Rebirth Radio News
28/02/25
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Did we mention that the latest Highway 62 single is available from all digital music stores? Download or stream it now, and let's hope it gets you dancing!
​The gates have opened for the first new DJ sets of the year, and to kick things off, let's say hello to a brand new team member: straight out of Steel City, we are proud to introduce Lidinoid, with an aptly named DnB/jungle selection. Also bearing gifts this month are our two South Coast representatives Neil Young and Justin Nicholas.
Mix Of The Month: a compact li'l liquid DnB set for you this month. Nice and chilled, with a blend of lushly orchestral and minimal, ambient elements, all propelled forward by a solid bed of rolling Amens. Featured artists include SpectraSoul, Lenzman, Apex, Hex, Dizplay and plenty more.
31/01/25
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Well, here we are then, the year 2525 AD. Whodathunkit? And there's pretty much only one story in town this month: the long, long, long awaited delivery of the "In Space" vinyls woop woop!
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You can read the full saga in preceding entries: the TL;DR of the whole thing is that the manufacturing plant went bankrupt in the days before delivery of our records, leaving them sat in a warehouse in Amsterdam for weeks, potentially facing the skip! However, at the very last minute an investor stepped in to rescue the company. After a final few calls to finalise delivery, the shipment finally made it to the UK.
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Fittingly for the debut Highway 62 LP, the final leg of its long journey home saw the pallet transported from the depot in Manchester to Rebirth HQ in Leeds, via the very stretch of high-altitude M62 that inspired the album in the first place!​
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With "The Dub Assignment" having caused an explosion in the record plant, and then the whole place going bankrupt during the manufacture of "In Space", it's a wonder our records made the journey in one piece. We were half expecting to hear that the lorry had shed a trailer load of our records all across the carriageway.
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Now that would have led to one helluva jam...
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Anyway, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The records are here and they sound absolutely MINT! NB These are Limited Edition LPs, with a few small changes from the digital release. We hope they become valuable, highly-sought after collectors' items!
Just one other bit of news this month: the third installment of MetaSparks and myself chatting about the "No. 1 In Heaven" album. For this episode we turn our attentions to the absolutely brilliant song "La Dolce Vita".
Mix Of The Month: not just one, but twenty Mixes of the Month to kick off the New Year. We certainly don't do things by halves! In fact, the Alpha State Live sessions took place over the late summer / early autumn of that wonderful year 2020 (gallows humour).
There was a rather arcane formula to this series: ten two-part 26-track sets, each accompanied by a single-part 13-track taster set. Each part of the 26-track sets would include three songs from the accompanying taster set. In addition, the first part of each 26-track set would also include one track each from both the first and second parts of the preceding 26-track set.
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Quite why these ridiculous rules were put in place is between the DJ and the decks, but they were adhered to religiously! The sets were all recorded directly from the Rebirth Radio live stream, which strictly speaking places them outside Ad Rebirth "canon"; but as a standalone 30 hour collection of hard dance and psytrance beats, it's a pretty damn definitive compendium.
JJ Lacey returns with a marathon two-hour chillout set, comprising 100% original material!