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	<title>Against The Grain &#187; Blog</title>
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	<description>Against The Grain is the award winning record label home to the Freestylers, Krafty Kuts, Deekline &#38; Wizard, Skool Of Thought, Ed Solo, Splitloop and more. Latest news, events, sneak previews and a quick tune finder helps you track down those hard to find mp3, CDs or vinyl.</description>
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		<title>New Krafty Kuts album on Instant Vibes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oooh Krafty Kuts new album &#8220;Let&#8217;s Ride&#8221; on his Instant Vibes label is sounding very promising. Love the Wild Style graf too! Check out his mini mix / sneak preview here: Listen]]></description>
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<p>Oooh Krafty Kuts new album &#8220;Let&#8217;s Ride&#8221; on his Instant Vibes label is sounding very promising. Love the Wild Style graf too! Check out his mini mix / sneak preview here:</p>
<p><a title="Listen" href="http://soundcloud.com/kraftykuts/letsride-lp-promo-minimix">Listen</a></p>
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		<title>Breakspoll 2011 &#8211; Best Album Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big up to everyone who voted &#8220;Against The Grain Classics&#8221; as &#8220;Best Album&#8221; at Breakspoll last weekend! It&#8217;s great to see breaks continuing to rock the underground. We had a huge amount of fun selecting the tracks for that album, and we had a few proud moments too looking back at what the label and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big up to everyone who voted &#8220;Against The Grain Classics&#8221; as &#8220;Best Album&#8221; at Breakspoll last weekend!  It&#8217;s great to see breaks continuing to rock the underground.  We had a huge amount of fun selecting the tracks for that album, and we had a few proud moments too looking back at what the label and our artists have achieved too. </p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t checked it out yet, our &#8220;Classics&#8221; album was mixed by Krafty Kuts and features 29 of our all time fave Against The Grain monsters.  It&#8217;s available to download from all good digital stores including:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/242358/krafty-kuts-presents-against-the-grain-classics">Beatport</a><br />
<a href="http://ax.search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?entity=album&#038;media=all&#038;restrict=true&#038;submit=seeAllLockups&#038;term=krafty+kuts+classics">iTunes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/1573687-02.htm">Juno</a></p>
<p>Also, big congratulations to Krafty Kuts for winning best DJ&#8230; again! </p>
<p>Thanks for your support!</p>
<p>Woop woop!</p>
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		<title>Skool Of Thought @ Good Vibes, Gold Coast.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catch Skool Of Thought playing a 1.5 hour set of beats, breaks and basslines at the amazing Good Vibes festival on the Gold Coast! Date:Saturday 19th February. Set time: 12.45pm &#8211; 14.15pm Stage: Laundry Some of our favourite guests also include Erykah Badu Damian Marley Ting Tings Fat Freddy&#8217;s Drop Rusko and tons more! See [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Catch Skool Of Thought playing a 1.5 hour set of beats, breaks and basslines at the amazing Good Vibes festival on the Gold Coast!</p>
<p>Date:Saturday 19th February.<br />
Set time: 12.45pm &#8211; 14.15pm<br />
Stage: Laundry</p>
<p>Some of our favourite guests also include</p>
<p>Erykah Badu<br />
Damian Marley<br />
Ting Tings<br />
Fat Freddy&#8217;s Drop<br />
Rusko<br />
and tons more!</p>
<p>See you there!</p>
<p>http://www.goodvibrationsfestival.com.au/Goldcoast/</p>
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		<title>Thank you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! What amazing succession of events we have had recently. Krafty Kuts, Plump DJs, Freq Nasty, Freestylers and Stanton Warriors all played at our Byron Bay and Melbourne shows in the space of 1 month! Some seriously heavy partying going on there. Thank you to everyone who made it down and contributed to the electric [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow!  What amazing succession of events we have had recently.  Krafty Kuts, Plump DJs, Freq Nasty, Freestylers and Stanton Warriors all played at our Byron Bay and Melbourne shows in the space of 1 month!  Some seriously heavy partying going on there. Thank you to everyone who made it down and contributed to the electric atmosphere at these shows.  Keep checking our &#8216;events&#8217; page for details of our next shows.</p>
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		<title>Plump DJs / Freestylers / Freq Nasty &#8211; 6th Jan 2011 in Byron Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A triple bill of heavyweight DJs at the Great Northern, Byron Bay. 6th January 2011]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Plump Djs<br />
Freestylers<br />
Freq Nasty<br />
+ Special Guests<br />
Thursday 6th January 2011<br />
Great Northern, Jonson Street, Byron Bay. NSW 2481.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=18975&#038;utm_medium=Website&#038;utm_source=OzTix&#038;utm_content=GigGuide&#038;utm_term=FREESTYLERS__">Buy tickets</a><br />
Following a sell out show with Krafty Kuts in November, Against The Grain are back with a triple bill, heavyweight line up of world class superstar DJs.  </p>
<p>The Plump DJs met at Freskanova Records in London in the late 1990s and begun to engineer a new global breaks scene.  Releasing albums &#8216;A Plump Night Out&#8217; and &#8216;Eargasm&#8217; on Finger Lickin Records, they dominated dance music for years and continue to do so today.</p>
<p>Balancing underground credibility with Top 20 chart success, the Freestylers have rocked the world with hit records ‘B-Boy Stance’ and ‘Push Up’.  They have played every big festival from Big Day Out to Glastonbury, sold half a million albums and even toured the US supporting Lenny Kravitz.  </p>
<p>From the days of Breakbeat’s origins, Freq Nasty established himself as one of the scene’s pioneers, producing many of the genre’s defining moments. As Breakbeat came into its own, Freq Nasty’s tunes remained ahead of the pack.  Today his music is a powerful assemblage of Breaks and Dubstep and Freq Nasty promises to be a favourite with the Byron crowd.</p>
<p>See you on the dancefloor!</p>
