Scott Nixon debuted his mixing skills back in November 2005 at the legendary Fabric nightclub but started DJing back in 1991. After a short period of time he started promoting his own nights on his home island of Jersey, Channel Islands. Playing along side top UK Djs, such as DJ Hype, Grooverider, Fabio, Plump DJs and Stanton Warriors to name but a few.

This promo mix from July 2007 was around the time Finger Lickin records signed him as an artist on their roster. Nowadays Scott has had releases on the Stanton Warriors label Punks Music as well as continuing his ability to DJ and produce his unique sound.

This mix is part of Breakzlinkz Retro series: www.breakzlinkz.net/retro/

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.

This mix is part of Breakzlinkz Retro series: www.breakzlinkz.net/retro/

www.discogs.com/artist/General-Midi
www.uk.linkedin.com/in/paul-crossman

Those nice guys, The Niceguys are back again with some mid tempo funk and volume 3 of their Beats On Decks series. This well planned out mix has all sorts of Ghetto Funk bangers and mid tempo wizardry, check the tracklist out below.

Tracklist

01 Playin Yourself – BadBoe (Intro, Drum Edit)
02 Make Some Noise (Mr. Ours & WBBL Remix) – Beastie Boys
03 Get It Poppin – Roast Beatz
04 Soul Power – Rollomatik
05 Across The Sea (Funkanomics Remix) – Jayl Funk
06 Stylez Unlimited (The Niceguys California Mash) – Sabrosa Soul
07 Rock Me (Dub Version) – The Niceguys
08 Sock It (The Niceguys Remix) – Missy Elliott
09 7 Day Weekend – A.Skillz
10 Can’t You Feel – Lack Jemmon
11 Got the Rhythm (Drum Edit) – A.Skillz & Beardyman
12 Ain’t No Funky – Jayl Funk
13 What’s It Gonna Be (The Niceguys Remix) – Busta Rhymes feat. Janet Jackson
14 How We Do This – Tom Booze
15 Like Dis – Geon
16 Let Me Go (The Niceguys Blurred Mash) – Mutantbreakz
17 Pridy & Joy – The Niceguys
18 Bring Colors To Your Life – Cee-Roo
19 First Step Outside (The Niceguys Put It On Mash) – Smelvis
20 I Got To Have It (Odjbox Remix) – Delhi 2 Dublin
21 Olympic Lovin – Mako/Mr Bristow
22 Cloud 9 – Shaka Loves You
23 Get Up – The Niceguys
24 That Ass – The Niceguys
25 Before I Go – Griz
26 Keep Giving Me Love – Pitchben
27 Can’t Stop – Beat Fatigue
28 The Long Road Ahead – BitFunk

Starting of with some cranking House tunes then heading onto the more well known artists of Breaks music Freddy J controls the crowd with a LIVE recording of his set from Wicked Woods 2016 a 3 day festival located near Kimberley, British Columbia.

For a more in depth review of Wicked Wood Festival 2016 head on over to their website: www.wickedwoodsmusicfestival.com

Tracklist

Execute – Roller
Rescue -In The Lab
DJ Dan – Make Ya Freak (David Jones Remix)
Mike Dunn, MNEK, Jax Jones – House Work (Extended Mix)
Lee Cabrera – Shake It (Antonio Giacca Remix)
Deekline, Specimen A – Rubi Dan (Ra Ra Ra House Mix)
Valentino Khan – Deep Down Low (Styline Remix)(FJ Edit)
Kuplay – Back to the old school
Yo Speed – Real Man (Perfect Kombo Remix)
Illegal Content – Iron Man
Illegal Content – Alone
Common Underground – 27 Calibre
Krafty Kuts – Hustle (FJ Edit)
Brain Killer Remix – Work It (FJ Edit)
Yo Speed – Look Into Your Eyes (FJ Edit)
Zier – Shuffle On (FJ Edit)
Quadrat Beat – Chasing Stars (Kid Panel Remix)(FJ Edit)
Hanook – Typhon (BlackList remix)(FJ Edit)
Alok & Liu – Bolum Back (FJ Edit)
Save The Rave – Fuck Yeah
JDOUBLE – Shake That
Bubble Couple – How We Do It
Stex – Cmon Baby (Funky Break Mix)
Dansson & Marlon – Shake That (Styline) (FJ Edit)
Le Babar – Feel The Groove (Rescue Remix)
Major Lazer – Too Original (Qdup Re-Rub)

The mysterious DJ Peaceful has uploaded his new Broken Beats DJ mix to his Soundcloud. This mysterious man never puts the ability to comment on his mixes nor the availability of a download. Regardless of this, well worth a listen to some more obscure Broken Beat tunes.

