{"id":121,"date":"2010-11-22T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2010-11-22T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:26:12","slug":"skelp-never-say-never-hardhouse-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Skelp &#8211; Never Say Never (hardhouse mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/skelp\/mixes\/Skelp_Never_Say_Never.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Right click to download Never Say Never\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/images\/nsn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Right click image or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/skelp\/mixes\/Skelp_Never_Say_Never.mp3\">here<\/a> and &#8216;Save As&#8217; to download Never Say Never<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Another old hardhouse mix of mine dragged up from the archives. I think I recorded this in the summer of 2006, after a long break (possibly a year or so) from buying and playing this style. I had fully embraced both the sounds and the scene of techno, finding the hardhouse scene stagnating musically and the Scottish clubs to be full of absolute chumps. Every breakdown was accompanied by moronic football style chants, every dancefloor full of eejits with their tops off and there was often an unwelcoming, unfriendly atmosphere. This was a shame, as back in the golden years of 1997 &#8211; 2002(ish) it was a brilliant scene to be involved in, with crowds made up from all walks of life, all happy to be sharing the happy vibe (even if the music was often dark!). I blame hardstyle for the change, but that&#8217;s another story for another time&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Anyway, in the summer of 2006 I found a few tunes by accident that made me think that maybe, just maybe, there was a glimmer of hope for hardhouse (I was wrong). It inspired me to make a mix that took in some of my favourite hard tracks, and plotted a musical direction that I always tried to take with my longer sets, encompassing a few separate sub-genres, getting harder, darker and faster along the way and finishing on a toxic euphoric note. I reckon this mix does that &#8211; have a listen and let me know what you think.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Right click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/skelp\/mixes\/Skelp_Never_Say_Never.mp3\">here<\/a> and &#8216;Save As&#8217; to download Never Say Never<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Tracks<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Mauro Picotto&#8212;Lizard (Megavoices mix)<\/li>\n<li>Pranksterz&#8212;Jah Lion<\/li>\n<li>Rubec &amp; Dan Basely&#8212;Closer<\/li>\n<li>The Chunk Brothers&#8212;It\u2019s Time<\/li>\n<li>The Fast &amp; The Furious&#8212;Thosak<\/li>\n<li>The Chunk Brothers&#8212;Bring On The Mayhem<\/li>\n<li>Nick Sentience &amp; Tim Healy&#8212;Feel Surreal<\/li>\n<li>DJ Misjah &amp; DJ Tim&#8212;Access (OD404 Mix)&#8212;<\/li>\n<li>Astra&#8212;I Need It (BK and dBm Into Orbit mix)<\/li>\n<li>Eufex &amp; Jay B&#8212;Hypnotica<\/li>\n<li>Jay B&#8212;Rock It<\/li>\n<li>Eufex&#8212;Feel It<\/li>\n<li>Defective Audio&#8212;Champion Style<\/li>\n<li>Equinox&#8212;Immure<\/li>\n<li>Kernzy &amp; Klemenza&#8212;Eardrums Pop<\/li>\n<li>Little Jon &amp; Tim Priestly&#8212;Rock The Beat<\/li>\n<li>Chris C &amp; The Doctor&#8212;Naked<\/li>\n<li>James Nardi &amp; Julian Dwyer&#8212;Mad Dogs (Ben Stevens remix)<\/li>\n<li>Matt Rains&#8212;The Claw<\/li>\n<li>RR Fierce &amp; DMF&#8212;Rock Da Spot<\/li>\n<li>Andy K &amp; Lee Mills&#8212;In My House<\/li>\n<li>Phil Cogan&#8212;Alley Cat<\/li>\n<li>Jon Doe&#8212;Here Comes That Sound<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Right click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/skelp\/mixes\/Skelp_Never_Say_Never.mp3\">here<\/a> and &#8216;Save As&#8217; to download Never Say Never<\/div>\n<p><br \/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right click image or here and &#8216;Save As&#8217; to download Never Say Never Another old hardhouse mix of mine dragged up from the archives. I think I recorded this in the summer of 2006, after a long break (possibly a year or so) from buying and playing this style. I had fully embraced both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dj-skelp","category-hardhouse","category-mixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}