Dreamscape 19 Toil & Trouble
A major Sanctuary-era Dreamscape preserved across sixteen Rave Archive UK recordings and several later tape-pack strands.
Toil & Trouble at a glance
The surviving recordings show what can still be heard today; later tape catalogues show how more of the night was packaged and sold.
A multi-strand recording footprint
Sixteen Rave Archive recordings sit alongside later commercial packs that show just how widely material from the night circulated.
Dreamscape 19 sits firmly in the mature Sanctuary era, when Dreamscape could support multiple musical directions under one event identity. The sixteen recordings preserved by Rave Archive UK reflect that breadth: Bunjy, Brisk, Donovan Bad Boy Smith, Dazee, Hype, Slipmatt, Kemistry & Storm, HMS, Sy, Dougal & Clarkee, SS, Andy C, Grooverider, Randall, Fabio & Mastervibe and LTJ Bukem all survive, with MC combinations retained where they are part of the recording title.
The later commercial catalogue separates a Drum & Bass pack from a Hardcore & Techno pack, and also lists a separate Radio Dreamscape Volume 1 double pack. Some names overlap the current archive directly; other catalogue entries are packaged differently from the combinations heard on the surviving Rave Archive transfers.
Those differences are part of the tape history. The sixteen recordings stay under the identities in which they survive, while the later packs show the wider footprint of Dreamscape 19 without claiming a complete running order.
Drum & bass on one side, hardcore & techno on the other
Later Dreamscape catalogues preserve Toil & Trouble as two distinct eight-pack strands.
The drum & bass pack names Dazee, Kemistry & Storm, Mastervibe, Randall, Grooverider, Andy C & SS, Hype and LTJ Bukem. The hardcore/techno pack names Bunjy, Donovan Bad Boy Smith, HMS, Brisk, Vibes, Dougal, Clarkee, Slipmatt, Sy and Seduction. Sixteen RAUK transfers on this page preserve an unusually large portion of that broader recorded footprint.
Kemistry & Storm are particularly important survivors because their exact-event recording sits squarely inside the drum & bass pack rather than being treated as a later Metalheadz footnote. The catalogue does not give us a live timetable, but it does preserve how the recordings themselves were organised and sold after the night.
Hear Dreamscape 19 in the site player
Hear all sixteen surviving Rave Archive UK recordings below.
DJ Bunjy — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
DJ Brisk — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Donovan Bad Boy Smith w/ MC Sharkey — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
DJ Dazee — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Donovan BB Smith & DJ Hype w/ MC Joker — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
DJ Slipmatt w/ Charlie B & Sharkey — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
Kemistry & Storm — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
HMS — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
DJ Sy — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Dougal & Clarkee w/ Magika & Sharkey — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
DJ SS w/ Warren G — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Andy C w/ Mad P & Conrad — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
Grooverider w/ MC Conrad — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Randall w/ Conrad & Mad P — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Fabio & Mastervibe w/ Conrad & Mad P — Dreamscape 19 — 27.5.95
LTJ Bukem w/ Conrad — Dreamscape 19 ‘Toil & Trouble’ — 27.5.95
Follow the artists beyond this night
Continue through the Rave Archive artist pages.
Dreamscape 19 in the series
The surrounding nights form a continuous route through 1995 Dreamscape.
Sources & further reading
Dreamscape’s own history, surviving flyer listings, Rave Archive recordings and later commercial tape packages together show how large the Dreamscape 19 footprint became.
Were you at Dreamscape 19?
Room-specific tapes, running-order sheets, tickets, photographs, flyer variants or memories can add more detail to the different recording strands from Toil & Trouble.
