Name: Ambrus Deak
Location: UK
Affiliations: Chi, Sinister
Website: www.amb-music.com

Based in London, but with roots in Hungary’s Chi Recordings, Ambrus Deak a.k.a. AMB has been in music production, engineering, and label management for over six years. Co-founder and a fundamental cog in Chi Recordings, but also appears on React’s 21st Century Breaks or Distinctive’s Y4K. AMB was responsible for one of the most remarkable breaks tracks of 2002, Romeo, which obtained second place on Breakspoll, The International Breakbeat Awards, best single category in 2003.

Name: Terry Ryan & Matt Welch
Location: London, UK
Affiliations: Menu Music, Botchit & Scarper, Finger Lickin
Website: www.atomichooligan.com

May we introduce to you Matt Welch and Terry Ryan a.k.a. Atomic Hooligan. The lads have been meddling with everything breakbeat since the early 90s. Matt Welch is a classically trained violinist since the age of 4 and holds a Masters in Music. The other Hooligan and Turntablist / Dj extraordinaire Terry Ryan is a graduate of the School of Audio engineering and has been spinning the decks since he discovered body hair.

Names: Captain Koma & Marten Horger
Location: Germany
Aliases: none
Affiliations: Carepack, Westway, Gene Poole
Website: www.boogiearmy.de


Boogie Army (aka Captain Koma and Marten Hoerger) met the first time back in 2000. After spending 4 years together partying, DJing and working together in the studio they released their first record “Boogie Army – Busta/Hyperkrank” on Berlin based label "Carepack Records" in 2004.

Name: Jochen Guehlke
Location: Berlin, Germany
Aliases: J Breaker, Style Rockets (with DJ Emerson)
Affiliations: ViperJive, Dangerous Drums, Timing, Lot49, Lab Rok, Tagsta, Basstard Recordings

Circuit Breaker, Jochen Guehlke, is one of Berlin’s most in-demand artists & producers. As a breakbeat artist his skills are respected worldwide, with 12” releases appearing in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, U.K., The Netherlands and of course Germany. His reputation grows with every release and his DJ sets have been rockin' for more than 10 years now, as dancing crowds confirm in more and more countries. In January 2005 he starts his first foreign residency at Smash FX's ocean club in Zuerich, after rockin’ that place twice in 2004.

Location: Berlin, Germany
Affiliations: Electrik Sheep, Coop Entertainment, Fab Factory
Website: www.elektriksheep.de

Deckart's funky brand of broken beats and electro have has earned him legendary status in his native city of Berlin. He's got a unique combination of cold and warm styles with a bit of booty, like a slap in your face with a warm leatherette and a torrid kiss afterwards.

Name: Nick Slater & Kevin Lancaster
Location: UK
Aliases: Shades of Rhythm, Zoid (with Lee Coombs)
Affiliations: Finger Lickin, Against the Grain, Passenger
Website: www.drumattic.co.uk

 

Nick Slater and Lanx's (aka Kevin Lancaster) stage name was the consequence of having amplified attacks of drum-machine seizures in their loft. Even the strongest prescriptions could not calm the frenzy of 12 years of multi-faceted producing and DJing that would ensue before they landed at Finger Lickin'.

Names: Jonny Strinati & Chris Hughes
Location: UK
Affiliations: Splank, iBreaks, Vive Music
Website: www.splankrecords.co.uk


No breaks label would touch these boys with a barge pole so Jonny and Chris of Groove Allegiance thought “Bugger them, we’ll sign ourselves”. Even then after setting up Splank! it took 4 releases before they had the courage to unleash their imitable P-Funk breaks sound. And what a debut it was, ‘Hunkle My Funkle/System 100’ stormed onto the scene gaining worldwide acclaim from the big name DJ’s and airplay on Annie Nightingale’s BBC Radio 1 show.

Name: Rob Savage & Reuben Pearce
Location: UK
Affiliations: Breakin Even, Even Flow 
Website: www.breakineven.co.uk/groovediggerz.htm

Groove Diggerz were formed in august 2005, they are Rob Savage (Breakin Even) and Reuben Pearce (CPR), both coming from Reading, UK. Rob has been involved in music from an early age and was the drummer in the band METRO for 4 years, the band had a bit of success securing a deal, recording 1 album and a European tour, when the band split up he turned his attention to dance music.

Name: Adam Cuvilier
Location: Edmonton, Canada


Adam Cuviler aka Groovy Cuvy has DJ'ed since 2004 with a background stemming largely from breakbeat, but in recent years has been know to play anything from electro to minimal. Cuvy's unique ability to read the crowd, has brought him bookings opening for and playing alongside some of the world's top talent. Cuvilier's home base is in Edmonton Alberta. He has been a radio DJ on local 88.5FM CJSR, with show "Smooth" which is well known for rocking his late night sets since 2002 with co-host Avrum Gold.

Name: Riku Pentti
Location: Hellsinki, Finland
Aliases: Rico Tubbs
Affiliations: Passenger, Menu, Heavy Disco, Medcab, Nine2Five
Website: www.djinfekto.com

Finnish brokenbeat pioneer since 94, Infekto is the co-founder of the first Finnish breakbeat/hip hop label Pyssy as well as half of the chart topping hip hop/beats producer duo Skillsters which has now been hired to produce and be a part of the live act of Bomfunk MC's – Finland’s biggest dance music export.

Name: Andrew Mavor
Location: Toronto, Canada
Aliases: Sole Claw, Not Myagi
Affiliations: 2 Wars, Splank, Womp, Howlin, Pure Phunk, West, Fight Club
Website: www.myagimusic.com


It would be hard to find an electronic musician in North America better poised to take off from the underground. Myagi's sets are like no one else's, both hard and funky, straddling the boundary between funky and nu-skool breaks, house and techno, nodding to both the past and the future of funk.

Name: Charlie Childs & Justin Sharp
Location: London, UK
Affiliations: West Records, Brighton Breaks
Website: www.steelzawheelz.com | www.westrecords.co.uk

Growing up in the late 70's and early 80's Charlie Childs and Justin Sharp's love of music was influenced by the very start of the birth of Hip-Hop and Electro. From breakdancing and body popping in their local youth club and Romford town centre, both of them took influences from early Sugar Hill, Tommy Boy and Malcolm McClaren releases. Listening and recording Mike Allan on Radio 1 and Dave Pearce on GWR, performing tape edits and overdubs on two tape decks while scratching over the top on a single record player.

Names: Dan Holmes & Neil Simons
Location: UK
Affiliations: Payback Project, Supercharged, Muto, Splank!, Lounge
Website: www.superstyledeluxe.com

SuperStyleDeluxe (Dan Holmes & Neil Simons) are responsible for many of the floor rocking Breakbeats and midtempo hits that keep the booty shaking. "Making music you can dance too" has been the aim and moto since the whole concept began. It started with the mass production of mix tapes titled “SuperStyleDeluxe” and adventuring into the realms of hip hop, breaks, disco, etc.