Haha, I'm so glad I had a look at kickstarter earlier, once I'm done listening I'm going back for the £55 pledge, I seriously thought about the £100 one, but I can't afford it at the mo.  Great tunes man, love it. 😺🍺💊🍄🤪

Just landed and realised I never posted this; loads of different things from 160 to Dembow, Juke, Ghettohouse, Electro and Jungle bits and pieces.
Tracklist to follow..

Polyclinique Redux w/ Yorobi Jan 21st

Urban Wax - Rollin Intelligence - HAN035 - 192mp3 link

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Hardcore Energy with Origin8a & Propa, Cheff The Boy - 07 February 2024

Room Service with Gallegos & 1-800 GIRLS - 26 March 2024

Metalzoic takes its name from the 2000ad comic strip, the artwork is taken from the Futurist movement, whilst the music itself is made for the dance floor, with a metallic pinging bass-line and bouncy drums littered with modular zaps and scatty percussion.

Drop Zone maintains the dance floor agenda, but with a leaner, more minimal approach. Clipped drums and airy pads drop straight into a croaking, stabby bass-line that moves forward with a militant step.

You can purchase the single here: https://sq.lnk.to/MN006

Metalzoic

Basic Rhythm - Metalzoic (MN006)

Alexisitry with Nion - 05 April 2024

A collaboration between friends and life long enthusiasts of breakbeat and rave music in all its various forms, Brent Aquasky (Amen Brother/Vinyl Fanatiks) and Damo B (Emotec/Outta Limits) are the players behind AmenTec. 

An imprint dedicated to the cross pollination of artists who record on their respective labels. Their mission: coming together to fill the spaces between the Electro, Techno and good old fashioned UK Hardcore. 

Encompassing the sounds and all important ethos of the golden era of rave, AmenTec has been making its mark over the last few years. Welcoming upstarts MOY, Bufo Bufo, Diplomat & Beagle, Fugitive, Silver Fox and Sound Synthesis to don their battle gear and reach for the lasers on this collector focused “special edition” battle series. 

With the label approching its 7th release, the time is right to present a 13 track compilation of select works to celebrate their mission. “Off Ya Box – Part One” brings together label highlights and a whole bunch of exclusive cuts. 

From the spatial Acid tones of Sound Synthesis to the juddering Tech-Step of Bobo, there’s no messing when it comes to the robotic Funk of Dawl, the jilted waves of Zobol, the EZ roll of Lloyd Stellar, or knockout sounds of Flatliner for that matter. 

In 2024, this is RAVE as pure as it comes –  NOW HEAR DIS

Lloyd Stellar - Into The Light (Diplomat & Beagle Remix) - Amentec presents Off Ya Box (Part One)

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Ova Doce - Keep On - Amentec presents Off Ya Box (Part One)

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Purchase/Stream: https://album.link/wavesep
Release Date: May 3rd, 2024
Info: Call it Footworkjungle! The hybrid bass music version of Chicago's dance music history of juke and footwork and the Bristol's jungle breakbeat has been coming to life across the globe for a decade now - and Arcane & Jon1st are contributing to it with their second EP on Defrostatica. While Bloodstone EP was an ad-lib-rich, all-out breakbeat assault, the UK duo went deeper on Waves EP, focusing on big emotions over sharp beats. Tears is the perfect floor opener, with a bouncy 808 giving way to a rumbling bassline in love with pads and amen breakbeats. Energy Drink Sponsorship Application is exactly what it says it is. Influenced by juke and tribal breakbeats, Escape Plan becomes more and more captivating. Waves is a cinematic breakbeat journey with the perfect hook.

Waves EP / DEFR014

*PREMIERE* Arcane & Jon1st - Waves

A For Alpha - 26 April 2024

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DJ H was a 15 year old kid when he made this EP. His dad, Les Howlett, worked as a bouncer at Raindance and could see the potential in the up and coming Rave Scene, so he moved from London to Kings Lynn in East Anglia and set up a record shop, Dance Force Records. Inspired by his record shopping trips to Music Power in London he wanted to create something similar and build a brand, including a record label and in doing so, inspired his son, Danny, to start creating some tunes for his dads label.

