Pearsall

For my final mix of 2023, here's a special present from me to you - my tribute to my favorite artist of the last decade ... @omunit! I recorded this mix in literally our last night in our old flat in Wilmersdorf before we moved out after ten years - it seemed like a nice bit of synchronicity to record this specific tribute as a final farewell to our home of so many years. Om Unit (aka Jim Coles to...

If you've been following Sonicrampage for a long time, or even for a short time, you're probably aware that I love fast music! What I haven't typically done in my DJ career has been to make mixes that are more, shall we say, mellow. Let's change that! Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I've recently started to enjoy more downtempo sounds, and so here is this, the first actual proper downtem...

This is the ninth edition of my long-running Eurotrash series of old skool European hard trance mixes, and it's an absolute banger! This version features some absolutely essential tunes from German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Belgian, and British labels ... plus a cheeky tune from myself! Really happy with this one, and hope you enjoy it too. Read more about this mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2...

On the 25th of August 2023 I'll be joining the @parallaxrecordings crew for a sick party at Mensch Meier in Berlin, along with the Subland and Impulse crews. Expect an amazing night! As a promo for the party, I've done some crate-digging to put together this selection of insane old skool hardcore. Hard to believe this stuff is 30 years old now ... it sounds just as mad as when it was first committ...

This is a mix I made in May for the @begrime crew, with a very simple concept: I took out half a shelf of older dubstep records, and made a mix from what I found there! Read more about this mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2023/08/pearsall-presents-half-shelf-dubby-dip-1-old-skool-dubstep-vinyl-mix-for-begrime/ More Begrime mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/pearsalls-begrime-mixes...

I think the best ever single grime tape pack / mix release was @rinsefm's amazing Rinsessions Vol. 1, which was released in 2005. A true landmark release, it featured six mixes from some of the scene's leading names, such as Roll Deep, Ruff Sqwad, Slimzee, Plasticman (now known as Plastician), and Logan Sama (plus a UK Garage mix from Jiggy B). For my March mix for @begrime I decided to pay homage...

Random Order Selection is a series I've been doing for @begrime on @subfmradio for a little while, just grabbing a bunch of grime records and improvising my way through them. No plan, just vibes! This is the fourth edition, from mid-March. Enjoy! My other Random Order Selection mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/random-order-selection-grime The @snoopos set from the same night: https:...

There are few dance acts bigger than @thechemicalbrothers, so putting together a tribute to them is a tall order, no two ways about it. This is my attempt to thread the needle, pulling together a selection of their 90's stuff, from famous singles to album tracks to obscure b-sides to remixes. I think it's a pretty interesting selection and I'm quite proud of it. Honestly, I think it's cool. And I...

This is a mix I recorded last month when traveling from Berlin to Vienna (hence the title); it's a selection of some recent(ish) dubstep tunes that I like. No real theme - I just hit record and improvised! Lots of great tunes on here; the perfect soundtrack to a long journey. Read more about this mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2022/12/pearsall-presents-berlin-nach-wien-modern-dubstep-heavyweig...

This is a mix I did quite a while back that I've never put on full on Soundcloud; I previously did only a 30 minute chunk (which I've now set to private). It's a lot of fun! The whole concept was to dig into my cd collection and pull together some tracks from some of the big name dance artists of the 90's - I think it works very nicely! It's also a pretty rare non-vinyl mix from me. Enjoy! Read mo...

One of my favorite producers of recent years is London-born, Berlin-based @lucalozano, a multi-talented producer, dj, designer, label boss, and artist. His tracks show a distinct old skool sensibility (you know, right down my alley), mashing up bleepy house, old skool Detroit techno vibes, breaks, electro, and jungle. It's quite a heady mixture! This mix is just a little tribute I recorded last we...

One of my favorite techno dj/producers is Rotterdam's own @whoisstranger, so I'm really excited to present this tribute mix of his own productions, collaborations, and remixes. Modern techno with a classic twist, all mixed by myself on vinyl. Enjoy! Read more about this mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2022/09/pearsall-presents-stranger-beats-a-stranger-tribute/ Check out more techno tributes: h...

I'm very excited to share the fifth and final mix in a very special project for the summer of 2022: 75 Shadows, my tribute to one of the most important labels in electronic music history ... Moving Shadow! This is slightly delayed due to travel and an injury, but the concept was that over a five week period I will be releasing a new 15 track Moving Shadow tribute mix weekly, each dedicated to a sp...

