DJ Noël - Classic House Archive
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 19 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCommercial funky house anthems and deep soulful classics, direct from the vault!
Here's a choice selection of sessions gathered through 15+ years of rocking the decks at various bars, clubs and parties in London and Manchester.
If it’s more than a couple of years old, you’ll find it here in my Classic Archive Podcast. This library will grow over the coming months to uncover more retro gems. Visit noelc.com/classic for more info, and to subscribe to other DJ Noël feeds. Enjoy :-)
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project update - update feb 05
February 06, 2005 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBFunky house mix, originally laid down as a demo for Hell Bar. At the time, I may have told Selina it was produced especially for her birthday. 68’23” - 78.3 MB - MP3 file - 160kps dj sneak - funky rhythm - border patrol refixx a studio - sos - skylark vocal rasmus faber - divided/united - dub michael grey - the weekend - original bobby blanco - 3am - original area f - akumbe - bobby blanco ooh yeah yeah - sax trip a guy called gerald - voodoo ray - hoxton whores remix scape fea...
buddah bar sessions for lisa
June 12, 2004 12:20 - 1 hour - 109 MBNot a sitar in sight. This mix is a selection of vocal lounge house tracks from around the time I was playing Buddah Bar on Frith Street in Soho. Lisa had been after a CD featuring Fade for a while, so that’s what we open with... Buddah Bar Sessions - deep house for Lisa 1 solu music feat kimblee - fade 2 mj cole - sincere - naked music mig's petalpusher 3 soldiers fo twilight - believe - extended 4 lisa shaw - always - lovetronic vocal 5 peta...
demo for Tom Buddah
April 02, 2004 14:45 - 1 hour - 103 MBAfter Fabian’s bday party at Buddah, I started playing there every Saturday in summer 2004. The owners wanted me to play lounge beach house which became quite dull for me. Anyway, the bar manager, a top bloke called Tom, promoted a lot of club nights so I did him this demo of more banging upfront house stompers. mix for tom @ buddah bar > 2/4/04 black shadow feat krs 1 can you stand the funk laurent wolf feat sonu dee about that beautiful liaisons yeah yeah bini & martini feat su’su bobien ...
naresh retrospective of house
March 20, 2004 13:37 - 1 hour - 109 MBNaresh was a founding partner of Karmarama, a creative agency I helped appoint for Emap radio. Naresh is a big music fan and I still see him every year back stage at Glastonbury. He’s into rock more than dance and over a lunch he once told me he didn’t really know much about house music... so, as a thank you for the lunch, I promised to burn him a few CDs. I picked a few mixes from the vault, but laid down this blend of 90s anthems especially. naresh’s retrospe...
fabian 30th bday invite
March 06, 2004 15:51 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBSo, Paul and I were inseparable best buddies for through ‘99-’01, so when his lovely partner, Fabian, asked me to dj at his 30th, it was a pleasure. We spent a few nights in Soho in January looking for the perfect venue and decided upon what used to Buddah Bar on Frith Street. The party invite was a 30 minute CD, for which I spent a whole afternoon burning 100 discs. The attached mix is that invite, introduced by Fabian, who recorded his voice over in the Kiss 100 studios. Of course, the ...
project update - update feb 04
February 07, 2004 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBUploading these old mixes, I’ve noticed that I always manage to knock out something special every February. Maybe it’s because I’ve fully recovered from the Christmas hangover. Perhaps it’s the Miami WMC on the horizon, so there’s a wad of inspiring new tunes out... Most probably it’s because it’s Selina’s birthday, which I often forget and so have to deliver a decent mix for her - even if it’s late. 80 minutes of funky house tracks from feb ’04, with a few bootlegs and classics from the b...
deeper dubs & balearic beats
August 13, 2003 16:33 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBThis mix is part of a trio of sessions I laid down for a trip to Ibiza in 2003. Selina & Matt, Ben & Lara, Lisa, Malcolm and myself took a villa up in the hills and had a fantastic break. I sorted out a wad of minidiscs for lazy poolside days. From memory, and from reviewing my limited notes, this mix was actually two separate sessions. I initially recorded something in May which I guess I wasn’t very happy with - it may have been one of my late night pissed-up adventures - but liking the fi...
