SuperStyleDeluxe

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.

All laden with a sprinkle of Turntablism, this became the trademark for the young SuperStyeDeluxe and selling them at the local legendary club Stump Juice based in Wolverhampton UK where Dan (the DJ) upheld his residency with those heavy weight Latino’s The Capoeira Twins. Read more…

Steelzawheelz

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.

By 1984 Charlie had his own decks and mixer, practicing turntablism and putting on events for the local kids at schools, local youth clubs and Romford Skatepark. He followed the hip-hop scene religiously, entering DMC events and warming up for the legendary London Based soundsystem ‘Locomotion’ being involved in all day events with the likes of Soul to Soul, Ratpack, Hype, Froggy. Read more…

Groove Diggerz

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.

Rob is the man behind Reading’s biggest breaks night ‘Breakin Even’ which has been going for nearly 5 years now and has recently seen the likes of Soul of Man, Lee Coombs, Freestylers, Dreadzone, Barry Ashworth, B.L.I.M, Evil 9, Atomic Hooligan grace its presence. Read more…

Groove Allegiance

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.

In a mission to spread their funkalicious groove disease they’ve produced a successsful follow up ‘Rolands Revenge/A Good Day For Shirkin’, pimped themselves out to ibreaks and remixed for Circuit Breaker’s Viperjive and Jmekka’s Vive. For the future they’ve got collaborations penned in with Moneyshot (thanks for the site Angus!) and of course Splank! Read more…

Drumattic Twins

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’.

The Drumattic Twins’ biography constructs their musical biology. As children of the dance revolution would remember, many moons ago, Nick and Lanx were known as the chart topping Shades of Rhythm. Two of the three, the reprehensible Nick and Lanx along with vocalist Rayan Gee, were then responsible for tunes like ‘Sweet Sensation’, ‘Homicide’, ‘Ecstasy’ and ‘Sound of Eden’ - tracks so seminal, they’re likely to induce misty-eyed rumblings about “the good old days”. Read more…

Atomic Hooligan

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.

Their partnership which began in a club naturally, is inspiring and their brotherhood is reflected in their attitude towards music which is a new and refreshing one, they simply refuse to follow the path already walked! Read more…

AMB

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. Read more…