Hardcore Breaks
Hardcore Breaks is a genre of music written in the style of old skool rave music or breakbeat hardcore using modern technology. The music is composed of from looped, edited and processed breakbeat samples, intense bassline sounds, melodic piano lines, staccato synthesizer riffs, and various vocal samples (frequently taken from old house records). The speed of this genre typically falls between the range of 145-155 BPM, although there are exceptions within a 10 BPM buffer on each side, and the DJ will often change the speed as when playing at a rave. Originally being produced by a small group of artists heavily influenced by the oldskool sound, its appeal has now expanded to include artists from the original breakbeat hardcore scene creating new productions, and the records have found favor with DJs as noteworthy as Slipmatt, Ratpack, and Ellis Dee.
Artists
Austin Reynolds / Phuture Assassins (Producer, engineer, and former recording artist for Suburban Base)
Brainstormer (Founding member of the Brainstorm Crew for Formation Records and F Project)
Darkus (Owner of Hardcore Projektz)
DJ Bones (Eruption FM DJ and producer)
DJ Dossa (Co-founder of Total Recall Records)
DJ Fav (Owner of Hardcore Will Never Die Records / HWND)
DJ Inferno (Co-owner of Repeat Offender Records)
DJ Nee (Co-founder / owner of Enormous Mouse Records)
DJ Purity Control (Producer and owner of Repetitive Beats)
DJ Running Man (Owner of Firewall Records)
DJ Sike (Co-owner of Good Gosh! Records and Hardcore Breaks DJ/Producer)
Drift (Producer and Break Pirates DJ)
[...] (Owner of Underground Feeling)
Hattrixx (Producer, Engineer)
Junki Munki (DJ and recording artist for 2FX Records)
Luna-C (Owner of Kniteforce & KFA Records)
Malice & Enzyme / Portal (Owners of 2 Fresh & 2FX Records)
Nervous+Anxious (Finnish Hardcore Breaks producers and recording artists for Enormous Mouse Records)
Simon Holmes (Owner of Sharkfin Records)
Stu Chapman (Co-founder / owner of Enormous Mouse Records)
Teknotik (Producer and recording artist for Tornado Records)
The Supersonic Army (English Hardcore Breaks producer)
Waxkiller (Co-owner of Repeat Offender Records)
garrybynon/rufftactics(producer and dj)
Record labels
Hardcore Will Never Die Records (HWND)
Sonic Fortress / Dubplate Records
Events
Sunday Sermon
Sunday Sermon was designed to be an all day meetup/rave, allowing people into the music to do their usual dancing, but also as a proper chance to socialise in a more relaxed setting.
The first Sunday Sermon took place on at William IV in Kensal Rise. The event was an unparelled success/failure as the management on the day decided that everyone was making too much noise and kicked us out after a few hours.
The fun continued at Paradise just around the corner (thanks to Paul USH) and subsequent events were held there before grumpy management moved us on.
Footage from one of the events can be seen HERE- courtesy of Paul USH
As with all the Underground Feeling events, the music policy was nice and open minded, encompassing hardcore breaks, jungle, old skool and house.
Rush
Rush was the first Underground Feeling event, taking place at Trinity Bar in Harrow, London. As a midweek night the attendances ranged from 5 people at its worst, to around 100 at its best. Rush ran for two years at this venue before the management decided they had had enough of dance music and became a live band venue.
Re-Energize
Re-Energize was our biggest event to date running mainly at Spoofers in Holloway before moving to Sahara Nights in Kings Cross.
These were all held on weekends in London, attracting a fair crowd with underground old skool and hardcore breaks. Whilst the events were musically a great success, a mixture of poor venue managers and poor quality venues hindered the events.
The Underground Feeling events had a wide range of djs such as Luna C, Nebula 2, Flashback, Squirrel, DMS, Niki Dimensions, Snypa, Ripple, Jackknife, Rizzla, MJaxx, [...], Moody, Ambush, Lock Up, Swifty B, Dirty Habit, Hattrixx, Chance, Reckless, Kingsize, Stoopid, Jon Manning, Adrian Atom, Deluxe, Vinyl Junkie, Fatface, Matt Bassline, Frosty and Pleasure, Wink and probably more (apologies to anyone we have missed out!)
Radio
External Links
http://www.hardcorebreaks.com/
http://www.hardcore-breaks.com/