The story behind "Public Domain - Operation Blade" with Mark Sherry | Muzikxpress 064

[@Josh-m3i9b]

I listen to it at least once a week for the past 20 odd years

[@welly5575]

I can't stop listening to rock the funky beats 😂😂

[@oldskoolforever79]

i loved the Casio brothers

[@heatherstewart5236]

I was at the metro every Saturday when operation blade 1st came out, Mark sherry smashed it every weekend

[@wrightwoodwork]

I was there when mark used to play at the metro and the place just erupted

[@muzikxpress]

Oh wow, nice one!!

[@teky]

hands down my favorite if i had to choose… never enjoyed music like his sets, he reignited the spark for me bringing back somewhat that hard trance sound but with tech-trance and it was a wrap! his selections of tracks and remixes / mashups are just above and beyond gold and jus about everytime he does a new track or remix / mashup it’s a track that makes ya say , wow he knows how to pick the good ones and do his magic when so… bless that man for he def showers audiophiles / tranceaddict / musical minions with nothing but musical magic. godspeed MARK!

[@de-b1221]

Can remember hearing operation blade in a club for the first time back in 2002, when that bass dropped so did my jaw, so many great tracks back then like blood is pumping by Voodoo and Surrano and Warp Brothers Phatt Bass.

[@stumpynadge]

A trio of absolute belters there, my friend.

[@de-b1221]

@@stumpynadge thank you😀

[@magdelayna]

Another great interview Twan.....Mark is so enthusiastic about the scene...was great to spend a bit of time with him last year at Lumi :)

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot! And yes, Mark is a great down to earth guy and I love the way he was telling these stories. Glad you enjoyed the interview!

[@alstrange8414]

seen public domain live in dublin great night mark was shaking hands me n me m8 being overly excited we pulled him into the crowd took it like a champ and bopped with us legend would love t see him scratchn over dat

[@emphatic001]

Such a cool guy.

[@XXB4XX]

Subbed. Can't believe you don't have more followers. Great videos man.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much! And hopefully more people find my channel, feel free to spread the word ;-) Thanks for subscribing, next interview will be online next week!

[@trancextend]

He will. This guy will be posted in our Facebook every time he does new interviews. Check out TranceDNA. 👀

[@johnmax5652]

RAVE ON!!! SO HARD TO BE ON THE BASE OF INFINITY...

[@A_MeatPopsicle]

I was never a fan of Public Domain but I was a massive Casio Bros and Ultrasonic fan. Looking back it was great to see some of the old Scottish hardcore crew make it so far into the...erm...public domain. Great interview, thoroughly enjoyed it and the best of luck to Mark

[@marcmcleanphoto]

Great watch Twan thanks for sharing hard to believe its been 20 years, Mark still rocking the music scene flying the flag for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👍

[@KingLizard616]

Thank you. Just continue this way with great interviews!

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot Vasily!

[@jamesmoore4650]

Shout out to Opera House Bournemouth! Used to love going to Slinky every Friday night.

[@adidasaddict2023]

Bass in the place scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 mind mark playing in metro salcoats back in the day living legend

[@scottwyllie915]

Fantastic watch.

[@megabass]

Nice interview! Looking forward to his album.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! And it is out now! :)

[@bendjdapimp]

ive been following mark sherry for a while but only today i find out mark sherry was public domain :O

[@trancextend]

I was the only one listening to this style back in 99-01. Texas loved the new sound.😂😂😂

[@jakedavis6853]

Nice job Twan!!!

[@rico1979]

Great inverview! :)

[@fezmania5078]

Another fantastic interview, Twan. Great job. Mark Sherry is a great guy. Hard working and cool, fun personality.

[@Arlicht]

Mark Sherry is brilliant! Thanks for this vlog Twan!

[@muzikxpress]

Andris Riņķis you are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@bdttrance4194]

Interesting stuff, thanks

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you!

[@DJMadmanCook]

Thanks a lot for reminding me, in 1:10 I go crazy even now after so many years. Such a legend song and mix! Great interview ;) I hope to meet you one day Twan!

[@muzikxpress]

Haha you are welcome! And hopefully one day!

[@JDCooper95]

Another great interview Twan! I'm such a big fan of Mark and Public Domain and for me it's a very huge pleasure to learn a new details about Mark's background. Your job is precious Twan! Keep it up! Much appreciated!

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you Artem! Glad you enjoyed it! Another interview will be up in a week ;-)

[@MissDolcenGabbana]

awesome interview!

