Poll/Nostalgia - Best track on side 1 of Justin Robertson's Journeys By DJ mix free with Select magazine in May 1995

to my total surprise... Plastikman

I stumbled across this again last week. Frustratingly it was never properly released, just given away as a free cassette, so it's impossible to get a high quality recording of it. I absolutely loved this at the time. Here's a soundcloud of the whole mix (including the second side which isn't in this poll), which suffers a bit from cassette quality:
http://soundcloud.com/hannibal-selecta/justin-robertson-journeys-by-dj

I'm sure I found a better quality version somewhere on the internet last week, but I can't seem to find it today.

A more detailed tracklisting:
http://www.discogs.com/Justin-Robertson-Journeys-By-DJ/release/112385

Better quality recordings of the individual tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSi_wQ2Jd8E
(skip the rather ponderous first minute or two)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_PVRZPrRrE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyT042uP9U

Played this to death at the time - lots of interesting breakbeat stuff before it became codified as big beat. Voting for the Chems track - one of their first ever remixes.

retroactive Plastikman appreciation has been one of the greatest musical pleasures of my 30s

At one point I heard Spastik at every club I went to. You could basically mix it into anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsct-e-HVE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3kIa8gTKY

Danell Dixon track can be listened to here:
http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Danell+Dixon/tracks/
(the 'Earth' mix)

Utterly baffled that you didn't like Plastikman at the time, Dan!

Just been reminded of Emmanuel Top's Lobotomie - best climactic 303 frenzy ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT7LKqpP27I

I can't find Transglobal Underground – International Stomp (Justin Robertson Remix) anywhere, which is annoying because the best bit of the whole mix for me is when this track is going "Ex-pe-ri....mental, Ex-pe-ri....mental" and Spastik is rising up through it.

Utterly baffled that you didn't like Plastikman at the time, Dan!

aside from one or two random asides like Exposure I was always way more of a toontown dude

Just been reminded of Emmanuel Top's Lobotomie - best climactic 303 frenzy ever

I recognise this - I think I had it on some other mix thing. Maybe 'Brit Hop & Amyl House'?

Yeah, that was a great comp. I bought the actual Justin Robertson JDJ double album but it was frustratingly pedestrian compared to the Coldcut one.

Gotta go for Emmanuel Top here... Nobody does acid minimalism better than him.

anyone ever find out who/what the intro sample was/is? been driving me mad for 16 years.

I don't know where it comes from, but google suggests that the "they blew one planet up - the planet Maldek" bit is part of an established conspiracy theory:
http://www.wingmakers.co.nz/MALDEK.html
http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r110799c.shtml

mm yeah i'd read about this as a result of the clip! the man in the clip sounds a bit like James Woods; can't be him though i'm sure.

At one point I heard Spastik at every club I went to. You could basically mix it into anything.

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went to a big and overpriced rave in what is now the O2 Arena for NYE 2000/01, which featured the likes of Orbital, Leftfield and Weatherall, who I believe played Spastik for his midnight tune

still have this tape iirc, I wouldn't say it got me into stuff exactly but it meant I was listening to it before I listened to it, if you see what I mean

the Jon Carter one was good aswell.

Jon Carter one was way better than this one iirc (and as a sidenote Fatboy's Beat Up The NME tape [on the Spiritualized J. Spaceman-in-a-spacesuit issue) is prob still one of my top ten or twenty DJ mixes ever).

Spastik's probably better but I definitely loved the Lionrock remix way more at the time, so voting that

^^^^ this, that Fatboy Slim mix is amazing, I still have and listen to that tape. The Hardknox remix on that is insane. I also have the Jon Carter one, which was turned into a Heavenly Social mix, both of which were great. I've been looking for the latter online and have failed, need to make an eBay trip I think.

I loved this mix at the time. Spastik is an inner circle classic, it's almost unfair to poll it alongside the rest, for #2 and #3 I'd put Dannell Dixon and Emmanuel Top in some order.

Jon Carter's Radio One Essential Mix from about 1996/7 was a wondrous thing of roughneck jungle, ragga, dancehall and acid. He was such a killer DJ at the time as well.

Carter did a Breezeblock in 98/99 that was so amazing, that - get this - it actually warranted Mary-Anne Hobbs' enthusiasm on the end of the tape

Thanks for the tip. Going to look for this now.

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a worthy winner

this tape was excellent

Stanley OTM

Saw/heard Justin Robertson DJ at The Social last night and attempted to express my appreciation of this mix (but I'm afraid I was very, very drunk)