30 Years of Breaks from 1991 to 2021 with one track for every year.  

It's cool to see how the sound has almost come full circle from Shades of Rhythm in 91 to Franky Wah in 21. 

Tracklisting:

1991	Shades of Rhythm	Everybody
1992	Awesome 3	Don't Go
1993	Screen II	Hey Mr DJ
1994	Bassbin Twins	Loose Caboose
1995	Josh Wink	Higher State of Consciousness
1996	Freestylers 	Drop The Boom (AK48 Mix)
1997	Roni Size	Share The Fall (Way Out West Remix)
1998	Azzido Da Bass	Dooms Night (Timo Mass Remix)
1999	Leftfield	Phat Planet
2000	Elektronauts	Bumper (Plump Ds Remix)
2001	Journeyman DJ	Useful Numbers - 0800
2002	Ils	Next Level
2003	Zero 	Emit/Collect (Rennie Pilgrem Remix)
2004	Freestylers 	Push (Plump DJs Remix)
2005	Dopamine	Hold You
2006	Krafty Kuts	Freakshow
2007	Meat Katie & D. Ramirez	Stop The Revolution (Bassbin Twins Remix)
2008	Plump DJs	System Addict
2009	Specimen A	Hard Times
2010	Digital Base	Decibelium
2011	Drumattic Twins	Hyperspeed
2012	Dog Blood	Middle Finger
2013	Deekline	Deepa
2014	Freestylers 	Love My bass
2015	Chris Lorenzo & Chris Lake	The Calling
2016	Stanton Warriors	Still Here
2017	Marten Horger & Neon Steve	You Don't
2018	Plump DJs	Big Apple
2019	Stanton Warriors, Taiki Nulight & Danny Dearden	What You Got Now
2020	Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs & Bonobo	Heart Break
2021	Gorgon City & Aura James	Oxygen (Franky Wah Mix)

30 Years of Breaks / 1991–2021 / Mixed by Skool of Thought

King Of The Beats !
This the brainchild of Aston from the Freestylers, Martin Krafty Kuts and Lee from Plump DJS.
Years of djing, working on music and generally being good friends they decided to combine forces and came up with their new act  "King Of The Beats"
The concept being all 3 of them have various styles, skill sets and such an eclectic taste that it would be a kaleidoscopic entity of good music and fun times.
As you will hear in this brand new DJ mix they’ve captured that vibe and whether you’re at home, in your car, kitchen or at the gym, it will leave you with a big smile on your face and craving for more.

King Of The Beats is starting a new night at the Arches in Brighton.  A new club called Water Bear & catch us at various clubs & Festivals around the world in the coming months !

King Of The Beats DJ Mix

We will only do it the way WE know HOW, these almost 30 years.
The BEST way.
Clockwork at Printworks. We came, we saw, the Orange Army conquered.

Freestylers - Prinkworks (Inkwells)

This is one of my personal favourite mixes I have compiled and was also one of the longest. A whole month in the making but was worth every minute. 


Krafty Kuts - Old To The New Volume 1

I always held the Freestylers in high regard so i thought i would put together a studio mix celebrating their music over such a long career. Lots of slapping breakbeats, high tempo in the first hour and a bit lower in the last 20 mins. As the title suggests I've Cut & Paste a lot of the tracks using Ableton to make edits and mixes on the fly while each track is mixed in key.

Enjoy ! x

Pecoe - Freestylers Cut & Paste Tribute Mix

Freestylers @ Dirty Day Rave Steel Yard 16th November 2024

This is my rave tape! A retrospective look into my UK rave culture roots.

I remember vividly when I heard my first ever rave tape. It was 1992 & my friend gave me the cassette to play in my walkman after school. When I put it on my whole world changed. I'd never heard anything like it before & instantly was hooked. That tape was DJ Seduction & Jumping Jack Frost at Perception Wonderland July '92. It's still one of my favourites.

My school friends & I used to collect all the rave tape packs when they came out, getting the bus to Swindon & going to the 'rave shop' as we called it. At this time we weren't old enough to go to the actual parties. Our favourites were from the Universe parties which were happening quite closer to where I grew up in Wiltshire. We had others from Dreamscape, Fantasia, Obsession, Amnesia House & Helter Skelter. The walls of my bedroom were covered in rave flyer. I’d often drift off to sleep & dream about going to some of them. 

When I got a bit older, but probably not old enough, I was able to go to the parties myself. I used to regularly go to Devotion at Golddiggers, Fusion in Bath, The Brunel Rooms where D.I.Y hosted a room, Helter Skelter at The Sanctuary, United Dance, Slammin' Vinyl & free parties like Spiral Tribe. These were some of the best days & had a huge influence on my musical taste & style. I'd always say to myself 'one day that will be me on the decks up there'.

My first ever gig was at a club called The Depot in Bristol which hosted a night called Death Row Techno. At the time I was playing what we'd now call jungle techno. It was a little before UK rave music split into happy hardcore & jungle/DnB. The night I played was a rave (I can’t remember the name of the event) that had Bristol’s own jungle legend Ronnie Size & one of the scenes best hardcore DJs Brisk playing. So you could say that rave is in my blood.

