the city breathes

It started in as an idea for 45 minutes live act filled with fast live mangled breakcore beats with strange, melancholic but friendly melodies. As I practiced and performed it on few occasions, I started adding more tracks to the 45 minutes core of the performance. As usually, I wanted to explore ideas I never touched before, but strangely, the more I went out of my comfort zone, the more I liked it.  the First ideas where put together in December 2024 and in February 2025 the first 5 tracks were ready for live performance. The 2nd part was ready in July 2025. It took few months more to make adjustments and retakes. The final result is a concept album... I would never do.

Włos rozsądku

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The Theory of The Universe - (Extended) - (Real Time Units)

Rock A Party, taken from from the first in a series of vinyl releases on Peace On Wax, by Boykz & Chapman

Boykz & Chapman - Rock A Party

Don't Stop, taken from from the second in a series of vinyl releases on Peace On Wax, by Boykz & Chapman

Boykz & Chapman - Don't Stop

Dj Jimmy - To be with you - RaveSkool Recordings

The Prodigy - Your Love ( Mata Remix ) FREE

https://www.facebook.com/OuterKid/

The Prodigy - Your Love ( Mata Remix ) FREE

As the gates closed on our freedom and the landscape of living in the UK changed beyond anything we had seen before, a team of hardcore fanatiks went into action. Dusting off their studio gear, digging out their 90’s sample libraries and getting into the hardcore zone.

Vinyl Fanatiks is a vinyl reissue label run by Brent Newitt, started in 2018. The sole purpose is to track down the artists of some of the collectable underground hardcore classics that were released on the many small, self-funded indie labels that scattered the UK 25+ years ago but have since vanished. Re-releasing the music is the easy part, its finding the bloody artists that’s the real mission!

But they can’t hide forever. Not when you have sheer determination on your side and the tracking abilities of MI5. So, slowly but surely ‘our guy’ started picking them off, one by one using his network of contacts and informants built up over the past 30 years in the music industry. Six degrees of separation? Nah, not when you have been around as long as Brent. A few calls and he can track down nearly anyone.

And so the suggestion of a free download project was put to him six weeks ago at the start of lockdown by DJ H. “Why not do some tunes and give them away as a goodwill gesture to the fans of the label as a big thank you?” he said. But Brent doesn’t like to do small gestures, so he contacted the artists on the label and told them the time had come. Their country needed them. This is more than just an old school comeback he told them, this is your national duty in a time of crisis. What would put a smile on the nations faces more than a fresh batch of hardcore that was totally free??? Nothing…absolutely  nothing!!!

So here we are, 50+ days into Lockdown and the hardcore elite have gathered. DJ H, Diplomat, Aphrodite, Spirits From An Urban Jungle, Silver Fox, X-Plode, DJ Junk, Fugitive, Fozbee & Cooz, Ova Doce, Tone Def ft. Ci Ci Hunter, Fugitive, Crashead and even Brent got off his arse and hooked up with one of his oldest mates, Dave ‘Mad Dog’ Wallace and made a tune under the new moniker MD20.

So please go grab your free album, either as a WAV or MP3 zip, or if you prefer, just cherry pick the tracks you like. Once you have the music, share the link and the tunes with your mates, your family, your neighbours and your gran when you take over her lockdown shopping. This album is all about making people happy, shared with you with love from us.

Stay Safe…

The Vinyl Fanatiks Crew!

Hardcore Lock Down

DJ H 'Hold Tight'  - Hardcore Lockdown Album - Vinyl Fanatiks - VFS001LP

https://experimentalbass.bandcamp.com/album/loop-ez-oriental-domination-ep

The Oriental Domination

The Oriental Domination (Luis Pitti Remix)

LooP-eZ - The Oriental Domination (Luis Pitti Remix)

https://experimentalbass.bandcamp.com/track/luis-pitti-back-to-the-beginning-original-mix

Back to the Beginning

Luis Pitti - Back To The Beginning (Original Mix)

Tracklist:
Old Harry Rox - Unite As One (Paul Bassrock Remix)
Beat Breaker - Atencion (Original Mix)
Adam Vyt - This Way (Original Mix)
Damage Inc - In The Dark
Fosta - Horror Box
Acen - Trip To The Moon Part 2 (2010 Dubplate Remake)
DJ Pooch - Get funky
Gaffer - Perpetual Energy 
Innercore - Pinnacle Part 2
Noise Factory - My Mind
The Brothers Grimm - Field Of Dreams
Joe90 - New Found Strength
Pursuit - Whatever You Like 
DJ Pooch - Let go of this (93 mix)
Junglist - A London Thing
DJ Junk - What Have You Got To Lose 
Hyper On Experience - Lords Of The Null Lines (NRG Remix)
Gridzone - Why Not?
Fosta - Easy Landing
Bounty Killaz - Brighter Future
Tim Reaper - Ravers Calling
Champa B - Drop It Back
Nicky Allen - Rising Death 
Master Mash - Stop Motion
Gary Barking - Riddim Yeh
Fosta - Paranoid Junglist
Blame - Star Traveller
Infest - Out Of This World
Nickynutz - Dark Roller '95
Phineus II & Tim Reaper - Gemini Drome (ft. MC GQ)
DJ Trax - London Groove

Boykz & Chapman - Don't Stop

Stuart Chapman