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The Birth and Adventures of JAZ Promotions

The Birth and Adventures of JAZ Promotions - by Jason Bushby Started DJ’ing when I was 16. It was 1986 and house music was just starting to be heard in this country. The Chicago house scene was the crossover from disco/funk to a more underground dance style. It was also a time when hip hop/breakbeats were still big and DJ’s concentrated on scratching and various turntable tricks. I entered the DMC national DJ competitions when I was 18. I loved DJ’ing and after a few little clubs start
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The Raid

It was one of the North East’s most notorious nightclubs and a thorn in the side of Northumbria Police. But many will remember when officers carried out a late night raid on the New Monkey Nightclub in Pallion Road, Sunderland.   In one of the city’s biggest police operations, teams of officers met late on a Saturday night at South Shields police station to co-ordinate the strike. Buses picked up the specialist teams and drove them to Pallion in Sunderland, parking on Hylton R
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The Sound of the North East

First emerging in Valencia, Spain in the early 90s, the genre Makina fused hard dance genres like eurodance, happy hardcore and hard trance. The fast, bouncy beats with over-the-top happy melodies were originally pioneered by masters like Chimo Bayo, Nando Dixkontrol and EX-3 and was played throughout clubs like Chocolate, Psicodromo and Xque. During that era, a wave of British DJs would begin to transport records from Spain back to the UK, unknowingly kickstarting a whole subculture based on th
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The hidden heartbreak that spawned "Ive got this Feeling"

A Makina legend, Paul Megson, from Gateshead, has topped bills in the North East and beyond. His signature rhyme 'I've Got This Feeling' is a classic on the scene.   However, that same rhyme has meant reliving the loss of his beloved mum Dawn - and the heartache he suffered for so long.   Paul came home from work to be told his mum was dying from cancer. The news was too much for him to take.   "I was sobbing so much I couldn't breathe," recalls Paul, who loc
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Colosseum Sue

Colosseum Sue A familiar face with the scene over the years, Sue was the first one on the dancefloor and the last one dancing, raving till the end! Unfortunately Sue passed away in August 2005 and the Rave scene lost a true friend. This blog post is dedicated to Sue. Original extract from the previous UltimateBuzz Forum in 2005: TO ALL THE RAVE SCENE, OUR FRIEND AND TRUE RAVER OVER THE YEARS HAS P
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