In what will quite possibly be the last in what has been an epic seires, Featurecast presents to us ‘Thrift Shop Bangers Vol 6′. We’ve alreday been treat to a large number of tracks from his personnel collection and he’s signing off the series on a massive high by giving us another 4 huge Ghetto Funk fuelled bangers for free. It’s quite simply music you cannot live without and if you doesn’t get you excited, you need to check your pulse!

Click here to get to Soundcloud, then download each track via Zippyshare.

In case you missed any of the previous ‘Thrift Shop Bangers’ tunes, check them all here :

Links for Featurecast :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / Twitter

Well ain’t this a funky chunk of D n B! It comes from Young NRG Productions bossman, Stex, and comes in the form of a remix of Betty Everett’s ‘Too Hot To Hold’. This one kicks hard and it’s high energy is sure to have bouncing around with a megawatt smile planted firmly across your face!

Download ‘2hot2hold’ here via The Artist Union.

#HotHouse&Techno Roundup to warm you up on this cold evening, we’ve got…..

Chris Sammarco-Feel It

Dem’ drumz’ yo!!!! The awesome Chris Sammarco wants you to ‘Feel It’ when locking into the bleepy grooves and tons od drums on his great new track on Total Freedom

808 State-In Yer Face (Bicep Remix)

The 1990 classic gets a Tech House bass-lift from Bicep!! So good, we won;t waste time blabbing, hit play!!!

Antonio Mazzitelli-Deep Down 16

Pure Deep House with ethereal synths and chugging percussion, this one’s a real builder!!!

Carl St Pierre & Mike Jones- Body Sweatin’ EP

2 producers that are going to own 2017 with 2 tracks of superlative pumpin’ warehouse/acid/tech house. Think of any top label right now, Elrow, Criminal Hype, and of course this very label here EightOeight. Think heaving nightclubs going nuts to the sound of the underground and this is the soundtrack!!

Pinto (NYC)- That Sound

Pinto gives us a mouth-watering taste of ‘That Sound’ on Simma Red. Lots of deep rumbles, cut up vox and stabs with the NYC feel all the way through. Wait til’ you hear the drop midway, lushness!!!

Dwson- Sool EP

The sound of dreaming with mellow acid squelches and wonderous trippy synths set to laidback 4×4 kicks. That’s Dwson’s new EP on Just Move, treat your ears to it!!

GAWP- Vanilla Gorilla

Part of the latest Main Course compilation, GAWP ‘Vanilla Gorilla’ twists and jacks with quirky sounds and beats for mind and your feet!!!

Endaf- Hold Me Close

Endaf joins the Future Follower fold with the futuristic soul of ‘Hold Me Close’ featuring a host of great remixes including this superb House refix by Ant!Hero

M.A.X Lloyd Ft Yasmin- Get Up

How catchy is this? Instant rewind material from M.A.X Lloyd with vocals by Yasmin that take us back to the glory days of 88/89′. Out now on D Vine Sounds. House music doesn’t get more pure and pristine than this!!!

#HotHouse&Techno Roundup 25 11 16

Our Country Club Disco Catch Up for November 2016 features three must-have new EPs by Dave Fogg/Bumpy Fool, John Randle, and Morpei plus a 20 track free SoundCloud from Golf Clap…

Dave Fogg & Bumpy Fool-Give Yourself

Punctuated by Detroit techno/90’s rave riffage and pleasurable thumping beats. You’ll wanna ‘give yourself’ to this top release which also includes a classy Coeus remix

John Randle-No One Like You

No one does lush jackin’ house grooves like John Randle!!! And when your wingmen are Soledrifter & Adam Hyjeck then you undoubtedly have some fiyah in yo’ hands!!!

Golf Clap- 20 (yes, 20!!!) Free Downloads

Country Club Disco bossmen Golf Clap have a spankin’ 20 tracks up for free download!!! All top quality tunage including some previous label material

Morpei- Got Me 

Morpei bring their distinctive sound to Country Club Disco. It always makes you sit up and pay attention and this is helped even more by top remixes by none other than Glen Coombs and Cleary

Country Club Disco Catch Up Nov 2016

I have to say thanks to our very own, Fifties, for introducing me to, Grove. As you may well already know, she’s had him in for the guestmix on her Juicebox Radio show a couple of times now and he delivered big time and that’s exactly what he’s doing here with his 2 new tracks ‘Higher Phase’ and ‘Colony’ that are out now on the always amazing, Kiosek Records.

‘Higher Phase’ features the distinctive vocal of, Manda, who adds a rocky edge to the intense and deep Breakbeat roller. ‘Colony’ is another slice of Breakbeat heaven that’ll have you disappear deep within it because of it’s hypnotic and groovy vibe. I’m sure you’ll agree that these are 2 highly impressive tracks that you just can’t get enough of!

Buy both tracks here from Beatport.

Links for Grove :

Soundcloud