In and around the turn of the century a sound in the D&B community was growing and nobody had heard anything like it before. From around 1997/98 to 2002 people like Ed Rush & Optical, Bad Company, Andy C (& the Ram Crew) & DJ Trace to name a few were pushing these really dark experimental sounds.
This mix covers 2 hours of what I consider to be the best from that era!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?h6cf6rz4ue9artr
1 Ed Rush & Optical - Gas Mask
2 Konflict - Beckoning (Usual Suspects Mix)
3 Ed Rush & Optical - Crash
4 Ram Trilogy - Iron Lung
5 Stakka & K. Tee - Synthesis
6 Ram Trilogy - Mind Overload
7 Ram Trilogy - Mindscan (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)
8 Ed Rush & Optical - Lifecrisis (Origin Unknown Remix)
9 Ed Rush & Optical - Fixation
10 Bad Company - The Pulse
11 Ram Trilogy - System Error (Y2k)
12 Usual Suspects - Carnage
13 Ed Rush & Optical - Bacteria
14 Ed Rush & Optical - Sick Note
15 Maldini, D-Bridge, DJ Fresh & Vegas - Sentient
16 Genoforce - The Germ
17 Konflict - Messiah
18 Bad Company & DJ Trace - Flashback (Tumpa)
19 Bad Company - The Nine
20 Bad Company - Planet Dust
21 Usual Suspects - Syndrome
22 Usual Suspects - Shrapnel (Stakka & Skynet Mix)
23 Ram Trilogy - No Reality
24 Ram Trilogy - No Reality (Remix)
25 Ed Rush & Optical - Watermelon
26 Optical - The Shining (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)
27 Trace & Optical - Mercury Switch
28 Ed Rush & Optical - Medicine (Matrix Remix)
29 Trace - Sonar
30 Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Cutslo (Lokuste Remix)
31 Ram Trilogy - Titan
32 Usual Suspects - Hole Punch
33 Usual Suspects - Spawn
34 Bad Company - The Running Man
per http://iamdjsimm.blogspot.com/2012/03/dj-simm-when-darkness-came.html
