Innovation presents Sweat London Club Tour Part 3
Camden Palace, London • Sunday 27 August 1995. The surviving Rave Archive recordings catch Innovation at a point when jungle was consolidating into drum & bass culture, with Kemistry & Storm, Dr S Gachet and DJ SS all preserved from the night.
The story
Innovation in the 1995 club circuit
By August 1995, jungle was no longer simply the breakbeat edge of the wider rave scene. Specialist labels, clubs, promoters and artist networks were making drum & bass culture increasingly self-contained. Innovation’s Sweat dates belong to that moment, taking the sound into major London club spaces such as Camden Palace.
The archive value of this particular night is unusually strong because Kemistry & Storm survive prominently in two of the three Rave Archive transfers. Their presence connects the event to the Metalheadz-era sound and to the growing importance of women DJs within the specialist jungle and drum & bass network.
The third transfer preserves DJ SS with Stevie Hyper D and MCMC. Together the three recordings give the event a much stronger historical footprint than a simple listing, while still avoiding the mistake of treating surviving tapes as a complete running order.
Deep dive • Camden Palace on tape
Kemistry & Storm show where the sound had reached
The surviving Kemistry & Storm recording turns this from a club-tour listing into a snapshot of late-summer 1995 drum & bass. The reconstructed set moves through DJ Taktix, ST Files, DJ SS, Desired State, Roni Size, Rufige Kru, Splash, Randall & Andy C, Dillinja, Doc Scott, Lemon D, T Power and Goldie.
DJ Rap’s surviving set from the same night travels through Hype, Formation, Marvellous Cain, Krust, Shy FX, Dr S Gachet, Alex Reece, Jo and Andy C. Put together, those tapes show why “jungle / drum & bass transition” is not just a tidy retrospective label — the records themselves are sitting right across that line.
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Rave Archive audio
Three recordings from 27.8.95
Kemistry & Storm w/ Blacka & MCMC — Innovation Sweat ‘Club Tour PT 3’ — Camden Palace — 27.8.95
Kemistry & Storm w/ MCMC & Dr S Gachet w/ Stevie Hyper D — Innovation Sweat — Camden Palace — 27.8.95
DJ SS w/ Stevie Hyper D & MCMC — Innovation Sweat ‘Club Tour PT 3’ — Camden Palace — 27.8.95
Sources
Where the story comes from
Original flyer and all three Mixcloud recordings from the event.
Used to corroborate Kemistry & Storm and other surviving performances from Innovation at Camden Palace on 27 August 1995.
Wider context for jungle consolidating into specialist drum & bass culture through 1995.
