Kicking off in 2001, Breakspoll first started out as a small, online voting community to value and reward the handful of breakbeat artists who were pushing the genre into the 21st century. Amazed at the response from fans across the world, when someone suggested they “should have a party to announce the results,” it made perfect sense. After all, what is breakbeat about if not hitting the dancefloor?

For the second Breakspoll, the crew pitched up at North London’s Electrowerks, and an annual frenzied marathon mash up began, all in the name of breaks of course. The Egg was the choice of venue for 2003, but when Breakspoll moved to Fabric for its fourth event, it was obvious Breakspoll had found its Mecca. The combination of dozens of breakbeat DJs, untold fanboys and Duracell bunny chicks raving it up in their droves, and Fabric’s cavernous interior was a match made in heaven, and history was written in wax – breaks as a genre was obviously here to stay.

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This month Manchester is set for Techno heaven as we welcome some of the hottest talent on the scene in recent years. On the run up to Ibiza Back 2 Basics residents Panorama & Riff Raff join forces with The Zoo Project @ the famous Tribal Sessions @ Sankeys (Manchester).

The 22nd February will feature the crème de la crème of Techno including Smokin Jo, Defex, Will Saul & Greg Vickers for an amazing Ibiza techno special.Smoking Jo need no introduction and is somewhat of an Ibiza legend and we at The Zoo Project are proud to be bringing her on board for this special occasion. Her cutting edge style and impeccable taste in music has made sure that Jo is always classed amongst the top name DJs. She is also the only female DJ to have won DJ Magazine’s prestigious DJ of the Year award. Smokin Jo’s talent behind the decks and fearless risk taking in her mixing has made sure her DJing CV contains most major clubs throughout the world. She is now one of the residents for We Love.. Sundays at Space at Space, Ibiza. Jo has played most styles of music over the years from Soulful Deep House through to Tribal, but it’s Deep Dirty House, Minimal and Techno that now race through her sets. Her shows never fail to impress, containing new and exciting material at every turn.

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Having continued to take the world by storm with another trio of unrivalled album releases in 2007, EQ’s awesome Balance series continues its rocking subterranean journey in 2008 with the next exciting installment – Balance 013 …

That’s right, folks, Balance has entered its terrible teens: so brace yourselves for some serious attitude, erratic behaviour and non-stop partying as the world’s hottest compilation series starts tearing things up, flicking the bird to strangers and staying out late without calling …
With legends of the underground, Jimmy Van M (US) and Lee Burridge (UK), doing the business for Balance 010, 010.1 and 011 respectively, Balance 013 sees new kids on the block, SOS, get their chance to rock it like it’s never been rocked before … and as you’d expect, they have needed little encouragement. So lie down on the floor, take some deep breaths and try to keep calm, because with the planet’s hottest DJ alliance in the house, Balance is going to get downright deep and dirty …

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Next up out of the block for Loopmasters excellent ‘Artist Series’ sample DVD packs comes from Milan-based deep house production duo Harley & Muscle.

Inspired by these first wave of house music from artists such as Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, Mr. Fingers, Tyree Cooper, all the DJ International label productions and the great house music coming out of Chicago, NYC and London, this inspired this accomplished duo to make inroads into the studio. Since then they have collaborated with singers as Robert Owens, Gerideau, Dawn Tallmann, Duke Brown and Nicole Graham and have remixed legendary artists including Gloria Gaynor, Loleatta Holloway, Jocelyn Brown, Alexander O’Neal and many more. Having released a series of deep house classics on their labels ‘Soulstar’ and ‘Little Angel Records’, H&M are now known as two of the leading producers in the scenes and as part of Loopmasters ‘Artist Series’ they have put together an awesome collection of samples covering this genre. Featuring over 2GB of content including 472 Deep House Wav files, 177 Rex 2 Samples and 40 Patches for Reason, Kontakt, Halion, EXS24, Stylus RMX, Cakewalk Rapture and Dimension. Also included is a full Reason Refill, Apple Loops versions of the samples, and patches for Ableton Live’s Sampler.

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When Sander van Doorn started out in his self-built studio just four years ago, nobody would have guessed that he would become one of the world’s most prolific and in-demand producer / DJs of this decade. Constantly pushing dance music’s boundaries with his flawless productions and gaining huge props from dancefloors across the globe, the lad from Eindhoven is back with his much awaited debut artist album Supernaturalistic.

After the massive singles Grasshopper, By Any Demand and Riff which all appear on this album, Sander returns to drop 12 tracks of high calibre electronic music seamlessly weaving between calm & atmospheric, transcendently trippy & trancey through to peak-time techno that will light up any dance floor.

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This month Filth are proud to present one of the finest DJs duo’s and producers you will ever come across, Audio Bullys, expect heavy bass lines, twisted electro and bodyclapping filthiness. For this special one off party we head to Stylus at Leeds Uni on Sunday 10th February to host our biggest party to date with a monster electro room and a second room of the best in techno and minimal.
Joining the Audio Bullys Filth have also teamed up with the massive Zoo Project from Ibiza, local clubbing website 4 clubbers and new electro superstar Kim Fai. All come with a plan to cause absolute mayhem and play ear pleasing music for the clued up clubbers in Leeds.
Headlining the Electro room, Audio Bullys should need no introduction. Simon Franklin and Tom Dinsdale are the duo behind the raucous noise of the AUDIO BULLYS. A passion for The Specials, The Kinks and getting off their boxes at weekends has led these Londoners to create their contemporary, unshaven soundtrack to urban life in the big smoke.

