Cat No: NB016
Artist: Temper D
Released: January 8th 2010

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

1: “Nu Skool Robbery”

2: “Nu Skool Robbery (Ingen rmx)”

Paul Reset’s notes:

I’ve been a huge fan of Temper D’s work since back in 2002 when I heard his amazing “Project Mayhem” track and over the year’s he’s consistently delivered top quality drum n bass (including an affiliation with Raiden’s Offkey imprint). In the past year or so however he’s branched out a bit style wise and now produces a bit of everything – breaks, house, dubstep etc. So for the first Nerve Breaks outing of 2010 I’m chuffed to have him on-board with the big chunky breaks of “Nu Skool Robbery”. It’s a bit of a monster with big chunky drums and rumbling sub and showcases another side to his production talent.

If you’d like to hear more of Temper D’s output then head on over to this guest mix he put together for us earlier this month. With a reputation already in place as one of the finest drum n bass dj’s around this mix also shows his diversity in switching between tempos with ease.

On the remix tip we’ve recruited Edinburgh’s Ingen. He’s been dazzling Edinburgh crowds for the past couple of years with his live electronica sets. He’s taken Temper D’s original and twisted it into a slice of dark n doomy dubby techno influenced breaks. You can catch Ingen live around Edinburgh and at his residency at Split at Cabaret Voltaire. He’s also signed to Carbon Logic so watch out for more material from him in the near future!

For our first guest mix of 2010 we’re very happy to welcome Temper D.

With a back catalogue of top quality drum n bass releases on labels such as Concord Dawn’s Uprising, Offkey and his own Temper D Productions he’s now branching into the world of house, dubstep and fidget house. Now signed to Cut La Roc’s Rocstar imprint and with a bag of hefty beats in his arsenal it’s looking like 2010 could be a big year for him!

For now, he’s put together a cracking 35 minute mix for us showcasing his latest productions featuring everything from drum and bass to dubstep and fidget house.

If you’d like some of these beats on your MP3 player or turntable why not pick up Temper D’s “Wonky Glasses EP” on Standard Audio, the absolutely huge “Jump Around” on TDP, and keep an eye out for his “Phat Slang” EP on Rocstar and the “Bring The Bass EP” on Electrostimulation in early 2010. He’s also made his Nerve debut on Nerve Breaks 016 with “Nu Skool Robbery”.

For more info check out http://www.temperd.co.uk/.

Download:

Temper D – Guest Mix for Nerve – January 2010

Listen:

Tracklisting:

1. Prolix and Temper D – Mr Kabba
2. Cooh – Frogger
3. Temper D – Wanna Say
4. Temper D – Supreme Race
5. Temper D – Unknown Teacher
6. Temper D – Gangbanger
7. Temper D – Wouldn’t Expect It
8. Temper D – Fear and Hatred
9. Temper D – Level Checking
10. Brandon Miles and Tricky Pat – Pip Squeak (TDP forthcoming)
11. Brandon Miles and Tricky Pat – Radio X (TDP forthcoming)
12. Temper D – Phat Slang
13. Kanji Kinetic feat Shiftee Mover – Splatterbass (Temper D Remix)
14. Temper D – Jump Around VIP
15. Blue Motion, Brandon Miles and Tricky Pat – Sulphur

Cat No: NB015
Artist: Jammin J
Released: November 15th 2009

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

1: “Fall”

2: “Fall (Secret Society rmx)”

2: “Fall (Error Response rmx)”

Paul Reset’s notes:

For the 15th release on Nerve Breaks, we’re switching up the styles again! Edinburgh’s Jammin J delivers “Fall” – a chunky amen number coming in at 150BPM. The tough beats are overlayed with smooth jazz licks and keys and some bowel troubling sub bass sure to fill the floor. As part of Edinburgh’s “Riddim Tuffa” collective you can catch him playing dubstep, breaks and drum n bass across Scotland.

On the remix tip, first up we have the kings of J-Tek – Secret Society. They’ve removed the jazz factor and upped the darkness with this, a track that meets somewhere in the middle between house and old skool jungle tekno – brilliant stuff!! They’ve also put together a crackin J-Tek and DnB mix exclusively for us so make sure to get that on the Mp3 player and in the ears.

