Recorded live in Jan 2022 for appearance on BreaksFM Winter Sessions streaming event.

BreaksFM Winter Session 004 J9theAngel

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.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/General-Midi/31810203661
https://www.discogs.com/artist/9438-General-Midi
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paul-crossman-22915014

General Midi - Triple J The Club - 7.4.2007

The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, UK. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.

This mix was part of Annie Nightingale's Glastonbury Breakbeat special back in June 2005.

For more information about the Glastonbury Festival : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival 

Tracklist

Radiohead - Everything Bootleg (White)
Aquasky & Meat Katie - Overneath (Passenger)
Mylo - Drop The Pressure (Aquasky Remix)
Aquasky & Long Range (Aka Phil Orbital & Nick Smith) - Crosswire (Passenger)
Aquasky - Boom (777)
Aquasky & Elhornet - Girls & Boys (Passenger)

Aquasky - LIVE @ Glastonbury - 24.6.2005

Evil Nine are an English DJ/Producer duo comprising of members Tom Beaufoy and Patrick Pardy. Gaining recognition after signing to Adam Freelands label Marine Parade in the early 2000's their unique sound gathered a high following and had a very influential effect in the early Nuskool Breaks scene.

This mix is from 2005 and a showcase of their sound at that time.

For more information about Evil Nine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Nine

https://www.facebook.com/evilnine
https://soundcloud.com/evilnine

Evil Nine - Live In The Mix - 16.12.2005

The original members of the Freestylers are Matt Cantor and Aston Harvey who started off their musical careers in the mid 1990's. They released their first two albums ‘We Rock Hard’ and ‘Pressure Point’ on the legendary Breakbeat label Freskanova. The third and forth albums ‘Raw as F**k’ and ‘Adventures in Freestyle’ were released on ‘Against The Grain’another Breaks power house based label. Their last album from 2013 ‘The Coming Storm’ was released through Black Hole Recordings.

The Freestylers began their career as an Urban Electronic Music Act, and their early tunes ‘B-Boy Stance,’ ‘Ruffneck’ and ‘Warning’ set the marker. As their music progressed so did their anthems with the seminal tunes ‘Punks’, ‘Boom Blast’, ‘Fasten Your Seat-Belts,’ ‘Painkiller’ and more recently ‘Cracks.’ In addition to their status as underground heroes, they have gained commercial success with their huge global hit ‘Push Up’ and have had their music featured in TV and film, including the hugely successful comedy film Zoolander.

This mix was recorded for Australia's Triple J Radio back in 2005.

https://soundcloud.com/freestylers
https://www.facebook.com/freestylersofficial/

Freestylers - Triple J Mixup - 19.03.2005

In the early days of Breakzlinkz i once recieved an email from a lovely lady called Sonia Push asking me to help promote various Breakbeat artists that were clients of hers as she run her own PR music company called Push Promotions. From then on Sonia would send over to me exclusive material including DJ mixes and tracks with which i would help promote by posting on Breakzlinkz, Soundcloud and various music forums from back in the day. Unfortunately and sadly Sonia passed away a few years back so i'm quite proud to still have this promo CD for a tour she did around Australia back in September 2001 with her life partner and DJ/Producer partner Toby. Sonia and Toby make up their artists name SOTO and this mix is a rare Botchit Breaks Promo only CD.

R.I.P. Sonia

SOTO - Botchit Breaks Promo - 16.12.2000

The Rogue Element were a DJ/Producer duo haling from the UK consisting of members Ben Medcalf and James Tomlinson. Ben, the original member of The Rogue Element certainly needs no introduction. An international Dj, Breakspoll award winning producer and has released on labels such as Skint, Exceptional and Fat Records. He has remixed and collaborated for the likes of Fat Boy Slim, Lee Coombs, Krafty Kuts, Stanton Warriors, Soul of Man and the list goes on.

