Author Archives: Shakes

Shakes starts to crack the charts

As the Shakes remix of Jurassik – Baby creeps up the Beatport Breaks chart and gets a play on Annie Nightingale’s Radio 1 show it’s all getting a little exciting in the studio.

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/269000/Baby

Supatronix Records have started a youtube channel so you can catch demos of the latest releases…

Get your hands on a free copy of Shakes’ bootleg of Beats International – Dub Be Good to Me

With a summer of anticipated releases ahead I’ve had this bass driven little gem mastered for my own sets, but I didn’t want to be selfish and keep it all to myself. Starting with one of the most iconic vocals in dance music all it took was a huge wad of bass, some big drums and…

New Shakes Tune!

Biggest Drop by I Am Shakes

Hopefully to be released this year is my new tune, Biggest Drop. I finally bought Ableton 8 at Christmas and have managed to fit in some free time in front of a computer every so often. I wanted to make a Stantons style tune with most of the bass coming from a big 808 hit under the kick, but once I started looping…

Free remix of Ripgroove

It’s been an interesting year for me, branching out as a solo DJ as the other half of Pogo (James Furness) had to do some soul searching and find his own sound. This pretty much coincided with me leaving…

Download Christmas gifts from the Stanton Warriors

Those prophets of the broken beat have once again shown their infinite humility and generosity by offering up their latest bootleg remixes to their loyal followers for free. Down at The Boom Town Blog videos are often posted with their lat…

Shakes – Radio Epidemic OUT NOW on Control Breaks

Next up on Control Breaks is first ever release from a DJ/Producer whose been making waves on the Breaks, Electro and Fidget scenes for some time now as Shakes throws out his debut in the shape of ‘Radio Epidemic’. Once part of the fabled Pogo DJs, Shakes has recently being making his own path, DJing solo at a range of events including regular guest slots at hot London night We Have Fun, at every event playing outstanding sets that straddle a range of genres.

With ‘Radio Ep…

Download the Stanton Warriors’ remix of Rye Rye’s Bang for free

Say what you will about the Stanton Warriors and their allegiance to the breakbeat community, but Mark and Dominic are out there dissolving the boundaries, finding the best in new genres and often pushing the broken beat to an unsuspecting wider audience. Being very picky about the quality and style…

Buddy Christ  

July Promo Marathon

12.07.09 - Shakes
Electro, Wobble, Dubstep, Drums & Basses

Here we go then. I haven’t done a proper mix of the stuff I like to play out for a few months, so I thought “why does a mix need to fit on a CD if it’snever going to get put on one?”
Funnily enough most of the tracks are still only ones I’ve bought in [...]

Breaks  

July Breaks Jam

05.07.09 - Shakes
Breaks

Seeing as I have been reviewing breakbeat tracks for This Is Breaks I thought it was about time I had a bit of a mix with some of the tunes I have picked up in the first half of this year. This is the result.

Breaks  

Breaky Dubby Fun

05.03.09 - Shakes
Breaks, Dubstep

Here’s some breaks from the beginning of what will hopefully be a year of breaks revival. I’ve stuck in my latest attempt at production, though it is still at the very rough stage. If anyone is interested in helping me make it good let me know.

Tracklist

Freefall Collective – System Check (Original) [Resin Records]
Drumattic Twins – [...]