Hoffman
Harking from the sleepy suburb of Salisbury, UK, Hoffman started his musical journey as a young high school kid with his Commodore Amiga computer.
Writing endless amounts of music in his favourite software, Pro-Tracker, he dabbled with computer game music back in the early 90′s. An early love of electronic music through artists like Kraftwerk and Jean Michael Jarre, meant a natural progression through to Rave and underground music was inevitable. This journey lead him to his first set of turntables where he mastered the art of mixing Techno. He held a 6 year residency at his local night club Freedom Sound with his fellow DJ Markus where they pushed the boundries of their DJ performance by using multiple turntables, laptops and effects.
Further progression came from the emerging Nu-Skool Breaks scene in early 2005 when Hoffman released his first breaks track, Everybody on Unstable Label. The tracks anthemic sound took the scene by storm getting massive plays from the top names in breaks. Shortly after the release, label boss Era asked Hoffman to join the management of Unstable Label and the pair continued to drive the party breakbeat sound.
During this time with DJ pal M0del101, the pair created dance floor devastation all over the UK and in Europe with their party breaks sound. They also hosted one of the most popular radio shows on the now multi award winning NSB Radio.
When label boss Era left the fold, Hoffman put the label on hiatus. During this time Hoffman made a return to his roots in the Demoscene and his old Commodore Amiga. Once again firing up the ProTracker software, he applied all that he learnt from Techno and Breaks to push the limits of the machine further than he ever did before and has won multiple competitions as a result. He also released his 8-Bit Jungle music disk, an hour long jungle mix produced on the Amiga, which has been well received across the scene and beyond.
But now Hoffman is back, bigger and badder than before with the newly re-vamped Unstable Label. He now hosts the Unstable Radio show on NSB Radio on the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month, 7pm – 9pm.
SaVannaH
SaVannaH, quoted by some as being “The Queen of Tearout Breaks”, has built a reputation within the scene for her skills on the decks and no holds barred sets.
Coming from a heavy rock background, & branching out into a bit of indie every now and again, it was seeing The Prodigy supporting Oasis at Knebworth 1997, that really changed the musical path she was on.
Growing up in a small town in Yorkshire, with zero scene of any kind, it was when she went to study in Manchester that really opened her eyes to the eclectic mix of music out there, which she fully embraced – a different genre for each night of the week!
She started out mixing old skool drum n bass and was still frequenting rock clubs regularly. It was clear that her music of choice had to be tougher then the norm. Gradually as her tastes changed, it became more about melodies and soulfulness and when the liquid funk scene was emerging in Manchester in 2000 she was bang on it.
She dabbled a bit in breaks, but not enough to get fully involved, and none of the tunes she bought really captivated her like drum n bass. It wasn’t until she went along to legendary night “Fuse” at the Roadhouse in Manchester that she first heard tearout breaks, and was struck by its full on toughness, yet with beautiful melodies and professed “This is it… This is the music that is in my soul… and THIS is what I’m gonna mix”. From there she has never looked back.
She’s previously held residencies at “Payload” in London, “Subfunk” in Liverpool and “F(r)action” in Southampton playing alongside many of the scene’s biggest names. She’s headlined many all girl nights up and down the UK and achieved her goal of headlining at “Fuse” alongside partner in crime Hoffman.
She played a stormin set on the Solent Stage in Glade 2009 and after a couple of years away from such deep involvement in the scene, returned with a full on Sunday rinse-out on the Archangel stage at Waveform 2011
Now working on new material with Hoffman and as one half of Drumfire, they a force to be reckoned with. Accepting no half measures and producing just for the shear fun of it… Huge tunes alert! – Watch this space!!
Subsquare
Subsquare, aka Bent Stamnes, is an experienced music producer from Oslo, Norway. He’s previously known from the duo Transistorbass (breaks, tech-step, drum’n'bass) as well as Boombox, a trio of producers from Norway which created several house and breakbeat hits in the Norwegian club scene in the early 2000′s.
He has produced music since the 90s, starting with trackers on the Amiga and PC. He has played at festivals and clubs such as Club ID and Studentersamfundet in Trondheim, as well as the Elektrostat festival in Oslo.
Under his Transistorbass label, Bent has licensed his music to both movies and TV shows, including an award winning surfing documentary and MTV Italy.
He is also known within the “demo scene” as “Gloom” and has made music for some of the biggest and most known groups and demos to date.
His forthcoming Unstable release will see him taking on Hoffman’s Revision 2011 music competition winning track, “Yeah!” and applying his unique Norwegian bass stylings for the remix.
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