchi

3. Child by Baby Blue

4. Don't Stop by Unknown

5. Seven Days And One Week by BBE

6. Encore Une Fois by Sash!

7. My Thang by Bosstune

8. Bellissima by DJ Quicksilver

9. Rok Da House by Tall Paul

10. Up To No Good by Porn Kings

11. Funny Walker by The Difference

12. Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes

13. Babytalk by Unknown

14. Life's Too Short by Hole In One

15. Black Hill by Little Jam

16. My House Is Your House by The Montini Experience II

17. Carrie On House by Rich B

18. Work It Out by Plug 'n' Play

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Rock into Madness. 136bpm. A live set mixed off vinyl on 28 April 1996. Originally recorded on cassette, now tweaked with less muffle. Warning: sexually charged!

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Sherbet was the brainchild of legendary DJ Pete Wardman (of Kiss FM and Trade fame), and was one of the very first Sunday afternoon clubs. During 1995 and 1996 it was open every Sunday from 11am to 8pm at The Soundshaft behind Heaven in London, and became legendary for it's uplifting music and up-for-it crowd of regulars. I was the closing DJ for the whole of it's run, alongside Rachel Auburn, The Sharp Boys and of course Pete Wardman.

It was one of the friendliest and most relaxed clubs of all, a safe and fun haven for anyone wanting to finish off a long weekend of clubbing. It really didn't matter how messy anyone was. And it was just great to DJ at - I could play whatever I wanted and was always at my party best after a weekend of gigging.

It was like coming home.

See the pictures here courtesy of Lost Gay London:

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Tracklisting is all a bit of a blur, please help fill in the gaps, but the ones I can find are:

Klubbheads - Klubbhopping

Anticappella - 2/231

Level - Good Morning

6 by Six - Into Your Heart (Tall Paul Remix)

Space - Neighbourhood

The Difference - Funny Walker

Natural Born Grooves - Forerunner

S'Express - Theme from S'Express (Tony De Vit Remix)

Babytalk

JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do

Pussy - Suck My Pussy

Campana

Libido - The Second Coming

Mr Jack - Only House Musik

East Anglia - Unmanageable (Sharp Raided Dub)

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Bellissima. 132.5bpm. Live set recorded on 7 May 1997 at The Fruit Machine at Heaven, where I was main dance floor resident from 1994 to 2000. Warm-up set for a crowd of around 1000, lots of rare remixes, mixed live on vinyl (warts and all).

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The Fruit Machine was an outrageous night, open every Wednesday and packed with a totally mixed bag of true clubbers. It was London's biggest and most successful mid-week party for the whole of it's run.

Included are:

Huff & Puff - Help Me Make It

Reservoir Jocks - Let's Go 2 Work

Stateside - Gonna Make It

Olive - You're Not Alone (Matthew Roberts Cloud 10 Remix)

Kristine W - Feel What You Want (Development Corporation Mix)

Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Dex & Jonesey's Higher Stated Mix)

Chiara - Nowhere to Run (Klubbheads Mix)

DJ Quicksliver - Bellissima

N.R.G. - He Never Lost His Hardcore (Sharp Boys Remix)

Rich B - Carrie On House (Matt Kootchi Remix)

Please fill in the gaps in the track listing by posting comments here - top prize to whoever can identify the track at 79-84 minutes.

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WARNING: VERY EXPICIT FROM THE VERY START (hehe). 134.5bpm. Live set mixed from vinyl with no computer post-editing.

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Recorded in the days of The Fruit Machine (Wednesdays at Heaven) and Sunday afternoons at The Market Tavern, in Vauxhall, South London. I was lucky enough to be resident DJ at both in the mid-90's.

The Sunday session was part of "The Vauxhall Shuffle" - the Sunday ritual of The Royal Vauxhall Tavern at lunchtime for the show by drag legend Adrella, followed by The Market Tavern (at the time the only venue in the country to legally serve booze out of regular pub hours - because it was supposed to be for the New Covent Garden Market workers haha. The venue was notorious for the food it had to serve to validate the license). On close at 7pm everyone would pile back into the RVT for the evening session and show by another drag legend Regina Fong. R.I.P. both Adrella and Regina.

The first track - Pussy "Suck My Pussy" became my trademark tune, especially on the main dancefloor at The Fruit Machine at Heaven where I would start my set with it most weeks. So brazen.

The second track is a remix of Donna Giles "And I'm Telling You" that I did with Matt Kootchi, and was never released. Here for the very first time.

Also included are:

E-Motion - The Naughty North & The Sexy South

Natural Born Grooves - Fore Runner

Happy Clappers - I Believe

Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride

Sweet Pussy Pauline (Candy Girls) - Work This Pussy

Kadoc - Night Train

Moving Melodioes - Indica

Commander Tom - Are Am Eye?

and some Tony de Vit, of course.

If you can name any of the other tracks, please let me know, it's all a bit of a blur frankly...

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Recorded during my early days at The Fruit Machine at Heaven, in November 1994. Mixed live on vinyl, with no computer post-editing. 132bpm.

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Includes rare remixes of

Always Something There To Remind Me,

Let Me Be Your Fantasy,

A, B, C and D,

Short Dick Man,

I Love You Baby,

Life's A Bitch,

I Need A Man,

U Girls,

U Sure Do,

Raise Your Hands (If You're Having A Good Time)

For Lynn Ripley, with huge thanks to Scott Fox for unearthing the cassette.

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ENRICHED ONE - THE ALBUM - MIXED BY RICH B. Out now on iTunes

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Live set mixed from vinyl with no computer post-editing.

95 minutes of pure unadulterated 12" joy. 127bpm.

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Includes

Let Me Show You,

Doop,

Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag),

Move Your Body,

Deeper Love,

Raise Your Hands (In My House),

Blow Your Whistle,

The Music's Got Me,

Waterfall,

Chupa Chupa,

Give Me Love,

Right In The Night

At this time I was playing every Wednesday night on the main dancefloor at The Fruit Machine at Heaven in London. 1400 happy clubbers every time.

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2014 Podcasts are available at: www.richb.podomatic.com

ENRICHED ONE - THE ALBUM - MIXED BY RICH B. Out now on iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/enriched-one-album-mixed-by/id741258903