James known to others as Call Me T is a solo artist in his own right. Both were at the top of the scene when the Tech Funk Breakbeat genre was at it's height and released a lot of music through the now defunct LOT49 label.

This mix was recorded LIVE in Spain back in 2007. 

https://soundcloud.com/therogueelement
https://www.facebook.com/therogueelement

The Rogue Element - LIVE @ 4th Anniversary Frequency Sound 2007

The original members of the Freestylers are Matt Cantor and Aston Harvey who started off their musical careers in the mid 1990's. They released their first two albums ‘We Rock Hard’ and ‘Pressure Point’ on the legendary Breakbeat label Freskanova. The third and forth albums ‘Raw as F**k’ and ‘Adventures in Freestyle’ were released on ‘Against The Grain’ another Breaks power house based label. Their last album from 2013 ‘The Coming Storm’ was released through Black Hole Recordings. 

The Freestylers began their career as an Urban Electronic Music Act, and their early tunes ‘B-Boy Stance,’ ‘Ruffneck’ and ‘Warning’ set the marker. As their music progressed so did their anthems with the seminal tunes ‘Punks’, ‘Boom Blast’, ‘Fasten Your Seat-Belts,’ ‘Painkiller’ and more recently ‘Cracks.’ In addition to their status as underground heroes, they have gained commercial success with their huge global hit ‘Push Up’ and have had their music featured in TV and film, including the hugely successful comedy film Zoolander.

This mix was recorded for UK's KISS 100 FM Breakbeat Show hosted by Tayo Back in 2004.

https://soundcloud.com/freestylers
https://www.facebook.com/freestylersofficial/

Freestylers - Kiss 100FM Breakbeat Show - 6.3.2004

Mafia Kiss & The Hussle - LIVE @ Rough Tempo April 2012

This 18 minute promo mix is from 2008 and a special promo preview mix of their album Sex, Drugs & Blah Blah Blah which was released in the UK in 2008 under the Botchit & Scarper label. A label well renowned for releasing some quality Nuskool Breaks back in the day.

https://www.discogs.com/Atomic-Hooligan-Sex-Drugs-Blah-Blah-Blah/master/294699

https://www.facebook.com/atomichooligan/
https://soundcloud.com/terryhooligan

Atomic Hooligan - Sex Drugs & Blah Blah Blah Promo Mix 2008

Matt Goddard aka Dopamine is an Australian born artist who rose to fame by winning Best Single with the anthem of a track called "Hold You" at the Breakspoll awards in 2006. He was also co-owner of Title Fight records with Klaus "Heavyweight" Hill a now defunct label. While not always producing breakbeat music Dopamine moved onto house, minimal and tech releases with which he still produces today.


https://www.facebook.com/MattDopamine
https://soundcloud.com/dopamine

Dopamine - LIVE @ Roxy Prague 2007

Andrew Kornweibel aka Friendly is an Australian born artist who moved to London in late 2001. Launching himself onto the ripe UK Breaks scene his first release on Boombox Records (Greedy Filthy Dirty/F-ing In Public) gained him support and respect from many breaks heavy weights at that time. He then moved onto Fat! Records working closely with Paul Arnold and had various hit releases including Glottal Stomp/Foot Rocker. I'm not too sure what Andrew is up to today and as a bit of trivia Andrew's dad was a business partner with my dad in an architectural firm.   

Tracklist

Rock Steady Crew- “Hey You”- Friendly remix- EMI
$ Number 1 – bootleg
Hijack – “Hijackin”- Herve Remix- On The Brink Recordings
Friendly- “Homeboys Cry Out For More” - iO Music
Groove Armada- Get Down- Columbia
Next Door But One – Art of the Matter- Friendly Freakout Dub Remix – CD-R
The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control- Headman Remix
Chopstick – The Haunting- iO Music
Milke- She Says- Lee Coombs Dub- Adrift
Mason – Exceeder – Aquaski bootleg
Justice vs Simian – We Are Your Friends- Milke Remix- 10 Records
Friendly- The Bump And Grind- back catalogue
Double 99- RIP Groove – Tim Deluxe remix- CD-R


https://www.discogs.com/artist/72423-Friendly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_(musician)

Friendly - Triple J Mixup - 7.4.2007

Alexic Rod aka Colombo is an award winning artist hailing from Malaga, Spain. In 2010 he won Best New Producer at the Breakspoll Awards and followed this up in 2011 by winning Best Producer while also winning Best Track called "Everybody" for the same year. Colombo was also one part of another award winning act called Bass Star Dos along with fellow Spaniard DJ Kultür.