A local kid called Andy, who was a regular in the record shop had all the gear and Danny, working in his Dad’s shop, had all the samples and ideas! Together, in the back room of the shop, they started to experiment on an Amiga 500. 3-4 days later the track ‘Petruccio’ was created, Andy engineering all the ideas that the 15 year old Danny was conjuring up in his head! A short while later the flipside was made and Les Howlett had to make a trip up to The Exchange to get Simon to cut it. Unfortunately Danny and Andy didnt know about compression, mastering or how to mixdown a tune so Les had to persuade Simon to take on the job! Simon wasnt really keen on cutting it as it was a nightmare to work with but thankfully he persevered and a whole day later, the EP was finally mastered. Danny recalls how annoyed his dad was with him when he got home that night!

Around the same time Danny was DJing at an Under 18s rave in Stevenage alongside DJ Dougal. During the course of the night Dougal heard the young DJ H playing ‘Petruccio’ in his set and came up to him and asked what it was and when he found out that Danny had made it he asked if he could have a copy. But it was Danny’s only copy at this time and he didnt want to hand over the record, so he said NO!!! A decision that Danny still regrets to this day, as he believes that had he handed over the record that night, his EP would of been more commercially successful than it was. 

A few months later in 1993 Danny went down to a rave called ‘Love Of Life’ at the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre in Cambridge and this time went armed with a load of TP’s! Once bitten, twice shy! Frost and Slipmat were also playing so Danny tried to get Frost to play it but he refused. He didnt play tunes that he hadnt heard before. He then tried to blag Slipmat, who did decide to listen to it mid-set on his headphones and Danny recalls Slipmats response to hearing it: “How many fucking breakbeats have you got in here???” passing comment on how badly it was mixed down.Unfortunately Slipmat also refused to play it and Danny left feeling a bit rejected. 

Not long after some travelling distro company came into the Kings Lynn shop and Les handed a load of copies of the record to them for them to sell to the shops they supplied and the records were handed over ‘sale or return’. To Danny’s annoyance they never returned with the money or the records and that was the last they ever saw of them! Dejected, Les called time on the label and the ‘Bass Project’ EP slipped into obscurity, forgotten by most, including Danny!

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DJ H 'Over Again' - Vinyl Fanatiks 006 - 192mp3 clip

The label was established in 2018 as a means to release the back catalogue of renowned Jungle Techno label Underdog Recordings, which ran from 1993-1995. It quickly expanded from beyond the original goal and now reissues sought after, rare and classic records from the Jungle, Rave, Bleep House, Techno and Jungle Techno genres.

The Vinyl Fanatiks aim is to track down and work with the original artists from the early 1990’s, to reissue their music on vinyl only, and to support the record hunters and vinyl diggers from around the world with quality pressings and superb mastering; a way to show respect and share the story of those that created these incredible records.

The vision is not to focus on the obvious artists of that time but to dig a little deeper and find those that came and went but their legacy still holds true to this day. Some of these producers only released one record and vanished soon after but their music still resonates into the 21st century, accumulating new audiences across the globe, far beyond the catchment of the UK pirate radios and muddy fields of 25 years ago. What happened to these artists? Its Vinyl Fanatik’s mission to find out!

Each record captures a moment in time, a vibe that was true and innocent from a period when music was far more synonymous with rebellion and anarchy than today’s finely polished productions and conformist club pop. This music itself bred on the outskirts of society, fuelled by the passion of the rave, its lineage stemming from the Acid House era of 1988. Often produced on minimal equipment, with minimal skills and knowledge, its audio blueprint transcends to new generations, a rawness that no expensive audio plug in could ever create in this present day.

Vinyl Fanatiks wants to pay homage to these young producers who forged the foundations of the multi-million pound EDM scene we have now. Each of these artists has their own tale to tell, their own memories to share. Limited by their own geographical status within the UK, they somehow still all managed to connect and influence each other, years before the internet, mobile phones and social media that we have today. But the music knew no limits and had no boundaries, transcending generations to this day.

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DJ H 'Over Again' - Vinyl Fanatiks 006 - 192mp3 clip

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