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6 Levon Vincent ‘Man or Mistress’
Played by Tom Trago in The Little Gallery: Tom Trago stepped up after the legendary Arthur Baker played a rare live performance of relentless acid experimentation, roping in The Martinez Brothers to help him out controlling the myriad of equipment on the tiny desk in front of them. Even Trago couldn't help getting involved as he waited for his start time in the DJ booth, with Baker ushering him onto the desk for the last track.
Once the live show was over Trago delivered an epic warm up set built from a number of tunes that might normally be considered DJ tools outside of an acid rave, but which came into their own in front of a crowd ready for an old skool rave. Classic deep house cut 'Moon Patrol' by Moon Man sounded sublime amidst the inexorable Roland 303 which echoed around the room, but it was the unforgiving end of 'Man or Mistress' that gained the biggest crowd reaction in a set as driving as the live show that prefaced it.
5 CLS ‘Can You Feel It’
Played by Danny Rampling in the Car Park: It only seemed right that a rave tracing the lineage of acid house incorporated a set from one of the individuals that originally brought it back from Ibiza back in the late 80s. That duty was left to Shoom founder Danny Rampling, who delivered a relentless mix of 4/4 house laced with an unyielding 303 that ebbed and flowed throughout – building the baying Car Park crowd into rapture it was probably the closest thing to an actual acid house rave all day.
He played a number of underground club classics including Todd Terry's 'Check This Out' alongside new cuts like Tai Davis' 'Acid Hangover', the Green Velvet remix of DJ Pierre's 'Acid Trax' and Heartthrob's 'Never Wanted One'. However it was during his edit of 'Can You Feel It' that the crowd – by this point clambering on shoulders, railings or whatever they could find to gain a better vantage point of Rampling bossing the decks – really peaked.