For the third year running I headed to Stockport (UK) on our August bank holiday to the awesome, Moovin Festival. This cracking little festival is one that I highly recommend and to find out more about it, you can read a review I did of it in 2015 when you *Click Here*.

Before you do that though, get this mix from Steve Thorpe downloaded so as your reading is accompanied by a damn fine soundtrack. Steve closed the Boombox stage on Sunday night and as I’ve seen him DJ several times now, I knew something special was gonna go down and so did a lot of other people judging by how many turned up to see him play. With the tent over flowing with people who wanted to end the weekend on a real high, Steve stepped up and delivered a blinding set that was heavy with Breaks and a touch of Acid House and Techno to boot. All of us left wanting more but as is the way with life, all good things must come to an end, so we all wandered off back to our tents with big smiles on our faces safe in the knowledge we’d ended an amazing weekend the right way by dancing our socks off!

Links for Steve Thorpe :

Soundcloud / Facebook

Tracklist

1. Information Ghetto – General Trip – Luke Vibert mix
2. Bassbin Twins – Track 2 – EP2
3. Plump DJs – Galaxy 2000
4. Outcast – Take heed
5. Luca Lozano – Calling all dancers
6. Dee Patten – Who is da badman?
7. Benga – My DJ
8. Merka – Minds
9. Julio Bashmore – Um Bongo
10. Diemantle – Huntsman
11. Mants – Cragged
12. Eghbert – Maximaal
13. Alex Metric – Raveaggeddon
14. Five minute of funk – Lets go round
15. Plump DJs – The Gate
16. Player One – Into the darkness
17. Stanton Warriors – Where’s the Beef?
18. Plump DJs – Mad Cow
19. DJ Shadow feat Roots Manuva – GDMFSOB – Unkle mix
20. Pedestrian – Pick you shot
21. Stanton Warriors Vs Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
22, Liquid – Sweet Harmony

It has been a little while now since we’ve caught up with our good friend Pecoe. As well as continuing to blog awesome music himself on his own blog, Breakzlinkz, he has also been as busy as always dropping tracks of his own with some of those have found their way onto albums from Breakbeat Paradise Recordings and Nu Blends. From the tracks he’s released himself, we’ve picked out his phat Funky Breaks edit of the classic 70’s psychedelic tune ‘It’s Just Begun’ by, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, to share with you and we’re sensing there’ll be a lot of love sent his way once checked out.

Even though Pecoe has clearly been a busy chap, he’s keeps on finding the time to upload classic Breakbeat mixes from all of the legendary names of the ‘Golden Era’ period to his ‘Old Breaks Mixes’ page over on Soundcloud. One of the mixes to recently surface just so happens to be from himself and it contains an awesome handful of choice cuts from a genre of music that gave us so much back in the day. You can check it and download it below and while you’re there, have a scan of the tracklist, it’s a beauty!

Download Pecoe’s edit here via Hypeddit.

‘Retro Mix Volume 1′ :

Links for Pecoe :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Breakzlinkz

Retro Mix Tracklist

Apollo 440 Ft Beatnuts – Dude Descending A Staircase (Stanton Warriors Vocal Remix)
Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul
Evil Nine – Lovers Not Fighters
Plump DJs – The Gate
Underworld – Rez (Atomic Hooligan Remix)
Hyper – Slapper
Silencer Ft Nikita – Taking Hold
Unknown – On A Ragga Boot
Planet Funk – Who Said (Moguai Remix)
Nirvana Vs Adam Freeland – Smells Like Teen Spirit

First mix in a series of Retro mixes celebrating the best of Breaks from yesteryear. Some well known Nuskool Breaks artists in this one highlighting some of their best tracks which consolidated such a rich foundation for the Breaks EDM scene in the early 2000’s. I hope you enjoy the mix

Tracklist

Apollo 440 Ft Beatnuts – Dude Descending A Staircase (Stanton Warriors Vocal Remix)
Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul
Evil Nine – Lovers Not Fighters
Plump DJs – The Gate
Underworld – Rez (Atomic Hooligan Remix)
Hyper – Slapper
Silencer Ft Nikita – Taking Hold
Unknown – On A Ragga Boot
Planet Funk – Who Said (Moguai Remix)
Nirvana Vs Adam Freeland – Smells Like Teen Spirit