Geecast Episode 3 Featuring Rampage!!


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Jun 21 2020 119 mins  

Welcome back folks!! Its time for some more motherfucking Geecast Ya'll!!
And what a monster of a 2 hour mix we have for you today!! Featuring the sounds of Barnsleys hardest (thats music kids) DJ! And of course we have ME for the first hour playing some more storming sounds that you wont be hearing in a covid infested night club anytime soon!
But enough of me!!
Lets chew some PHAT beats and whilst listening to it, you can read up on what makes this lad tick!!

So mr Rampage!!
Welcome to GEECAST!!!
Thanks for having me :) I remember the original shows you used to run way back when, they always stuck out as what even is this stuff, never did i know that one day id be down the same path. Remember sat there with laptop listening t a live stream was some serious time ago maybe 1314 years ago and you did a shout out to gabberdeen, what a stupid thing to remember hahahahaha


Hows you feeling today?
Im feeling great today, ok im lying it was a pretty rough start to the day, yesterday was the first BBQ with guests we have had this year and fair to say i had a few, then a few more, and a few more than that hahahaha ended up live playing hardcore techno and some old 90s harder edge hardcore till about 2 this morning. How times change that this is now a heavy night hahahaha what happened to the good old days of weekend parties :( but yeah paid for it this morning.


So why did you name yourself after an old videogame?! Its a classic by the way!!
Its a pretty long story but i never had a DJ name, i then started playing out and at first i was called DJ Stevros, that is a story within its self. Me and a couple of lads decided to run a little night in a boozer a friends mum worked in and we called it hardcore rampage. We only did a few but the name rampage kind of fitted the lifestyle i was living, it was always very hectic and i was always on the rampage so it just stuck.


So tell us about yourself! Were did things start for you in the filthy world of rave?
Growing up i was into skater punk music, i moved to Barnsley and one of the first lads i met over here (MC Winston B) was mcing and well networked and he introduced me to it. I was only really into Gabber and some Hardstyle stuff, i frist attended a proper rave in 2005 halloween at adelphi and that was it, all down hill from there


When did you first get interested in DJing?
With Winston and Jinx been only a few friends that i knew i kind of wanted to fit in? deano had left his decks and vinyl at mine and i started to have a play around, i asked him to teach me and he said it was something that couldnt be taught and im glad as it gave me even more reason to learn. It was on some numark belt drives turn tables about 16 years ago i think.


Ok so, everyone knows that every DJ starts off with shitty equipment... What was your first set up?
i had some kam belt drives that when you touched them they stopped hahahaha and a numark mixer that had a built in kaos pad sampler, i always found it funny sampling mcs and then dropping random lyrics when they put mic down and watch peoples heads fall off hahahahaha


When did you feel brave enough to start sending demos out?
I cant fully remember when but i do remember that i sent my very first demo to rasper, i found a copy years later and cried myself to sleep.


What was your first gig and were was it?
i honeslty cant remember my first booking at some one elses event, whe i moved to barnsley town centre i met up with a new set of lads and one of them siad he could get a venue, i was quite well connected and said i had equipment and knew alot of djs ect and that is how Hardcore Holics first started around 2005/6


Do you still have the flyer? most djs collect flyers of thingselves the egomaniac wankers!
No mate i havent kept anything its all been lost over the years.


So Hardcore... What styles do you play?
I didnt make my name for hardcore funny enough it was with Reverse Bass Hardstle, i did really well with it to be honest got to the semi finals of the bionic dj comp but i dropped out as i wasnt too happy about the way the final was going to be ran and then i entered the zodiac DJ comp and got to the semis with them, i ended up as a resident of sorts there anyways as did alot of other djs that entered and between us and other event organizers we started a new breed of djs and mcs.

I have always been into millennial Hardcore, but now im more of a fan of 90s 909 kick hardcore and industrial, its hard to really explain the stuff i like its like a massive cross between frenchcore, gabber, uptempo and drum and bass, it falls under the category if you want to be anal about sub genres of "crossbreed" but do find myself playing lots of different genres now.


Admit it... you just wanted to dj to look cool for the birds didnt ya?!
It all started as i just wanted to fit in, and suppose i did, i have good friends from all over the place now and that is more important than the music the scene anything.


