Pearsall

After a bit of a break, I'm back with a killer third tribute to London techno legend, @eromehill ! Mostly proper techno but with some fun electro and breakbeat bits thrown in as well Blog link: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2026/06/pearsall-presents-trackheadz-gone-wild-a-third-jerome-hill-tribute-mix/ Other mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/jerome-hill-tribute-mixes Tracklisting: 01...

This was a mix I did recently for @bassscoops - I wanted to go deep into my collection and put together a mix of amazing Bristol drum n' bass, and I think I delivered! All of these were released between 1996 and 1999, and it's a real heads selection - lots of remixes, compilation tracks and obscurities ... and a few of their big tunes as well! Tracklisting 01. DJ Krust - Maintain [V Recordings] 02...

One of my favorite eras for drum n' bass was the early jump-up sound in the mid-90's. Rugged breaks, wobbly basslines, rugged hip-hop samples - this was a truly banging style of rave music that still sounds incredible today. In this mix, originally recorded for the mighty @peoples-station, I drop an hours worth of rough jump-up tunes from 1995 to 1997. All killer, no filler! Check out the original...

Let's kick off 2026 in some style! This is a mix of tracks released in 1995, possibly the greatest year in the history of jungle / drum n' bass music - on this mix you can hear a bit of everything, from ragga to rollers to deep atmospheric tracks to face-shredding tearouts. There's a few big anthems, but mostly this is one for the spotters. Enjoy! More jungle mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicram...

This is a re-recording of a set I played for the Seshington crew in Kreuzberg, Berlin in October 2025. It was a daytime party so I brought along a selection of (mostly) UK Funky and just had some fun! In fact, I enjoyed it so much I decided to re-record it and throw it online - I hope you enjoy it too! Tracklisting: 01. Cooly G - Love Dub Refix [Hyperdub] 02. DVA - Ganja [Hyperdub] 03. Hard House...

This is a re-recording of a set I played at my friends' Andy & Lizzie's 25th anniversary party back in July. I first met Andy and Lizzie when they came to our first Rampage night at the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh all the way back in February 2001, and we've been great friends ever since! This set was a throwback to the kind of high-impact hard house / hard trance sets I used to play at Rampage, and...

One of the best jungle / drum n' bass labels of the last decade has been Hertfordshire's @repertoiresound. I love how fearlessly label bosses @drumtrip and Ben Repertoire have curated the label's sound, putting out everything from murky halfstep to powerful rollers to lush atmospherics to full-scale face-ripping tearouts. Something for all the family! This mix is my tribute to their great work, pu...

I'm back in Edinburgh this weekend to celebrate my dear friends Andy & Lizzie's 25th anniversary, and to celebrate I've put together this mix to look back at Rampage, the Edinburgh club might where I first met them. Rampage was a great if not spectacularly successful club night that I co-promoted in the early 2000's with my flatmate Rob Dinsdale and the dj Phil Zero, with Aberdeen's DJ Skelp as th...

When my friend Vali from @parallaxrecordings asked if I wanted to drop another Yaman Productions tribute mix for @peoples-station I was all over the idea! Last time around I did a tribute to the 1993 crop of mixes, pulling together tracks from that year's selection of mixtapes. This time around I've focused on the 1994 mix sets, taking four tracks from each of the five dj's that featured that year...

Very excited to present the next mix in the 21st Century Music series, where I dig into my collection to pull out some gems from the first 25 years of this century. With this edition, I decided to have some fun with dubstep from the last decade - heavy bass, dread vibes, deep atmospheres. One for the eyes down crew! Read about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/06/pearsall-presents-modern...

This year I'm kicking off a new mix series to celebrate the first 25 years of this century: 21st Century Music! Each mix will contain only music from this century. To kick things off, here's a mix of proper techno music from the beginning of the century. This is very personal for me, as this is a point at which I was really engaged with techno - listening to it, dancing to it, thinking about it, a...

The 11th edition of my Squat Rocking series — dedicated to the sounds of the London illegal raves of my youth — is a special tribute to an obscure but brilliant label: Organgrinder Records. Run by Zebedee and Lawrence, Organgrinder never had the name recognition of labels like Stay Up Forever, Routemaster, or Smitten, but it played a vital role in the scene’s ecosystem. Every label mattered! I've...

This is an old track that I made with my friend Jamie, aka K-Tech, in his home studio in Barnet, North London, in the summer of 2003. It was then lost for over 20 years until Jamie recently found it on an old external hard drive ... which was a big score! I was very excited to hear it again, because I've always had fond memories of it. It's fast-paced acid trance mayhem, just as the doctor ordered...

