Ransom Note’s new label Dance Music From Planet Earth have just released ‘Richard Sen presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno, House and Breakbeat 1990-1994’. The British Indian DJ/producer/record collector is a music dance music veteran with a proper heavyweight CV, whose Zelig like history goes even further back. Speaking on his Bleep mix, Richard explains: “All the tracks that I chose for this mix are from 1988 - 1995. I tried to choose tracks that were musical, deep, druggy and still rough around the edges. This is a snapshot of the kind of music I was playing back then - a personal selection of some of my faves. I'd like to think that they all stand the test of time and I still play some of them out now.”
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- Richard Sen
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- Richard Sen presents Dream The Dream (UK techno, breakbeat and house 1990-1994)
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- Ransom Note Records
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- DMFPE01D
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- June 9, 2023
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Richard Sen has been immersed in dance music for over three decades, producing, remixing, and DJing all over the world, and witnessing crucial moments in the scene’s continuum. If there’s any one person to recount the history of UK dance, it’s undoubtedly him. With the first release of Ransom Note’s new Dance Music From Planet Earth sublabel, he remembers the optimism of early 90s rave and the gauzy layers of fantasy its tracks are wrapped in.
While telling the story with a trim ten tracks scouted from record stores back in the day, the generously extended runtime of Dream The Dream gives each track room to breathe. The almost eleven minute opener ‘Tokyo’ from Centuras sets the scene admirably: a slowburn of synth bubbles and icy pad floes, the measured pace of pulsing beats, sprinkling in far flung, new agey chants and woodwinds.
‘V.L.S.I Heaven (Zone Mix)’ similarly characterises the happy go lucky energy of 90s raves cloaked in an oneiric sheen, its resplendent bells and choir synths leading into the propulsive drum showcase of Dream Frequency’s title track where a sample of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares’ ‘Pilentze Pee’ adds mysticality with its dissonant arrangements. Orr-Some’s ‘We Can Make It’ has all the trappings of a classic house track with its distorted sines, dramatic string stabs, and deep bass, meanwhile acid synths add a tangy kick to As One’s ‘Isatai’ amidst its woozy synths and tropical percussion.
Richard Sen constructs an ode to UK dance music with Dream The Dream, sonically narrating a time of musical ingenuity, perseverance, and good plain fun in the name of raving.
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Tokyo
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Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding
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Rave On The Congo
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We Can Make It
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Bombing
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V.L.S.I. Heaven (Zone Mix)
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Kubital Footstorm (Global Beatmix)
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Dream The Dream
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Isatai
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Elevator (Trancefloor Transporter)
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Tracklist
MOBY - Mobility
UNKNOWN
DREAM FREQUENCY - Dream The Dream
LIBERTY CITY - That's What I Got
Z-FORMATION - Hollow Cloud
GEMINI - Welcome To The Future
JOEY BELTRAM - Scorpio
VISNADI - Racing Tracks
QX-1 - Let's Work That Mutha F...
SEPARATE MINDS - We Need Somebody
ROBIN WANTS REVENGE - Well (Franklie) My Son
ROY DAVIS JR. - Heart Attack
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KOSMIC MESSENGER - Soundscape
PLUTO - Anna Two
SPEEDY J - Rise
METRO - Turnstyle Turbulence
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
TRUTH - The End
EPOCH 90 - V.L.S.I. Heaven
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Mobility
Moby
Early Underground
6:11
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Dream Frequency
Richard Sen presents Dream The Dream (UK techno, breakbeat and house 1990-1994)
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V.L.S.I. Heaven (Zone Mix)
Epoch 90
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