Independent producer from the steel city of Sheffield

Miss Special K  has been performing across the UK and Europe for the past 15 years, playing a variety of styles including hardcore, happy hardcore, old skool, hard house and bounce. 

It all started in the mid 90's when Karen and a group of friends hosted a pirate radio station which was broadcast across her hometown of Torbay in Devon. At the age of just 13 Karen was very much into her hardcore and hard house. It was only in her late teens that she was able to buy a set of decks and she taught herself to mix whilst at uni studying to be a teacher. A year later Karen gained her first hard house booking in Bristol and a residency with the Future Sound Crew in Devon. Following this she won numerous dj competitions in the Bristol area and received a weekly residency at Castros nightclub. In 2004 hardcore bounced back onto the scene and Karen set up the night Totally 'Ardcore at Castros, where she had the opportunity to play all the hardcore she had collected over the previous years. She soon became known on the scene, for her unique style of mixing and unforgettable performances. 

Over the years she has gained bookings across the country at nights such as Hardcore Heaven, Dreamscape, HTID, Ravers Reunited, HTID, Fantazia, Storm, Fusion, We are Hardcore, Hard to the Core, Xstatic, Obsessed, True Hardcore, Firewall,  Oxygen, Epidemik, and Raindance. She has also played in Spain, Ibiza, Belgium and Corfu. Karen has also had the pleasure of playing on lineups with all of the top hardcore DJs and MCs, and performing back to back sets with artists including Dougal Vibes, Vinyl Junkie, and Al Storm, and alongside MCs Storm, Whizzkid, Wotsee, Marley, Static, Enemy, and many more! She is renowned for her skilled technical abilities and bouncy energetic sets, with MC Whizzkid stating that "She is sick!... and her mixing is tight" and MC Storm referring to her in 2011 as "The worlds number 1 female hardcore DJ". 

A quote from DJ Vibes says "A girl who's got it going on at every level. But her main attribute is how down to earth and so warm she is to everybody no matter who. You instantly feel at ease with Karen, she's top class. But that's nothing, I forgot to mention how hard she works with her POWERFUL/EMOTIONAL Dj sets, and all the time & effort that goes into her dedicated promotions. PROOF that hard work and respect get you places."

As well as DJing, promoting Totally 'Ardcore, and teaching full time, Karen is also producing her own music too and has her very own label TOTALLY 'ARDCORE Records. Many of her tracks have reached the number 1 spot on Track it Down and have featured on various compilations. To listen to these please visit… http://soundcloud.com/miss-special-k-special-k/  

She has had airplay on Radio 1 by Kutski and reviews in DJ Mag and Raving Eye. Karen is also sponsored by the 'Cyberbunny' and 'Pen and Lolly' cyber clubwear brands. There will certainly be lots more to come in the near future!!

To listen to Miss Special K's mixes please visit... https://www.mixcloud.com/discover/miss-special-k/ 

For more information and bookings email missspecialk@hotmail.com

Home of Bloxbox Records. owned by Brandon Block & Tim Lyall

Managed by Paul Sawyer and Darren Braddick.

Looking for different shapes and sizes of house music to fit our box

Please send any Unsigned music to paul@kraftedmusic.com (Private links on soundcloud only please. Any public tracks will not be considered)

Part of the Krafted Music Group.
Labels within the group:
Krafted Underground
Krafted Digital
Krafted Records
Unrivaled Music
First Step Recordings
Base Music
Soaring Sounds
Sounds of Krafted

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UTAH SAINTS (Ministry Of Sound) (ffrr)(London Records)

Utah Saints have been making music, dj’ing and playing gigs around the globe since the birth of House music.

The world renowned duo have released 9 Top 40 UK hits, 4 of which hit the Top 10, and sold over 2 million records worldwide (equivalent to 800m+ streams).
Precariously walking the tightrope between genres and also between the underground and the mainstream, Utah Saints roots are in electronic dance music, having met in a club in Leeds at the beginning of the rave movement in the UK and establishing themselves as pioneers of sampling in dance music.
Alongside this success, they set up and promoted award winning and legendary club nights The Gallery and SugarBeatClub and have recorded and presented shows for BBC Radio 1, Kiss and Ministry of Sound. 
Utah Saints are still very much at the top of their game and are out dj’ing regularly each month as well as curating festival stages and putting on an eclectic range of nights. They have played alongside everyone from DJ Zinc to Justice, Zane Lowe to A-Trak, Friendly Fires to Boys Noize and U2 to Public Enemy. They have djed at over 3000 events, from underground clubs to festival mainstages.

When the pioneering DJs aren’t playing at clubs and festivals in various parts of the world, they can be found in the studio working hard on their own material and production as well as remixing other artists as varied as Bring Me The Horizon and Girls Aloud.  As well as running a successful record label, the duo have now added film scores, soundtracks, video game music and production music to their ever-expanding portfolio and are planning to release new music as Utah Saints.
Recent accolades include being listed in Rolling Stone in 2022 as one of the 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time with Something Good. 

The remix, Something Good 08, having been the10th most streamed track of 2008 has recently been awarded Gold status in the UK.

"Utah Saints - Legends in the game " - Zane Lowe - Apple Music 
“Two of the most clued up DJs I have ever met” iDJ magazine
“The first true Stadium House band” – The KLF
"These guys invented rave" - Annie Mac BBC Radio 1
“Dance legends” - NME

For Dj Bookings/Remixes  contact - Admin@PunkClubBeats.com

Underworld are Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. Their peerless first album - dubnobasswithmyheadman - was released to universal acclaim in 1994. In the thirty years since that mould breaking debut, the band have established their reputation as one of the most groundbreaking and important electronic acts of all time, one that constantly pushes creative boundaries, twists genres and refuses to stay still. In those thirty years, their music has soundtracked approximately 100,000,000 nights out, and the mornings after. In the past year alone, Underworld have played live in front of over half a million people all across the globe.

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