In our chat with Pete, a former member of the legendary "Awesome 3," we'll uncover some truly electrifying moments. Prepare to hear about an energy-filled banana dance-off that is sure to leave you entertained. And, of course, we'll dive into the story behind the recording of Awesome 3's unforgettable classic, "Don't Go."

So sit back, relax, and get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating tales and infectious beats of "Tales from the Rave"!

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How a visit to the Garage in Nottingham as a young 17-year-old changed his life,

and DJ legend was born. How he secured his first residency at the Cool Cat

becoming good friends with Graham Park and Mike Pickering and his first experience of the Hacienda.

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In this episode, I shall be chatting with the legendary Allister Whitehead about how the explosion of mike Pickering's  M People lead to Allister's residency at the Hacienda. 

Hacienda foam parties,

Ibiza beach bars and tracks that made the sound of the white island

Cream and one incredible night he played as the resident.

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I shall be chatting with Rave head legend Mr Dream Freqancy himself Ian Bland. 

About a gig with Dream Frequency playing  in Paris at Laurent Garnier's club

and after some sound advice from Laurent MC Blandy, the Rave was born.

How remix team Dancing Devas came into being and how Todd Terry knocked on his front door one evening lead to a fresh killer track being written.

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Coming up In this episode, I shall be chatting with Rave head legend  Mr Dream Freqancy himself, Ian Bland. 

About his love of electro-pop in the early 80s lead to him buying his first synth instead of a ZX spectrum.

How he learned how to jack his body down the local, before moving onto the summer of love.

Dancing the night away at the Hacienda Hot night,

Signing his first album deal with Dream Frequency and how he has rediscovered his rave buzz for the first Dream Frequency album in 30 years,

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I shall be chatting with a true pioneer of the Chicago house scene the one and only Marshall Jefferson,

About his first experiences playing over in the UK

playing on tour with over  international  DJs 

How ripping it up in his DJ set 

and dropping a track in front of Arnand Van Helden at 

Street parade Switzerland 

lead to a massive creation in the studio.

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Coming up in this episode of Tales from the Rave,

I shall be chatting with a true pioneer of the Chicago House scene 

the one and only Marshall Jefferson,

How a giving a lift to a friend to a music store in Chicago lead to Marshall leaving the store with a home studio set up and the last thing the salesman sold him was the acid Roland baseline tb-303.

We chat about his music the writing of Move Your Body how Acid House was born 

after helping to create Acid Tracks.

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Joining me for double episodes of Tales from the Rave will be:

The godfather of house music himself Mr Marshall Jefferson, 

Dream Frequency and Dancing Devas, Ian Bland 

and to finish off this bouncing boxset of shows, 

Allister Whitehead who will join me telling you his the chapters and verse on his rise to the top. 

Each gust has picked out some hidden gems for each of there double episodes to help tell their origins store to run alongside this boxset, I have also been busy in the studio remix three classic tracks: 

Shanon - Let the Music Play,
Read my Lips
Gibson brothers - Cuba,

They are all available as a free download on my derickkarma.com  website 

Along with over content relating to Tales from the Rave and finally here is a DJ mix I recorded while on lockdown there are more mixes available on my website. Please remember to look out for the next run of Tales from the Rave podcasts episodes available for from this coming Wednesday 30th September.

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In this episode, I shall be chatting with 808 States, Andy Barker and his DJ partner Tony Ross. 

About 808 States legendary sell-out concert at GMEX Manchester at the height of Madchester, 

Flying sheep and the show with the mighty KLF which never happened. 

The 808 State Radio Show, from its early days at Sunset Radio to being taken off the air while having the most robust rates across the Galaxy Network and how they passed on messages live on air to the inmates in jail when the Manchester Strangeways riot was happening. 

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Andy Barker is a founding band member of 808 State.

The band where Initially fuelled by the emergent music technology of the late Eighties or as Andy puts it "It's all about the machines."

 808 State love affair with their machines came to define their style and sound. Taking up the Roland 808 and intertwining into the band's name.

Adding human warmth, to modern machine music to creating abstract, artistic techno with harder melodic edges that has remained timeless. 

With their breakthrough singles Pacific, Cubik and In Yer Face, released across labels such as ZTT and Tommy Boy in the United States, the band were the first electronica band to craft long-form dance music albums.

Tony Ross Djing since 87 inspired by the early house sounds which were filtering through from the USA. A regular at the Hacienda where Gramham Park and Jon Da Silva would stimulate his musical education. 

