Elevation & Reincarnation — Showtime ’94: The Award Winners Showcase

Catalogue note

Original double-sided flyer for Elevation & Reincarnation's Showtime ’94 — The Award Winners Showcase at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre on Saturday 23 April 1994. The flyer frames the event as 'The People's Choice': its reverse says the hardcore DJ, MC and PA programme was assembled after reading votes from the previous month's Hardcore Dance Awards. The bill includes Randall, Slipmatt, Hype, Jumping Jack Frost, Micky Finn, DJ Rap, Andy C and Ellis Dee, while a Moving Shadow Records label showcase advertises live performances by Foul Play and Omni Trio. Beyond the line-up, the sheet preserves ticket pricing, outlets, agents, coach travel and promoter rhetoric about hardcore's relationship with legal radio, record companies and magazines.

Advertised programme: Randall; Slipmatt; Hype; Jumping Jack Frost; Micky Finn; DJ Rap; Andy C; Ellis Dee; Pooch; Demolition Cru; Food Junkie; MC MC; GQ; Foul Play; Omni Trio

Historical context: Contemporary Ravescene indexing independently lists Elevation & Reincarnation at Crystal Palace Sports Centre on Saturday 23 April 1994, corroborating the event advertised by the physical flyer. Dankew's Elevation chronology also identifies the 23 April 1994 event as Showtime ’94 — The Award Winners Showcase. The flyer itself is unusually explicit about its curatorial mechanism: it says the promoter read votes from the previous month's Hardcore Dance Awards and brought the requested DJs, MCs and PAs to the event. Its Moving Shadow Records showcase with Foul Play and Omni Trio captures the increasingly visible jungle/drum-and-bass label culture emerging within the broader hardcore scene in 1994.

Condition note: Historic horizontal fold across the sheet, general handling creases and surface wear, with edge and corner wear. Printing remains strongly coloured and the extensive reverse information remains legible. Assessment is limited to the supplied front and reverse photographs.

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