General Midi, or Paul Crossman, who also performed under the name Fluid, came out of the Bristol club scene, making a splash when he became resident DJ at the Shimmy Club in 1994. His mix of breakbeat with nu-skool, electronica, house, and hip-hop made him a popular act.

Emerging from the backrooms of the Bristol Club scene his slick DJ ability and an ear for a great tune gave him regular appearances at breaks hotspots across the planet such as Fabric, Chew The Fat, Blow Pop, Sounds On Sundays (Sydney), Two Tribes (Australia), Zouk (Singapore), Budapest, all across the USA, Hungary, Spain, Serbia, China and Hong Kong. Teaming up with production partner Eelz, General Midi has been responsible for some of the most genre defining tunes in ‘The Westoner’ (’99) ‘Daft Funk’ (’01) ‘Further’ (’03) & ‘You will Be Under’ (’03), ‘Entertainer’ (’04), ‘Bass Rockerz’ (’04) & ‘House of Funk’ (’05).

General Midi’s singles have been released on some of the most respected breaks labels of the time, including TCR (Rennie Pilgrims label) & Kilowatt (Hyper’s label). In 1999 he released his single “The Westerner,” followed two years later by “Daft Funk,” the same year that his first full-length release, Genetically Modified. All of this has led to his debut artist album ‘Midi Style’ which was released on Distinct’ive Records in 2005. In 2009 he released his follow up album ‘Operation Overdrive’.

Paul Crossman also worked with writing partner and audio engineer Al Watson in the duo act called “Starecase”.

Currently Paul Crossman works as as a Teacher of Computing at Lampton School, London UK.

General Midi - Winter Promo Mix 2007

With a huge back catalogue of music Koma and Bones paved the way in the Nu Skool Breaks scene in the early 2000's with hit after hit including the tune Morpheus on the TCR label. They were a three man outfit from the north west of Britain (Lancaster), comprising of the dj'ing duo Koma & Bones (Andy Duckmanton & Chris Kirkbride) and former drum and bass producer Proteus (Jude Sebastian).

This mix was recorded by BBC Radio 1 for the Annie Nightingale Show nearly 20 years ago !

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http://www.discogs.com/artist/11386-Koma-Bones

Koma & Bones - LIVE @ Glastonbury Festival 2002

Releasing a studio album pretty much each year from 2006 Hyper aka Guy Hatfield is well known for his use of live instrumentation such as guitars and bass fused with modern electronic elements. He has also performed as a band under the name Hyper Moniker, featuring Prodigy members Leeroy Thornhill and Jim Davies. Their first studio album We Control advanced Hyper to the stages of festivals throughout the world. Nowadays Hyper produces music for well known movies and TV shows as well as his own music.

For more information about Hyper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Hyper

https://www.facebook.com/hyperuk
https://soundcloud.com/hyp3rrr

DJ Hyper - Rinse FM - 24.7.2005

Splitloop were an Irish Breakbeat duo, Phil Byrne and Ben Crowe. They toured the world and released 2 critically acclaimed studio albums, one back in 2005 on Krafty Kuts old label Against The Grain called "Here On Business" and another in 2008 again on Krafty's old label called "Pleasure Machine" plus a whole bunch of singles and remixes during that time. 

This half a hour promo mix i downloaded back in 2007.

https://soundcloud.com/splitloop
https://www.discogs.com/artist/171687-Splitloop

Splitloop - Promo Mix July 2007

This is an exclusive recording from Koma & Bones amazing set at the last ever Lowdown in Manchester, UK on Friday 29th January 2016. Its 90 minutes of pure K&B tunes and remixes.... What a night. The crowd was going wild!!!

Koma & Bones Live at Lowdown, Manchester 29/01/2016

With a huge back catalogue of music Koma and Bones paved the way in the Nu Skool Breaks scene in the early 2000's with hit after hit including the tune Morpheus on the TCR label. They were a three man outfit from the north west of Britain (Lancaster), comprising of the dj'ing duo Koma & Bones (Andy Duckmanton & Chris Kirkbride) and former drum and bass producer Proteus (Jude Sebastian).

Now manned singularly by Jude Sebastian, Koma & Bones will be releasing some brand spanking new material in the near future….. 

https://www.facebook.com/KomaBonesAppreciationPage
http://www.discogs.com/artist/11386-Koma-Bones

Koma and Bones - XFM Radio Mix 2001

Monster Breakbeat show tonight with The Freestylers, Rennie Pilgrem, Atomic Hooligan, Janette Slack, Jay Cunning &amp; MC Chickaboo! &nbsp;BIG!

BREAKS SPECIAL with The Freestylers, Rennie Pilgrem, Atomic Hooligan, Janette Slack, Jay Cunning & MC Chickaboo!

Breakspoll the International Breakbeat Awards ended back in 2015, did breaks end in that time ? (I don't think so). These mixes are from the Breakspoll Awards back in 2006 and were sent to me by a like minded person from Spain just recently. These mixes were played on the Annie Nightingale show back in 2006. Many thanks to my Spanish friend for these, lots more to come from his archives over the following months ..... 

http://www.breakspoll.com/results/breakspoll-2006-results/

Plump DJs - LIVE @ Breakspoll 2006

This mix was sent over to me by my Spanish friend Jamie, it's from June 2003 and was aired on Kink FM and the show called Urban Revolution hosted by the female DJ Loes Lee. Whatever happened to her i wonder ? Lots of Plump goodness in this one and a lot of woah, that's a blast from the past ! Enjoy.

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Plump DJs - Urban Revolution Kink FM - 22.6.2003

With a mighty back catalogue of music Koma and Bones paved the way in the Nu Skool Breaks scene in the early 2000's with hit after hit including the tune Morpheus on the TCR label. They were a three man outfit from the north west of Britain (Lancaster), comprising of the dj'ing duo Koma & Bones (Andy Duckmanton & Chris Kirkbride) and former drum and bass producer Proteus (Jude Sebastian).

This mix from 2003 was on Loes Lees Urban Revolution Show on Kink FM.

https://www.facebook.com/KomaBonesAppreciationPage
http://www.discogs.com/artist/11386-Koma-Bones

Koma and Bones - Urban Revolution Kink FM 2003

I created this page for the posting of older Breaks DJ mixes. It is not intended to infringe anybody's copyright as an artist or owner of the mixes, just a place to share some of the best and rarest Breakbeat DJ Mixes from yesteryear.

DJ Hyper - Rinse FM - 24.7.2005

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