The Bootleg Megamix Archive

Hello and welcome to the Archive. If you're here, you no doubt have the same passion for Megamixes as I do. My name is Matt and I live in the UK. You can find out more about me and how my collection started here.

I consider the Megamix to be a true artform and I've been collecting them on vinyl since I was a teenager in the mid 80's. I mainly collect bootlegs but also own a lot of legal and subscription service releases. I have recorded every mix that I've bought over the years and I started a YouTube channel in November 2019 with those recordings, where I've been sharing as many of them as YouTube's copyright rules allow me to in the best quality that I can. A link to the channel is below.

The aim of this website is to preserve the history of the amazing bootleg Megamixes that were created in the late 70's, 80's and early 90's. I feel it’s important that people can hear these amazing mixes and that they are not lost to time as I know how much blood, sweat and tears went into the making of them. Who knows, they may even inspire young D.J.’s that are just starting out to create masterpieces of their own that will be revered by future generations!! The website will also act as an archive for my entire collection of Megamixes, Remixes, D.J. Cut-Up's and Live Old School Hip Hop performances, whether they are legal or bootleg releases. This site is very much a work in progress and I am updating it regularly with all of the information that I can provide about every release in my collection along with the mixers and D.J.'s that created them. The archive currently contains over 2,500 releases (on which there are over 4,700 Megamixes, D.J. Cut-Up's and Live Performances) and you can view the latest updates I've made to the website here. You will get the best experience if you view the site on a desktop computer or tablet due to the larger screen resolution, but it will work just fine on phones as well.

To view all of the Megamixes that are in the archive, select the 'Megamixes' link in the menu at the top of this page. The mixes have also been broken down into the categories of 'Bootleg', 'Subscription Service' and 'Legal' which will hopefully make it easier for you to find what you are after. You can then click on the name of the release that you’re interested in and view a page that contains all of the usual details about it, such as the label, catalogue number, likely year of release etc, and there will be an audio link for each mix so that you can listen to it. I will also attempt to provide a full tracklisting for each mix, but will no doubt miss many tracks that are obvious to people who are more familiar with specific genres, so please contact me if you can provide details of anything that is missing. The menu at the top of the page also contains links to view my collection of 'D.J. Cut-Up's' and 'Live Hip Hop Performances', which are both broken down into the categories of 'Bootlegs' and 'Legal' releases.

Part of the archive also includes scans of important dance music magazines printed in the UK during the 80's. They provide a fascinating insight into the evolution of the D.J. and dance music culture throughout that decade and can be accessed using the 'Magazine Scans' link in the menu at the top of this page.

I hope you find the website useful and enjoy the YouTube channel.

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