Candy, hailing from France has over 3 dozen records released over the past 10 years, generally focusing on breakbeats with later releases fusing in techno into the tracks. This mix is a perfect example of some of his talents recorded live on December 20th, 2005 using Fruity Loops or FL Studio. This set has been [...]]]>

Candy, hailing from France has over 3 dozen records released over the past 10 years, generally focusing on breakbeats with later releases fusing in techno into the tracks. This mix is a perfect example of some of his talents recorded live on December 20th, 2005 using Fruity Loops or FL Studio. This set has been in constant rotation in our players for the past 5 years, and would love to share the goodness with you. It’s a tad over 70 minutes long and contains a great selection of tracks that can be found from his vinyl releases.

Find out more about Candy at his Myspace Page

See you in 2017 is what PCP etched on the edge of the record of their many releases. True innovators in their sound, they hold the title of putting out the first Hardcore track in 1989 as Mescalinum United – We have arrived, getting some notice by Lenny Dee in New York to start off [...]]]>

See you in 2017 is what PCP etched on the edge of the record of their many releases. True innovators in their sound, they hold the title of putting out the first Hardcore track in 1989 as Mescalinum United – We have arrived, getting some notice by Lenny Dee in New York to start off his Industrial Strength record label, and a remix treatment by Aphex Twin. Since then, members Marc Arcadipane, Slam Burt, and Miro Pajic have continued to push boundaries of dance music whether it be minimal techno, hardcore, breakbeats, or jungle to raise the bar for further producers. I’d argue that some of the releases still sound as fresh today as they did 18 years ago. SLEIZURE has been pushing the PCP sound since the very beginning and this live set from 1993 captures some of the sounds from their many sublabels and aliases that they produced under.

Find out more information about PCP, their sublabels and artists at http://www.planet-core.com

SLEIZURE pays their respect to PCP with their set PCP DESTROYED MY LIFE

No this is not an android devoid of sentiments and emotions, he is a perpetrator of tribal rhythm generated from the crystal heart of micro chip technology. Master of translating the rhythmic pulse inherent to the crystal into the positive beat so appreciated by the dancefloors of our time. Crystal Distortion aka Simon Carter has [...]]]>

No this is not an android devoid of sentiments and emotions, he is a perpetrator of tribal rhythm generated from the crystal heart of micro chip technology. Master of translating the rhythmic pulse inherent to the crystal into the positive beat so appreciated by the dancefloors of our time. Crystal Distortion aka Simon Carter has been involved in the electronic music industry from the early years of the 1990′s first putting out an EP on Moving Shadow records under the alias Earth Leakage Trip. He was involved with the infamous Spiral Tribe throwing massive events at Stonehenge and Castle Morton, and still puts out music to this day under various aliases such as the Crystal Distortion moniker, Gear Shifter, and Havoc. The magic that goes along with Crystal Distortion is his ability to work the music in his many live sets that he has performed at. Loops and layers hypnotize the listener creating a frenzy that no one else comes close to recreate.
We’re unsure when this tape was released but can only assume its from 1997 – its a splattering of breakbeats and hard acid techno, just a subset of this mans many talents.

If you like this, we did a showcase on Crystal Distortion on our 2007-06-30 Crystal Distortion showcase show on SLEIZURE.

Lucky 7′s bring us to our 7th Frozen Meat Ends podcast on SLEIZURE and we come back with a live set from the Banditos based out of France and Montreal Canada. Formed in 1999 by two artists Pierre Emmanueal Braux and Sebastien Atoch they have been consistently utilizing this mechanism to express their musical [...]]]>

Lucky 7′s bring us to our 7th Frozen Meat Ends podcast on SLEIZURE and we come back with a live set from the Banditos based out of France and Montreal Canada. Formed in 1999 by two artists Pierre Emmanueal Braux and Sebastien Atoch they have been consistently utilizing this mechanism to express their musical taste. From then onwards they have been producing rousing electronic music, mixing in samples of films, voices and instruments that make each of their appearances a mind capturing (boggling) experience.

The mutual understanding between the two musicians is reflected in the way this hypnotic duo musically communicates with their public. Their live performance blends Electro, Breakbeat and (Minimal) Techno influences, bringing strong vibrations on the dance floor. In time their sound has become more round and basses have become deeper.

With this, I’m going to release a live set recorded on July 7th, 2007 known as lukcy 777 which features unreleased tracks and upcoming tracks from their release Headcleaner that came along later in the year.

This is a truly magic live set, and we here are sleizure are excited to share this with you. For more information on the banditos please check out www.banditos.org and don’t forget to come back to www.sleizure.ca for more rare mixtapes, live sets and old archives of our radio show.

Welcome back to the SLEIZURE Frozen Mat ends podcast – 3rd generation of Sleizure over the past 7 years. This time we’re gonna get a bit trippy and focus on an incredible artist from the Netherlands who unfortunately is no longer with us as, Curley Shoop. At the age of sixteen he released his first [...]]]>

Welcome back to the SLEIZURE Frozen Mat ends podcast – 3rd generation of Sleizure over the past 7 years. This time we’re gonna get a bit trippy and focus on an incredible artist from the Netherlands who unfortunately is no longer with us as, Curley Shoop. At the age of sixteen he released his first record on the DJAX label (D.I.C.E. – rubba dice stylin).

