That Domu letter is something else. Fair play to him for doing that. What is he doing now for work and stuff?
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Domu came up to play at our night in Aberdeen many years ago and was a great guy, he DJed at my mates bday on the back of it for nothing. He has made a bit of a comeback to releasing tunes in recent years, but no DJing I don’t think. Guessing he’s got the love back for making music, but keeping it as a low key side project.
This was one of the first tunes I thought of when I saw this thread
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This mix is the absolute bollocks
Reckon I’ve listened to it at least once a month since it came out
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Balearic broken beat?
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Classics
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That got hammered at the time.
Yes very well put, I saw Marc Mac play at Co-op and he didn’t play much broken beat but was weaving in and out of boogie, disco and hip hop which gave the broken beat tunes extra emphasis when they came in. Still one of the favourite DJ sets I’ve heard to this day.
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Remember seeing a couple of the Bugz play at one of the Electric Souls nights Electric Chair put on out in Frodsham. They played an amazing boogie set in some weird basement that looked like it was carved out of the cliff.
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Wow. Incredibly eloquent. Hope he’s found something to give him his mojo back. Great he’s started producing again
I heard about that venue, sounded amazing
This comp gave you a good idea of the Bugz influences:
Bugz In The Attic - Life:Styles (Compiled By Bugz In The Attic)
Url: https://www.discogs.com/master/95250-Bugz-In-The-Attic-LifeStyles-Compiled-By-Bugz-In-The-Attic
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I’m down for pretty much anything Atjazz puts his hands on.
Even some Bruk covers
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This was a big one at Eyes Down in Manchester:
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What’s Kelvin doing these days?
Not sure what he’s been up to recently, but he had a midweek thing with Phil Wainright in Prestwich at All The Shapes for a while.
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I loved it. I was a little bit of a latecomer, discovering it via SPW. Deffo a London thing. I felt like the only DJ playing it in Liverpool at times (although I’m not daft or arrogant enough to think that’s actually true). I never really listened to other DJs, I just bought the records. I had a direct line to Goya distribution via a friend who worked there so got the records and promos for cost price - which was the closest I ever got to getting promos.
Gilles did a series of different genres, picking 20 key records from each scene. His broken beat one should be a decent intro…
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I really disliked broken beat and tended to swerve those nights at plastic people but Samurai seemed to cross over in a big way, all through 2005. I remember it blowing up on the pirates and just hearing it everywhere. Took ages to id. “What’s that one with the space invader effects?” 
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Broken Beat and “Jazzdance” became a mainstay of what we were selling at Eat The Beat in Bristol for a couple of years before we closed.
Anthony Tombling Jnr hooked us up with Goya and was pals with Domu, Nick Weston linked us on the Especial stuff before it got licensed in the UK by Kudos and the arrival of a new Goya box of promos for a while generated the sort of excitement a delivery of Jungle and DnB from Vinyl would have a few years earlier.
FutureBoogie ran a night called “Seen” which was the primary dancefloor outlet for the music in Bristol, run by Joe 90 and Dave Harvey, they pioneered the sound in the South West and I remember some great nights with Attica Blues, Afronaught, Domu, Keidi and Dego all playing in the space of a year and a half or so. We even made it on the bill when they had Carl Craig come to town.
Tunes wise many of the standout moments have already been mentioned, Samurai wasn’t quite the west London formula but has endured for me and I rarely play a decent dancefloor gig without either that or Trouble Man “Strike Hard” in the bag. Shout out to Mark Force “Gypo” too which for me was the epitome of the Goya sound, rough, raucous and very Ladbroke Grove:
Lately there has been a bit of a resurgence in the sound in Bristol with DJs like Boogie Cafe, Sentinal 396, Katie Novo, Nuff Pedals and others breathing new life into the bruk sound
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