For years I've been saying I'm going to make my own rave tape. A collection of all the tunes that, when I hear them, I can recall exactly where I was, who I was with & where we were in the crowd. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

For a full track listing of what I played on the mix please visit the mix page on my website: www.dfunk.com.au/mixes/myravetape

I've made a playlist of a load of the rave tape I'm talking about so you can hear them for yourself: soundcloud.com/d-funk/sets/rave-tapes-raves-i-went-to

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My Rave Tape!

2SICK - Urban Jungle

Don't You Want to Party with Me

“Minimal Waves” blends clean tech house drums with a smooth, hypnotic minimal groove.
130 BPM, precise percussion, rounded basslines and a futuristic atmosphere for elegant dancefloors.

Background video: minimal neon waves abstract background

■ Genre: Tech House / Minimal
■ Artist: Lahm
■ Label: Lahm Project 21

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Lahm - Minimal Waves (Original Mix)

So stoked that I FINALLY got around to finishing the second installment of my ’20 Years a Kid’ mixtape series! This second edition covers the years 1998 - 2000 when big beat was mutating into breaks and funk influenced music still reigned supreme. It’s one of the things I love about this era, it’s all about THE FUNK. The funkier the better! Personally I feel that’s something that’s missing a bit these days and is more than due for a comeback (watch this space 😉). For those of you who remember the legendary Globe days in Sydney then this should take you right back to the dancefloor on one of those epic nights! Hard to believe some of these tunes are 20 years old! Good music never dies it seems (or at the very least stops making you bust ‘funkies’ on the dancefloor)! Hope you dig! x

TRACKLIST:

01. Gimmie the Funk - Krafty Kuts
02. What is a Party? - MOOG
03. General Funk - General Narco / I See You Baby (Acappella) - Groove Armada 
04. Purple Daze (white label)
05. Magic’s Wand (Freestyler’s Phat Party Vocal Mix) - Whodini
06. B-Boy Breakdown - Pepe Deluxe
07. Trans-Am - Kings of the Wild Frontier
08. Rockin’ - A Touch of Class
09. Rock (The Grand Finale) - DJ Spinna
10. Ooh La La - The Wiseguys
11. Let’s Have Scratch for Breakfast - Skeewiff
12. Here We Go (Plump DJ’s Remix) - Freestylers
13. B-Boy Stance (Dub Pistols Club Mix) - Freestylers
14. Talkin all that Jazz (Torti’s Bonus Breaks and Edits) - Stetsasonic 
15. Phun-ky - DJ Tonka

#20YEARSAKID

20 Years a Kid The Mixtapes Vol. 2 (1998 - 2000) - Mixed by Kid Kenobi

Sydney-based, British born DJ, D-Funk has amassed a fair few achievements in his 25-years on the decks. Making his club debut at The Depot in Bristol in 1995, he’s gone on to DJ all over the world, playing notable sets at Space Ibiza and Ministry Of Sound and released on labels including Sunday Best and Bombstrikes. 

Getting his first set of decks at 14, Doug initially fell for the sounds of jungle and techno before a night dancing to house icon Tony De Vit in 1997 turned him towards the slinkier sounds of house music. 

His DJ career began to take off during his time at university in Wolverhampton where he started to pick up gigs at the Canal Club and Mezzanine, playing alongside DJs including Joey Negro, Mr Fingers, Scott Bond and Lisa Lashes, before a move to the South-Coast town of Bournemouth led him to eventually start his own night ‘Break Da House’ in 2004. 

The night took off, attracting big names including The Stanton Warriors and Plump DJs and eventually led to D-Funk’s first release, the ‘Electrotek’ EP after Dub Pistols headlined one night and Barry Ashworth from the band decided to release Doug’s music on his Westway label. The track found its way onto a TV ad in Portugal, as well as becoming a mainstay on Kiss FM’s breakbeat chart and gave Doug the confidence to pursue a career as a producer as well as a DJ, eventually leading to releases on Adapted Records and Ghetto Funk among countless other labels over the next 15 years. 

Moving to Sydney Australia in 2009, Doug started his label Upstart Music, releasing his own productions alongside tracks from the likes of Crackerz & Jam, Niko & Lyall and Rogue Robot and later started the funk label Grits N Gravy alongside friend and funk producer Philly Blunt, with the label winning the ‘Best Label’ award at Perth Dance Music Awards in 2010. 

Since living in Sydney, Doug has held down residencies at The World Bar and The Standard/Middlebar for the best part of a decade, as well as regular slots at Sash, Ivy, Goros, Hugos and many others. He’s played events for high profile companies such as Blackberry, Telstra, Jagermeister,  Sydney Cricket Ground & Saatchi & Saatchi. But there was still demand for him back on the side of the world and he regularly returned to Europe to play at Space Ibiza (including a set at the penultimate night of Carl Cox’s Revolution party) as well as touring in the UK, Europe, Asia and Canada. 

Now 25 years into his career, Doug is about to mark the 10th anniversary of his label Grits ‘N’ Gravy, with a compilation due this year mixed by himself and Philly Blunt, and has been busy producing house, hip hop and nu-disco with his current production partner Mr Doris.

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