MARK KNIGHT

Beatport

Pietro Over Jack - WE'RE GONNA PARTY // RAP011

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HASKELL is back on Toolroom Trax with the ‘Perfect Sound’, a club-ready weapon that’s living up to its name. James Haskell has recently rebranded as HASKELL and follows a string of strong momentum with recent drops on Nervous Records, IN / ROTATION, Myth Of NYX, Wh0 Worx, Alleanza plus, that massive collab he did with Mark Knight and Gene Farris on Toolroom.

‘Perfect Sound’ marks his 8th release across Toolroom & Trax as the label continues to support and develop him as an artist. He’s been touring with many shows across the UK and Europe, including the iconic London venue Ministry of Sound and a packed show in Ibiza earlier this season.

Perfect Sound

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We discovered Tenerife-based DJ and producer Adrian Izquierdo through his killer groove, “Lost,” on 6 Sounds Records. It’s the kind of energy-packed rolling thumper we want to hear in a dark basement at 2am. We asked him for more of the same, and he has delivered, and then some. “Easy” takes the raw, driving pulse of “Lost” and upgrades it with a wickedly rhythmic vocal hook. “Easy come, easy go”, the vocal chants over the kind of hyped-up groove we’d expect to hear at elRow from Tini Gessler. A thumper!

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Adrian Izquierdo - Easy (Extended Mix)

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Filipino Sophia Guerrero makes her full Toolroom Trax debut with ‘Body Move’, a high-energy house cut featuring original vocals from May Marnie.

You might’ve first caught Sophia with her debut release on Toolroom’s Leaders Of The New School compilation or her standout release on the iconic house imprint Milk & Sugar Recordings. Toolroom is backing her once again as one of their rising stars that have graduated the Toolroom Academy by continuing to nurture her sound and support her evolution as an artist, she’s not here for a moment but building something long-term.

Body Move

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Toolroom Trax’s very own Danny Rhys is back on the label he lives and breathes, but this time, he’s not flying solo. He’s teamed up with rising star Loz Seka and together they’ve worked up a peak time banger.

Now if you know anything about Toolroom, you’ll know Danny Rhys is more than just a producer. A&R for both Toolroom Trax and Strangelove, the producer behind Toolroom Radio, and Mark Knight’s Friday Night KISS show, one of the UK’s biggest radio stations. It was only a matter of time before these two came together, both sharing a passion for Latin and percussive rhythms that makes this collaboration feel very natural. You’ve also heard Loz Seka’s name across BBC Radio 1, with regular props from Arielle Free and BBC Introducing as he starts to become a household name on the station.

Got To Move

⚡ Big Daddy Kane – Raw (Mike Vale Rework) ⚡

💾 FREE DOWNLOAD: https://hypeddit.com/mikevale/raw-mike-vale-rework

📀 A high-voltage reimagining of a hip-hop classic – blending golden-era flow with tech-house grooves. 

🌐 Follow Mike Vale: https://linktr.ee/mikevalemusic

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Big Daddy Kane - Raw (Mike Vale Rework) [Free Download]

Tiffy Vera - Out Of My Mind (Extended Mix)

Flagrant Drvms, Mijangos - Que Se Sepa

Nick Siarom - Who'll Play It (Extended Mix)

Nicole Fiallo, GENERATION90's, Oliver Gil - Cocinando (Oscar G 305 Mix)

The General

The General (Original Mix)

Out now: https://Toolroom.lnk.to/AboutUTS

Toolroom founder Mark Knight teams up with Mr Roy on Something About U: 90s piano House anthem given a superb modern makeover. 

Mark Knight has proven a rare and wonderful breed of musical heavyweight. The second highest-selling Beatport artist of all time, he has releases on a diverse range of labels such as Suara, 1605, Stereo, Saved and of course his own Toolroom. 

Originally released in 1995 on Fresh Records, Something About You demonstrates Mark's ability to take an old school rave tune and rework it for a contemporary dancefloor, slowing the classic house record right down and adding in euphoria-inducing high pass filtering and short chopped vocal samples for texture. Add in those classic clap snares and offbeat hats and you have yourself a big room track that will have ravers' hands in the air wherever it's played.

Dropping just in time to catch the Ibiza closing parties, you can expect to hear this all over the White Isle not just this season, but for many more to come.

Something About U

Mark Knight Vs Mr Roy - Something About U

Karen Harding x Wh0 - I Don't Need Love  (Mark Knight & Michael Gray Remix)

If It's Love

If It's Love (Extended Mix) [feat. Laura Davie & The Melody Men]

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Paradise

Paradise feat. Byron Stingily & Norma Jean(Mark Knight & Michael Gray Inst)

Jasper Street Co. - Paradise feat. Byron Stingily & Norma Jean(Mark Knight & Michael Gray Inst)

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Get On The Funk Train

Get On The Funk Train (Michael Gray & Mark Knight Short Version)

Anané - Get On The Funk Train (Michael Gray & Mark Knight Short Version)

As one of the longest standing independent record labels in the US, Nervous Records has built its reputation through a willingness to take chances on new sounds and new producers. Nervous was the first American label to sign and release tracks from such dance industry luminaries as Armand Van Helden, Paul Van Dyk and Nuyorican Soul. This spirit has enabled Nervous to build a catalogue of hits that spans the complete range of underground dance and hip hop genres.

