Rebirth Radio News
31/10/26
Well, that escalated quickly! I've long been considering whether to record a follow-up album to "In Space", coming up for its fifth anniversary next year. Wow! It's funny how things work out - a car breakdown whilst on a job in Manchester has led to the inception of an entire new album!
A broken starter motor left me wandering across the backstreets of North Manchester to the nearest car rental place, and the views of the skyscrapers towering over the traditional terraced housing inspired the ol' creative juices. Before you know it, I had the basis for a brand new song "Manchesterism", which is now being recorded and mixed as we speak, with the aim of getting a quickie release out just in time for Christmas!
"Manchesterism" will probably be backed with the song "Pegasus", another brand new composition, albeit in a very retro style. This one combines the inspiration my music teacher gave me, "back when masters ruled the universe" (and yes that is a He-Man reference!), with ancient Greek mythology, and it brings it all careering through the air on a flying horse to my current life in West Yorkshire. Hence lots of opportunities for awful puns about the Ridings, Horsforth and (groan) travelling to Elland back... Indeed I was considering Elland Back as the album title, but on reflection I think I'm going with "Moving Up North".
Watch this space!!!
Now, over to radio mode... Bluebird & Rebirth waste no time at all in following up Housework with possibly my favourite of all the ones we've done so far. The new effort is called "Go!" and once again is based on Bluebird's tune selections and my arranging and mixing skills. This time we enter the world of progressive vocal trance: lush, emotional, opulent and spacy stuff with just enough pep to keep you dancing throughout. Featured artists include George Acosta, Above & Beyond, Paul Van Dyk, Zoe Johnston and loads more.
Mix Of The Month: Can't believe just how old this set is nowadays. If it was a human it'd be voting, working, quite possibly with kids and a mortgage and pet cat and dog. Yup, it's been 23 years since dropping this freeform hardcore dominated set. The first couple of tracks are sped-up hard dance/trance before settling into full-on hardcore tempo. Tunes come from the likes of Sharkey, Kevin Energy, Blizzard Boys and the unbelievably good Jonny Go Mental ("I Can Feel It" must rank as one of the very best freeform hardcore tunes EVER!)
30/09/26
"It's the time... of the season..." What a tune! Nothing conjures up the transition into autumn better than the classic Zombies tune IMO. What are your favourite autumnal anthems?
Now that the "Elevations EP" is out and doing the rounds, it's time to turn our attentions to a whole batch of brand new songs that need finishing. It'd be nice to have a brand new Highway 62 album out this time next year. Let's see if we can make it happen!
Bluebird and Rebirth team up yet again for a brand new musical adventure, this time turning our attention to the world of house. This is a nice, solid, groovy set of various styles of house, from deep instrumental cuts to full-on vocal bangters. Featured artists include Luca Agnelli, Harry Romero, Frankie Knuckles, Dario Nunez, LF System and loads more!
Mix of the Month: Have we done this one yet? It's a rickety and grubby set (hence the name) that nonetheless works its way fairly swiftly towards a climax of pure euphoria. It's certainly an interesting and varied journey, kicking off with scuzzy breakbeat sounds, before edging into deep underground house grooves, upfront crowd-pleasers and the super-emotional trance denouement.
31/08/26
Happy Bank Holiday everyone! Hope you've all had a nice chilled one. The main news this month has been the preparation of the upcoming "Elevations" EP, scheduled for official release Friday 4 September. Meanwhile, you can enjoy the "digital white-label" on Bandcamp right now :-)
Our unique scheduling process has now been semi-automated, allowing us to concentrate on the creative side to radio programming, leaving the computers to do the hard graft of converting it into non-stop, 24x7 audio output. Great friend to the station Raby Whyte (aka Bluebird) has explained exactly what has been going on behind the scenes....
Once again we say a massive thank-you to Ed Tangent for yet another astounding psytrance extravaganza!
Mix Of The Month: An absolute beast of a DnB set from a scary 13 years ago now, but it doesn't sound it. Intricacy, complexity and deliberately making things far more complicated than they need to be is the name of the game here. Featured artists include Agressor Bunx, Phace, Dose, Billain, Dyamorph and loads more in that vein!
31/07/26
Let's get straight down to business. It's time to get real. It's time to get serious. It's time to get Pragmatic....
Big up Justin Nicholas, with some summertime sounds direct from the South Coast.
Time for another quick run-through of the latest numbered NOW volume. Get involved in the conversation!
Mix Of The Month: Some classic summer house from circa Y2K. Featured artists include Basement Jaxx, David Morales, Cevin Fisher, The Love Bite and loads more!
JJ Lacey returns with a marathon two-hour chillout set, comprising 100% original material!