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot!

[@keithwozniak]

Another incredible interview! You can feel the energy from the person being interviewed which is also a compliment to you as well.

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks so much Keith!!!

[@roninmurphy]

Thank you for these interviews!

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much, glad you enjoy them!

[@Jody-6]

Good video, thanks for doing these!

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you!!

[@JohnPingol]

Amazing video, thank you for this. Mark is one of my top DJs so any insight is always valued.

[@muzikxpress]

John Pingol you are welcome John!

[@euphoriaibiza]

Amazing interview Twan :) I have another request Fire & Ice - Lost Emotions

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot! And tbh, I don't think that track would be interesting enough (for me) to make a vlog about. I pick classics / chart hits that have been hits or at least in the charts in several countries. I know this one is a trance classic, but not known enough for me to make a vlog about.

[@fredconte]

great interview, as usual :)

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks Fred!

[@prestigious5s23]

I did an engineering session with Mark many years back and remember asking him did he have any bad experiences at gigs. He didn't have much to say, except told me about when Operation Blade was at its peak, he was doing a DJ gig somewhere where his best moment of the night would be dropping that track because it was the one song everyone would be waiting to hear. Unfortunately the warm up DJ beat him to it as he dropped the track right at the end of his set before mark came on. It completely ruined his time to play it later in the night he said lol:D

[@muzikxpress]

Haha oops! I have a similar story with Solarstone. Several years ago I did join him to a trance classics show at the Matrixx in Nijmegen. The DJ who did perform just before Solarstone did end his set with “Seven Cities”... oops 😂🙈

[@hockleyrebelDJ]

Bless the judge

[@pryda001]

Hey man. I'd really love to hear the story behind Johnny Shaker - Pearl River. It was a huge track in the UK when it was released and is still one of my favourites!

[@muzikxpress]

I have a few "rules" for interviews I do; - the track needs to be known in at least a few different countries; - it must be possible for me to interview the artist(s) / producer(s), so the must live near me or they must come to The Netherlands for a show / performance, since I don't have a travel budget - I need to know the track myself as well and like it, otherwise I don't think I should do an interview about it ;-) Since I don't know this track (from what I see it only came out in Germany and the UK back then) I don't see this happen, sorry, just being honest ;-)

[@MissDolcenGabbana]

wow i just had to hear this track because of your comment. and it is truly amazing. didnt know Johnny Shaker is an alias of Three n’One... wow

[@pryda001]

The vocal mix is absolutely superb! It's a real shame, as the track is huge in the UK and is considered one of the great trance classics

[@muzikxpress]

@@pryda001 Oh I'm sure the track was huge in the UK, but as I wrote before, I want to do vlogs about tracks that have been big in several countries. I mean, i'm Dutch and I can easily do some vlogs about tracks that were big here, but not anywhere else. In that case I know those vlogs wont get as much views as normal vlogs and tbh it takes a lot of time to make a vlog, especially interviews. So I decided to only pick tracks that have been big in at least a few countries. And besides that, I don't know this track, which makes it harder to do a good vlog about it in my opinion. And last but not least, the guys that made this one don't live in The Netherlands and I don't see them touring a lot here as well ;-) Hope this explains why I make some "rules" for myself when I do interviews. But no worries, more to come! This week I did an interview with a Dutch producer who had a #1 in the UK Dance Charts somewhere in the 90s. And this track gets covered every once in a while still :)

[@stazza116]

If you get Mallorca Lee podcast there is a good interview with mark and many other dj’s and producers mostly Scottish ones from back in the 90’s

[@rodmead4324]

What a fookn legend!! An absolute pioneer of the harder, trance sound. Does it all production wise, and unlike a lot of producers, myself included, can actually play the keyboard/ synth. A bloody top bloke too boot also, you can feel his passion for the scene coming through the interview. RESPECT!!! Album is awesome btw :)

[@muzikxpress]

Mark is great indeed! Hope you enjoyed the interview!

[@millso]

All my life didn't know casio brothers was Mark Sherry and Trevor Reilly. Twice in the last week have found this out. Watched an interview with him and Chris Agnelli and now this. Weird

[@albertosanchezlorduy7371]

Great interview! By the way Twan, what about an interview with scot project?

