This came on in a mix whilst at gym today - Forget how good it is
Whole Sasha ( he was main one to break it ) hot mix is great
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It’s on the Digweed JDJ I believe. 
They promoted this in our office. I seem to remember there being something really good on the other side (orbital remix maybe??)
(Just listened - it’s not v good heheh)
Unless you mean a different one, the D:Ream remix on the digweed jdj was duran duran ‘drowning man’ which might’ve been the first mixed music i ever purchased on CD haha. I think every track was around 3min for reasons I never quite got
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It’s definitely on the first Renaissance mix CD which got absolutely rinsed in this house. First mix CD that I had that actually sounded like being in a club, and right where my head was at musically at the time.
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I stand corrected, it was one of the first mix cds I got too. Absolutely wore it out. @CobblerBob is right it was on the renaissance which I rinsed too.
I got right into that JDJ series and remember cold calling Jay Chappell in an office in the grays inn rd. He was great and gave me a copy of his latest 12. I picked up the Keoki one in NY which seemed a bit ahead of its time back then. It seems a lot of stuff being released now harks back to that early to mid nineties trance sound.
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Sasha staple, I think Renaissance was 93 ( discogs says 94!) but includes lots of the 92 ‘hotmix’ inc Bladerunner / Inner City
He did 2x of them for Pete Tong & the 2x for PSB sitting in for Simon Bates
I was working in a pallet factory with R1 all day so to hear him doing Whitney over Not Forgotten was off the scale
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Renaissance was definitely a '94 release. Had my own summer of love moment of sorts to it that year. Its the holy grail of mix CDs as far as I’m concerned. I was never a Sasha and Digweed fanboy but there’s something about that Renaissance mix that perfectly sums up that period for me. Its my go to mix when I need a lift. The Leftfield Song Of Life medley intro on CD1 has never been bettered imo. Halcyon days indeed
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Song of Life still sounds amazing. Underworld’s lemon interrupt mix for me 
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Ellis D was Junior Vasquez if I remember right 
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Yeah. There’s an album on XL. It’s good.
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Never new that, must check it out 
Ha I did exactly that too but for Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles, was on Braniak also owned by Tim.
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Heck of tune that. I pretty much tracked down every record in those mixes. In fact, at a gig at the Event in brighton to raise money for the “K Rig” (a kamikaze or sacrificial soundsystem to negate the threat of confiscation after the CJA)
I pretty much replicated a large section of the keoki one. Mike Ink’s Paroles being a big tune of the night. It was really busy, I was very nervous and I knew I could mix those tunes with my eyes closed and it went off. Afterwards a chap came up with a wink and said “I know what you did there” 
Totally busted.
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Was a great mix, on the ‘harder’ tip for me at the time. Loved the Jay Chappel ones, searched for loads from them, Young Braves being the hardest one to track down. Mix CD’s really were a great way to discover new stuff back then. Obviously all went a bit crap after a while, rumours of engineers doing them in Pro-tools for the ‘DJ’ etc.
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Out of interest, were Kiss the first to release CD mixes to the public as this article says?
none of the Deep Heats around 89/90 were mixed IIRC. I thought Ben Liebrand was the first to really commercialise megamixes in the 80s or was that later?
I do remember a few rave bootlegs appearing in Solo Records in Exeter but that wasn’t till 93/94
The torrent of mix CDs only came mid90s onwards Tong, Sasha, Oak et al cashing in
Yes I heard the same. Went to hear Keoki at Rennaisance in Derby and let’s say the mixing wasn’t nearly as seamless 
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Kiss did a free CD with Recortd Mirror that had 5 x short label (Creation / Warp / Major Force) mixes Id say 91
Id say the Ministry Tony Humphries was one of `1st apart from Journeys
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I went to quite a few Renaissance nights when it was Sasha as resident in that weird working men’s club in Mansfield. Quite a hairy journey home back to Manchester afterwards. The Renaissance CDs were full of tracks that were played around 92/93 … lots of them stand the test of time too. I must have sold 10 or more copies of the CDs over the years from car boots - steadily going down in price these days, they used to sell for £100 or even more a few years back.
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