Check out all his releases over at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/428564-Colombo-3 

https://www.facebook.com/colomboard81/
https://soundcloud.com/colombo-break

Colombo - LIVE @  Winter Festival 2012

Fort Knox Five (FK5) was formed back in 2003 by four like-minded musicians, Steve Raskin, Jon Horvath (RIP), Rob Myers and Sid Barcelona. Each musician in the group have also worked with other acts in the music industry including Thunderball, Thievery Corporation and See-I to name a few. Fort Knox Five also formed their own label Fort Knox Recordings to release their unique style of funky music. Fort Knox Recordings still runs today with various artists contributing their music over the years and giving the label its mass following. With the recent sad passing of Jon Horvath they still continue to play shows as a LIVE instrumental act as well as rocking the turntables to the masses.

Check out Wiki for more info about FK5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox_Five


https://soundcloud.com/fortknoxfive
https://www.facebook.com/FortKnoxFive


Tracklist

1. Funk 4 Peace Featuring Mustafa Akbar (Nick Thayer Remix) By The Fort Knox Five 
2. Scooby Snax (A Skillz & Nick Thayer Remix) By Fun Loving Criminals 
3. Callin' Out A Winner - Fort Knox Five Edit 
4. Fifth Of Cool J - Fort Knox Five Edit 
5. Dazz In The House - Fort Knox Five Edit 
6. Good Thing - Fort Knox Five Edit 
7. Bojanglin' Austin - Nick Thayer Edit 
8. The Balance (Fort Knox Five Remix) By Sub Swara 
9. Revolution - Fort Knox Five Edit 
10. King Of The Boots (Jon Ohms Edit) By Mantronix 
11. Insight Featuring Asheru (A Skillz Remix) By The Fort Knox Five 
12. Party Pushers Featuring Mustafa Akbar (Smalltown Romeo Remix) By The Fort Knox Five 
13. Babaoreilly (Sebastien Edit) By The Who 
14. Ozzzy - Drums Of Death Edit 
15. Uptown Tricks Featuring Mustafa Akbar (Shimon Remix) By The Fort Knox Five 
16. You Can'T Always Get (Soulwax Remix) By The Rolling Stones

Fort Knox Five - Triple J Mixup - 24.1.2009

DJ Icey aka Eddie Pappa is an American DJ/Producer who has been known for founding the early Florida Breaks scene. Born in Florida his original DJ name was DJ Icee but he had to change that name becuase of a threat from a local ice cream company sueing him over the use of the name, so his name DJ Icey was born. With a huge back catalogue of music spanning back to 1993 and leading him up to today DJ Icey has had several albums chart on the Billboard charts as well as various singles. He also started his own record label Zone Records back in 1993.

Basically this guy is a legend !

For more info about DJ Icey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Icey

https://soundcloud.com/dj-icey
https://www.facebook.com/Icey.DJ.Page/

DJ Icey - Global DJ Broadcast - 17.3.2003

Elite Force aka Simon Shackleton has had an extensive career spanning over 20 years. Starting off as a musician and being a band member with Thom Yorke before moving onto his own outfit called Lunatic Calm which had quite a successful career and a few number one tunes including "Rollercoaster". Simon has also worked with a bunch of top acts, remixed, wrote movie soundtracks, toured and was one to watch in the Nuskool Breaks scene. He then developed the Tech Funk genre in the late 2000's included with such artists as Meat Katie and Dylan Rhymes to name a few. Nowadays Simon plays marathon 6 hour LIVE sets in his "One Series" and has moved into the world of professional photography.

