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Nick Thayer

"That's a power drill", Nick responds, when questioned about a particular sound in one of his tracks. "It took me ages to tune it. I had to charge the thing and then drill thin air until the batteries ran out just the right amount." Never one to follow trends, Nick grew up on a steady diet of Queen and Peter Gabriel whilst still joining others moshing to Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Macking to Mark Morrison, whilst playing guitar in funk, punk or cock rock bands.

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Cutloose

Cutloose is a one man party mash-up machine who can drop Michael Jackson and Lil Wayne alongside Run DMC and Led Zepplin.
He’s shared the bill with M.I.A, The Cool Kids, A-Trak and Kid Sister, Tittsworth, DJ Craze, Z-Trip, MSTRKFT, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow.
A regular feature on Australia’s Festival and Club circuit, Cutloose is always the choice for After Party Madness.
A Hip Hop and Rock junkie who also name checks The Presets, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Justice and Guns ‘n’ Roses amongst his favorite artists.

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JDS

The artist "JDS" is the duo Julian Napolitano & Darren Pearce.
This longstanding production duo first started releasing on the Crosstrax label, scoring a hit with the classic "Nine Ways" in 1997. Their earlier releases were predominantly harder House/Trance, but often with a Breakbeat element. The duo have since steadied in the Breaks arena. Aliases: Cupid Stunt

Read more about JDS on Last.fm.

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Diverted

Diverted have rapidly established themselves as one of the most innovative electronic acts around through their live monthly residency at Ali B’s long running Air night where they have been the house band since early 2007, playing alongside the likes of Minuit, Bastila and The London Breakbeat Orchestra. With each show, their sound has constantly evolved through the regular addition of new musicians and vocalists. Songs are often written and then road tested in front of the loyal Air crowd on the same day, before ultimately being recorded and put on the shortlist for their forthcoming album.

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Ed209

Signed to Hardcore Beats, Ed209, the west London breaks producer/DJ has come along way since the days of dodgy pirate radio and Jungle. Spinning from the tender age of 14 he now finds himself playing regularly at heavyweight events such as Raindance, Best Of British, Breakbeat Connection, Innovation, Essence of Chi, Trigger, and Back To The Old School, not to mention all the parties abroad and the pyrotechnicradio.com and Breaks fm shows that he manages to maintain.

Read more about Ed209 on Last.fm.

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DJ Chamber

"He's a tune digging, beat juggling, groove scratching, vinyl faking, money making dirty hibbadyhop bad boy. DJ first and producer second, Chamber knows what it takes to rock a party. He deals in only the finest breaks, dnb, hip-hop and anything else he can throw into the mix to get the body moving and soul shaking." - Blix Chamber's mad skills behind the decks have seen him play at venues up and down the country alongside artists such as Atomic Hooligan, The Freestylers, Ed Solo, Lee Coombs, A Skillz, Baobinga, Rennie Pilgram, General Midi, Adam F, ID and The Breakfastaz to name but a few.

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Peo De Pitte

Peo De Pitte aka Peo Häggström hails from the city of Stockholm, Sweden. After moving to London Peo have
also been running his very own label FlatOut Records, the main home for releases of his two aliases
Peo de Pitte and Haggstrom. His trademark combination of rare groove beats and cutting edge synth action has resulted in making Peo
one of the most exciting new producers to emerge. With remixes and releases on labels including U&A,

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Rennie Pilgrem

Son of a jazz trumpeter, Rennie started life playing tenor saxophone and sitting with his Father’s various bands around Southern England. Later he formed various funk bands playing sax and keyboards.. After making rudimentary House music on the wrong kind of drum machines with soon to be Rhythm Section members Ellis Dee, Richie T, and Nick Newton, they had interest from (amongst others) the new British house label Guerrilla.

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