Here is a 'never released before' mix of mine from summer 2010 when Lowdown was just starting at Sound Control. The sound of breaks had been changing dramatically over the recent years, from mid tempo funk to upfront dirty tear-out breaks. This mix covers a broad range of funky bass laden breakbeat tunes. 

No tracklist as i cannot remember half of the tunes! However it
features tunes from Bush Doctors, Stanton Warriors, All Good Funk Alliance, Kraak & Smaak, Slyde, The Freestylers and many more...

Steve Thorpe - Lowdown & Funky - June 2010

Steve Thorpe started mixing tunes at home when he was 18 and first started DJingin Manchesters bars and clubs in 1996. Playing an eclectic mix of broken beats. In 1997, Steve joined Manchester clubnight - Tangled and turned the upstairs chillout room of a house and trance night into the longest running breakbeat night in the UK...if not the world - Tangled Breaks. Running weekly, then twice monthly and then quarterly for over 15 years and then returning 3 times a year until it ended on Tangleds 21st Birthday in 2014. Steve has warmed up and played alongside all the best breaks DJs and producers in the UK. After Tangled stopped regular events in 2008 he started his own night - Carry On which after 14 months then changed into Lowdown and Dirty... which now after 6 was voted the best breaks clubnight in Manchester and the world as it has won the 'best small event' at the Breakspoll International awards for 3 years running and Lowdown won the coveted City Life 'best clubnight in Manchester' award for 2014. Lowdown has now come to an end but Steve has been DJing at various events and festivals around the UK and helping out with other clubnights, continuing producing mixes and live streams. Steve will also be bringing Tangled back one the UK is back to normal after Covid for a special one-off party!

To view the Tangled Book visit -
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Steve Thorpe - Lowdown & Funky - June 2010

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