Featured Mix: Aaron Pope (SF) 26 April 2010

AARON POPE (Erase Records, San Francisco)
Mr. Pope is back once again with an ill-behaving mix on Jungo Road, whipping through 19 tracks of breaks, house & tech-funk in 68 minutes… much of it rare unreleased gems, including his own new track “All About This”… And check out his latest collab with Chad North, “Off [...]

Elite Force Re:Vamped Album Feature + Interview

Elite Force, one of the many identities of Simon Shackleton, is known worldwide for destroying dancefloors with a hybrid mix of house, techno, breakbeat, dubstep, electro and everything in between… tech-funk is one way of putting it… another is: pure quality, pure class. As a producer, Shack has been recognized by his peers as a [...]

Featured DJ: Elite Force (UK) 9 June 2009

ELITE FORCE (U&A, UK)
A few words before we delve into the obligatory biography… those who are fans of breakbeat and tech-funk have no need for a formal introduction of Elite Force – and for those who are new to the genre, there is no better artist to better sum it up for you than this [...]

Track Review: Dustbowl “Dustbowl EP 2″ (U&A)

Meat Katie & Elite Force have been working on the Dustbowl project for several months now and it just keeps getting better and better. The first EP came out in January on Lot49 and I snatched up faster than a
trigger happy meter maid. Their second effort, on Elite Force’s bulletproof label U&A, is nothing short [...]

Track Review: Meat Katie & Elite Force “Dark & Deep” (U&A)

Ah, the mighty return of breakbeat!! It was only a matter of time…
Tech-Funk maestro’s Meat Katie and Elite Force have somehow managed to find time in their busy “Dustbowl” schedule to create what is perhaps the most stand-out breaks track of the past year. No exaggeration. Just when you thought the whole world had gone [...]