All is well in the world of electronic music – there’s a glut of sick breaks and electro releases at the moment. Breaks heads everywhere whinge about breaks DJs playing house and “diluting the scene”, blah blah blah – but how can mixing house and breaks be anything but beneficial? Anything can go stale if it’s left to stand for too long, and innovating new sounds doesn’t necessarily mean replacing established ones.

If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it.

If you think other people won’t like it, don’t play it.

People will always vote with their feet. I like this one, have a listen.

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1. High Eight – Coming To
2. Mr. No Hands – Boingy Boingy Zappy Wap
3. Rektchordz – Captain Fruit Legs
4. Cosmonaut & Satellites – Sweet Music (DBF Rmx)
5. Ben Hash Key – Saulted
6. Alloy Mental – God Is Green (Meat Katie Rmx)
7. Cheap As Chimps – Speaker Dirt
8. Blatta & Inesha – Stoned Walking
9. JELO & Deadmau5 – The Reward Is Cheese
10. Miles Dyson – Anthem
11. Splitloop – Pleasure Machine
12. Nick Supply – Hiznhiz (Stupid Fresh Rmx)
13. Funkasaurus – Atom Seed
14. Kid Blue – Way Back

Here’s another breaks mix for your ears – this one’s a bit more electro-ey.

One of the great things about breakbeat is that you can fuse it with electro house and it’ll still sound huge. There’s a couple of examples of that in this offering; expect more of this in the future as my two main influences are breaks and electro house. Enjoy!

1. Plump DJs – System Addict
2. JHz & Chris Carter – Cracker
3. Myagi – Giorgio Marauder (Diverted Rmx)
4. Rennie Pilgrem – Eraser Drumz (Drumapella Mix)
5. Utku Sonmez – Brain Anatomy
6. Rennie Pilgrem – Coming up for Air feat. Sarah Whittaker-Gilbey (Koma & Bones Rmx)
7. Sharam Jey – Message To Love (Alex Metric Rmx)
8. JBass & JMekka – Freestyle (Robosapiens feat. Sneaky Kreeps Rmx)
9. Jude Sebastian – Rubber Man (Miles Dyson Rmx)
10. LXR vs. Andrea Doria – Freak Me (Dave Spoon Rmx)
11. JHz – Thumper
12. General MIDI – Milton (Digital One Rmx)
13. Agent Alvin & Dumpster – Panel Beater
14. Mesmer – Rowlacoaster (Mesmer Reprise)

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Have a listen to this, the first of (hopefully) many mixes. To introduce myself a bit, I’m a music guzzling monster – as far as I’m concerned nothing is better than seeking out new tracks and playing them to yourself and others. It’s really that simple! I grew up playing the usual Britpop that shamelessly hogs all of the airtime on mainstream radio, and quickly got into hip hop once I grew out of that. A few years back hip hop became obsessed with image, and a seemingly endless flood of gold chains and drop top Bentleys concealed the good eggs left in the business. This is a shame, as good hip hop is still well and truly alive – it’s just been pushed further underground.

Now my main love is electronic music – anything that isn’t cheesy. Drum & Bass, Progressive, Electro & Breaks are my favourites out of the huge spectrum, but new sounds are being innovated all the time. This is what makes it such a great thing to be into.

As for this mix I went straight for the Breaks as this is what I’m mostly listening to at the moment. Nothing more to say really – enjoy!

1. Alex Metric – In Control
2. Robosapiens – Infected
3. Digital Base – Don’t Get Tired
4. Rektchordz – Turn These Speakers Up
5. Far Too Loud – Play It Loud
6. Alex Metric – Oh!
7. JHz & Hyper – Computer Says No!
8. Drumattic Twins – Can’t Give You Up
9. Diverted – Frederick
10. General Electrik – On the Run (feat. Llama)
11. Digital Base – Superfashion (General MIDI rmx)
12. Dilemn – Body Shout
13. Alex Metric – Pins
14. Plump DJs – Torque of the Devil
15. AFK & Dustin H – Seismic (Stefan Anion’s Running for Cover mix)