February 1st, 2009 by ollspin

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Orchid - Connected - unsigned
Plej - Borderline - Exceptional
Romanto & Out Of The Drum - Electricity - Agent Style EP - Romanto
Efx_88 - Window of Life - Programmed Intelligence
Mad EP - Acid Jig - Mutate

The Equalizers

Black Twang - Travellin’ (Elite Force remix) (2008 re-mash) - unsigned
Equalizers – Don’t Rely On The Radio - TBC
Rob Le Pitch - Sticky Fingers (Tom Real & The Rogue Element mix) - 777
Son of Kick ft Jaggae & Two Tokez - Bad Groove - Beats
Stereo:Type - Balls To The Wall - Hardcore Beats
VENT ft.Profisee - Garms - Hardcore Beats
Beat Assassins - The Hotness - Mofo
30Hz - Daddio (Miles Dyson Remix) - Lot49
Trash Yourself - Touch (AC Slater Remix) - unsigned
Evil Nine - They Live! (DJ Version) - Marine Parade
Deekline & Wizard vs Stereo:Type – Baila Baila – Against the Grain
Stanton Warriors - Precinct – Punks Music
Specimen A - Freak In Us - Funkatech
Adam Faz Reverence (Equalizers remix) - Bombtraxx
NAPT ft Skibadee - The Rollers – Sub Frequency Funk
Agent K & Bella - Sierra Leone (The Phat Riderz remix) - Digital
Bucketheads - The Bomb (Burns remix) - unsigned
Slyde - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Twocker Remix) - Finger Lickin
Proxy - Raven - Turbo
Ed Solo - Age Of Dub - Sludge
Pyramid ft IC3 – Wickedest Combination – Funkatech
Hidden Cat – The Superfuture - unknown
Equalizers – Broken English – Pure Filth
30Hz ft Yolanda – Innocent (Far Too Loud remix) - Lot49
Stereo:Type – Dusk Til Dawn – Hardcore Beats
Aquasky – Give It Up (Old Skool Style) (Clunk Clik Dub) – Passenger
NAPT – Gotta Have More Cowbell - Funkatech
501 – Dub You – Dubtrade
Equalizers – Every City – Wireframe

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Toasty - The Knowledge - Hot Flush
Rumblejunkie - Wreck It Down - Filthy Digital
Reso - If Ya Can’t Beat Em - Civil Music
Vex’d - Pop Pop V.I.P. - Planet Mu

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January 26th, 2009 by ollspin

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Sunday 1 February 2009 | Download and setlist
The Equalizers (Hardcore Beats, Pure Filth, Wireframe)

After signing to Hardcore Beats in 2006, The Equalizers have been touring all over Europe and USA over the past few years tearing crowds apart with their explosive, energetic and genre-crossing DJ sets.  Following their enormous releases ‘Pandemic’, ‘Let’s Go’, ‘Kickin’ Hard’ and ‘Revenge’, they have gained support from acts such as The Plump DJs, Stanton Warriors, Freestylers, DJ Icey, Breakfastaz and Ctrl-Z.  Also generating great press interest from BBC Radio One, Kiss100, Mixmag, DJ Mag and Knowledge to say the least. Their live set at the infamous Glastonbury Festival 2008 was extremely well received and broadcast on BBC Radio One. Their music can also be heard on Rockstar’s new game ‘Midnight Club Los Angeles’.  This young and talented North London duo have many future planned releases on various labels broadening their musical horizons and have only just begun their onslaught on the global dance music scene.

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Sunday 8 February 2009 | Download and setlist
JDO (Frustrated Disco Machine, Carnival Messiah)

Co-promoter and resident DJ with the Frustrated Disco Machine crew, big bad and heavy is the order of the day from this bass junkie.  Coming from a grunge and drum&bass background, whether he’s dropping filthy breaks or breakstep and dubstep it’s guaranteed to be sick!  JDO ran a successful drum&bass night in rural Winchester (Hampshire) for 2 years called The Horror and has produced drum&bass with MC Weird.  In recent times he has been DJing across the South, up North in the stage show Carnival Messiah and is part of the Manitou free party collective.