In 1995 he made the move to London. Although a far cry from what he knew from the free party scene in Europe Curley would flourish in the diversity of the music in London. New influences were creeping into his Dj sets, breakbeats, drum and bass, the London style. I don’t think there are too many recordings from his DJ sets from these times, in fact I don’t think you could capture it on a tape, you just had to be there, those that were there know exactly what I am talking about, some things you just can’t capture in a recording.

Curley had the utter ability to ignite a dead party, to whip up a dance floor into free flow mayhem. He never looked the part, a black guy in a predominately white hardcore scene in a funny hat and flared trousers, but he was still somehow the coolest geezer in the building, everybody wanted to talk to him, everybody wanted him on the decks, to hang out with him. Probably some of his finest moments DJ’ing was in those warehouses in London, there he would create his voodoo magic on the wheels of steel.

A lot of people who had not been out to Europe could not understand what he was playing but they loved it. It was a combination of the Spiral sound, the Dutch sound and the London sound all mixed in and mashed up, it was truly unique.

In 1997, Curley now just twenty four years of age was a proud father happily in love and with his music seriously taking off. By now his DJ gigs were constant, playing out in London and back home in Holland as well as Italy, Germany and France; his records were also now starting to come out in a steady stream. After always releasing on other peoples labels and as he was always wanting to push forwards he decided together with Barbara to start their own label Kibra Hacha. The first release on this label was to be his final one in his lifetime.

After spending Christmas together in London with his new family, Curley & Barbara set off to drive to a big party in Rome Italy for the New Year of 1998. This was to be Curley’s final set. In the early hours of the third of January whilst still out in Rome Italy Curley died suddenly in bed of a heart condition he never knew he had. It shocked us all and sent tremors throughout the party scene in Europe. Many tributes were made and several huge memorial parties were made in his honor, in Holland, England and Italy. One of the finest had been taken away in the prime of his life with everything to live for.

Some stars light up the night sky brighter than others, they give off more energy, sometimes those stars will burn out quicker because of this, but those are the stars you remember.

Spoken at his funeral, his friend Brett Young said this: Within our creative dance culture there are few people with the active energy and dedicated commitment necessary to keep the scene fresh, vibrant and at the cutting edge. Curley possessed all these powers and spread them like a virus, infecting all who crossed his path with a positive feeling and uniting us all in confidence for the future

So with this being said SLEIZURE is proud to present a lost Curley recording recorded in May of 1997 in Italy, it’s 45 minutes per side, and spans a variety of genres and artists. Quality is a bit bad as its from cassette, but please spend the time to listen to this musician who defined his style as the ultimate straightness.

Check back for more recordings on www.sleizure.ca

If you like this, we also did a show containing similar sounds on 2006-04-02 – THIS IS SLEIZURE

Shying away from the mixtape end of things we’re going to focus on Nebula II, a hard hitting act that came onto the music scene in 1991 with some killer breakbeat rave anthems that still hold their weight nearly 20 years later.

The duo first came to light in 1991 with Seance (featuring the devastating [...]]]>

Shying away from the mixtape end of things we’re going to focus on Nebula II, a hard hitting act that came onto the music scene in 1991 with some killer breakbeat rave anthems that still hold their weight nearly 20 years later.

The duo first came to light in 1991 with Seance (featuring the devastating rave anthem Atheama on the b-side) which was released on Reinforced Records. The following year saw a steady flow of inspired breakbeat rave tracks, such as Flatliners, C.O.D. Rider, Peace Maker, X-Plore H-Core and two stunning remixes of their debut Seance / Atheama release.

Nebula II’s first P.A. was at Kool Kat in Nottingham, followed by a Christmas gig on the 23rd of December 1992. This was a very large event which also featured live performances from 4 Hero / Manix / Rufige Kru plus DJ sets from Kemistry & Storm, MRB, Goldie, Shot 1 & Coz (aka Nebula II), Cutz, Expression & Holocaust.

From the success their releases Joe & Richard, along with MC Rimz & Dancer Peter ‘E’ started off the North’s first hardcore club in Doncaster. The Warehouse (BYO) became one of the best venues in the country.

Nebula II then moved into techno & psy trance. They set up Celestial Records with A Guy Called Gerald in Manchester. Their first release “The Positive EP” was a collaboration between Richard, Joe, his brother Mark and Tony Thomas who joined Nebula II along with Paul Smith.

After a few releases the newly expanded Nebula II set up the Volt company which then set out on mission to release the finest & purest techno releases possible. Over 100 releases came out of this company in the next three years with artists including Arcana, Spy, Coca, Force Of Nature and of course Nebula II.

Nebula II’s next venture was to set up a party organization in Nottingham to outlet the local talent and perform their own music. The first major party was Inner Trance at The Ballroom. Dave Clarke, Thomas P. Heckmann, Shot 1 and Coz played to over 1300 people in Nottingham’s biggest techno party to date! More followed with Paul Smith setting up Fusion which combined Techno & Drum & Bass.

The next phase was of course a brief step into the world of drum & bass. Nebula II produced several records for Mickey Finn’s Urban Takeover & alongside MC Magika won the Diesel Nu-Music 2000 award for best breakbeat artist (voted by legendary label Moving Shadow). They also held numerous events with Nottingham’s own Jungle master MRB.
We managed to capture a recording from the event Illusion in 2004 that lets you hear their tracks in their full glory, with a bit of updating of modern sounds. Do enjoy.

If you like this, check out the SLEIZURE – 2005-12-13 0ldsk00l set.