React — The Dark Side / Mrs Wood Teaches Techno
1993 double-sided promotional flyer · The Dark Side: Hardcore Drum & Bass Style / Mrs Wood Teaches Techno · Junior Tomlin artwork
March 1993 (promotional period; exact distribution date not printed) · ★ Gold Star object
Original React label promotional ephemera coupling two early-1993 electronic-music campaigns on a single double-sided sheet. The principal side advertises The Dark Side: Hardcore Drum & Bass Style, a compilation positioned at the breakbeat-hardcore / emerging jungle and drum-and-bass transition and carrying Junior Tomlin's signed fantasy-rave artwork.
Read the catalogue note →- Promoter
- React
- Original admission / price
- Not an event ticket: this sheet promotes recordings.
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good- appearance from supplied front and reverse photographs — ungraded.
- Completeness
- Single double-sided promotional sheet present with both sides photographed. No separate insert, envelope or associated premium has been established; completeness beyond the sheet itself is not asserted.
Catalogue note
Original React label promotional ephemera coupling two early-1993 electronic-music campaigns on a single double-sided sheet. The principal side advertises The Dark Side: Hardcore Drum & Bass Style, a compilation positioned at the breakbeat-hardcore / emerging jungle and drum-and-bass transition and carrying Junior Tomlin's signed fantasy-rave artwork. The reverse advertises DJ Mrs Wood's Mrs Wood Teaches Techno and preserves React's contemporary merchandising address. The object is especially useful as material evidence of how a specialist UK dance label marketed and named rapidly forming genres before the terminology had stabilised.
Advertised programme: The Dark Side selections include Doc Scott; Noise Factory; Metalheads (Rufige Cru); NRG; DMS; DJ Seduction; Darkman (DJSS). Mrs Wood Teaches Techno selections include Ace the Space; E-Rection; Mark NRG; Nasty Django; Energised; D-Shake.
Historical context: The two-sided campaign puts hardcore/jungle-associated repertoire beside a techno compilation. It documents recorded music promotion and Junior Tomlin’s visual language beyond event advertising. Featured recording artists must not be interpreted as a live line-up.
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Event details are drawn from the held object and the qualified catalogue research above. A printed bill establishes an advertised booking, not confirmation that a performer appeared.
Why this object matters
The two-sided React advertisement directly juxtaposes emerging drum-and-bass terminology with Mrs Wood's techno campaign. That comparative genre and marketing evidence supports Gold, but 9.4 overstates the historical distinction of the promotional sheet relative to foundational recordings and political documents.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
The two-sided campaign puts hardcore/jungle-associated repertoire beside a techno compilation. It documents recorded music promotion and Junior Tomlin’s visual language beyond event advertising. Featured recording artists must not be interpreted as a live line-up.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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