Aircraft Hanger at Raydon Airfield, Suffolk in September 1989. This was it, the Second Summer of Love (which actually lasted for 2 years - 1988-89). The parties that erupted in a haze of chems and color would burst out from the UK in 1990 and even get as far as Australia - where I attended my first illegal party in 1993 (along with about 1000 others). That was a three-dayer in the forest north of Sydney. This was a global revolution in the minds of each and every person who lost and found themselves on the dance floor in those early innocent days. But by the mid-90s it was dying fast with big money, drugs and the law moving in from every corner. I got to London in 1997 and attended a series of squat parties that felt like Saturday night in a Mad Max film. It was war by this stage for the free party scene with police and the travellers at each other like dogs. But somewhere way back around 1989 something blossomed that brought a new meaning to being human. Or was it a very very ancient one that peaked its shaved, tattooed and pieced head out from behind time and said "Everything is gonna be OK!"
Rough Track Listing:
Corporation of One - So Where Are You (Hashish Dub)
Latin Rage - Sueno Latino (Extended Remix)
J.D. - Good Vibrations
BCN Orchestra - Quien Tu Te Crees?
Bits & Pieces 89 (R/U/DEF/BOY. Mix)
Looney Tunes Vol 1 - Another Time, Another Place
The Beatmasters - Who's In The House
Shiela - Acid Kiss (Hacienda Mix)
Liaisons-D - Heartbeat
The Centrefield Assignment - Mi Casa (DJ's Dope Long Mix)
The KLF - 3 AM Eternal (Blue Danube Orbital Mix)
Mickey Oliver - In-Ten-Si-T (Dash Rip Rock mix).
"In the early stages of the Second Summer of Love, the events and parties were often held in empty warehouses and were essentially illegal across the UK. Information about these events travelled by word of mouth (as well as the newly popular mobile phone) between clubbers who were obliged to party incognito."
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