AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Six tapes, one MC running through the lot and a proper snapshot of AWOL in 1994, when every few weeks the tunes seemed to get darker, tougher and more futuristic.
Six tapes that belong together
Randall, Cool Hand Flex, Darren Jay, Kenny Ken, Dr S Gachet and Micky Finn — all with MC GQ.
If you collected AWOL tapes, this is the kind of pack you remember as a unit. Six DJs, GQ running through the lot, and each tape giving you a slightly different angle on the same period in jungle.
Randall, Cool Hand Flex, Darren Jay, Kenny Ken, Dr S Gachet and Micky Finn all survive in the Rave Archive copies, and the same six names turn up in surviving tape-pack catalogues. That is enough to be confident about the pack itself.
The exact night is less tidy. Some surviving copies point to September 1994, one filename says Autumn 1994, and Randall material is tied to Paradise Club. That gets us close, but not close enough to invent a date. So this stays simply 1994 until something primary turns up.
By this point, jungle had moved again
Put Vol II next to the earlier 1994 pack and you can hear how quickly the music was changing.
Dr S Gachet’s tape is a perfect example. Digital, Photek, Red One, Krust, Alex Reece, Firefox & 4 Tree, Omni Trio, Marvellous Cain and Prizna with Demolition Man all turn up in the same set.
That is not the same record box as early 1994. The breaks are sharper, the bass is heavier, the dubplate culture is further in, and the whole sound feels more settled in its own skin.
That is what makes these packs useful now. You do not need somebody to tell you jungle was changing fast in 1994 — you can hear it by putting the tapes next to each other.
Live in London ’94 Vol II in the site player
Play them here, or use the archive-download button if you want the original file.
DJ Randall & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Cool Hand Flex & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Darren Jay & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Kenny Ken & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Dr S Gachet & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Micky Finn & MC GQ — AWOL Live in London ’94 Vol II
Follow the Paradise trail
These packs make more sense together than they do as isolated uploads.
What we know, and what we don’t
The point is to keep the pack history useful without pretending every surviving cassette label is gospel.