I'm very excited to share the fourth mix in a very special project for the summer of 2022: 75 Shadows, my tribute to one of the most important labels in electronic music history ... Moving Shadow! Over a five week period I will be releasing a new 15 track Moving Shadow tribute mix weekly, each dedicated to a specific year from 1993 to 1997. I think that when you hear the whole series, you will be...

I'm very excited to share the third mix in a very special project for the summer of 2022: 75 Shadows, my tribute to one of the most important labels in electronic music history ... Moving Shadow! Over a five week period I will be releasing a new 15 track Moving Shadow tribute mix weekly, each dedicated to a specific year from 1993 to 1997. I think that when you hear the whole series, you will be a...

I'm very excited to share the second mix in a very special project for the summer of 2022: 75 Shadows, my tribute to one of the most important labels in electronic music history ... Moving Shadow! Over a five week period I will be releasing a new 15 track Moving Shadow tribute mix weekly, each dedicated to a specific year from 1993 to 1997. I think that when you hear the whole series, you will be...

I'm very excited to share a special project for the summer of 2022: 75 Shadows, my tribute to one of the most important labels in electronic music history ... Moving Shadow! Over a five week period I will be releasing a new 15 track Moving Shadow tribute mix weekly, each dedicated to a specific year from 1993 to 1997. I think that when you hear the whole series, you will be able to understand just...

For my latest set for @begrime on @subfmradio I've delivered a selection of some of my favorite tunes from the amazing @butterz label (plus a couple extras that weren't released on Butterz, but that are 'spiritually Butterz' IMO). As usual, recorded live in one take on vinyl, with minimal prep. Enjoy! Big thanks to @eli1ah and Skilliam for the amazing music over the years Buy direct from the label...

Here is the latest edition of my long-running Eurotrash mix series, dedicated to the best of 90's European (and a little UK) hard trance and hard acid. This edition is a little bit more sedate than some of the others, starting at 135 bpm and ending at 150 bpm, but it's still packed full of absolutely killer tracks, both classic and obscure. As ever, this is mixed completely on vinyl. Enjoy! Check...

For this Bandcamp Friday I'm re-releasing my 2013 track 'Dreaming of Berlin', which was originally made as I was moving to Berlin. (Almost) 9 years later I'm still loving life here, and wanted to share this one again, as I think it's pretty cool! It's especially appropriate since there's been a revival of these kinds of fast hard trance sounds ... the original concept of this track was to capture...

This is a mix I dropped last month for @begrime on their @subfmradio show - a special mix up of some tunes from one of London's most interesting labels: @keysound-recordings! This is definitely not a definitive selection from this label, basically it's just a mix of what I own on vinyl, but I think it's enough to give you a sense of their output over time; as it's for Begrime, it is tended more to...

Here's a mix that I'm really excited to share! This is a selection of modern jungle techno, all mixed on vinyl. The title is a reference to the fact that the brief flowering of jungle techno in the early 90's was a real missed opportunity, as this style of music is just basically awesome - chopped-up breakbeats layered over thumping 4/4 kickdrums, undergirded by punishing bass, and layered over wi...

Let's have some fun! For the first time in six (!) years, here's a new mix in my Eurotrash series of mixes of old skool European hard trance and acid. With this one I decided to go for a straight up acid techno mix, mostly 90's but with a few from this side of the millennium. Enjoy! Check out the other mixes in the series: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/eurotrash-vintage-european Read th...

For my final mix of 2021 I'm dropping something I've wanted to do for quite some time, and that I'm very excited to share with you ... my tribute to the amazing 90's output of the one and only @armandvanhelden! I know I generally don't do much house music stuff, but I've been a fan of his stuff for literally 25 years, so I thought the moment was right to put together a little something special. Th...

This is a pretty heavyweight dubstep mix I did for @begrime - it was inspired by a set I played at YAAM in Friedrichshain for them in September. Heavyweight old dubstep outside by the river as the sun sets? Yes please! After playing the set I was feeling inspired, so I put this mix for the Sub FM radio show a few weeks later ... and now I'm sharing it with you. :) Enjoy! The accompanying blog post...