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Another person who would definitely deserve a mention in this section is the legendary ESP organiser Murray Beeston. Under the well known guise of "Dreamscape", Murray and his team of backroom staff packed out warehouses, fields and nightclubs up and down the country with a varied cross selection of happy hardcore, techno, jungle, trance and house music during the time of the "big split".

 

 

The so-called "big split" was where the various types of house music split into their own sub-catagories to cater for the indivduals taste, the "purist". As the various types of dance music where beginning to differ in speed and construction, parties became a mish-mash of sound which would alter the flow of a party. Elements of house were speeded up and mixed with others types of music to eventually became hardcore, which is now known as oldskool. Hardcore music itself split into two and turned into happy hardcore and jungle, with jungle going down it's own path and mutating quite a few times in the process. As with acid house, house and techno, they had there own followings from day one and progressed down their own road, so ESP's "multi-party-concept" was becoming a rare accorance in the early-mid ninties.

 

 

The infancy of ESP can be traced right back to the heady acid house days of '89, but the unexpected rise and popularity of the ESP parties started in early '90 when rave-mad Northamptonite Murray was recruited by Craig Campbell, the other partner at ESP promotions. Once Murray had become involved with the venture, he found a small club called Castaways [ which was later to become "Milwaukees" ] which could be ideal for their purpose. Located just outside the little village of Souldrop, but within spitting distance from Rushden in Bedfordshire, the club would be start of a long journey as Craig and Murray started to host a long string of parties at the venue.

 

 

With a partner by the wayside and stream of parties like "ESP", "Bounce" and "Supernova" in the bag, roughly early '91, ESP promotions was given the rare chance to take the company up to the next level when they were approached by the organiser of the Weekend World parties, Tarquin de Meza to co-promote their first open-air party. Billed in the press to be "the largest ever outdoor event of it's kind", "Heaven on Earth" turned out to be one of the biggest parties of that summer with around twelve thousand people in attendence. After the success of the party in Brayfield, Northamptonshire, Murray started to realize that ESP had outgrown Milwaukees and they needed to capitilize on public demand, their following and the last party so they began the next step to take the company up another level, they needed a bigger venue, Dreamscape was born.

 

 

 

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