Techcore u know the score

Good to see someone else from the oldskool list making an appearance here for the first time - so shouts out to Dave C, plus Rich, Chris, Karen, David M etc who also made it up to Birmingham.

No Gallery pre-club bar this time, unfortunately, so after a drink elsewhere, straight on to the Que Club, where the queue was pretty much non-existant when we showed up. Having said that, we still all got in 30 mins late - some said the first DJ hadn't turned up. Dunno!

Anyway, once in we we treated to an - as usual - blinding set from MISTRESS MO, who's become a shadow of her former self from 2 years ago. The tune selection was spot on, as was the mixing, and it's a shame she isn't a bigger name nationwide, as her skills consistently outperform the major players in the scene.

Then on to EASYGROOVE, and again this was a far better set than he's done in the past. Mixing up classic hardcore with techno grooves, we were treated to breakbeat gems like "Nightmare Walking" back to back with 808 gems. The crowd was wild as this point, total rave atmosphere.

RANDALL up next, with a proto-jungle set this isn't really my cup of tea anyway in terms of style, so I'm biased if I say I found it boring, but others were up for it, so fair play to those that danced. I went to check out M-ZONE in the trance room for a banging set, that was more hardcore than anything going on in the main room at that moment in time.

Back to the main room, and VIBES was mixing up all styles, from Awesome 3 through Pure White to full on 4-to-the-floor. A decent set, though I've heard him do better with the earlier stuff throughout.

Penultimate set of the night came from PILGRIM, classic stuff as per usual, and just what Birmingham has come to expect from this quality DJ.

Last up the RATPACK, and as well as many of the tunes they usually drop, it was nice to hear some nuskool breaks, including a mysterious track that sampled Paul Van Dyke's "Found an Angel" (artist unknown). Nice.

So that's it for another Flashback - be there, or be... er... somewhere (else).