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot! And hopefully that will happen in the near future as well :)

[@afourther927]

The original was actually a remix of New Order's track called Confusion Construction

[@muzikxpress]

Alex Fourther Yes, it is the “Pump Panel Reconstruction” of New Order’s “Confusion”. Check at 4:50 and 6:30, there we talk about it, guess you missed it 😉

[@davefilms345]

Great interview, is there a version of operation blade with out the crowd in the background, like a studio version or is this what he mixed into it. Its as if he's released the live version.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! And I don't think there are versions without the live crowd sounds tbh.

[@davefilms345]

@@muzikxpress that's all cool, I'd of thought there would have been a studio version release. Amazing song anyway

[@muzikxpress]

@@davefilms345 The "live crowd" noises were added in the studio, so that's the studio version, it wasn't recorded "live" ;-)

[@davefilms345]

@@muzikxpress that's cool, I didn't know if this was the studio version or not so you have now answered my question lol 👍

[@INTHEMIX74]

oh casio brother -last anthem i have that

[@maohuerta]

'Everytime' by Lustral. Please ?!?

[@muzikxpress]

Working on an interview with Stephen Jones, might be about a Chakra track, but let's see what he says ;-)

[@maohuerta]

@@muzikxpress Woow, lets hope all goes good. Thank you!

[@Blaulicht1120]

LOL I used to turn on English subs to understand what Mark is sayin :DDDD

[@chris306oug]

♥️

[@kristoffscuba5466]

Always wondered how much they'd paid to clear that sample, on the basis that the sample is the whole tune really. Wonder if the warp brothers had to pay for their rip off of the pump panel "melody" too, that formed the basis of Phat Bass. Remember how big both tracks were in the local clubs at the time.

[@muzikxpress]

According to Mark's reaction, it wasn't cheap haha

[@mikemarino5762]

Phatt Bass altered the melody whereas Operation Blade did not. Personally, I did not like the Public Domain track because it sounds off in certain places. The best version is Razor Blade by Domi Nation.

[@freeze84]

it's just my humble opinion, but there is nothing special about the success of a release which contains almost the entirety of the original track as main sound.. that's why most people mistakenly think it's the original Blade OST.. I know it was made with license but it's more like new version of the original - 'Confusion Construction 2000'..

[@marksherry5105]

We sampled 1 bar (4 beats) of the original Pump Panel remix... ;)

[@rudolfblaha7701]

i've been learning english for 22 years and i still find the scottish accent hard to understand😆

[@Mick-n5r]

I think Mark has passed away. Fantastic artist

[@muzikxpress]

Mark is very much alive, he's releasing a brand new artist album soon. Unfortunately Public Domain member Mallorca Lee did pass away early February 2024 at the age of 51....

[@johnwarrinton511]

Rip mollorca lee 😢

[@muzikxpress]

😢

[@BabylonCome]

I am fairly sure that the original is The Pump Panel's "Acid Ego" as I was spinning this many, many months before this rip off version was made..

[@muzikxpress]

Close, but no, it is not that one. If you would have checked the vlog you would have heard the full story as explained by Mark Sherry ;-)

[@BabylonCome]

@@muzikxpress - Haha, I just had to listen to both tracks and yep you are right. However, Acid Ego uses the exact same 303 bassline but a 5th higher... Plus about another 10bpm in tempo... Still, those versions are timeless and while Mark's version is good, it does annoy me that not enough people know of the original versions

[@МихаилМихаил-к8ы]

Не популярные и пропали не смогли продолжать 😐😐😐😐

[@fredconte]

stronnnngg accent btw

[@planetX15]

I like the Scottish accent

[@EuroNetta]

HARD TECHNO / ACID RAVE FOR SURE ISNT TRANCE!

[@muzikxpress]

Hard trance 😉

[@EuroNetta]

@@muzikxpress HAHA LOL THE ORIGINAL (PUMP PANEL - CONFUSION) IS ACID TECHNO OR RAVE! & THIS VERSION IS TECHNO! 0% TRANCE HERE

[@muzikxpress]

OKAY IT MUST BE TRUE SINCE YOU WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPS HAHA LOL

[@EuroNetta]

@@muzikxpress TRUE STORY 😄 I LOVE TECHNO! 2 Unlimited , Cappella , Scooter , Anticappella , Culture Beat , Fun Factory , 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor , The Prodigy , The Shamen , Lords Of Acid , The Time Frequency , L.A. Style , Sash , Technotronic , Antiloop , Masterboy!!! MORE MAINSTREAM TECHNO PLEASE

[@muzikxpress]

@@EuroNetta lots of the acts you mentioned are Eurodance….