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."
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.
"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.
