In the early 1990's a new genre of urban style dance music emerged from an already popular and ever growing rave culture in the UK. It was hardcore in its purest and earliest form. Producers who were former B-Boys started sampling from hip-hop's heritage and injecting sped up hip hop breaks and interweaving them with all manner of craziness including old reggae licks, uplifting piano riffs, dirty techno stabs, samples from kids TV shows and even a certain cat who told us the dangers of our public highways!!!
It was this almost unashamed experimentation that gave the music a freshness and a feeling of raw energy the likes of which had never been known before. Carved out by teenagers sweating it out in bedroom studios, rattling out a ... read more
Full On Intentions
House producers Michael Gray and Jon Pearn get together again - While the reformation of musical acts usually follows a predictable failure to live up to the chemistry that made them so potent together. Full story
Tiesto and Deadmau5 headline Miami
The days of the WMC being an industry only event are long gone. Thanks in no small part to Ultra Music Festival. Now in its twelve year, Ultra sheds the pretentions of South Beach aside and serves up a two day festival of gargantuan proportions into the industrial midst of Downtown Miami. Full story
Reclaim the beats
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Shut Up And Dance's first release, '5678', a blistering melting pot of b-boy breaks, East End energy and soundsystem culture that still sounds excitingly raw. Full story
Funky shake your groove thing
Next up from the TensionWorks camp is a blistering 4 track ep featuring one of the best unsung hero's of techno, Mark Verbos!!!! Who's musical career spans everything from balls out warehouse techno and monster acid tracks from his Simple Answer label, to funky shake your groove thing electro. Full story
Tropical House Music
New imprint Maxi Discs continues its adventures into Tropical House Music with yet another killer release, this time put together by label boss and global jet-setting DJ Pete Herbert (Reverso 68/LSB). Full story
Satin shines the light
Satin rocks and rolls with a solid dubwise roller that will get your head swinging back and forth and leave your feet smoking with "One Step Foward." Full story
DohZa's Dubstep Top Ten Aug 2009
gonna try and keep an up date list of my top ten favourite tunes of the month, they might be unreleased Tunes ive herd out in the field, or stuff i've bought , maybe even stuff i've been sent... watch this space for updates Full story