Tony found himself DJing along with Sasha both becoming residents at the legendary Shelleys and far many more discerning club nights up and down the country, later going on to tour the world stage with Sasha and supporting 808 State with his DJ sets.

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In this episode, I shall be chatting with 808 State's, Andy Barker and his DJ partner Tony Ross. 

About their musical journey, their early experiences at the legendary Hacienda, 

lifetime friendships, networking, a sea of ideas flown in on the back of a white dove,  

In The Corner at Fac 51 the Hacienda and how a collective of them went on to help shape what later became known as the Internationally renowned  Madchester, 

How they came to meet John the one who never speaks, 

And after being book to play a gig in Amsterdam,
they spent a full day driving around trying to score weed for an Acid House legend. 

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Where you will be able to receive extra content related to Tales from the Rave, Dj mixes & And free exclusive remixes from me of some classic track from back in the day and links to all my social media feeds.

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Andy Barker is a founding band member of 808 State.

The band where Initially fuelled by the emergent music technology of the late Eighties or as Andy puts it "It's all about the machines."

808 State love affair with their machines came to define their style and sound. Taking the Roland TR-808 drum machine and intertwining into the band's name.

It was adding human warmth, to modern machine music to creating abstract, artistic techno with harder melodic edges that has remained timeless. 

With their breakthrough singles Pacific, Cubik and In Yer Face, released across labels such as ZTT and Tommy Boy in the United States, the band were the first electronica band to craft long-form dance music albums.

Tony Ross Djing since 87 inspired by the early House sounds which were filtering through from the United States. A regular at the Hacienda where Gramham Park and Jon Da Silva would stimulate his musical education. 

Tony found himself DJing along with Sasha both becoming residents at the legendary Shelleys and playing out at far many more discerning club nights up and down the country, later going on to tour the world stage with Sasha and supporting 808 State with his DJ skills.

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Since the first run of shows ended. I have been building a website.
www.@derickkarma.com

I am still adding content to the site at the moment, you will get to see all the content relating to Tales from the Rave and so much more,  please check it out while you are listing to my Podcast.

Speaking about the first run of shows, I would like to thank the guests who showed a tremendous amount of faith by letting me interview them.

Listing them in the podcasts running order 

#001 Brandon Block

DJ legend and man of the people.

#002  Rob Tissera

One of the most beautiful people you will ever meet and always willing to lend a helping hand.

#003 #004 Jay Wearden

Thanks, Jay you have been incredible, not only recording your episodes #003 and #004 but all the hard work you have put in in the background. Helping me secure some new future  guests for Tales from the Rave and pushing Tales from the Rave on launch day the day after Boxing Day, Christmas week, giving up some of your family time it truly appreciated Jay,

Along with Danny Savage the main man himself at DJ Growth Lab, DJ Career Acadamy, 

We all worked really hard that day and managed to get the Podcast into the iTunes Music podcast charts as a new entre straight in at number 4,

We were up against some really well-established podcasts that day and were the best performing dance music podcast, 

Thanks, everyone for all your hard work,

I would also like to thank you, the listener for downloading, listening to, rating and leaving your reviews. They really helped with the chart position. I have loved reading them.

#005 #006 Nick Hussey, 

Someone who I have been friends with for many, many years, 

thanks for recording your episodes, Nick.

#007 #008 Rhythm Quest - Mark Hadfield

And finally, the guy who I swapped toy cars with at school know him since he was about five,

My old writing partner from our Rhythm Quest days and friend for life Mark Hadfield,

Thank you for everything you do for me, Mark, you are always willing to help me out,

I have got some fascinating guests coming up recorded and ready to let you hear their Tales from the Rave.

Starting with next weeks show where Andy Barker from 808 State. He shall be joining me along with his DJing partner Tony Ross, and We had such a laugh recording this one by far the funniest Tales from the Rave to date,

In the meantime here's a little DJ Mix I have recorded on my half live hybrid DJ setup, containing a few of my bootlegs which you can pick up for free on my website, along with the full tracklisting for the DJ mix.

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Our musical adventure started way back in our school days, playing around in the eight-track studio and trying to recreate the sounds that we were hearing played on evening radio dance shows such as Stu Alan on Key 103 and Pete Tong on Radio 1. Never in our wildest dreams would we have known that those DJ's and shows would be instrumental in bringing our first track as Rhythm Quest "closer to all your dreams" to the masses.

