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DJ Fresh relaunches Breakbeat Kaos with Buunshin collaboration
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 28 January 2022
DJ Fresh has relaunched his Breakbeat Kaos label, and today releases new single ‘Dancing In The Dark’, a collaboration with Buunshin.
Launched in 2003, by merging Fresh’s Breakbeat Punk with Adam F’s Kaos Recordings, the label released early singles by acts including Pendulum, Chase & Status and Sigma. It stopped releasing music in 2012.
Explaining the decision to relaunch the label now, DJ Fresh tells CMU: “Breakbeat Kaos is an ethos, it’s become legendary within the world of drum n bass and breaks after helping launch the careers of people like Pendulum, Chase & Status, Sigma, Brookes Brothers, Camo & Krooked, Nero and myself. But in 2010 declining physical sales put us in a place where we were forced to compromise on the platform we could give the releases”.
“We wanted to rival the push that went into records on the majors and give this music a real chance of success in a world where we were going – especially at that time – against the grain”, he continues. “After my health recovered [following cancer treatment] I vowed to get back to the source, the place in music I found brought me the most happiness. I realised the landscape had changed and that with the right team this could be the perfect time to pick up where we left off”.
“Having been working in AI and in the engineering space I could see opportunities with the tech we use to connect with music fans in new and exciting ways”, he adds. “And with a whole new batch of music and some of the original team – and my manager Amanda [Playle] at Decade – I’m super excited about making some new music with new artists I’m connecting with. It’s time”.
Watch the video for ‘Dancing In The Dark’ here:
