Cor vs Paradox - Bump (2000)
Cybertrance, DJ Cor, DJ Jay, DJ Sets, Hard House, House, Melodic Trance, Trance
Ah, here’s a Cor and Jay tape for the ages. We recorded this as a give-away for a “rave” we threw in the pizza junction at UC Santa Cruz in 2000. If memory serves, we recorded about 40 copies of this tape from one master copy on our dual-deck tape recorder… a process that took us weeks. These days all I have to do to propagate it anew is record the tape one last time and throw it on the internets. Yes, I love technology.
This tape marks the point where Jay and I started to break apart stylistically (although we’ve started merging back together in recent years thanks to the rise of electro house.) I had started phasing out the trance in favor of house music, changing my name from the trancy “Paradigm” to plain ol’ DJ Cor (all the house DJs just used their first names… DJ Dan, Tony, Garth, etc.) It was a relief to both Jay and I to finally diverge a bit. We no longer struggled to define our DJ “sounds” from one another, we didn’t need to argue over which one of us would get to feature mutually beloved songs on our mixes, and best of all, we could record tapes like this one, with a variety of styles. There’s something here for everyone.* I kick things off on side A with some hard & funky house, while Jay rocks side B with some classic hands-in-the-air anthem trance. It’s a flashback mix, no doubt, and certainly sounds dated at this point, but we still love it. What do you think? Do any of these tracks bring you back to your raving days?
*Provided everyone enjoys either house or trance music circa 2000.
Bump Side A - DJ Cor (Right click to download)
Bump Side B - Paradox (Right click to download)
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I remember seeing you guys play in SC. You spun that Public Enemy bring the noise remix, and you blew my mind… amazing. keep it up ya’ll… Going strong 10 years later..
ah, back to the days when it was the hot shit to be the dj’s girlfriend. it’s decidedly less sexy being the dj’s wife… “it’s 8:30AM, will you please quit it with the goddamn uncha-uncha-uncha!!”
Alex, I still have that record! I’ll have to post it soon.
Cara, you lie… when the hell do I get up at 8:30?
When you recorded this, I can’t say that I was raving (yet) but these tracks are definitely from my first days of awareness of the electronic music scene. I mostly identify w/ the bumpin’ side A, but even the trancey side B is recognizable, all pretty big tracks. Thanks for the re-runs!
Stop all that jibber jabber and give up the funk. The funk. F-F-U-F-U-N-K.
Around 28:02 for side B…sounds a like a little East Asian influence. I like it! And would like to hear more of it in future mixes =)
[...] from the DJ Cor vault. It was over a decade ago, but I do believe this was the mix I recorded after Bump, which makes it the first demo I ever laid down on CD. Apparently I had yet to get used to this [...]