In 1989 on a school 'music lesson' field trip, we were taken to visit a local Recording Studio by the name of Moonraker studios. This was a place renowned for local dance acts such as A Guy called Gerald and many others. After leaving school, Mark blagged his way into becoming a 'Studio Teaboy' before eventually being offered a position as a YTS trainee. This gave us access to the studio overnight where we spent all of our free time trying to concoct new ideas in our Quest for dancefloor success.

This is where we created our seminal club banger 'Closer to all your dreams' that we signed to Network records, home to acts such as Detroit Techno Legends Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson & also masked ravers Altern-8. 

During that era, it was also not just at the height of the 'Madchester' scene, but the whole Rave scene sweeping across the UK.

It led to Rhythm Quest playing to Huge crowds throughout the country, sharing the stage with acts such as The Prodigy, SL2&  Shades of Rhythm. Some of the most memorable moments being in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Those crazy Kids!!!

Following on from Rhythm Quest, Mark's music career progressed as 1/3 member of Vocal House outfit & Remix Poster Boys - LOVELAND 

Their debut release ‘Let The Music Lift You Up’ hit the Top 20 in the UK charts and winning the Silver Clef award for the 1994 Number 1 Dance Record of the Year 

They had 4 further UK Hit records including Hacienda favourite - 'I need Somebody’ and ‘Don’t make me wait’

This led to them becoming the poster boys of UK House Remixes, working on many artists including Livin’ Joy, D-Ream, C&C Music Factory, D-mob, Barbara Tucker, Donna Summer, Tony de Vit, Shiva, Blast, Happy Clappers, Love Happy, Robert Owens, Atlantic Ocean & Chanelle.

New style dance trend Trance saw the birth of LUCID in 1998 and Mark signed with FFRR/London Records. Their first single ‘I Cant Help Myself’ hit the UK charts at no.7 & was nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award. Further hits included ‘Crazy’ ‘Stay with me till dawn’ and “Out There’ all entering the UK Top 40.

Further notable success’ worth mentioning are:

LOVEFREEKZ signing to Positiva/EMI Records with the UK number 6 hit ‘Shine’ and commercial / pop success as a writer/producer with hit songs such as the multi-platinum, award-winning ‘Let me Love you’ (until you learn to love yourself) recorded by US RnB star Ne-Yo that was a number 1 in the UK & number 6 in the US, ’Bounce’ recorded by Hip Hop artist Iggy Azalea and songs recorded with artists such as Rita Ora and Celine Dion.

Join me Derick Karma, as I chat with Mark, remembering our adventures whilst touring Scotland with Rhythm Quest, when we shared the bill with the Legendary Frankie Knuckles at the Tunnel in Glasgow and how we managed to get barred from Manchester's Sunset Radio Station.

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Our musical adventure started way back in our school days, playing around in the eight-track studio and trying to recreate the sounds that we were hearing played on evening radio dance shows such as Stu Alan on Key 103 and Pete Tong on Radio 1. Never in our wildest dreams would we have known that those DJ's and shows would be instrumental in bringing our first track as Rhythm Quest "closer to all your dreams" to the masses.

In 1989 on a school 'music lesson' field trip, we were taken to visit a local Recording Studio by the name of Moonraker studios. This was a place renowned for local dance acts such as A Guy called Gerald and many others. After leaving school, Mark blagged his way into becoming a 'Studio Teaboy' before eventually being offered a position as a YTS trainee. This gave us access to the studio overnight where we spent all of our free time trying to concoct new ideas in our Quest for dancefloor success.

This is where we created our seminal club banger 'Closer to all your dreams' that we signed to Network records, home to acts such as Detroit Techno Legends Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson & also masked ravers Altern-8. 

During that era, it was also not just at the height of the 'Madchester' scene, but the whole Rave scene sweeping across the UK.

It led to Rhythm Quest playing to Huge crowds throughout the country, sharing the stage with acts such as The Prodigy, SL2&  Shades of Rhythm. Some of the most memorable moments being in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Those crazy Kids!!!

Following on from Rhythm Quest, Mark's music career progressed as 1/3 member of Vocal House outfit & Remix Poster Boys - LOVELAND 

Their debut release ‘Let The Music Lift You Up’ hit the Top 20 in the UK charts and winning the Silver Clef award for the 1994 Number 1 Dance Record of the Year 

They had 4 further UK Hit records including Hacienda favourite - 'I need Somebody’ and ‘Don’t make me wait’

This led to them becoming the poster boys of UK House Remixes, working on many artists including Livin’ Joy, D-Ream, C&C Music Factory, D-mob, Barbara Tucker, Donna Summer, Tony de Vit, Shiva, Blast, Happy Clappers, Love Happy, Robert Owens, Atlantic Ocean & Chanelle.

