DJ Raz was a hugely popular DJ in Winnipeg’s underground scene in the 90s. He hosted a radio show on 91.1 FM, playing the latest techno, trance, and house every Friday night.
For young teenagers like me who lived outside the city, were too young to drive, and still many years away from getting high speed internet, the best (only?) way to discover new music was to scan the FM dial. His radio show is where I first heard local electronic music, and talk of all these crazy parties that were happening in Winnipeg.
I’m 99% sure that this is the first local DJ mix I ever bought. It is solid start to finish, contains a ton of classic tunes, and remains a favourite to this day.
Were are the real old school kids like DJ Tara and little Phil and DJ Avid, I see Shawn sommers around but no Brent Phillip’s 😄😄 and what happen to Vicky from Vickie’s hair salon?
Would love to feature some mixes from them – if you have some, pass them along!
wow, I just came across this. I haven’t heard this in ages. I used to have all fierce beats cds (vol 1-3) that I bought at that store in downtown wpg. Same place that I would pick up my rave flyers. My car got broken into and all my cd’s were stolen. I haven’t heard them since.
Just thank you for posting this!! Miss those days, miss the music
Oh just oh wow, this brings me way back. Danced forever and all night at every rave I could go to. I was usually the girl directly in front of the speakers in a dance trance 🙂
Where’s fierce beats vol 2? Would love to hear it again
Thank you SO SO much for this. I have been looking for it since 2002. Thank you!
Hey guys, does anyone remember the French language Friday radio show that dropped the best techno / trance jams in Winnipeg in the ’90’s. Like ’93, ’94, ’95. I am trying to find one of their mixes. Thanks, everyone.
Hi Tony – that’s a little before my time, but it was 91.1 ENVOL FM. We have contacted them and unfortunately they don’t have recordings going back that far. So the best we can hope for is old tapes of recordings that people have! Let us know if you have any!
I might have some. I’ll dig around.
DJ Raz on 91.1 Friday nights was pure gold. His album Fierce Beats 2 was one of the top albums I’ve ever heard…to this day. Would do anything to hear it again. There’s got to be someone out there that can upload it to this site.
Will offer $100 reward to whoever uploads fierce beats 2. No joke!! Best album ever.