Grabba Gabba [1994]

Many of these early sets were filled with humour and inside jokes, perhaps a reflection of the fact that rave culture and music really didn't take itself as seriously back then as whatever passes for it now might. As a results, the odd Monty Python skit or Barney record or other quote seemed to make it's way into the soundscape. Given how comedic hardcore was back then, with MC's trashing each others' cities, and parody tracks, this shouldn't have come as much of a surprise. Now the inside jokes about pancreas boxing are a thing of the past, and the Grabba Java coffee shop in Otawa this set was named after is surely long gone...