Welcome to skool.co.uk The home of all things ald skool.Skool is the comprehensive story of old skolol dance music, it traces key clubs, events, DJ’s, artsists and their influence from the late 1970’s until 1999, in an essential who’s who and what’s what guide to the dance phenomenon.
From Afro-Funk to Handbag House, to Zion Train and Zippies, [...]
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Starting in the heyday of Manchester’s Summers of Love of 1988-90, the Blackburn raves provided post-Hacienda entertainment after the two o’clock curfew, becoming a focus for the northern scene.
During the mid- to late eighties, Bournemouth weekenders and the infamous Rockley Sands parties were organised by promoters such as Nicky Holloway and featured DJs such as Chris Bangs, Johnny Walker, Gilles Peterson, Phil Perry and Danny Rampling, spinning dance music of all flavours but mostly soul and jazz funk.
Break Beat. One of the key innovations to shape modern dance music, break beat has become centra’ to a host of genres and has consequently come to mean different things to different people, depending on what musical source they’re taking their definition from.
Bagged Out. Started in 1995 and promoted by the Manchester-based Jockey Slut dance music magazine, Bugged Out managed to keep the house and techno vihe going in Manchester despite the city’s hassles. Opening up at the new Sankeys Soap venue in the northern quarter of the town, Bugged Out avoided being devastated by an IRA [...]
Mr C. The cheeky chappie of techno, Richard West (aka Mr C), was raised in Camden and built his reputation in the mid-eighties as an MC working on LWR pirate radio with Jasper the Vinyl Junkie and at the Ambassador’s club in Euston. He famously worked on a milk round before teaming up with Evil [...]
E. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the people were given Soma to overcome inhibition. In New Labour’s New Britain there’s ecstasy, MDMA or 3,4 methylene - dioxymethamphetamine to give it its proper name. First synthesised in Germany in 1912, it was later used for psychotherapy in the USA during the sixties.
Paul Oakenfold. One of the original Balearic DJs and an early exponent of hip hop in the UK, Oakenfold, a trained chef, started to DJ in 1981 when he was introduced to the decks by Trevor Fung in a bar in Covent Garden, London.
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A former collaborator with the Hit Squad and 8o8 State, with whom he penned ‘Pacific’, Gerald Simpson left the band and went on to produce his classic, ‘Voodoo Ray’ . The single peaked at number 1 2 in 1 989 and had great influence prefiguring the musical development of dance in the early nineties.
Formed around the nucleus of north London scene people Steve Jones and Sally Rogers, A Man Called Adam began life as a ten-piece Latin Jazz outfit, per forming at their own series of one-off parties in Soho in the mid-1980s.
Formed in Manhattan by Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Phife while they were still at school, A Tribe Called Quest started life as part of the Native Tongues collective — their new name was given them by Afrika Baby Barn from the Jungle Brothers. Debuting with ‘Description Of A Fool’ in August 1 989, they [...]
Yelled by people in smiley 1-shirts across the dance floors of 1987-8, aceeed! became the calling card of acid house and heralded the birth of the dance revolution that still grips us more than ten years later.
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