FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recordings) sits right at the fault line where Chicago house crossed the Atlantic and rewired the UK. While the name itself comes from Decca’s post-war high-fidelity recording tech, the label’s real cultural impact landed decades later, when London Records relaunched FFRR in the mid-to-late ’80s as a home for emerging club music. At that exact moment, Chicago house was exploding, raw, drum-machine-driven tracks from pioneers like Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle, Marshall Jefferson, and Lil’ Louis were reshaping dance floors, and the UK was hungry for it.

FFRR became one of the key conduits for that sound. By licensing, releasing, and heavily promoting Chicago house records in Britain, the label helped translate a gritty, underground Black American club culture into a mainstream UK rave and house movement. Tracks like Baby Wants To Ride, French Kiss, and Tears didn’t just chart — they educated an entire generation of DJs and clubbers. In short: Chicago invented it, FFRR amplified it, and UK dance culture was never the same again. Tracklisting:

01. Club House - Deep in My Heart (Funky House Version) 02. T-Empo - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (T-Empo Mix) 03. Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Andy Mowat Remix) 04. Jamie Principle - Baby Wants to Ride (X-Rated Version) 05. Prince & The New Power Generation - My Name is Prince (LP Version) 06. Orbital - Belfast (Sasha vs The Light Remix) 07. Together - Hardcore Uproar 08. Sterling Void - It’s All Right (House Mix) 09. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Remix) 10. Degrees of Motion - Shine On 11. Sex-O-Sonique - I Thought It Was You (12 Inch Mix) 12. Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Club Mix) 13. DSK - What Would We Do? (Clay & Deller’s ‘Industry Standard’ Mix) 14. Sagat - Fuk Dat (Raw/Radio Edit) 15. Tinman - Eighteen Strings (Full On Kitchen Mix) 16. Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me (12 Inch Mix) 17. Quake - The Day Will Come 18. The Good Men - Give It Up (DJ Quicksilver Remix) 19. Goldie - Inner City Life (Rabbit in the Moon’s Vocalic City) 20. Crescendo - Are You Out There

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This episode salutes one of the wildest and most instantly recognizable labels of the 90s underground: Tinrib Recordings.

Founded by Captain Tinrib (Jon Bell) around 1995, this wasn’t your polished trance label, it was hard house with a grin and a gut punch. Tinrib fused hard house, acid techno, and hard trance with a hint of circus chaos into a sound that was as theatrical as it was floor-destroying.

Everything about Tinrib screamed personality, from its cheeky artwork and nautical puns to its unapologetic wall-of-sound production. It was the sound of late-night warehouses and too-loud systems, where the fun was as important as the drop.

This mix celebrates that era: the Captain, the crew, and the records that made the Tinrib fish swim forever upstream!

Tracklisting: 01. D.R. Base - Piranha 02. D.R. Base vs Karim - Barracuda 03. D.R. Base - Beat the System (V.A.T. Remix) 04. Chris C & M-Zone - Mackerel - Lord of Remix 05. D.R. Base - Don’t Stop 06. Fierce Base - Power Trip 07. Captain Tinrib - Manta (Hot Bird 3 Mix) 08. The Captain & Pete Wardman - Bimbobop 09. Weirdo - Photic Zone 10. Captain Tinrib - 2001 - The Final Frontnose (Weirdo Remix) 11. Weirdo - Shake Me 12. Captain Tinrib & Steve Thomas - Get Down 2000 13. The Captain & Max Alien Thing - The Duster 14. The Captain & Karim - Up In the Air 15. Commander Tom - Eye Bee M (Captain Tinrib Remix) 16. Opal - Hoover Groover 17. D.R. Base vs Karim - N.W.A. (Hard as Nails Mix) 18. Ganesh - Captain Tinrib’s Back Again 19. Captain Tinrib - Blue Oyster (Captain Tinrib Remix) 20. Stimulant DJ’s - Hoovertime (Captain Tinrib Remix) 21. The Captain & Karim - Show Them We Can Do This

In the 90's, North American record labels wanted their cut of club culture and while the artists were solid, the labels - in their infinite wisdom - wanted to make as much money as possible so they came up with the term "Electronica". An umbrella to sell a rapidly growing but hard-to-categorize movement: techno, house, trip-hop, drum & bass, and big-beat all living under one shiny word.

Where “techno” sounded cold and niche, “electronica” was sleek, futuristic, and accessible, a way to present artists like The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Underworld, and Fatboy Slim as the next wave of pop culture rather than club subculture. It described a sound that fused analog grit with digital polish, where machines could feel human and rebellion could groove. It wasn’t just about beats; it was about a generation discovering that laptops and samplers could be as expressive as guitars and drums — and often a hell of a lot louder on the dance floor. So, we're going to revisit some of these seminal artists in this episode. Let's pack our bags, jump in our Delorean and head back in time to explore.

Tracklisting:

01. The Crystal Method - Comin’ Back 02. The Crystal Method - Now is the Time 03. Orbital - Monday 03. Underworld - Surfboy 04. The Chemical Brother- It Doesn’t Matter 05. The Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats 06. Fluke - Squirt 07. Underworld - Rowla 08. Front 242 - Happiness (Underworld ‘Dance’ Mix) 09. Fluke - Reeferendrum 10. Underworld - Pearl’s Girl 11. Leftfield - Phat Planet 12. Faithless - Tarantula 13. Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix) 14. Orbital - Lush 3-2 15. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On 16. Fluke / Nine Inch Nails - Setback / The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum) 17. Fluke - Amp 18. Faithless - God Is A DJ 19. Leftfield - Open Up 20. The Crystal Method - Cherry Twist 21. The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive 22. Leftfield - Space Shanty 23. Underworld - Cowgirl 24. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (Plug) 25. Depeche Mode / Madonna - Barrel of a Gun (Underworld ‘Hard’ Remix) / Ray of Light (Sasha’s ‘Ultra Violet’ Remix) 26. Propellerheads - Bang On! 27. Moby - James Bond Theme (Extended Mix) 28. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Bad Life (Kemek the Dope Computer Mix) 29. Geek Ghastly - Rage Against the Terror

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