How would you describe your djing style?
I like to think its smooth i love long mixes and transitions, im not a fan of choppy choppy or scratchy scratch, i like to mix over every drop cut for samples but nice and smooth and steady usually, but then again thats all out the window when your 10 beers in.
Youve been djing for some time now, so what tips would you give to a young DJ just starting out?
If you wanting to make money, your in the wrong game, if you dont like politics dont bother, i kind of wish id stayed a raver as everything changes when you start hunting for bookings. Then if hou still want to carry on just enjoy it, its rough at first the nerves the jitters, learn to channel that to positive enery and youll have a blast :) ooow and always try to do bookings sober you might think you sound absolutely amazing 3 bags deep, chances are you wont be booked again hahahahaha


What are you thoughts on MCs? Alot of DJs seem very marmite to them tbh?!
Before i answer this it is my opinion as i hard head, i find that if you into uk hardcore or makina then your going to love 125 mcs screaming down the mic over every vocal and want to be 15x louder than the music, or you could just save some money and not have a dj and just 783 mcs a night??? Yeah im not an mc fan, i like hosts space is my favorite in all honestly then ribbz shocker ect ect


What Equipment do you use nowadays?
ive had all sorts over the years and its funny how things go around so i had kam belts, then a few pairs fo 1210s then none for a bit then sold my vinyl and bought some ndx800s to keep up with the digital era, then pioneer 100s then 1000s then 900s then 2000s then a pioneer rb and now im back to my 1210 fully customised with an allen and grief i mean heath 43c with timecode to serato


Do you collect vinyl still? how big is your collection?
I am addicted to vinyl, i dont even know how i have a roof or family left, im worse now than i have every been and i think its because there has been so much ive wanted over the years that now i have a little more spare cash im buying them now. As i write this the misses has asked me to put that you cant message me asking if i want to buy your vinyls, i just have too many to buy and the list is huge and ill run out of paper and money


Ok so your guest mix is a classic millenium Hardcore mix.... Ophidian - Butterfly is a sure fire banger isnt it?! talk us through the mix abit? Why did you choose these tracks?
This is a mad one, when you asked me if i would like to put up a mix it wasnt going to be this genre at all, i very rarely play this stuff anymore, but it goes back to when i came away from reverse bass this is the style i went to before finding crossbreed, The opening tune butterfly vip is one of my all times favorites, i remember DJ Kel-Y playing this and that was it i still to this day can not get it out of my head, the kicks the piano riffs are just insane! There is a reason Ophidian is god and its because of tracks like this!


Whats your GO TO track? that you know will get the crowd going?
Thats a tough one as i dont DJ out anymore i hung up the gig headphones a while ago, i have a toough family life and with work and everything i just dont fins the time anymore so i just DJ for me, it my own space and place where i can disappear and just leave the world and propblems behind, for that little amount of time i have no worries, no problems nothing just me and the wax. Now if you asked what my favourite tunes to play are it would probably be
ophidian - monster - crossbreed
jimmy the sound - blown up - hardstyle
hyperact - best friend bouncy techno


Talk us through how you plan a dj set? Do you play off the cuff? Or do you have an idea going in what to spin?
if i do live sets thats very rare these days i like to plan the first section its is usually the lighter and happier stuff then goes deep and dirty from there, at home i dont care i play what i want becasue its just for me :)


Whats your thoughts on the future of Hardcore? Were do you see it going in the next few years?
I hope that we go back a little in time i dont like the way hardcore or hardstyle has progressed at all, it is all very samey mainstream stuff that have short intros and outros, i do like this festival hardstyle with silly vocals and crowd interactions. I would love to see bouncy techno make a come back its awesome 90s hardcore (not happy) was amazing


Thanks for your mix mate! I really enjoyed listening to it!!
Cheers dude its not the cleanest, it was done on vinyl (serato) but it has some of my favorites from that era moving on to some harder stuff at the end :)
Shout out time!! - Who do you want to say thanks to?
I want to shout to a few scene related people
Winston B and Deano - for showing me a whole new scene and planting the seed that has cost me so much money it is unbelievable, on to mista devlin for letting me come help at audio hallucination and then we really pushed that wide open hitting near on capacity every event and showing the local scene that you dont need the same old yorkshire line ups to fill venues, to James Lee (Jim) for well just being a legend to Johny Humpries for saving my life (a story for another time) Bucky for pushing my name and believing in me with zodiac and then the misses that puts up with my gear everywhere all the weekends i went out and she stayed at home looking after the kids and more recently for letting me spend every spare penny i have on vinyl - Wax addiction is real!!
Cheers kev and next time you will get the rougher crossbreed that i did plan on doing for you this time
Steve - Rampage

Kev Gee - 175+ Or Go Home!! (tracklist)
1 - Kenji Kawai - Making Of Cyborg (Remix)
2 - Technical Itch Vs The Panacea - Semisation
3 - Deathmachine - Magnestism
4 - Somniac One - Thunderbones Revenge
5 - Splinter Cell - Mechanical Mindz
6 - Vein - Defilers Note
7 - The Outside Agency - The Opposites
8 - Max Shade - 666
9 - Broken Code - Subconcious Mind
10 - Splinter Cell - Apocolyse ?
11 - The Outside Agency - Opposites
12 - Vein & Gancher & Ruin - Evil Breed
13 - The Satan - Destroy Everything
14 - Syndrome - The Hand Of God
15 - Hellfish - Fuck Em Up!
16 - Akira - Pute
17 - Striker - make it clap

Rampage - Millenium Hardcore Mix!!

(Tracklisting to follow!)