As Bugged Out! celebrates a mighty thirteen years of putting on parties, they’ve decided to look backwards instead of forwards for once; which explains this retrospective CD collection. And as one of the clubs that have never stopped loving rave, be it old, new or merely middle-aged, who better to look back on some top tunes than the Bugged Out! crew?

Bugged Out’s come all the way from Sankeys in Manchester (then Sankeys Soap, of course) in 1994 to The End in London, via warehouse parties and club nights all over the country. They still put on parties all over the world, with parties at The Loft in Barcelona and recently at Hollywood in Milan being highlights - and they saw the ‘new rave’ thing coming a mile away. Why? Because they never stopped raving in the first place…

In the words of the club’s co-founder, John Burgess, ‘On a good night you may have caught an early live appearance by Röyksopp in one room, Basement Jaxx DJ’ing in another and Justin Robertson and Dave Clarke hammering it out in the courtyard.’

Johnno’s talking about the ultra-diverse line-ups that Bugged Out! used to command at Nation, Liverpool’s 2500 superclub and legendarily home to CREAM in the 90s. This was Bugged Out!’s home from 1998 too, but that didn’t mean they reigned in their eclectic style. Nope, they continued on with the broad approach that had LFO play at their first night at Sankeys. They played Tied Up, which is included here as a master from the ultra-rare flexi disc, while Stardust’s Music Sounds Better With You gives us the more approachable side of the club.There’s also Slam’s Positive Education, Wink’s Higher State…, Vitalic’s Dario and Felix’s Silver Screen, Shower Scene. How can you resist?