Okay, okay, okay, okay, OKAY!
If there's one question I get asked more than any other, it's "when are you going to do the Spellbound tapes?" And, I guess no true Sydney DJ Tape Archive would really be complete without them.
I've not bothered with them til now because I had thought they were all posted online elsewhere, but with the ageing of the tape lists on the Inthemix and Oldskool forums, the links are all more or less dead so I think it's time for a refresh!
I can't understate how big a part these tapes played in my raving life. Dancing as the sun rose to Volume 6 on top of a mega dirt mound at Sydney Park with a posse of randoms after Space Cadet 33 1/3 got shut down; first hearing Volume 7 on the packed bus on the way to and from Sunrise (Freedom 3) - wherever on Earth that party was held.
Most poignantly, though, it was listening endlessly to my pick of the bunch, Spellbound 8, recorded at Prodigy 7. To this day I kick myself for missing that party, and the opportunity to hear that set live. It's probably the ultimate set of 1995 Happy Hardcore tracks and Maestro D's awesome MCing spawned so many oft-repeated lines, such as the one from which this post title derives.
The collection below was not ripped by the archive. I'm merely reposting the hard work of others. (But I was able to provide the cover art for some of them!) There's more to come, but I'll have to rip those ones myself. Look out!
Download Spellbound 5 Side A + B
Download Spellbound 6 Side A
Download Spellbound 6 Side B
Download Spellbound 7 Side A
Download Spellbound 7 Side B
Download Spellbound 8 Side A
Download Spellbound 8 Side B
Download Spellbound 9 Side A + B
(The above tapes were not ripped by the Sydney DJ Tape Archive)
Spellbound, good name for a DJ and he's a good dj for happyhardcore from that era.
ReplyDeleteThe links are broken for 5 and 8 :(
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