Last month, I made the trip up to Huddersfield University to attend DC23, the first in-person academic conference hosted by the Dance Cult Research Network – a global community of scholarly researchers focused on electronic music and dance cultures, which also publishes the annual Dance Cult Journal.

I made a presentation on my research into historic rural rave culture in East Anglia, an expanded and updated version of which will be turned into an episode of Join The Future on Noods very soon. I also played at the DC23 afterparty, which was held not in Huddersfield but the city of my birth, Sheffield.

Since my last scheduled DJ set in the city never happened thanks to South Yorkshire Police (it’s a long story), I decided to do an updated version of what I planned to deliver there: a set made up entirely of bass-heavy records with a Yorkshire connection. In practice, that means a mix of tracks and remixes by Yorkshire producers, and cuts released by labels based in the county.

The set was recorded at Jabberwocky on London Road, direct from the mixer, by the Dance Cult crew, so I thought I’d share it with you. Expect a mixture of bleep, breaks, bassline, Sheffield klang, dub-seeped warehouse bangers, bona fide “heaters and panel beaters” (as Mella Dee, who naturally is featured) and all manner of sweat-soaked dancefloor delights. Afterwards, one of the locals – a Sheffield native with plenty of free party/rural rave heritage, funnily enough – gave me the most Steel City of compliments: “That were reyt good – it stopped me from going home”.

You can stream the mix via the embedded Soundcloud and Mixcloud players below. A full tracklist can be found down the page.

Matt Anniss: Made In Yorkshire

Recorded live at DC23 Afterparty at Jabberwocky, Sheffield, 28/10/23

1. Luca Lozano – Man of Science
2. The Step – Yeah You (Robert Gordon Remix)
3. Si Brad featuring Azeem – Avenue 6 (Is This The Real Life?) (Crooked Man’s Real Crooked Mix)
4. Crooked Man – I’ll Be Loving You (Original 12” Version)
5. Nightmares On Wax – Biofeedback (Morgan Geist Remix)
6. Toddla T – Take It Back (DJ Pipes & Ross Orton’s Agitated Version)
7. Shangri-Lies – Greed
8. The Black Dog –Cost II
9. Ability II – Pressure
10. Luca Lozano– King Blade (Woohoo Mix)
11.On – Southern Freez
12. Coco, Steel & Lovebomb – Dub It (Big Girl Mix)
13. LFO – Probe (Cuba Edit)
14. Nightmares On Wax – Aftermath (Special Request Redux)
15. Man Machine – Animal (Primordial Jungle Mix by DJ Martin & DJ Homes)
16. Ladycop – To Be Real
17. Working Men’s Club – Money Is Mine (Toddla T Homesick Mix)
18. SuPaFiX – Ghetto New Yorkshire (Matt Anniss Join The Future Edit)
19. Adelphi Music Factory – Cuba
20. Mella Dee – Sidney Street
21. Toddla T, Idris Elba, General Levy & Naomi Cowan – We Run The Area (DJ Q Speed Garage Remix)
22. Gammy – Sloppie Joe Riddim
23. Special Request – Ride VIP
24. Alfanso – Dub Feels Nice (Version Four)