oh my dayz this is unreal, keeling levels of radio and rave nostalgia with a cherry-picked volley of adverts from London pirate radio 1984-1993 somewhere between Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Lee Gamble's 'Diversions' and Sublime Frequencies’ best radio surveys, to capture an era that now seems like an entirely alternate reality.

Scanning the airwaves of a golden era in London history between 1984-1993 when dancehall soundsystem culture fostered the early stirrings and full rush of hardcore, Death Is Not The End turn their beady ear to one of the epicentres of UK rave music with stacks of raggo vignettes advertising everything from Greek salons to school reunions, video shops, datelines, drug helplines, and dances, each set to backdrops of contemporaneous club, rare groove, jungle and house.

As much as anything, the set speaks to London’s inimitable, cultural variegation, charting the myriad voices and flavours that make up the city’s stylistic mosaic, and would go on to deeply inform British pop and dance culture for decades to come. It’s as thrilling as Sublime Frequencies’ best radio surveys.

If you allow for some vicarious nostalgia, this tape documents a rich slice of the collective cultural memory that we’ve all come to share.

Also included here is a killer second dose of pirate radio advert rave excavations from Death Is Not The End, culling 40 more relics from the London airwaves c. 1984-1993!

Unless you’ve gone full hermit during lockdown and cut the internet conx, the first volume of this stuff has already gained cult status, covered basically everywhere and coveted by ravers looking for any form of classic buzz. This 2nd set features a further 40 vignettes from the golden daze of rave, with voices flogging everything from datelines to “tasty leather jackets”, 25K turbo sound rigs, and, quite cannily, ads for throwback rare groove parties that kinda show certain UK ravers have always had one misty eye over the shoulder to a “golden era” when it was just better than it is now.

If we’re playing favourites, the blown out jungle rush of ‘Monster Soundsystem’ is right up there, along with some lass appearing to mimic M*ggie Th*tcher on House FM’s ‘Legal Pulse’ ad, the X-amount of flange on the Fantasia promo ’NYE ’93’, a spine-freezing ’Stunning Dimension’ rave flier, Badalamenti soundtracking spark plugs and most definitely the Scouse lass flogging “Tasty Leather Jackets” (well i’ll tell ya, it’s bad!).

This stuff is just pure gold - we all owe a debt of gratitude to Death Is Not The End, Wayne Anthony, Simon Reynolds, Stephen Hebditch & The Pirate Radio Archive for putting the work in to get it all compiled in an effort to preserve the most ephemeral artefacts of a transformative era.

tracklist:
01 Intro (Do You Remember)
02 Videobox
03 Pirates Night Out
04 Ravers Dateline
05 Walls Of Babylon
06 Absolute Class
07 Limelight
08 Freestyle
09 Funky Power
10 Functioning Neatly
11 Greek Salon
12 School Reunion
13 Under 18s Disco
14 A1 Sound
15 Summertime '90
16 Back To Back Mixtapes
17 Rare Groove Champagne Party
18 Savage Affair
19 Are You Sure?
20 Ladies Sunday Night Affair
21 Hello Ladies
22 British Flag
23 Any Kind Of Function
24 Trade Equip
25 I'll Buy You A Beer
26 Lex's Birthday
27 Yeah Amigo
28 Next To Tescos
29 City Of Joy
30 Amsterdam
31 Roller Skating
32 Too Radical
33 Escape '93
34 Corporation Of New Generation
35 Jookie Jim
36 Revival Showcase
37 Until Further Notice
38 High Fashion
39 Damn Best Night Out
40 Lepke Sent You
41 Intro (Dateline III)
42 Hometune
43 Vaders
44 Morning Papers
45 Dateline III
46 Tasty Leather Jackets
47 All Over London
48 Rolls Royce & A Big House
49 Beauty Contest
50 Dinner & Dance
51 Warehouse Experience
52 Rhythms Of The Universe
53 Roller Skating Session
54 Dedications
55 Lazerdrome
56 Heathens
57 Champagne Raffle
58 Legal Pulse
59 Opposite The Fridge
60 Wicked Entertainment
61 South East Forteen
62 Kebab House
63 Monster Soundsystem
64 Family Fun Day
65 La Plaza
66 Stunning Dimension
67 Redemption
68 Independence Celebration Dance
69 Big Roadblock
70 The Beginning
71 Dress To Impress
72 Fabulous Riches
73 Christmas Hardcore Bash
74 Soul & Reggae Alldayer
75 SPP
76 Come Get It
77 Reggae Awards
78 NYE '93
79 100% Niceness Guaranteed
80 Spin Offs

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