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The Amsterdam based Mokum Records started out in 1992.
Its first release came out in the beginning of 1993, when hardcore was just about to take off big time in the Netherlands.
In a few years time, both Mokum Records and the hardcore scene in Holland exploded to gigantic proportions - raves of 20.000 gabbers were no exception - and the whole movement became a specific cutural phenomenon with its own fashion and music.
Mokum Records released lots of 12"es, compilations and artist albums and built up a steady and credible catalogue with various international artist like:
DJ Chosen Few, Technohead, DJ Dano, Tellurian, Flamman & Abraxas, The Speedfreak, The Prophet, Buzz Fuzz, Scott Brown, Liza N Eliaz, The Outside Agency, Lenny Dee and many more.
In just 6 years time, Mokum released close to 100 12"es, including all-time classics 'Name of the DJ' (re-released with 2005 remixes) and 'I Wanna Be a Hippy' (world wide #1 chart buster).
Correct us if we are wrong, but with 1.3 million CD single sales, Technohead's "I Wanna Be A Hippy" has to be by far the best selling hardcore record / CD till date, all licenses worldwide for hundreds of compilation cd's like Thunderdome not included.

MOK 21 is a coffee mug (pictured at image section). The Dutch word for mug is Mok, and therefore it's some sort of joke as the catalogue numbers start with MOK.

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  • -NeedleTeeth-'s avatar
    -NeedleTeeth-
    Around 1993 the UK free party group R-Zac had sent a demo to Mokum. Featured where Boom Shaka & Boom Shiva...
    • kubowofilmowo's avatar
      kubowofilmowo
      Great to see Nordcore on Mokum. Pandemic will cause hardcore to return? I am all for it.
      • 2Styliztik's avatar
        2Styliztik
        Edited 3 years ago
        If you look at the catalogue numbers for Mokum Records in 1998, from MOK 85 to MOK 91 there are two missing in the sequence. One release was supposed to be The Outside Agency doing a Cherry Cocaine record called Attack Of The Killer Bassdrum. The other release was going to be by Ralphie Dee and called The Man EP. It's unfortunate that neither of these records came out. If you look at the Mokum logo, not only does it look like a Hammer, but take out the handle ("okum") it looks like a mug with steam coming out of it! And Mok means mug in Dutch, which lends weight to the theory that the label was an amusing response to Rotterdam Records.

        In 1998, the details for Mokum was:

        Mokum Records
        Franciscusweg 22a
        NL-1216 SK Hilversum
        fax: +31-35-6248899
        • MISTER_DIA-TRIBE_73's avatar
          MISTER_DIA-TRIBE_73
          Mokum (מקום) is the Yiddish word for "place" or "safe haven". It is similar to the Hebrew word makom (מקום, "place"), from which it is derived. ... Mokum, without Aleph, is still commonly used as a nickname in the Netherlands for the city of Amsterdam.
          • Djeeta's avatar
            Djeeta
            Edited 5 years ago
            It was great to see this label coming up in 1993. I some good radio shows from the infamous Radio 100 pirate station from Amsterdam
            hosted by DJ Dano, named Grooveyard.
            This was the first time i was introduced to this Mokum sound, it was different to the more "plain" Rotterdam tracks at the time, it had a more funky feel to it with a creative way of the use of samples imo.. The first tracks i heard were the Mok 3 (Freedom) & 6 (Muffin' in Mokum) if I correctly..
            Among the guests were DJ Rob in a great " Amsterdam vs. Rotterdam" style show, The Prophet & Liza 'N Eliaz.
            I always felt there is a strong connection between the Amsterdam based radio station and The Mokum Records label.
            I still have some tapes laying around somewhere with recordings from these shows, but no tape recorder anymore :(
            After Dano also Jeff Porter (Abraxas) took some radio shows on Radio 100 on his behalf around 1995-96 which obviously were Mokum style infused also.

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