Secondly, we’ve got Glasgow producer Error Response on remix duties. His “Zen” album impressed us so much that we were desperate to have some of his works on Nerve Breaks and he hasn’t let us down with this remix! Lovely downtempo bizness is the order of the day here.

Further info:

Jammin J on Myspace
Secret Society on Myspace
Error Response on Myspace

Cat No: NB012
Artist: Phuturelabs
Released: 2009

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

1: The Herd

2: Foregone

3: Childhood

4: What’s Behind Door 23…

Paul Reset’s notes:

After Basepair’s EP on NB010 featuring tracks from his archive between 1998 and 2001, we decided we’d go back in time once again and resurrect these tracks from the Phuturelabs archive.

Phuturelabs was a collaborative project between myself and Scott English AKA The Noisy Minority. We made our debut with “Code 420″ on NB004 and worked on these tracks around the same time in 2000-2001 also.

“The Herd” is a moody downtempo breaks track featuring an inspiring sample from the legend that is Bill Hicks. The other three tracks take things down a darker route with the beatless “Foregone” leading the way. It’s moody ambience and evil drones throw a dark atmosphere over the EP while “Childhood” is erm..a tad strange even by our standards. Nothing really to say other than give it a listen.

“What’s Behind Door 23″ closes the EP and it’s more dark downtempo breaks. I was never really sure about the flute in this but I love the muffled drums and glass smash samples so we decided to have this on the EP.

We always talked about working on more Phuturelabs material but never got round to it, the darkness may yet return!

Cat No: NB009
Artist: Paul Reset
Released: 2008

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

1: Wake Up

2: “Self Sufficient (Stabilizer rmx)”

3: “Self Sufficient (Dubwise Selective rmx)”

4: “Dark Dawn”

Paul Reset’s notes:

I decided to bring Nerve Breaks from the grave in 2008 with an EP of my own tracks that had previously come out on vinyl but weren’t available anymore. The first track “Wake Up” was originally released on Breaks4Ever coupled with an AMB remix which was then featured on one of Distinctive’s brilliant Y4K mix CDs. It’s a big chunky breaks track with nice ravey stabs and a bowel troubling bassline.

Next up it’s two remixes of my track “Self Sufficient” – originally released on Backroom Records. The original isn’t here unfortunately as the file was lost – I’m still looking for it (after all these years) and hopefully it’ll feature on another EP of bits and bobs from me on NB later in 2009. To the remixes – first up is Stef Stabilizer’s remix – a lovely slice of progressive breaks with a kinda early morning/really late night type vibe about it. Secondly, Dubwise Selective delivered a lovely old skool-esque remix with a garagey bassline.

To finish up the EP I dug out a track from the archives called “Dark Dawn” – this was originally a remix of Martin BSE’s “Skeeb Dut” for Space Industries. It’s a bit ambient, a bit eerie, a bit moody and a bit dark. Inspired heavily by Future Sound of London’s “ISDN” album.

Cat No: NB008
Artist: Subscience / Hedrock Valley Beats
Released: 2005

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

A: “Plaedoh” – Subscience

AA: “Darklight (Subscience remix)” – Hedrock Valley Beats

Paul Reset’s notes:

I’ve already given a bit of background info on Subscience on the NB007 notes so I won’t go over it again. Needless to say – after the amazing remix he turned in for that release – I was keen to have more material from him on NB. I snapped up Plaedoh as I thought it was an amazing bit of breaks – lovely, clean drums, nice bass, quality atmosphere and so on. I had planned to have this as a vinyl release, my distributor however had other ideas. They were initially keen on the release and then went a bit strange – asking if we could remove the “ravey” stabs. Amusingly these days they’d be asking if we could rave it up even more…aren’t musical fashions fun.

Neither myself nor Tom were keen to change the track to keep a distributor happy so we put this out as the first MP3 only release on NB.

I still love the track as much as the day I first heard it, Tom’s gone on to bigger and better things with his Konx-Om-Pax project, working on video and artwork for labels like Warp and artists like Jamie Lidell and Hudson Mohawke and I highly recommend you check out his stuff.

For the flip, Tom had produced two remixes of HVB’s “Darklight” from NB003. This one was my preferred version, a nice stripped back electro-esque number that keep the atmosphere of the original but completely changed the vibe.

Artwork to follow….