daytime poolside classics
August 13, 2003 15:03 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBDaytime poolside vibes mixed for our trip to Ibiza, 03, with Malcolm, Selina, Matt F, Lisa, Lara, Ben and a few friends of Matt F. Sunshine pop, disco, hip hop and few summer house classics. Easy going party vibes for beer o’clock: mid afternoon with hangover clearing, time to gear up for the night ahead... Now also a favourite of Rachel’s. Daytime Poolside Classics mixed 13 aug 03 justin timberlake - rock ur body oakenfold mix grace jones - pull up to bumper remix pointer sisters - autom...
laydeez choice
August 13, 2003 15:02 - 1 hour - 71 MBAnother daytime poolside session for our trip to Ibiza 2003. This time it’s all house tunes, but stacked with girly floorfillers and bootlegs (hence the title). Private Eye is a bootleg of Hall & Oats’ I can’t go for that; the Coloursound tune is lost gem here in it’s original form; G Club’s Guitarra G oozes Ibiza sunshine; and with Balearic faves by A Man Called Adam and Smokebelch towards the end of the mix, you definitely know which island you’re on. Enjoy. Laydeez Choice, bootlegs and d...
project: update | update april 03
April 13, 2003 19:08 - 1 hour - 108 MBAnother one of those sessions mixed with the decks on the floor in the hallway because we were still doing up the flat. Jill had just left the Kentish Town Massive and moved in with Nick, so it was a little house warming gift for them. I remember it blearing out at a BBQ they had that summer. update april 03 | jill’s house warmer > mixed 13/4/03 jay-j feat latrice barnett - keep on rising x-press 2/nelly - lazy/hot in here bootleg with acapella (no...
project: update | update feb 03
February 08, 2003 16:04 - 1 hour - 111 MBFunky house favourites from early ’03. Produced for my bestest buddy, Selina, on her 30th birthday. There’s something about Sel that makes me want to pull out all the stops for her. This time I had to pull out the decks - Matt & I had just moved house and the building work we had done meant it was too dusty for playing vinyl. I set up my decks on the floor in the hallway and pulled out some girly tunes I thought she’d like. Her birthday was a great night clubbing in Brixton. We returned t...
project: update | update 19.1
August 04, 2002 15:04 - 1 hour - 110 MBAnother definitive update mix, full of Bethnal Green summer vibes. I was so pleased with this pair of mixes (check out 19.2 too - slightly tougher), that I ended up burning about 50 copies for friends. This was also a labour of love. The two mixes were put together over a couple of months, grabbing snatches of time here and there. Each track was edited on minidisc, shortened so I could get more on the CDs. This gave me the opportunity to perfect each mix and use the best take. The process of...
project: update | update 19.2
August 03, 2002 15:04 - 1 hour - 101 MBPart 2 of update 19.1. Slightly tougher/more tech-y. > dload CD insert cover 72’58” - 101MB - AAC file - 192 kpbps project: update > summer 2001 > 19.2 mixed 13/10/01>2/11/01 jakatta american dream ski oakenfull mix guarana ay camela le fabrique du sons remix negrocan aquela esquina grant nelson club mix bbt god’s child ep: oh yeah inner city good love joey negro z mix 2 phat ladies ep vol 2: double whammy love rush same ol thing sandy rivera’s deep vision dub dj ionic feat. sabryn...
retro mix for billy
February 17, 2002 14:02 - 1 hour - 100 MBI mixed this for Billy when I couldn’t make it to his wedding. It’s collection of early 90s tunes that we played and heard out lots when we were at uni. With a few acapellas thrown in to segue the tracks, this is mixed for the living room / car, rather than the dance floor. 1 - arrested development - people everyday 2 - beats international - dub be good to me - norman’s excursion on the version 3 - opus III - it’s a fine day - acapella 4 - sueno latino - sueno latino 5 - boy george - gener...
mardi gras mix
July 20, 2001 16:58 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBSummer 2001. Matt, Mikey and Paul were sharing a house in Stoke Newington. The knocked-through lounge / kitchen / conservatory and outside yard made it an excellent party house. And being not-too-far from Finsbury Park made it an excellent venue for post-Pride shenanigans. As with all these parties, I’d rock up with my mini disc and wire together a few stereos. Here’s a mix I knocked up for the 2001 event. We open with a few funky faves before moving to a few more banging post-trance thumper...
