Skool of Thought unleashed an exclusive set for JJJ’s Mix Up program 30/5/09. For those in Australia who caught it, half ya luck, for everyone else maybe try here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/239148276/Skool_of_Thought_Triple_J_The_Club_-_30.5.09.mp3

He also got asked back to deliver Triple J’s Friday arvo DJ set in June, easy boy…

Pecoe over at Breakzlinkz stumbled across this ol’ Krafty Kuts mixtape whilst cleaning out his attic the other day - it’s a mix that Krafty did for Mixmag back in 2001. While we hate to dwell on the past this mix doesn’t feel like its aged a bit…

http://www.breakzlinkz.com/2009/05/krafty-kuts-instant-party-mixmag-mix.html

Shy FX has been a fixture on the drum’n'bass and jungle scenes for a decade and a half. His ragga-infused productions have seen him earn underground credibility and pop-chart succes simultaneously. Expect a night of jump-up party beats as he’s joined by MC ID on the mic.

Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton.
£5 NUS / £6. 11pm - 2.30am

Shy FX has been a fixture on the drum’n'bass and jungle scenes for a decade and a half. His ragga-infused productions have seen him earn underground credibility and pop-chart succes simultaneously. Expect a night of jump-up party beats as he’s joined by MC ID on the mic.

Tune into NSB Radio Friday the 5th of June as they broadcast live from the Against The Grain room at Brown Alley in Melbourne, Australia. They’ll be streaming 6 hours of non stop breakbeat goodness from the likes of Deekline, Skool of Thought, Klaus ‘Heavyweight’ Hill and Nick Thayer.

NSB will be firing up the transmission live and exclusive on NSB radio from 2:30pm (UK time) and will go through to 9pm that night. For those in Australia that’ll be 11:30pm - 5:30 am (for those elsewhere you’ll have to work it out for yourself).

This is the first ever live NSB broadcast from Australia. Make sure you drop by www.nsbradio.co.uk as they’ll have the chat going from the booth as well as an in-booth webcam.

This is gonna be a huge night!!! Best be listenin in yeah?!?!!!

Deekline & Wizard and Ed Solo & Skool of Thought have provided a bangin’ soundtrack to a pretty bangin’ surf flick in the way of Australia’s Surfing Life’s latest DVD ‘250′. The vid features the likes of world champs Mick Fanning, Mark Occhilupo and Steph Gilmore tearing it up off the coasts of Australia and Indonesia to the sounds of some damn-fine breakbeats. Surfing freakshow Ozzie Wright (pictured) going nuts to ‘Baila Baila’ is all-time. For those in Aus, do yourself a favour and go grab a copy… and maybe send a couple to yer mates OS while you’re at it.

Nick Annand & Greg Fleming AKA Deekline & Wizard have spent the last five years building a reputation as one of the foremost production outfits in electronic music. With a dizzying array of club smashing hits already under their belts, the release of their 2nd album, “Back Up, Coming Through!”, on the world renowned Against The Grain records is set to cement their position as the premier dance-floor duo that they most definitely are.

DJ Deekline came to prominence with his era defining top-ten anthem, ‘Don’t Smoke The Reefer’, which sold by the truckload and effortlessly placed him at the vanguard of the Two-step, Garage and Breakbeat movements. Greg meanwhile was carving out a career as an in-demand studio wizard (hence the name?), working with the likes of Xpress 2 and The Chemical Brothers, and gaining notoriety for his unswerving drive and deft production abilities. After a quick aside - ‘Get Dirty Baby’ as The Booty Bouncers, - Nick & Greg unleashed an astonishing long player, ‘Breaks, Beats & Blondes’. Weighing in at a fulsome thirteen tracks the album was notable not only for its stylistic breadth, taking in Electro, Reggae, Two-step, House and Breaks but also for its heavy use of vocals from the likes of scene players Yolanda and Spoonface, giving a more human depth to the set. Championed by the Dance music fraternity it opened up a new chapter in Breakbeat, as the scene’s emphasis changed from tracks for a sweaty backroom boys club to music with real soul and sex appeal.

Further singles followed for both Botchit & Scarper and Nick’s own Rat Records imprint plus acclaimed remixes including Armand Van Helden’s ‘My My My’ which was a Zane Lowe Tune Of The Week and the Prodigy’s ‘Out Of Space’ which scored a number one on the German charts.

Whilst constantly delivering club smashing action and in between spates of Nick going out on the road and Greg topping up his studio tan, the pair have been working non-stop on their sophomore set ‘Back Off Coming Through’, described by themselves as the album that lets everyone know that they’ve been around and they really know what they’re doing, it certainly takes no prisoners. Driven to make uniquely thrilling music that shakes you to the core, the duo have covered all bases from Eastern sounds of first single ‘Dancehall Thrilla’ to out and out floor quaking joints. Refining their production style and adding even more musical layers to the melting pot, the album features vocal turns delivered by Top Cat, DJ Assault, Wonder Kid, Yolanda and gospel singer called Vic Bynoe, making it all the more obvious that Deekline & Wizard’s love of vocals shows no sign of abating.

Nick’s take is as candid as ever “Nowadays a lot of dance music has got a very short shelf-life and for me vocals give it that extra little element to keep your attention and it keeps me interested in a tune, if I hear a whole set of tunes without melodies or vocals I get bored. I think the vocals enable you to take your sets on a bigger journey, but it’s a thin line to be able to really use vocals in a dance track so that people will still play it.”

Greg is similarly forthright about the importance of a good vocalist “It’s personal preference, some people don’t like vocals, club types, but for me and Nick they’re essential, you have to give a tune an identity and a story. The main thing for me in working with vocalists in the studio is that they have different ideas of melody and the whole process of working together is when the magic happens, bringing a vocalist in adds musicianship, it helps gel the track together so it sounds classy like old tracks used to do and you don’t get lost in that whole digital thing.”

Out now on Against The Grain Records and crossing vast stylistic planes with the unflinching swagger of a bare knuckle boxer, ‘Back Up, Coming Through’ is stunning evidence of a production duo at the height of their mercurial powers.