The Haçienda Classics: World Are You Ready For Manchester!

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Taking inspiration from much heralded earlier compilations by Studio 54, Street Sounds et al, the idea was to provide a double album of après-club party music, but with Haçienda branding - at that time a groundbreaker of a concept that would be repeated with great success by the later 'superclub' albums - still being issued today - by the likes of Ministry of Sound and Cream. Without a doubt, The Haçienda and its crowd know just how to light this city up and party like there’s no tomorrow. Haçienda Classical in the Castlefield Bowl is the highlight of my year and I’m thrilled to be performing for a seventh year to the best audience in the world,” conductor Tim Crooks said.

There were no rules and therefore a much more open minded scene and DJs would frequently drop the tempo at the end of the night.tracks that surrounded the era seem like a good place to start, but for this, we needed to enlist some experts who lived through it both in front of and behind the decks. The band were brilliant, not only in their performance but also in the way that they conducted themselves prior to the event during set up. It was a sign of how fertile the Hacienda scene was that Elliot’s evolution from being a young Hacienda pot-collector to DJing and recording, culminated in him taking over DJ duties in the Hacienda’s main room in 1997.

He was a trusted member of the Factory family; as co-founder of Quando Quango, he’d recorded for the Factory (including the ‘Love Tempo’ single). I was so happy to be able to include this on my Choice comp a few years back as this was a major influence. Hollway, Eastwick and Si Bradshaw, recording as Salt City Orchestra, released ‘The Book’ in 1994, and remixed Underworld, Moloko, the Sneaker Pimps and Marshall Jefferson.it’s easy to underestimate the impact that they had on urban music back then, but with their debut album, and the accompanying singles, Soul II Soul really altered the course of music, period.