Lee Potter, aka Cut La Roc, made his name in the hurly-burly big beat days of the late 90s. Signed to Skint Records, the same label as Norman ‘Fatboy’ Cook, he was responsible for pioneering the big beat sound worldwide alongside Midfield General, Bentley Rhythm Ace and Fatboy Slim himself.
APE Releases/Remixes
Cut La Roc ‘Looking For The Deep Bass (Dutty Dan Remix)’ [APEM018] by apemusic
What you fink you need to know bout these trailblazing chimp mother f@%$*&s?! Well they got together for the first ever gig in 2001 at the now renowned Liverpool night @ Chibuku, Shake Shake and rocked it!
Schema consist of Mark Smith, Lee Davis, Sean Lamy and Lee Dorrington. The foursome are based in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Jinx was formed in 1999. Having cut his teeth DJing around the massive Northern free party scene, and influenced by the upcoming Breakstep garage sound of the time, two friends from Lancaster, UK got together to form a new production duo.
Dom Almond has been involved in dance music since the early Nineties when he was inspired by the scratch DJ’s and turntablists of the Hip Hop scene and the dirty groove of Electro, it wasn’t long before he wanted a piece of the action.
Behind the limelight of tech-funks new rising star ‘Rektchordz’ is 24 year old Cornish dweller Jamie Smithson; who has been mastering the art of music production since back in 2001.
Dom Sweeten is an established dance music producer and DJ from the UK with over 15 years experience in the industry.
Enough Weapons are an electronic dance music production duo. They construct glitchy chopped up funky breaks and tech with deep grinding bass lines.
Eshericks is a DJ and producer from Japan who appeared out of the blue in 2008. Since his first release of a remix for Nuboy, a track titled “aWhat?” (en:vision recordings) in Europe and North America, he quickly worked his way up towards becoming one of the most sought–after producers stirring up the breaks community.
Starting out under the watchful eye of mentors Vigi and Mr B (Streetwise Recordings / Boomslang), That Girl DJ has been quickly making her way into the scene and moving up the ranks over the past year.
=AVE=, Olly G and Hi-Fly are 3 Cornish boys who spend their time throwing party’s, partying, Dj’ing and making beats together in the Southwest of the UK under the title of the ‘Freerange Djs’. Tho they have only been DJ’ing collectively for the last 3 years they have individually been clocking up club time all over the country for years, holding residences at club nights of all different dance genres right across the board
After their debut album crashed into peoples lives, The Wrongstar Society are going from strength to strength having just signed to Leeroy Thornhill’s new label Electric Tastebuds. With 5000 sales of Beats, Rhymes and Conflicts behind them, the rowdy bunch are now lined up to destroy more dance floors with 2 new singles. With song [...]
Quadrat Beat are 2 men – Sergey and Eugene Lobanovsky. The project was born in 2008 when Eugene has received music education. Brothers have shown a great interest to breaks music and have started to search for an own sound. In 2008 in May brothers have let out the first release “The Legend” which has [...]
From opening the main stage at the Glade festival, winning the ‘Best Breaks Dj’ award at this years South West Drum & Bass / Breaks Awards to their fortnightly Breakspoll nominated Nuskool Breaks radio show and running their own record label, Ben & Lex could be the busiest boys in breaks.
Since pairing up at the [...]
The Thugs met in Brighton in 2002 after drunkenly agreeing that music at clubs should never be progressive, dull or pretentious. A few pints later and the pair realised their shared interest in broken beats, rapping and heavy basslines and they began combining their musical tastes and talents. Playing hip hop, funk and beats the [...]
Benjamin Vial is 17 when he buys his first drum-machine in 1989 and starts programming electronic tracks; he never stopped since then.
He sometimes sings, too.
A demo under the Temper guise in 2003 owes him a review in French magazine Trax, which depicts his music as a blend of Freq Nasty, William Orbit, Vikter Duplaix , [...]
Metroboy aka Ben Ervine is a producer/DJ from the southwest of England, and forms one half of award-winning breakbeat duo Ben and Lex. Metroboy’s music is a crunchy, hard-bleep style of minimal and tech house, with unflinching grooves and uplifting tones sure to lock in any dancefloor. His remix of Benjamin Vial’s “The Bass and [...]
The pair met in the year 2000 whilst running nights and DJing on the Southampton Clubscene, a lasting friendship was quickly formed due to their shared love of the dance music scene in it’s many forms. Ali ran and DJ’ed at the successful Debauchery night in Southampton from 2000-2002 (Voted Ministry club of the south [...]