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2007 will be remembered as the year bassline house first topped the charts and 2008 is set to be the year it will dominate! Producers H ‘two’ O have teamed up with vocalists Platnum to create the club anthem ‘What’s It Gonna Be’. Hot on the heels of T2’s runaway smash ‘Heartbroken’ The track is already massive in the bassline and niche scenes and it will only be a matter of time before the track’s popularity crosses over to the mainstream – envisage a multitude of teenagers rinsing this tune off their mobiles on public transport across the UK and you won’t be far off the mark.

‘What’s It Gonna Be’ is set for release on hot new label HARD2BEAT home of current #1 smash ‘Now You’re Gone’ by Basshunter! The new super label has started the year on a high and is set to continue its success with this massive offering!
Hailing from Leicester, H ‘two’ O are DJ’s Solution & Oz aka Selim and Simon, who have enlisted the help of Platnum, a youthful trio made up of hip hop / RnB / garage vocalists Aron, Mina and Michelle, repping Manchester. With ‘What’s It Gonna Be’, the collusion of both groups has created another perfect piece of female friendly bassline that will no doubt capture the hearts and minds of both garage aficionados and pop enthusiasts alike, and is heralding a new speed garage renaissance in the North of England.

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Beloved as “the people’s DJ’, Dave Pearce has been one of the UK’s fiercest proponents of underground trance in the UK for over a decade. As the host of Radio 1’s legendary Dance Anthems show, and a stalwart of the British dance scene, Pearce has also signed and broken more dance hits than you can wave a glowstick at.

Something of a British institution, his Delirium club events have welcomed thousands of clubbers through its doors. Now held at the equally legendary Ministry Of Sound, they’re a road-blocked affair for the youngest clubbers found this side of Channel Four’s Skins.
Ministry Of Sound is the biggest single force in worldwide dance culture – no question. A powerhouse for crossover and underground talent, its labels and releases dominate record collections and charts in equal measure, while their compilations become the definitive musical snapshots of their day.

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Seminal DJ and producer John ‘00’ Fleming has signed a new record deal with the hugely successful Euphoria/MOS brand. John has already clocked up sales of almost a million albums with his previous White Label Euphoria album series, the last of which was released in 2005.
This time sees John “00″ Fleming mixing a new cutting edge concept ‘Psy Trance Euphoria’, reflecting the current power of the Psy-Trance genre globally.
Last year Psy-Trance pulled in worldwide festival audiences in their millions. Fiercely underground, it has shied away from commercial pressures, making it one of the most popular and well-regarded sub-genres of electronic music. While the album is merely Fleming’s take on the genre, John was also inspired to record his own artist album (under the guise of 00.db with fellow artist The Digital Blonde) of tracks specifically inspired by and for the scene, and combining it with the double DJ mix CD to make it a 3 CD concept.

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Freak Power were formed in 1993 by Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim), and Ashley Slater (legendary singer and trombonist with Loose Tubes, Microgroove and many others) and Jesse “The Bass Cadet’ Graham.

Their nearly global smash hit “Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out” was used in the famous and controversial ‘Taxi Trannie’ Levis ad in 1995, and became many people’s soundtrack for the summer. Those people are either, a : Dead, or b : Comfortably Off Professionals now, and either way, should be gagging to come and party with us. Relive the carefree, heady days before kids and mortgages changed it all, come back and feel the love!

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If you’ve been keeping an eye on the tracks and remixes that have been topping the charts and radio plays for the last few years, you will surely have seen Austin Leeds’ name before. He has had numerous songs in the Beatport Top 10, including 3 # 1 top downloads. Paul Van Dyk named Austin Leeds and his production partner Nick Terranova as his producers of the year for 2007 recently, an din March last year Austin joined AM Only, the worlds premier booking Agency. So you could say that this highly talented DJ/Producer is going places. With a world tour being lined up after the album launch at Miami WMC, you’ll be hearing a lot more from Austin Leeds throughout 2008.

Austin Leeds has been touring around the world for nearly 10 years and this is his first mix compilation. He turned down other offers because he wasn’t given the freedom to be able to express himself properly, and “Dirty Sounds Volume 2 – Love Machine” features unreleased solo tracks from Austin, as well as numerous remixes and productions by Austin and Nick together.

Austin Leeds is the kind of guy that is likely to drag you into his studio to get your opinion on his next track, always striving to improve and innovate. And with the release of “Dirty Sound Volume 2 – Love Machine” he has done just that, inviting the whole world into that studio to share in this amazing and incomparable recording. It’s an invitation that will be readily accepted and revered, as Austin Leeds is quickly establishing himself as a unique and innovative studio tactician.

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For the latest instalment of their artist series sample packs Loopmasters proudly present Volume 3 from the ‘godfather of house’ Marshall Jefferson subtitled ‘House Generation’

Born in Chicago in 1959, Marshall was a central figure in the development of the Chicago house scene and produced seminal house anthems including ‘Move Your Body’, ‘7 Ways To Jack’ and ‘Open Our Eyes’. He has worked with the best in the business, from fellow founding father Frankie Knuckles to Roy Davis Jr., Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley, Felix Da Housecat and Lil Louis. Marshall has had a leading hand in the growth of the acid and deep house movements ever since. Marshall’s first release, 1985’s ‘Go Wild Rhythm Trax’ on Virgo Records, demonstrated Marshall had the talent vital to succeed in such a fickle industry. ‘Move Your Body’, originally a production Marshall had passed onto legendary Music box resident Ron Hardy, was released on Trax Records in 1986 and is today recognised as a genre-defining release, having been subtitled and acclaimed ‘The House Music Anthem’.

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