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Get out latest Release... Rogue Robots > 'Off My Face In 97' with Mixes from D-Funk, Zero B, Llupa & Nitenoise.





Up:Start Music...



Up:Start Music 001. (OUT NOW)
d*FUNK - 'Bust This EP' feat MC Manic.

d*FUNK feat MC Manic - 'Bust This' (Original vocal version).
d*FUNK feat MC Manic - 'Bust This' (Original Dub).
d*FUNK feat MC Manic - 'Bust This' (d*Funk's lowslung Mix).
d*FUNK - 'Drop Out' (Original Mix).
d*FUNK - 'Sonic Boom' (Original Mix).

Up:Start Music 002. (OUT NOW).
D*FUNK - 'Drive Ya Speaker' / 'Serious Shit'

d*FUNK - 'Drive Ya Speakerz' (Original Mix).
d*FUNK - 'Serious Sh*t' (Original Mix).
d*FUNK - 'Serious Shit' (Hariku vs Dirty Inc Mix).

Up:Start Music 003. (OUT NOW).
D-Funk - 'Party People' / 'Up In My Head'.

D-Funk - 'Party People' (Original Mix).
D-Funk - 'Up In My Head' (Original Mix).
D-Funk - 'Ghettoblaster' (Beatport Only).

Up:Start Music 004. (OUT NOW).
Crackerz & Jam - 'This One' / 'Big Up Girl'.

Crackerz & Jam - 'Big Up Girl' (Original Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Big Up Girl' (D*Funk Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Big Up Girl' (Rogue Robots Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'This One' (Original Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'This One' (DJ Ottone Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'This One' (Stormski Mix).

Up:Start Music 005. (OUT NOW)
The Verses EP.

D*Funk & Hariku - 'Get Ramped Up'
D*Funk & Alien Nation - 'Attitude'.

Up:Start Music 006. (OUT NOW)
BKP - 'Little Bit Closer'.

BKP - 'Little Bit Closer' (Original Mix)
BKP - 'Little Bit Closer' (D-Funk's Down With The Kids Mix)
BKP - 'Little Bit Closer' (Crackerz & Jam Mix)

Up:Start Music 007. (OUT NOW) ..D-Funk - 'Short Dick Track'.

D-Funk - 'Short Dick Track' (Original Mix).
D-Funk - 'Short Dick Track' (Dub Version)
D-Funk - 'Short Dick Track' (Down With The Kids Mix)

Up:Start Music 008. (OUT NOW)
Crackerz & Jam - 'Ghetto Girls' / 'Rocket' [DJMag Breaks Money Shit - April '10].

Crackerz & Jam - 'Ghetto Girls' (Original Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Ghetto Girls' (D-Funk's Get Out Of Jail Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Ghetto Girls' (Stuff Ya Disco Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Rocket' (Original Mix).
Crackerz & Jam - 'Rocket' (D-Funk's Not That Bassline Mix)
Crackerz & Jam - 'Rocket' (Yoof's Aciiid Funk Mix)
Crackerz & Jam - 'Rocket' (Alien Nation Mix).

Up:Start Music 009. (OUT NOW)
..Rogue Robots > 'Off My Face In 97'.

Rogue Robots - 'Off My Face In 97' (Original Mix).
Rogue Robots - 'Off My Face In 97' (D-Funk's Work It Out Mix).
Rogue Robots - 'Off My Face In 97' (Zero B Mix).
Rogue Robots - 'Off My Face In 97' (Llupa's And Again In '05 Mix).
Rogue Robots - 'Off My Face In 97' (Nitenoise Mix).

Up:Start Music 010. (OUT NOW)
..Philly Blunt > 'Fee'.

Philly Blunt - 'Feel' (Original Mix).
Philly Blunt - 'Feel' (D-Funk Mix).
Philly Blunt - 'Feel' (Alien Nation Mix).

Up:Start Music 011. (Release date - 9th July 2010)
D-Funk > 'Bitchslap' / 'Let Yourself'

D-Funk > 'Bitchslap' (Original Mix).
D-Funk > 'Let Yourself' (Original Mix)

Up:Start Music 012. (Release date - Mid Aug)
Stuff Ya Disco > 'Sneaky' / 'Spook'

Stuff Ya Disco > 'Sneaky' (Original Mix).
Stuff Ya Disco > 'Sneaky' (D-Funk Mix).
Stuff Ya Disco > 'Spook' (Original Mix).
Stuff Ya Disco > 'Spook' (Hariku Mix).

Up:Start Music 013. (Release date - Mid Sep)
D-Funk > 'Brainwashed'

D-Funk > 'Brainwashed' (Original Mix).
D-Funk > 'Brainwashed' (Philly Blunt Mix).

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Reviews so far...

