Monday, February 1, 2010

Happy Hi NRG at it's BEST!


"Happy Hi NRG at it's BEST!"  Yup, that's what the tape cover says.  Nothing like a rave-related tape cover, flyer or 3D World article for a bevy of wayward apostrophes, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.  To be fair it never was about the spelling...

I never made it to Free Love '95.  It was somewhere like Blackmarket off memory.  Being (and very much looking) underage at the time, I was just a little too paranoid I wouldn't be let in to a 'real' nightclub.  Given 15-year old Anna Wood disastrously made it into Apache at The Phoenician a few months later I probably would have been fine, but how was I to know?

The Free Love parties just grew from there.  I missed Free Love '96 as well, due to being struck by a nasty flu post-FOD4, which had occurred a week earlier.   I did make it to Free Love '97 but by then I'd lost most of my raving mojo and don't remember being particularly impressed.  That party was one of those massive Minto raves and, being free, was packed to the rafters and seemed to attract all sorts of bogans, bombers and general weirdos.  I imagine Free Love '95 would have been the goods though - smallish, inner city and a little more underground than the juggernaut sequels that followed.

Download Free Love '95 Side A (Budds'n'Stoo)
Download Free Love '95 Side B (Dynamix)
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6 comments (don't be shy - add one!):

  1. I never heard this before. Pretty great stuff! It's nice having some great stuff to wake you up on the light rail in the morning. Now if I can only find Free Love 96....

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  2. Sydney DJ Tape ArchiveFeb 2, 2010 12:22 AM

    I'm not sure I ever heard Free Love '96. I have a friend who had the Free Love '97 double tape pack (Fenix/Affinity and Dynamix again off memory). I'll have to see if she still has it. If I can get my hands on it I'll upload to the archive for sure.

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  3. That would be great! Thank you! - (Kirk )

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  4. lol i think i still have a free love 95 shirt

    bardia stuart nathan and jane and everyone else in bizerk thanks for the FREE parties. Christ i think i still have my free love 95 tshirt and the minto vip ticket lol

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  5. u no annas (wood) drink was spiked hey

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  6. Doubt it know one ever spiked mine no matter how much i hoped they would.

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