Ellis Dee
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Ellis Dee was there from the early acid house days into the hardcore years. He came up through pirate radio and illegal parties and was a regular name on the big raves of the early 90s.
The sound
Hardcore and breakbeat that fitted the early rave nights. Energetic sets that worked in the big rooms at places like Fantazia and Raindance.
Key nights / tracks
Headlined events including Fantazia, Raindance and Telepathy. Released material as the Ellis Dee Project around 1992–93 that circulated on the tapes.
Labels
Ellis Dee Project — His own early series of releases that came out in the first years of hardcore.
What happened to them
Moved through hardcore into drum & bass and later breakbeat. Still active and remembered as one of the early names from the acid house to hardcore transition.