The label was famous almost immediately when it started back in 1991 because of its eye-catching, very distinctive cartoon character logo. In addition the first three releases were produced by Roger S., Kenny Dope, and Todd Terry respectively, representing the three best house producers of that time. By 1992 Nervous was featured in magazines like Billboard, DJ Magazine (cover story), Mixmag, and ID, hailed by all as the “Sound of New York nitelife.”

Nervous’ first major dance release came in 1992, with “Feel Like Singing” by Sandy B. Nervous decided at that point to focus its energy on expanding the label’s musical field. The label’s first step outside the house music arena was with the Brooklyn, NY-based rap group, Black Moon, whose single “Who Got The Props” virtually put Brooklyn back on the map as a center of hip hop. At the same time, the label decided to alter the Nervous character for this release, giving it specific hip hop characteristics, and calling the hip hop label Wreck Records. Massive success followed with the Wreck imprint, as hits soon followed by Smif-N-Wessun, and Funkmaster Flex.

Nervous decided to continue to expand its musical boundries in 1993 by signing Mad Lion, which would be the first reggae artist on the Weeded imprint. Once again, there was huge success as Mad Lion’s single “Take It Easy” sold over 250,000 units.

Meanwhile, the Nervous merchandise continued to produce massive sales numbers as it established itself as one of the most favored t-shirts for the youth cultures of America, Japan, and many European countries.

In 1994, the label decided it was time to move into the electronic genre, and started an imprint called Sorted. The first artist on that label was Josh Wink, who went by the artist name Winx. While Winx’s debut release was a critical success although not a major seller, Winx’s follow-up release “Don’t Laugh” became the American dance community’s most talked about single, and ended up selling several hundred thousand units worlwide. Subsequently Nervous released Winx’s debut album, “Left Above The Clouds.” This album was one of the first “electronica” albums to be released, and lead to Josh Wink being signed to Sony as an artist. Nervous also released an album by two Long Island based dj’s, DJ Micro and Vicious Vic. The album, entitled “Progress Into Our Future,” since became a seminal album for the crew of Long Island dj’s that currently dominate clubs with their hard trance sound.

In 1996, Nervous virtually single-handedly created a garage house music revival by releasing the debut solo artist album by house music legend Byron Stingily. Byron was formerly the lead singer of gold-selling group Ten City. His second single on Nervous, “Get Up,” went to number one on dance charts around the world, including the Billboard Magazine club chart in America.. For his album, “The Purist,” Nervous assembled an all-star cast of legendary House producers, including Frankie Knuckles, Masters At Work, David Morales, Basement Boys, Maurice Joshua and MK.

As the musical trends continued to evolve in the late 90’s, Nervous continued to create new imprints to remain at the cutting edge of all independent labels. Nervous Dog was created to accommodate the emerging harder-edged house sound of New York; Strapped was the home for uptempo, club oriented hip hop Party tracks; and Nervous Chill released the down tempo, jazzy grooves that are always in vogue in the newest restaurants.

The label also has had many successful tours over the years. One of the biggest was in 2,000, when the Nervous tour was sponsored by Playboy Magazine and KAMEL cigarettes, and featured DJ’s Jackie Christie, Razor-n-Guido and DJ Escape, along With PA’s by Nervous artists Byron Stingily, Charlotte And Kim English. In addition, Nervous created what became one of the Winter Music Conference’s most original Parties, the Nervous After-hours breakfast at Denny’s, which featured an International list of dj’s entertaining conference attendees at 5:00 AM while they ate their grand slam Denny’s breakfast.

In 2000 and 2001, the energy tribal sound dominated the US club and Nervous gave America’s club-goers four of the its most dominant anthems, “Skin” by Charlotte, “Ssst…Listen” by Jonah, “Unspeakable Joy” by Kim English and Dive In The Pool by Barry Harris featuring Pepper Meshay. During this same time, the label has also created many successful compilation series, among them “Hip Hop Independent’s Day,” and “Future Progressive,” and “Club Nervous.

As the hits grew in number, so did the value of the catalogue for sampling purposes. Nervous songs have been sampled in major hits by Mariah Carey, New Edition, Coolio, Flip Squad, Basement Jax, George Michael, Soulsearcher and more..

In 2006 Nervous gave the US one of the biggest dance radio records with What A Feeling by Peter Luts & Dominico, a track which won the 2007 WMC award for Best Euro Dance track. In addition, Nervous delivered the most memorable US underground track of the year with Ralph Falcon – I Need Someone, which was also number one club record of 2007 according to Billboard Magazine.

In 2008 Nervous had two of the top five most played records of the year at dance radio, with Bellatrax feat. Sophia May/I Can’t Help Myself and Every Word by Ercola featuring Daniella, and ended the year as the two most played label at dance radio in the USA according to Billboard Magazine.

Nervous has also made a strong foray into the compilation market, building a roster with some of the most credible house music. The past twelve months has seen full length cd’s from Oscar G, Ralph Falcon, Funkagenda, Mark Brown, Behrouz, Chris Lake, Starkillers & Austin Leeds, DJ Theo, Exacta and Marlon D. Second half of 2009 will see releases from Danny Krivit, Frankie Knuckles, Tom Stephan, Peter Bailey and Richie Santana and Anane (produced by Louie Vega. 

In the grand tradition of Nervous launching sub-labels to embrace the next sounds to take over Nitelife ... In 2011 we launched Nurvous Records.  With the Indie Dance / Nu-Disco sound that has erupted from England and is now barreling towards full speed in America, one of our primary goals is to provide innovative homegrown style; and bringing back emotion to the music, squashing the over-commercialized big-room invasion.

Anané - Get On The Funk Train (Michael Gray & Mark Knight Short Version)

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