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Sunday 15 February 2009 | Download and setlist
Mr Minimax (Fresh Out The Box)

Mr Minimax aka Rob Dunstone is a young man from Oxford but this isn’t another boat race story. His upbringing gave him solid music foundations with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Stravinsky as listening material. From a very early age an infatuation with music was apparent, he jumped at any opportunity to make noise, be it using an instrument, his mouth, or whatever item was closest to hand. While his tastes were broad and eclectic, his knowledge of music creation was limited to first hand experiences. Thanks to a love of The Prodigy it dawned on Rob that music could be created without a band, or even proper instruments. A light switched on in his head and hasn’t dimmed since. Rob now holds a residency at Oxford club night Fresh Out The Box and has several releases under his belt that display style of downtempo and experimental electronics, through techno to breakcore carnage.

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Sunday 22 February 2009 | Download and setlist
Mulder (Cue Burn Digital, Urban Takeover, Plastic Raygun)

Back in 1997, Mulder released his first drum and bass record Don’t Believe / Stick-up Kid on Urban Takeover.  The tracks had success on the dancefloors and were played by DJ’s such as Hype, Nicky Blackmarket , Darren Jay, Mickey Finn and Aphrodite.  In 1998 he released a record on Bristol’s Tribe label called Gettin’ Blunted which ended up playing a small part in the film Human Traffic.  One of his favourite musical tasks is that of remixing tracks by other artists, including remixes for Fatboy Slim, Freestylers and Prodigy.  In 2002 he released his first Breaks track on Listen To The Basstone on Plastic Raygun.  In 2006 he started working on a number of hardcore breaks tracks.  Hardcore breaks is basically a return to the oldskool 1991-93 style with new production techniques and sounds.  Early in 2008, he launched his own label Cue Burn Digital to showcase his productions.

November 7th, 2008 by ollspin

Rewind back to the start of the century.

Freq Nasty had recently released Freqs Geeks and Mutilations.  Mechanoise released their Way Of The Robot LP.  Aquasky vs Masterblaster released their Beat The System album and mix CD.  Stanton Warriors were producing and playing jumpup 2-step style breaks.  Botchit & Scarper were firing on all cylinders.  Labels such as Bingo Beats and Rat Records were releasing bass heavy garage/breakbeat crossover tracks.  Labels such as Hardcore Beats, Cyberfunk and Against The Grain / Supercharged were forging the blueprint of the tearout breakbeat sound.  Fusetrax were pushing the industrial and garage/jungle sound of the scene with releases from artists such as Mr Psik and Baobinga.

All was well in the land of tearout nuskool breakbeat and it stayed so for a few very good years.

Then it all went to shit.

Whilst the mainstream breakbeat sound seemed to be happy turning itself into plodstep and electro house, the tearout scene slowly devolved into a mixture of the same old tired basslines and drum beats, formulaic tune programming, lengthy orchestral breakdowns and cheesy trance synth riffs.  All of it overproduced and far too clean sounding.  I may be making a somewhat sweeping generalisation, I know there has been plenty of good tearout tunes in the past few years as I’ve been playing most of them, but nobody can deny the scene has become over saturated with cookie cutter generic fodder.

Fast forward to 2008.

Thankfully some recent emerging artists are willing to break the mould and inject some fresh enthusiasm into the scene!  The increasing popularity of dubstep over the past couple of years seems to have allowed artists to further explore the more twisted side of bass heavy breakbeat based music.  Artists such as Reso are producing some of the most forward thinking dance music out there right now, particularly his more upbeat dirtier techno and drum & bass influenced productions.  Afghan Headspin, who have previously produced under the alias Resonant Evil, have been producing fast chopped up breaks with dark influences.  Vent have set a new bench mark for the more traditional tearout breaks sound with a string of heavy releases.  Labels such as Urban Graffiti and Cool and Deadly which although sometimes classed as dubstep often release tunes that fit perfectly into a heavier breaks or breakstep set.

Thanks to these people, plus of course many others who I have not mentioned, the future sound of filthy dirty tearout breaks is hopefully safe for a long time to come.