1990s Summer Classics
June 12, 2001 17:33 - 1 hour - 101 MBI’m uploading this on a very cold February Saturday - I’ve been playing it to bring a little sunshine through my speakers and thought I should share it with you. This mix is a collection of vocal house anthems from the 90s. I made it for a summer party at “The Gay Church” (aka Kat and Chris’ apartment in a converted vicarage). The mixing isn’t much to be proud of - from memory, I’d already spent the afternoon prior to the party laying down a couple of mixes for that evening, and threw this t...
2001 - a spaced odyssey NYE
December 31, 2000 21:02 - 4 hours - 276 MBI may have already mentioned what a great flat Andie and I shared in Bethnal Green. With a large living space it was perfect for big parties, and we had a few. Best of the best were our New Year’s Eve extravaganzas. ‘2001: A Spaced Odyssey’ was the biggest headline event I can remember. Andie’s room was earth, floodlit in green, mine was Mars in red, the hallway was a docking station and the main room was space. Everyone dressed up: gay space cowboys, a whole crew of Star Trek ensigns, mons...
project: update | update 16.2 - chrissie’s bday
November 18, 2000 15:25 - 1 hour - 110 MBChrissie is an old mate from my days at Kiss 100. Back in November 2000, she was particularly fond of a tune by Kojak that I’d blagged from one of the programming guys, so I built a mix around it for her birthday. The session is filled out with various commercial party anthems and other big tunes from 2000. Most of these tracks also appear in the 2001 Spaced Odyssey mix for the following month’s NYE party, which is probably why I have not uploaded this before now, but this mix came first an...
Summer BBQ at The Church
July 08, 2000 18:16 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis mix was laid down one hot summer afternoon for the first BBQ round at The Gay Church (Kat & Chris’ flat). They called it a BBQ, but it kind of started after dark and not much food was eaten... Summer of 2000 was a scorcher. So many parties too. The mix is very similar to the set I played at a party in West London for one of Jane’s friends. I turned up just expecting to play for half an hour but rocked the joint for several hours. Happy Days. summer bbq at church ...
project: update | update 12.1
November 06, 1999 18:54 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBHere’s a favourite for dancing around Paul’s living room. Many of the tracks here also remind me of Cuneyt, who stayed with Andie and I for a while when he split up with his ex. One Saturday evening we got trashed and danced away wearing a pair of headphones each. The tracklist is a chunky selection of disco and filtered house anthems which I much overplayed at the time. Daddy’s Favourite is always a crowd pleaser, and the Phunkie Souls track should be one of my Desert Island ...
project: update | update 11.1
September 11, 1999 16:26 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBMore summer anthems from the Bethnal Green days. Lots of Full Intention remixes here, including a retake on Frankie Knuckles’ classic Tears and Jocelyn Brown’s It’s All Good, which was an old Sunday morning favourite of Andie Tickner back in the day. There’s also one of my early attempts at a live mash up, mixing To Be In Love over a George Morel groove. It’s not perfect but kind of works. Enjoy! project: update > update 11.1 > 11.9.99 1 pj happy days phats and small’s mutant disco vocal...
project: update | update 10.1
June 05, 1999 15:10 - 1 hour - 96 MBClassic tracks from my Bethnal Green days. Every one of these tunes reminds me of that particularly messy summer when we partied every weekend. I’d rock up with my minidisc player and annoy your neighbours, and this disc was usually in the set somewhere before Sunday evening... Mainly commercial funky house, but beware of the trance tracks at the end! 70’30” - 96 MB - AAC file - 192kbps phats and small – turn around – norman cook remix basement jaxx – red alert – jaxx club mix jose n...
