The Oldskool Appreciation Party - O.A.P's thread

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Hi,

I am looking for people to cast their mind back 25 years, (Great scott…… is it really 25 years ago!!!)

I am trying to figure out if my memory is off kilter on this one.

For anyone that frequented the Asylum, my memory of the dance floors downstairs is you walked down the stairs after paying in,

Drinks bar to your right and a dancefloor ahead of you,
Archways also to your right that brought you into the main dancefloor where the DJ enclosure was at the front of dancefloor (Or back of the building from the street entrance)

Now if we go back to the first dancefloor that you encounter after walking down the stairs, on the wall facing you as you are looking at the dancefloor was a big orange fluorescent buddha painted, massive speaker set up to your left……

Now this is the part my memory I think is feeding me false information, my recollection was there was a step down onto a square dancefloor that went around this section, from where the bar was and running along the left hand wall and the wall where the Buddha was, the dancefloor that you stepped down onto was at the same level as the dancefloor through the arches.

But, from my own video of the reunion that was held there in 2008, the floors are completely flat from the bottom of the stairs right through to where the DJ enclosure was.

Am I remembering incorrectly? It seems or appears that I am but I have this memory that there was a step around three sides of the first dancefloor?

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Glad you recall it to, i remember being able to see across the heads of people that were on the dancefloor there if i was standing with my back to the bar, and where the speakers were to your left i think was raised even higher, Higher like Two foot of a ledge that the speakers were standing on and room for people all down the left hand wall to stand up on it.

Do you also remember the Fluorescent orange Buddha on the far wall yes?

I am trying to recall the exact layout of the place,

> Enter from sackville place, door on left of front of building was where you paid officially.
> Stairs down had a right hand turn at the top which then led to basement.
> If you didnt pay in on the door, paid the bouncers instead, shutter to the right of the front of building were pulled up which led you straight into second floor.
> Downstairs, Drinks bar to your right, Dancefloor straight ahead, Archways to your right leading to another dancefloor playing same music. (And when i think about it now, it must be the basement off the building next door that was the main dancefloor as the first dancefloor you encountered was probably the width of the front of the building)
> Through archways to your right (4 of them), Look left and DJ enclosure at front of dancefloor, exit door to left of DJ enclosure, look right and corridor that led to toilets in the far corner.
> Down the toilets corridor, first door on your right was Ladies toilets (That a joke, it was a free for all everywhere in the place), Continue down corridor then a right hand turn, then a left and the mens toilets were there, urinal along the wall and two cubicles with one sink (Water regularly turned off so you had to buy from the bar.)
> Back to main dancefloor, door to the left of DJ enclosure at front of dancefloor led you out to corridor that went straight ahead, and stair case to your left, end of straight corridor brought you to coat room.
> Staircase brought you up, turned 180' and up again, then a right hand turn into 'Skag room', benches along all the exterior walls of the room with all the 'Ballier' heads sitting just to your left as you entered.
> At the far end of this room i am a little hazy, was there also access to the stairs that brought you back to dancefloors downstairs? I recall there was a handrail with short walk to where the shutter out onto sackville place was there, and seem to remember stairs that went back downstairs, but cant piece together this stairs and the stairs where you paid, they must have been the same stairs?
> Back out the door you came in, another set of stairs brought you the third floor with different music playing than downstairs.
> As you enter third floor, DJ Box (Literally a shabbily constructed enclosure made from 8 x 4 sheets) straight ahead of you, floor made from seriously heavy wooden timbers, bare brick wall to your right with another ledge running along this wall about 2 foot high x 3 foot deep you can sit on or stand on.
> Walk to back of this dancefloor, one or two (Cant clearly recall) small room the size of a box room bedroom in a house to your right in a small corridor with normal doors on them and normal light switch inside the rooms, stairs at the very back where arched windows were that led back downstairs (However, this was immediately known to you to be off limits as it was usually occupied by some rough looking heads that probably ran the place), this was off limits and i dont know where this stairs actually came out in the building, it was located directly over the entrance at the front, but cant figure out where this came out in the building.

Does this sound about right to anyone else? And if you can Piece together the few things I am not sure about I would appreciate it.

Billy Mays wrote: »

Meant to post this a couple of weeks ago. This was the first dj mix tape I ever bought. Didn't take to it at the time as I was more into the uplifting house/early prog and trance sound. Skaggy ****e I used to call it.

Rediscovered it a few years ago on youtube and loved it. Really deep, dark acid/techno, it's up there now as one of my favourite mixes