Introducing:: BINO (UK)

Focus on BINO (pronounced Bin-oh)

The alias of Gary Binden from UK. One more proud addition to the prolific British Hardcore scene and a wizard of exquisite tunes. Not young enough inside the game, you can get that 90's feeling easily off his tracks." I've been producing Hardcore non-stop for the last couple of years or so, I did put together a couple of tunes way back in 1994, but they never saw the light of day, I think I still have them on tape somewhere?!"

His project name derives from his surname Binden as well as his nickname BIN or BINO at his school years back then. It's also his graffiti tag as he's also an active graffiti artist for more than three decades. As most of our friends producers, he's got into music from a very young age because of his Dad. "The first record I bought was 'Jack Your Body' by Steve Silk Hurley, that would of been 1987-88, so I would of been 11 years old. At that time I was into Hip Hop, but I soon changed my allegiance to House & started listening to any Pirate Radio that played House/Dance. I was born & raised in East London, so tuning into Pirate Radio wasn't a problem." - remembers BINO as he rewinds his memory back in the day. 
"Around 1990, breakbeats were becoming more & more common, which I loved! The birth of Hardcore for me was 1990, people used to describe the new breakbeat House sound as Hardcore House & by the summer of 90 the House part was dropped & the rest is history. The two tunes that absolutely blow me away at that time & still do were Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon & Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom!"

BINO started raving in 1991 at the age of 15 and his first rave was the legendary Raindance. Showing a mad respect to the era between 1990-1993 and labels such as Reinforced, Suburban Base, Moving Shadow, XL, Shut Up & Dance and J4M, the man like BINO has recently released a smashing 12" Vinyl EP through Hardcore Vinylists Recordings. A joint EP alongside Zhute, which is his first official vinylized work and you can grab your copies on the link above.

https://defstar.co.uk/products/hardcore-vinylists-face-off-ep-episode-3-zhute-vs-bino-4-track-12-vinyl-dcls008

"I loved every aspect of the scene - listening to only Pirate Radio - Fantasy Fm, Pulse FM, Kool FM, Impact FM Unity FM to name but a few. Record Shopping - Boogie Times, Music Power, Black Market, Unity! Flyer collecting & of course raving - Raindance, Fantasia, Roller Express, Tasco Warehouse anywhere we could dance we were there! 'Flatliners' by Nebula 2 is probably my all time fav tune"

 

For more inside his Hardcore Breakbeat, Jungle and even Techno majesty you can follow his Bandcamp page as there are countless of tracks in there. Of course one of them Nuskool soldiers to watch, sign and play out...

BINO reppin it!

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Introducing:: KEEF (UK)

As aforementioned, when it's about the new year it's also the 30th anniversary of the established UK Breakbeat Hardcore that took over the planet in 1992.

The golden era of 90s Rave that a great amount of 'secret' and unknown talents were also experimenting with production, but never grabbed the chance or were lucky enough to release anything. "I've been producing as a hobby since 1995, never released anything to label and always kept to myself of mates" says the Kent based producer KeeF. 

He's a good example that has been shining since the lockdown days productionwise, taking the right inspiration from the Oldskool scene. "I was lucky enough to be around the rave scene since '93 and I think most of my influences are from raving at Elevation/Reincarnation, Desire, Dreamscape and of course World Dance at Lydd Airport. I like to produce old skool style tunes that I think bring that vibe back - bit of hardcore, bit of darkside and done also a few jungle tunes."

"I've started on Cubase, Atari ST and a Roland sampler. I now only use Reason 12. I like to stick to the one DAW I know and learn it inside out. Don't have much hardware apart from the midi keyboard, I'm a VST aholic."

Suffice to say that it was a matter of time after a good row of releases on his Bandcamp page to get a massive remix for Sonic Fortress '91 Remixes compilation, doing a banging rework on 'Dancehall Dangerous' by Hackney Hardcore. Same time (not in 1991 though) came Section 63 Recordings and signed his first official Extended Play release.

But the action doesn't stop here. There's also a forthcoming EP of him on 459 Recordings early of this year and couple of other tracks featured on various compilations,

The Section 63 Recordings crew have a knack for digging up new school classics within their release catalogue, with this brand new four tracker from KeeF being a perfect example of that metric. We begin with the catchy vocal reloads and hardcore melodic jitters of 'Brainstorm', a fitting title track, laced with original breakbeat flavour. Next, the hardcore piano stutters and sweeping bass tones of 'Believe' keep the energy levels high, before the more shaker-driven drum slaps of 'Double Trouble' give us a more more organic feel, still of course uitilzing those classic spacey pad textures to maximum effect. Finally, 'Newson Knows' switches between lo-fi drum sampling and higher ranged vocal slices to give us a pretty outstanding exploration of the original breakbeat sound, with the constantly switching drum designs rounding off this EP with a smash.


Keef is very excited with the whole feedback already received from the community of Nuskool Hardcore and he can only promise massive bangers for the near future. Beware of that.
"The current scene for Nu Skool tunes is fantastic at the moment and I have to give a big shout to all the djs that suppport my tunes on their radio shows, a lot of them are not massive named DJs but they have been representing the scene for years, without these home DJs we'd be nothing. Shouts to : DJ HAT, vers-e-tyle, DJ Break Doctor, Dj Deluxe, Brent @ Vinyl Fanatiks, Robin @ MPS, Hardcore Vinylists Team, Guzi @ Section 63 Recordings, Ollie at 459 Records and of course GLOWKiD and the team at Strictly Nuskool Blog for doing such a great job of representing this fantastic scene."
His brand new EP is out now under the title 'Brainstorm' and you can buy/stream it on the link above. We can assure you that you will be very stoked listening to these smashers inside! One for your collection from a man that came to stay with us all delivering more releases and highlights.

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https://cygnusmusic.link/ae1n5bp

  

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Introducing:: NOISEVANDAL (UK)

Off to the north part of UK now, presenting the man like Noisevandal, a passionate producer/DJ, who likes to experiment most of his time with his hardware synths and drum machines. 

He's been collecting Vinyl records since he was 10 years old, back in the early 90s, and the sound from that time has stayed with him. Influenced by Bleep & Bass, Breakbeat Hardcore and other early 90s underground noise, he's dabbled in music production in the past. However, good things happened a year ago, when he re-set his studio up again using Ableton and growing a collection of vintage synths and drum machines from around the time of his most loved tunes from the early 90s.

This was a good boost and a good push that allowed him to recreate the sounds he loves most.

It all happened when some months ago he got a message from Pat Scott (owner of the legendary label of Ozone Recordings) saying that he liked a tune from his Soundcloud page. The rest is history. This tune's entitled 'Stay Home' and it became Noisevandal's first official release. Breakbeats combined with guitars on a mystic trip of eerie and dark vocals and pads.

It's mad but simultaneously fair enough getting a debut release over a great label like this one... This tune gets the attention needed. The reason is because Noisevandal likes experimenting with sounds in general and will always try to cook something distinguished.
After it, he's worked again with the track remixing it, doing the 'Heavins Mix' and now he's extremely glad to see this release and his music project getting recognition.
'Stay Home' is a relevant track for these days, the early days of the new lockdown and a good chance showing support to this 'new' producer, who saw the surface and is determined to offer more in the near future.


BEATPORT:
https://www.beatport.com/release/stay-home%21/3158638


BANDCAMP:
https://ozonerecordings1.bandcamp.com/album/noisevandal-feat-mac-fox-stay-home

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