Happy hardcore is a funny one - a byword for the cheesiest dance music known to man, with the tackiest aesthetic. Whistles, white gloves, glowsticks. Saucer-shaped eyes, rictus grins, pumping fists. Hi-vis vests, cycling masks full of Vicks vapo-rub, tracksuits. As hardcore split into jungle and happy hardcore, and jungle went on to become drum n’ bass to critical plaudits, happy hardcore continue...

After the multi-genre mash-up that was There & Back 010 I decided to get more specific for the 11th edition in 2024's crate-digging mix series; in this case to really dig into and explore DJ Zinc's brief but really awesome run of producing breakbeat garage in the early 2000's. Those of you who have been following my mixes for a while will know that I'm a huge fan of DJ Zinc - as far as I'm concern...

For the 10th mix in the There & Back series, I go deep joining the dots between different bass music styles over time, via a heady mixture of grime, dubstep, electro, breakbeat, UK bass, and even bits of bassline and Jersey club. Phew! Recorded in Berlin, December 2024 100% Vinyl (88:36, 203 MB, 320 KBPS MP3) Read about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/01/pearsall-presents-there-back-01...

For the 9th mix in my There & Back series of crate-digging mixes, I return to the golden era of old skool hardcore, 1992-1994, for some serious crate-digging efforts! It's crazy to think that these tunes are now 30 years old, but of course there's no sign of them ever settling down. I wanted to really do some digging, so I've pulled out a premium selection with lots of obscurities and rarities, an...

I've always loved the UK Funky sound - it's as if classic American funky house was kidnapped and taken to a South London council estate and fed on a strict diet of soca, African percussion, dubstep, grime, UK garage, and broken beat in order to produce something that was completely London and absolutely, compulsively danceable. Great music! I have had a bunch of these records for years without eve...

I really love the techstep drum n' bass sound of the mid to late 90's, so here's another exploration of the more obscure side of this era, focusing on b-sides, remixes and album tracks from some of the scene's best-known names, as well as some more obscure artists. Some of these tracks I've NEVER heard in anyone else's mixes, but IMO they are all stone killers. Enjoy! Read more about the mix: http...

This year's crate-digging project continues with this fun tribute to stuff that happens below 130 bpm. I've never really been a house head, but I do have some bits and pieces, so I really enjoyed putting together this mix. It's a pretty serious crate-digging project, connecting the dots between modern lo-fi house, weird electro, acid house, late 90's London tech-house, old skool deep house, and al...

For the fifth installment in the There & Back series, I've put together this multi-genre mix that involves lots of crate-digging to join the dots between electro, breaks, UK garage, jungle techno, and bass music. I'm really proud of this mix and hope you enjoy it as well - how often do you find artists as disparate as @jensen-interceptor @nitefleit @yorobi @rusko @burakasomsistema and more all on...

For the fourth mix in 2024's There & Back series, I'm exploring the more obscure side of the classic 90's techstep drum n' bass sound, focusing on b-sides, remixes, and album tracks. Luckily for me, this is a very rich vein to mine! Tons of cool tracks featured on this mix ... enjoy! If you liked this mix, more in a similar vein: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techstep-darkside-drum-n-ba...

A little tribute to one of my favorite labels of recent year's, @jeromehill's peerless Super Rhythm Trax! Featuring a whole bunch of retro-flavored chunky, funky, quirky, acid, house and techno. Read more about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/06/pearsall-presents-there-amp-back-003-march-super-rhythm-trax-2014-2023/ Recorded in Berlin, May 2024 (lol) 100% vinyl (55:49, 128 MB, 320 KBPS...

Crate-digging is fun! This is a mix I've done, originally planned for, uh, February, where I've made a mix of UK techno (loosely defined), which covers all angles, which means that the mix starts off pretty stripped-down and minimal, then goes through some chunky modern acid house, then into some bass-heavy dub and jungle influenced techno that could only come from the UK, some more loopy hardgroo...

I'm kicking off a new mix series for 2024! Every month I will do a new one hour(ish) mix devoted to some serious crate-digging. For January I'm starting with a rollers special ... enjoy! Read more about the mix here: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2024/01/pearsall-presents-there-back-001-january-rolling-drum-n-bass-1994-1996/ Recorded in Berlin, January 2024 100% Vinyl (67:16, 154 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)...