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		<title>Stanton Warriors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanton Warriors return to Byron Bay. 20th January 2011.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Northern, Jonson Street, Byron Bay. NSW 2481.</p>
<p>The Stanton Warriors have succeeded in not only bucking musical definition, but have picked it up by the collar and kicked it&#8217;s ass!  They are simply the hottest act in the world of beats and breaks.  With their eclectic past drawing on hip hop, electro and funk, they have mixed up the old and the new for a unique take on breakbeat music.   With their Stanton Session’s albums and Fabric mixed CDs defining the sound of a generation, the Stanton Warriors are true legends in the making.  </p>
<p><a href="http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=18976&#038;utm_medium=Website&#038;utm_source=OzTix&#038;utm_content=GigGuide&#038;utm_term=STANTON%20WARRIORS__">Buy tickets</a></p>
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		<title>Krafty Kuts back in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, the self dubbed hardest working man in show business is on a massive world tour right now and will be touching down in Australia very soon. Be sure to check out our shows in Byron Bay, Sydney and Melbourne!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, the self dubbed hardest working man in show business is on a massive world tour right now and will be touching down in Australia very soon.  Be sure to check out our shows in Byron Bay, Sydney and Melbourne!  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.againstthegrainrecords.com/images/blog/KutzPosterWORLDv430.jpg"><img src="http://www.againstthegrainrecords.com/images/blog/KutzPosterWORLDv430.jpg" alt="" title="Krafty Kuts Tour 2010" width="388" height="905" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1863" /></a></p>
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		<title>Freestylers v Pendulum &#8216;Painkiller&#8217; Kouncilhouse Remix &#8211; video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freestylers feat. Pendulum &#38; MC SirReal ‘Painkiller’ Kouncilhouse Remix General release 7th October.  Exclusive DJ pre release available from Beatport now! Let’s rewind to 2005 when the word on the street was the Freestylers and  Pendulum had joined forces to create a dream team of heavyweight producers, and we knew something big was about to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freestylers feat. Pendulum &amp; MC SirReal ‘Painkiller’ Kouncilhouse Remix<br />
General release 7<sup>th</sup> October.  Exclusive DJ pre release available from Beatport now!</p>
<p>Let’s rewind to 2005 when the word on the street was the Freestylers and  Pendulum had joined forces to create a dream team of heavyweight producers, and we knew something big was about to happen!  Two club smashers emerged from their studios in the shape of ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’ and ‘Painkiller’, tearing up dancefloors, commandeering radio stations and catapulting albums into the limelight for both Pendulum and Freestylers.  Fast forward to 2010 and rising star Kouncilhouse delivers a truly amazing drumstep mix (that&#8217;s dubstep at drum n bass tempo) which has everyone’s tongues wagging.  Check it the video here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W762SyaITeU">Freestylers v Pendulum \&#8217;Painkiller\&#8217; Kouncilhouse Remix &#8211; Video</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/273487/painkiller_-_kouncilhouse_remix">Download now from Beatport.</a></p>
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		<title>Annie Nightingale celebrates 40 years of rocking Radio 1 with the Freestylers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annie Nightingale celebrates a remarkable four decades of music broadcasting on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday September 9th.  A special live tribute evening from 7pm (UK time) will feature a two hour documentary and concert from Maida Vale studios with the Freestylers, Fatboy Slim, Tinchy Stryder, Sub Focus, Bookashade and more. Then from midnight till [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Annie Nightingale celebrates a remarkable four decades of music broadcasting on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday September 9th.  A special live tribute evening from 7pm (UK time) will feature a two hour documentary and concert from Maida Vale studios with the Freestylers, Fatboy Slim, Tinchy Stryder, Sub Focus, Bookashade and more.</p>
<p>Then from midnight till 2am, &#8216;The Decade Mixes&#8217; will be a soundtrack of the best music Annie has played over the last 40 years and the night ends with the best of the guest mixes from 2am-4am.</p>
<p>Also on September 9th Against The Grain release the much hyped &#8216;Painkiller &#8211; KouncilHouse Remix&#8217; by Freestylers &amp; Pendulum featuring MC SirReal &#8211; tipped to be one of, if not <em>the</em> biggest dubstep tune of 2010!</p>
<p><a title="Sneak preview" href="http://www.againstthegrainrecords.com/atg_radio.html" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the Painkiller remix</a></p>
<p>If you would like Against The Grain to drop you an email with a link of how to listen to Annie&#8217;s show and a link to download  &#8216;Painkiller &#8211; KouncilHouse Remix&#8217; on September 9th, join our mailing list.</p>
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		<title>Natural Selection &#8211; individual tracks out now on Beatport</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now most of you will have downloaded the free Natural Selection mix from Skool Of Thought, and we know the DJs amongst you have been hanging to download the individual tracks.  Well wait no more as 13 unmixed, heavyweight, bass thumpers await you from the likes of Freestylers, Superstyle Deluxe, Kid Digital, Adsorb, Afghan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By now most of you will have downloaded the <a href="http://www.againstthegrainrecords.com/natural-selection.html">free Natural Selection</a> mix from Skool Of Thought, and we know the DJs amongst you have been hanging to download the individual tracks.  Well wait no more as 13 unmixed, heavyweight, bass thumpers await you from the likes of Freestylers, Superstyle Deluxe, Kid Digital, Adsorb, Afghan Headspin, Stenchman, Micheal Morph, Hexadecimal, Splitloop, Phaeleh, Jinx In Dub and Skool Of Thought.  Big tunes!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/262343/skool_of_thought_presents_natural_selection">Download</a></p>
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