New style dance trend Trance saw the birth of LUCID in 1998 and Mark signed with FFRR/London Records. Their first single ‘I Cant Help Myself’ hit the UK charts at no.7 & was nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award. Further hits included ‘Crazy’ ‘Stay with me till dawn’ and “Out There’ all entering the UK Top 40.

Further notable success’ worth mentioning are:

LOVEFREEKZ signing to Positiva/EMI Records with the UK number 6 hit ‘Shine’ and commercial / pop success as a writer/producer with hit songs such as the multi-platinum, award-winning ‘Let me Love you’ (until you learn to love yourself) recorded by US RnB star Ne-Yo that was a number 1 in the UK & number 6 in the US, ’Bounce’ recorded by Hip Hop artist Iggy Azalea and songs recorded with artists such as Rita Ora and Celine Dion.

Join me Derick Karma, as I chat with Mark, reminiscing about his involvement with Hybrid and playing at Quadrant Park, meeting Bizarre Inc, The Moonraker Studio days and how after listening to some sound advice from A Guy Call Gerald, we signed to Network Records.

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After leaving School Nick found himself engaged deep within Manchester's Madchester music scene, in packed clubs such as The Hacienda and the legendary illegal Acid House after parties at The Kitchen in Manchester - Arguably the birthplace of UK House music. 

The Kitchen was based in two knocked through flats at the centre of a moody, dark, concrete jungle, derelict council estate on the outskirts of Manchester city centre. Where the children of the night would head after the city's clubs had closed their doors. 

Nick developed a love of House music that led him down the path of songwriting, producing and remixing. He worked on tracks for acts such as Bowa (Different story) Ultracynic (Nothing lasts forever) Rhythm of Life (Touch me) and FPI Project (Rich in paradise). 

The worldwide success of Nicks productions led to remixes in the 90's for American artists Jodeci, Crystal Waters, Joi Cardwell and European acts such as The Charlatans, Corona (Rhythm of the night) and Livin joy (I'm a dreamer). After nine No.1’s in the dance charts and selling over 6 million records, Nick worked as a DJ playing Wednesday nights at Mambo’s & Eden in Ibiza. 

Further DJing gigs continued around the world from Moscow to Mauritius, Amsterdam to Vancouver, New York to Naples. More recently Nick has been the resident Dj playing to 5000 a night at the huge Zero Gravity Beach & Night club in Dubai, The Plaza Beach & Awqa Mist in Marbella. 

Whilst continuing to DJ around the globe, Nick signed to Defected & CR2 records as an artist and has had recent releases on Kaluki Music and Freakin 909. 

Join me Derick Karma, as I chat with Nick how he met Ultracynic The recording of nothing is forever their first gig at The Chemical Brothers (Naked Under Leather) night and how things didn't quite go to plan. How Nick found himself stranded in Russia in the middle of a terrorist attack, meeting the Russian mafia. How did he make it out alive?


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After leaving School Nick found himself engaged deep within Manchester's Madchester music scene, in packed clubs such as The Hacienda and the legendary illegal Acid House after parties at The Kitchen in Manchester - Arguably the birthplace of UK House music. 

The Kitchen was based in two knocked through flats at the centre of a moody, dark, concrete jungle, derelict council estate on the outskirts of Manchester city centre. Where the children of the night would head after the city's clubs had closed their doors. 

Nick developed a love of House music that led him down the path of songwriting, producing and remixing. He worked on tracks for acts such as Bowa (Different story) Ultracynic (Nothing lasts forever) Rhythm of Life (Touch me) and FPI Project (Rich in paradise). 

The worldwide success of Nicks productions led to remixes in the 90's for American artists Jodeci, Crystal Waters, Joi Cardwell and European acts such as The Charlatans, Corona (Rhythm of the night) and Livin joy (I'm a dreamer). After nine No.1’s in the dance charts and selling over 6 million records, Nick worked as a DJ playing Wednesday nights at Mambo’s & Eden in Ibiza. 

Further DJing gigs continued around the world from Moscow to Mauritius, Amsterdam to Vancouver, New York to Naples. More recently Nick has been the resident Dj playing to 5000 a night at the huge Zero Gravity Beach & Night club in Dubai, The Plaza Beach & Awqa Mist in Marbella. 

