Celebrating Scotland’s 90s dance and rave scene.
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Dymension ‘Don’t Stop’
Catalogue Number:CSRT010 Since this is an unofficial fansite and I don’t have access to sales figures for these releases, I can’t provide accurate numbers regarding how many units these tracks were shifting. But I think it’s safe to say this was a pretty monster hit at least throughout Scotland and the north of England. Had…
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Ultra-Sonic ‘The Pulse’
Catalogue Number:CSRT009Wow, this is a special one. Let’s start with the B-side, because ‘Awesome’ which leads seamlessly into ‘Eternity’, are the tracks I heard first. They were in fact the first Ultra-Sonic tracks I’d heard, period. I was in 3rd year at school and a friend lent me half of his ear-phones and played this…
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Suburban Delay ‘Fade To Grey’
Catalogue Number CSRT008We’re into 1993 and Suburban Delay return with another 12″ vinyl release spanning the more commercial ‘club’ sound in the form of a cover of ‘Fade To Grey’ by Visage and a harder, darker more underground rave sound on the b side tracks. There’s an uncredited male vocal on ‘Fade To Grey’ with…
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The Time Frequency ‘New Emotion’
I’m not 100% sure on the order these TTF tracks were released because there were white labels going around, pirate stations playing tracks and I think there may have been some limited releases on Clubscene first before the tracks were licensed and available more widely. My guess and please correct me if I’m wrong, is…
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The Time Frequency ‘Real Love’
We’ve reached the end of 1992 in our look back at Clubscene Records releases. ’92 was the first full year of official releases from the label and there are a couple of very notable tracks from one particular band I haven’t mentioned yet. The Time Frequency were, I believe, at one point signed to Clubscene…
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Marc Smith ‘Breakdown’
Catalogue Number CSRT006I was 14 when I heard this for the first time and it’s one of a handful of records that changed my life. It’s laden with hooks, breaks, samples, snippets of vocals, scratches, stings and god knows what else. It fascinated me and within a few days I’d burnt out my parents’ belt…
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Analog Alliance ‘Scotland The Rave’
Catalogue Number: CSRT005I can’t find any production credits for this but it was added to streaming platforms by Clubscene in 2014 and is widely available so someone somewhere presumably knows something about who was involved. The original 12″ vinyl came out in 1992 and the main hook is almost a cartoon rave version of the…
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Area 51 – ‘Let It Move You’
Catalogue Number CSRT004I love records from this era, before hardcore came to dominate and it felt like every track started with the same banging 150bpm bass drum. In 1992, when this was released, there was real variety in the music and tracks were given room to breath and time to establish themselves. There’s a 30…
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Ultra-Sonic ‘Obsession’
Catalogue Number CSRT003There’s an ethereal magic to this track that connects it to the very early days of rave and lifts it above many other tracks of the time. It would have endured anyway but ‘Obsession’ has taken on a new poignancy following the devastating death of Ultra-Sonic frontman Mallorca Lee in early 2024. It…
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Suburban Delay ‘Energy Rush’
Catalogue Number CSRT001A fitting way to launch our unofficial tribute to Clubscene. The track that bears the famous ‘CSRT001’ catalogue number was an instant hit on its original release in 1992 and remains a much loved and much played track to this day, more than 30 years on. ‘Energy Rush’ is a near 8 minute…
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