project: update | update 8.1
March 09, 1999 12:57 - 1 hour - 100 MBThis was my first session after moving to London. I remember mixing it on a grey day in Bethnal Green, so I assume Andie Tickner and I had just taken up residence at City View House. I had just started working at Kiss 100 and was enjoying discovering London’s record shops. From memory, I think was mixed for Matt Fowler as a bit of thank you for letting me stay at theirs until I got sorted with a flat. I debated whether to upload this mix because the mixing’s pretty ropey through the first f...
new sunday flava
November 25, 1998 16:11 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBI remember that I’d been wanting to lay down a soul session for a while. I’d done the odd soul tape, but found RnB difficult to beat mix as the bpms can vary so much. Anyway, I’d just started going out with John L, whose best friend was something of a soul girl. Her birthday presented the perfect opportunity to get this recorded. I did it in one evening, but it took a few hours to perfect. Between ’99 and perhaps ’05, soul / RnB / hiphop basically became chart-topping pop pap, so I’ve never...
instrumental (in my education)
November 03, 1998 14:18 - 1 hour - 101 MBI can’t really remember the story behind this mix which was recorded when I lived in Chorlton, Manchester. I think I wanted to pull together a selection of the different loops and grooves and riffs that had guided my taste through the recent years. The session journeys through funky house grooves, through fat speed garage b-lines, to a handful of pre-trance up-tempo favourites. I love the total recall track. I think it was in a box of 12s that got nicked when I was moving to Lo...
update 6.x - housewerk mix
September 12, 1998 20:42 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBAnother archive session with Selina’s name in the title. At the time I was still living in Manchester and traveling to London once a week to set up a new creative team at Magic & Kiss FM. I stayed at Selina & Matt’s regularly, trying to plan my trips to coincide with weekends. This mix is one of a few that regularly accompanied up and down the M6. I’ve no idea why it’s called Selina’s Housewerk Mix. Maybe I thought thought she’d be up and down with the Hoover to it... Hearing this reminded ...
project: update | update 5.1
July 04, 1998 17:59 - 1 hour - 102 MBI can’t remember much about this session. I recorded it to minidisc when living in Chorlton, Manchester. It’s a mix of funky house and UK garage tunes from the summer of 1998. There’s are a couple of chart tracks in the mix (Tamperer and Horney) and Mad Professor’s dub-style Teardrop at the end for some reason - a 12” I had stolen when I moved flats in London - but most of the grooves still cut the mustard. Enjoy! update 5.1 – summer 98 1 randy crawford - wishing... (detail) 2 m j cole -...
noel is speed queen vol 1
June 01, 1998 20:24 - 1 hour - 149 MBWhatever happened to UK Garage? One minute it’s The Newest Bestest Thing In Town, then suddenly we’re all listening to rock and 80s-influence electro... These days it’s back underground UKG had its roots in the South (“it’s-a-Lon-don-thing”), but despite being based in Manchester, I was really into it. I loved the darker, grittier, harder Speed Garage tracks too. You’ll find plenty of them in this mix. This session was recorded some time between March and Septe...
bag of promos vol 1
February 10, 1998 21:24 - 1 hour - 146 MBThere’s something exciting about a new bag of unplayed vinyl. Working as a radio producer at Key and Kiss, people often chucked unwanted wax my way. This mix was laid to minidisc after being handed a wad of upfront 12s by Chris Buckley. It was probably one of the weekends I filled in for him at Via Fossa. The session starts off with some smooth uk garage tracks, and moves into chunkier house. It was originally recorded in two parts as it didn’t fit on to a single minidisc. It i...