Whilst continuing to DJ around the globe, Nick signed to Defected & CR2 records as an artist and has had recent releases on Kaluki Music and Freakin 909. 

Join me Derick Karma, as I chat with Nick about the start of the Acid House, Madchester and how one party at The Kitchen turned into many. The hustle of pressing your own vinyl records and his adventures travailing down the M6 in a convoy of cars in search of the best night of his life at the legendary Shelleys Stoke-On-Trent.


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At the age of 19, after an unsuccessful stint in Ibiza, Jay secured a weekly Thursday & Saturday night at the infamous Thunderdome. 

The seminal club was packed to the rafters every week and became the go-to venue for the masses who wanted an alternative to what the Hacienda had to offer. Whilst forging a strong partnership with his mentor, the highly respected DJ Steve Williams, Jay also built a large local following of Hardcore Ravers. This period was the most fundamental period in his career which gave him his foundations in his future musical style and direction.

He became one of the key players in the rise of the House scene in Manchester, playing at the well documented Blackburn raves and across the country, primarily a constant feature of huge Streetrave parties around Scotland.

Join me, Derick Karma as I chat with Jay about his first trip up to Scotland and the night Alex Higgins (ex-world champion snooker player) was playing pool with people who were in various states of consciousness.


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At the age of 19, after an unsuccessful stint in Ibiza, Jay secured a weekly Thursday & Saturday night at the infamous Thunderdome. 

The seminal club was packed to the rafters every week and became the go-to venue for the masses who wanted an alternative to what the Hacienda had to offer. Whilst forging a strong partnership with his mentor, the highly respected DJ Steve Williams, Jay also built a large local following of Hardcore Ravers. This period was the most fundamental period in his career which gave him his foundations in his future musical style and direction.

He became one of the key players in the rise of the House scene in Manchester, playing at the well documented Blackburn raves and across the country, primarily a constant feature of huge Streetrave parties around Scotland.

Join me, Derick Karma as I chat with Jay about the early days of the Acid house movement, The dangers of fly posting, Madchester and how he ended up with two broken ankles.


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After moving up north, Rob learned his trade by playing on the pirate radio stations in Blackburn. This lead to him playing at some of the legendary illegal raves throughout the early nineties. He remains one of the only DJ's in history to be put in jail for these exploits. He served 3 months in 1991 for incitement to riot. This was the springboard for his entire career as promoters clambered over themselves to book him.

Rob was a resident DJ at two of the north's very best events ARK and Bowlers. He has also been a monthly resident for Club UK, The leisure Lounge, Sunnyside Up, Golden, Gatecrasher, Sundissential, Fantazia, Resurrection, Garlands, 

Since then, he not only travelled the world as an international house and hard house DJ but was also a founding father of the club phenomenon Kissdafunk. 

He has toured Australia and New Zealand eleven times and played all of Ibiza's finest venues over the past 25 years including Pacha, El Divino, Amnesia, Eden, Space, Sankeys, Es Paradis, Benemussa Zoo, Summum and Privilege.

Rob is also the creator of the seminal dance classic The Day Will Come as his alter ego Quake with Ian Bland. The track along with many others has appeared on a raft of 'Best of' music compilations. Quake also produced three tracks for the legendary film "Human Traffic"

Join me Derick Karma as I chat with Rob about the early days, illegal raves, the opening night of his Kissdafunk brand and getting stranded overseas in the middle of a revolution whilst touring with Slinky.


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With a DJ career spanning back to 1985 down his local boozer, playing funk and soul before the Acid House movement took off in 1988. 

Over the years, his skills have led him to holding residencies at Up Yer Ronson in Leeds, FUBAR at the Milk Bar in London (which he co-promoted with Lisa Loud), Club For Life and Malibu Stacey (both in the capital) and Scream in Plymouth. 

Nowadays, he plays regularly at the Ministry of Sound, Turnmills, Miss Moneypenny’s, Golden, Republica, Progress, Karanga, Colours, Clockwork Orange and Kelly’s. 

Brandon has played all over Europe, an international touring DJ, stopping off in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, the US and all points in between. A regular at Allenby 58 in Tel Aviv and C Bar in Eilat.

Join me, Derick Karma as I chat with Brandon Block about the early days, playing on the Space Terrace and selecting his favourite tracks from a truly magical era.

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