STORIES & CULTURE
Music, artists, labels and stories from the underground.
THE WGR JOURNAL
Known through live rave appearances and recorded sets, MC Trance has remained part of the North East circuit and continues to appear on makina event line-ups.
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When looking back at the history of Spanish electronic music, some names represent a particular club or a particular sound.
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When talking about the golden age of Spanish makina, there are certain names that simply cannot be left out.
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One of the names makina collectors may encounter while digging deeper into that world is **ADN Sound**.
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When talking about the labels behind the golden age of Spanish makina, **Uptempo Records** deserves a place right alongside Bit Music.
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For anyone who was involved in the North East rave scene during the late 1990s and 2000s, Spanish makina became much more than music coming out of Barcelona and Catalonia.
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For anyone who grew up buying music around **Stockton-on-Tees and Teesside**, Sound It Out Records was much more than somewhere you went to buy a CD or a piece of vinyl.
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When looking back at the history of rave music in **Teesside and the North East**, there are certain names that appear again and again across different clubs, promotions and generations.
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DJ NRG – The Colosseum and the Roots of North East Rave Before the New Monkey. Before North East Makina became a sound recognised around the country. Before YouTube, SoundCloud and downloadable rave sets.
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When people talk about the history of **Makina in North East England**, there are certain DJs, MCs, clubs and promoters that repeatedly appear.
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When people talk about the history of North East Makina, attention often turns towards Sunderland's **New Monkey**, Newcastle or Gateshead. But **Middlesbrough and the wider Teesside area developed its own generation of DJs, MCs and ravers** – and one of the names from that early scene was **MC Hyper**.
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For years people have talked about Makina as though it belongs to another era.
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Long before Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud and Mixcloud became the normal places to discover underground music, hardcore ravers were already building their own communities online.
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Before Facebook, Instagram and modern event apps took over club promotion, UK ravers had websites and forums where entire communities formed around dance music.
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While many of the independent dance-music forums of the 2000s have disappeared, **UK Bounce House** is one of the communities that is still keeping the old forum culture alive.
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If you were involved in the North East rave scene during the 2000s, there is a good chance you came across **UltimateBuzz.net**.
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Internet radio allows anybody with an internet connection to listen to a station without needing a traditional FM or AM radio
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When talking about the North East's Makina, hardcore and rave scene, **Stretch MC** is a name that deserves to be remembered.
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For a generation of Teesside clubbers, **The Cornerhouse in Middlesbrough** was one of those venues you didn't easily forget.
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For anyone interested in the history of clubbing and nightlife around Stockton-on-Tees, **The Colosseum in Norton** is a name worth remembering.
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For anyone who remembers nights out in Stockton-on-Tees during the 1990s, **Bianco’s** is one of those names that may bring back a few memories.
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For anyone who went clubbing around **Teesside in the late 1990s and early 2000s**, the name **Millennium** will bring back some memories.
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If you spent time around Middlesbrough town centre, there’s a good chance you remember **The Crown**. Sitting prominently on the corner of **Linthorpe Road and Borough Road**, the huge building became part of Boro nightlife — but its history goes back much further than its days as a pub and club.
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For generations of clubbers from Teesside and across the North East, the name **Tall Trees** brings back some serious memories.
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