Cat No: NB007
Artist: Gridlok
Released: 13th January 2003

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

A: Solarium

B1: Electric Chicken

B2: Electric Chicken (Subcience remix)

Paul Reset’s notes:

Obviously Gridlok is mostly known for his brilliant drum n bass productions, but here he dips his toes into the world of breaks! He was keen to experiment with other genre’s (as he does very often these days) and the amazing “Solarium” was the fruit of those loins. One of the best breaks tunes I’ve ever heard and to make things even better – Griddy then dropped “Electric Chicken” – a chunky slice of electroesque beats!

I’d recently met Tom Scholefield aka Subscience, a young student at the Glasgow School of Art – his productions really impressed me so I asked him to do a wee remix and he did a belter of a job! He’s now moved onto bigger and better things and calls himself Konx-Om-Pax these days, making videos for the likes of Jamie Liddell etc – I highly recommend you check out his work!

Cat No: NB006
Artist: Contax
Released: 2003

Tracklisting – click track title for 320kbps MP3 download

A: “Hit List”

AA: “Hit List (Paul Reset mix)”

Paul Reset’s notes:

Dan (Contax) was working on some amazing new breaks tunes and I signed this badboy up within minutes of hearing it. I also thought I wouldn’t mind a wee bash at remixing it! Quality bassy breaks are again the order of the day and I was really proud of my remix, although it never came close to the original!

The artwork was designed by usual Nerve designer Nick at Yuva.TV.

(oh and I’ve nicked the artwork from Rolldabeats temporarily until I get my own versions online)

Cat No: NB005
Artist: Paul Reset
Released: 27th January 2003

Tracklisting – click track title to download 320kbps Mp3:

A: “Garbage Lifestyle (Gecko rmx)”

B1: “Garbage Lifestyle (Original)”

B2: “Garbage Lifestyle (Jengaheads rmx)”

Paul Reset’s notes:

Another of my creations on the mighty Modplug Tracker! A big chunky slice of dark breaks with the hoover noise – what more can ya ask for! To erm lighten the mood a little I decided to get some remixes done. First up was Gecko – who was a friend of another breaks producer (the name escapes me at the moment) and he turned in a cracking uppy breaks number with a big fat electro type bassline (as in electro electro – not electro house). Glasgow Dj’s the Jengaheads were also drafted in and I think they did an amazing job – defo, for me, the best mix of the pack. A brilliant slice of breaks with the original hook actually turned into something a bit catchy! The Jengaheads no longer work as a duo but Dj Mash has now gone solo and is doing some great things production, dj wise and radio wise – so check him out.

The artwork was designed by usual Nerve designer Nick at Yuva.TV.

(oh and I’ve nicked the artwork from Rolldabeats temporarily until I get my own versions online)

Cat No: NB004
Artist: Paul Reset vs The Noisy Minority
Released: 4th November 2002

Tracklisting – click track title to download 320kbps Mp3:

A: “Code 420 (Hoista rmx)”

B1: “Code 420 (Original)”

B2: “Crisis” – Paul Reset

Paul Reset’s notes:

After a chance meeting while both working for a cable TV company in Glasgow, I formed a good friendship with Scott (English, AKA The Noisy Minority) and we launched a site in 1999 called Phuturetech. The site’s purpose was to host dj mixes in streaming real audio (remember that!) and it did quite well – we had some fairly big names submitting exclusive mixes (Praga Khan and DJ Zinc amongst many others!) but in the end hosting became a problem and we closed the site.

So as well as that we also worked on a bit of music together and this track was the fruit of a fairly drunken session. Scott started the track and had the main structure and hook etc – I just kinda polished it up, added strings etc and Scott has admitted that the Milli Vanilla break was his idea!

Anyway – moody, dark breaks is the order of the day on “Code 420″ and to this day is still the favourite track that I’ve worked on, Annie Nightingale even played it and said very nice things about it! Here’s a wee clip of her playing it (cheers Scott!).

We drafted in Hoista to kinda cheer it up a bit and his remix is a bit of a belter – big chunky breaks bizness! The final track on the release – “Crisis” is a really doomy downtempo number from myself – Kemal later remixed it dnb style to great effect on NERVE005.

The artwork was designed by usual Nerve designer Nick at Yuva.TV.

(oh and I’ve nicked the artwork from Rolldabeats temporarily until I get my own versions online)