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It's Good For The Soul...

It’s Good For The Soul…

The UK’s underground dance music community rally together for Ellenor Lions Hospice (Kent, UK) with a 45-track compilation album of brand new tracks for sale as download.

To say thank you for caring so well for local young people with terminal illness, breaks music producer Simon Tagg AKA Kouncil House put the call out to his contacts book and created a block busting album of exclusive tracks from some of the world’s biggest acts. Released digitally through leading download store www.trackitdown.net in June on his respected ADHD Digital label. All proceeds raised through paid for download will be donated…

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Drumattic Twins - Hammer & Tongs

Drumattic Twins – Hammer & Tongs

Make no mistake the Drumattic Twins are old school, in their early incarnation as Shades of Rhythm they ruled the land, and now under their well established moniker as the Drumattic  Twins they are very proud to present their sound in the form of ‘Hammer & Tongs’. A savvy  melange of breakbeats, soaring strings, electro roots, sprinklings of soul and rude basslines.

Kicking off we get treated to their recent dancefloor success ‘Don’t Be So Drumattic’ which certainly hit the spot with an eclectic barrage of DJs and resulted in some impressive chart positions, (Beatport Number 1, Buzz and Cool…

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Solarstone Presents Electronic Architecture

Solarstone Presents Electronic Architecture

It’s the news we’ve been dying to deliver for the last 6 months! This April Solarstone will once again redraw the dance music map with the release of the first chapter of his new compilation series. Compiled from the veritable arsenal of forthcoming Solaris Recordings material, ‘Electronic Architecture’s double CD will paint the definitive picture of Solarstone, the DJ.

Standing out in the overwhelming compilation field – really rising head and shoulders above the rest, in 2009 has required a herculean 6-month A&Ring mission. Matched by its super-immersive, multilevel mixing, that is exactly what Solarstone has achieved with ‘Electronic Architecture’.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Solarstone Electronic Architecture Competition

Solarstone Electronic Architecture Competition

We’ve been lucky enough to receive three ‘signed CDs, poster and sticker packs’ and we’re offering them to you. Three lucky winners selected at random will each receive one pack.

To be in with a chance of winning, please tell us the name of Solarstone’s 1999 Top 40 hit?

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Deekline And Wizzard - Back Up, Coming Through

Deekline And Wizzard – Back Up, Coming Through

Against The Grain Records, the label behind the Freestylers and Krafty Kuts are proud present the bootylicous, new album “Back Up, Coming Through” by Deekline & Wizard. With a joint résumé littered with top ten hits, high profile production and studio work (for Xpress 2, Chemical Brothers, DJ Fresh, M.I.A, Lady Sovereign and more), acclaimed remixes for the likes of Armand Van Helden, Freestylers and the Prodigy, plus a debut album smash in the form of ‘Breaks, Beats & Blondes’, there is no questioning Deekline & Wizard’s pedigree.

Nick Annand & Greg Fleming AKA Deekline & Wizard have spent the…

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Stanton Sessions Volume 3 News

Stanton Sessions Volume 3 News

Breaks genre pioneers, swathed with awards including Breakspoll Number One DJs, DJ Magazine’s Number One Breaks DJs, and DJ Magazine’s 50 Best Remixers Of All Time, the Stanton Warriors have had no time to hurry the hustle of the next in line in their low-end dancefloor breaks beatdowns. Their last edition, ‘Stanton Sessions 2’ was immediately voted Album Of The Year on Annie Nightingale’s BBC Radio 1 show which, added to the salutations following their FABRICLIVE 30 mix including Timeout Compilation Of The Year and Breakspoll Compilation Of The Year, meant the collective breakbeat breath was baited for Session number…

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Splitloop - Pleasure Machine Preview

Splitloop – Pleasure Machine Preview

Splitloop’s forthcoming album ‘Pleasure Machine’ is going to cement their position at the top of the breaks scene, and bring them a whole host of new fans too due to its crossover potential. Phil and Bren admit to exploring other musical avenues since the last album, and this broadening of horizons has had a profound influence on the Splitloop sound; “You can’t be looking only to the breaks scene to get inspiration for your music,” reckons Bren. “That would just be a ridiculous feedback loop”.

“We’re at an age where we really just wanted to make music we thought was…

Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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