For a breakdown of his whole career : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Shackleton

For his biography: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/eliteforce/biography

http://www.simonshackleton.org
https://soundcloud.com/simon_shackleton
https://www.facebook.com/Simon.K.Shackleton/



Tracklist

01 Intro - Lovefest [CDR]
02 Cirez D - On/Off [Mouseville]
03 The Loops of Fury - SOAP (original) [U&A]
04 The Loops of Fury - SOAP (Peo de Pitte Mix) [U&A]
05 Elite Force - The Law of Life [U&A]
06 TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Vs Elite Force Re-Fix) [CDR]
07 Benga - 26 Basslines (Elite Force Re-Fix) [CDR]
08 Max Morrell - Back Yard Riddim [Cheaper Thrills]
09 Zodiac Cartel - Stay On Top [U&A]
10 Tim Healey & Felguk - Rio [Giant Pussy Records]
11 Dashka - Klez (Matteo DiMarr Mix) [MAR186]
12 Monolythe - Siberia (JELO Mix) [Big Alliance]
13 Deadmau5 - Ghosts 'n' Stuff (Elite Force Re-Fix) [CDR]
14 Boris Dlugosch - Bangkok [Phantasy Sound]
15 Elite Force, Daniel Papini, Harnessnoise - Harness The Nonsense [U&A]
16 Elite Force, Calvertron - Reclaim Control [U&A Recordings]

Elite Force - Triple J Mixup - 19.12.2009

Steve Jeffery aka Pimpsoul is a one man band, producer and DJ who had a heavy influence in the early Nufunk scene (before it became Ghetto Funk). He has worked in collaborations with Bomb Strikes label onwer Mooqee gaining a number one in the Beatport Hip Hop charts and a clever YouTube hit along side DJP for their take on Duck Sauce's Barbara Streisand. 

This mix is from the Summer of 2009 a prime time for the sound of Nufunk which can be heard in this bass heavy party funk set.

https://www.facebook.com/pimpsouluk/
https://soundcloud.com/pimpsoul

Pimpsoul - Summer Promo Mix 2009

The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, UK. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and many other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.

This mix was part of Annie Nightingale's Glastonbury Breakbeat Special back in June 2004.

For more information about the Glastonbury Festival : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival

https://soundcloud.com/analogdelayed
https://www.facebook.com/leecoombsofficial/

Lee Coombs - LIVE @ Glastonbury - 27.6.2004

EK is Eddie Rasguido raised in Melbourne, Australia and grew up on a staple diet of breakdancing, hip hop and graffiti. Starting up his own crew RKS (Ryming, Kuttin and Scratching) Eddie found his home behind the turntables and by 1991 RKS had performed at the usual local underage jams, a small amount of club shows culminating in a Second Place in the DMC Competitions (entered in the group category). By the end of his High School years Eddie was sold on music as a career and so after completing Year 12 he enrolled in the Melbourne School of Audio Engineering and a year later graduated.

Eddie was still making hip hop and had formed a production team called Rebel Base with DJ Excel. His musical taste soon became more diverse starting off by listening to Techno and he soon purchased his own analogue keyboard. Messing around with hip hop beats he was now crafting a hybrid of breaks and beats sounds, that still had the hook of Hip Hop.

His debut CD, Decoder and the lead track "Future Nation" was instantly picked up by Triple J Radio Australia and lead to the inclusion of 3 tracks on JJJ’s Mix Up Tweak compilation. In his spare time he was often asked to provide cuts and scratches for Sonicanimation’s recordings and was also a fixture when the sonic boys expanded their line up for special shows, like Live At The Wireless and the supports to the Chemical Bros.

https://soundcloud.com/e_k
https://www.facebook.com/EKMusicAU

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Олександер Шабалтун