project: update - update 2.0
July 12, 1997 20:02 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBHere’s an old Manchester mixtape that was always in the car stereo. I’m a little fuzzy on when it was finished, probably mid summer 1997 guessing from the tunes in the mix. Following the double update 1.1 / 1.2, I couldn’t wait to get back into the studio and cut up a new set of tracks. I’m still quite proud of this session. The tunes are great: a beautiful summer mix of the classic Sueno Latino, Masters At Work’s groove-bound rework of Brand New Heavies’ Sometimes, fat funky remixes of Shol...
project: update - update 1.1
March 15, 1997 16:44 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB VideoSo, this is where it all began: a series of noël mixes with numbers in the titles that just confused everyone. Through the early 90s I was pretty efficient at knocking out a new mix tape every month or so, but for some reason - probably a combination or work and going out too much - I hadn’t committed anything to tape or minidisc for a while. At the time I was working at Key 103 and I’d recently done my first mix in the studio, which I was pretty proud of. I decided that...
project: update - update 1.2
March 14, 1997 21:46 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBPart two of update 1.1. We pick up the tempo on this disc, but it’s not all banging stompers as there are a few blissed-out moments courtesy of Chicane and Way Out West. And I still love the deep phat ‘Huff and Puff’ track. With appearances from the likes of BT and Paul van Dyke, alongside tracks from BBE and Natural Born Grooves, you can see how this pumped-up yet euphoric sound was a precursor to the 1999 trance explosion (with a little help from Mitsubishis.....
late summer mix 96
August 20, 1996 15:00 - 1 hour - 272 MBI’m uploading this in December 2009. I’ve stumbled upon a box of old mix tapes from the mid 90s and this one’s a corker, full of main room peak time vocal anthems. According to my scribbles on the inlay card (pictures attached to the file) I originally mixed this for Tony Mellor after a lost weekend at The Fridge in London. It may have been Pride weekend when I travelled down with Chris Buckley, Mark & Darren. Anyway, I remember mixing this on a sunny day in my flat in Chorlton. Highlights...
studio mix summer 95
August 12, 1995 19:37 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBThis is one of my first mixes recorded in a studio. I’d just moved into Matt’s in Stetford and he kept getting burgled so I stored my decks at work. This was in the days when Piccadilly Radio was based in Piccadilly Plaza (Manchester). The commercial production studio was separate from the rest of Key103 and I was often working weekends uploading commericals... so of course it wasn’t long before I’d plugged my Technics into the desk. Anthony (‘Subbo’) and I would have a few beers, get stoned...
perfect motion - roach motel & fire island
October 04, 1993 17:42 - 1 hour - 146 MBI had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs. We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mi...
club dubs - alt old skool cuts
August 01, 1993 17:35 - 1 hour - 166 MBI recently found a site full of CD singles from back in the day and, well, filled my boots, replacing worn-out vinyl with digital copies and filling a few gaps in the collection. Having spent years just heading for the lead mix on a 12” it was interesting to rediscover some of the lesser-played mixes. Here’s a session of those alternative cuts, mainly dub versions, with a few of the smoother classics thrown in for good measure. Most of the tunes are from 93/94, and the session was thrown tog...
strangeways days vol 1
January 02, 1993 16:13 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBClassic old skool handbag house from our days at Manchester’s first Saturday gay house all-nighter, later to become Danceteria. Although the tunes are from the early 90s, I produced this mix in April ’98 for a birthday party at Maple Ave, Chorlton. Includes: The Fog, Loni Clarke, MK, Joe Roberts, Bassheads, Judy Cheeks, K-Klass, Shy One and more. I think most people already have a copy of this somewhere, but I’m uploading it anyway. 70’11” - 65M...
strangeways days vol 2
January 01, 1993 16:04 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBMore tunes from the good ol’ days of skipping across that filthy carpet on Sunday mornings. Sing along with T’empo, Janet Jackson, Brand New Heavies, Jinny, Inner City, My Friend Sam and more. Volume 2 was mixed 27 Dec 1999 for Millennium New Years Eve party in Bethnal Green, although most of the tracks are circa 1993 (hence the date above). 71’36” - 66.4MB - AAC file - 128kbps 1 t'empo - saturday night sunday morning 7:32 2 janet jackson - if - bro...