D*Funk feat MC Manic - Bust This (Upstart Music 001)

Jump-start the party

If this is anything to go by, Bournemouth’s Doug Masters aka D*Funk may be one to watch this year. Having kick-started the new label ‘Upstart’ with the brilliant MC Manic on mic and its infectious wonky hooks, the feel good vibes of this party piece defiantly require some plays from the back of a carnival float this summer.
4/5 - Mixmag review (March 2009)

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D*Funk - Bust This (Up:Start Music 001).
Here's another new label, emanating from D*Funk and the excellent Break Da House night in Bournemouth. There's a tasty gnawing tinpanny sound to the topline on 'Bust This', which gives it a Paul Woolford feel, and MC Manic from the Freefall Collective busts out some nice rhymes in a rub-a-dub stylee. 'Drop Out' boasts tougher breaks and a warping bassline that underpins garagey beats in the midsection. The "Turn on, tune in, drop out" sample adds extra trippiness, while 'Sonic Boom' is a bit techier - plumpy sideswipes and perhaps the sound of Meat Katie grunting power it to a close.
4/5 - DJMag review. Issue 472 (March '09)

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D*Funk - Drive Ya Speaker/Serious Shit (Up:Start Music 002)
Doug Masters from Bournemouth continues to show why he's one to watch. The Breakspoll Breakthrough DJ nominee comes for the second month on the trot with more quality tuneage on the new Up:Start Music stamp. 'Drive Ya Speaker' boasts a dynamite bassline wobble that's pretty dubstep in concept, flanked by pots and pans percussion. 'Serious Shit', meanwhile, is more driving and features a "serious shit" sample used judiciously before guitar reverb and a techy bass hook carry it forward incessantly.
DJMag review. Issue 473 (May 2009).

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Crackerz & Jam - Big Up Girl/This One (Up:Start Music 004)

'Big Up Girl' starts with a huge old skool hardcore rave riff before dropping into a wind-yer-waist funkathon. It's all about the huge old skool riff though, a factor that label chief D-Funk takes into account by making the riff the whole middle section of the track. It works, sounding Orbital-esque later on with additional wobbly bass, and will cross over to all different floors. 'This One' is also an old hardcore homage, even though these kids were probably in their cots when hardcore was at its zenith.
DJMag review. Issue 482.

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BKP - Little Bit Closer (Upstart Music 006)

Get closer to the speakers...

Our Australian cousins are responsible for many a breakbeat hit and this is no exception. New artist Brett Patman from Sydney has produced an absolute weapon of a tune here, with one of the most twisted dub influenced basslines this month. Tight funky beats and chirpy-bleepy melodies seal the deal. Job done.
4/5 - Mixmag review. Jan 2010.

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D-Funk - 'Short Dick Track' (Upstart Music 007)

SHORT DICK MAN! Now that got your attention! Funky breaks remix of the classic early Nineties NY house anthem of the same name. The beats rock hard so if you're not feeling the Marmite vocals then head over to the dub version. TEENY WEENY!
Trackitdown.net

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DJMag Breaks 'Money Shot' April issue 484.
Crackerz & Jam > 'Rocket' (Up:Start Music).

'There's almost a silly Sidney Samson vibe to this latest from the exciting East Anglian nubreed pairing. C&J pivot 'Rocket' around a squeaky electronic top line, sorta recalling dirty houser 'Riverside' in making the incessant squeaking the whole track, but with added neo electronic cowbells and whooshes. Label boss D-Funk reduces the squeak to just a distant sample in his dark clanging Woolford-esque metallic overhaul, and Alien Nation reinterpret superbly in a punchy, rasping, acidic, slightly bleepy fashion. Stellar package.'
DJMag 'Money Shot' (track of the month) April '10.

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'Off My Face In 97' > Rogue Robots (Upstart Music 009)
IDJ Mag / thisisbreaks.com review. May '10.

The original here is an upfront slab of speed garage style four to the floor badness, but breakbeat remixes come from the likes of Upstart main man D*Funk, Melbourne's Llupa and Nottingham's Nitenoise. All are well worth grabbing, but I'd have to say the label boss just about pips it with a rerub that harnesses much of the original's ragga-fuelled rudeness. (7/10 Jurassik - editor@thisisbreaks.com)

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TO CONTACT UP:START MUSIC:
E-Mail - info@upstart-music.com
Web - http://www.upstart-music.com

Up:Start Music is distributed worldwide by Finetunes. ..You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM's MySpace Profile Editor!..

Members:

Upstart crew:

D-Funk.
(Up:Start Music // Label Boss)
Web link - D-Funk Myspace
Web Link - D-Funk Soundcloud

Other artists:

MC Manic.
(Freefall Collective)
Web link - MC Manic Myspace

Crackerz n Jam.
(Twisted Fat Stuff)
Web link - Crackerz N Jam Myspace

Hariku.
Web link - Hariku Myspace

Alien Nation.
(Freefall Collective)
Web link - Alien Nation Myspace

BKP.
Web link - BKP Myspace

ROGUE ROBOTS.
Web link - ROGUE ROBOTS Myspace

PHILLY BLUNT.
Web link - PHILLY BLUNT Myspace

Sounds Like:

Breakbeat::Electro::Funky down-tempo Breaks::House

Up:Start Music is the new label from D-Funk aka Doug Masters. Born out of the frustration of the state of the current break-beat scene & the music industry in general with no one will to take a risk on new artists. Up:Start music will focus on break-beat lead music, ranging from down-tempo funk break-beat to tear out breaks with also some electro & jackin' beats thrown in as well, mainly in the forms of remixes.

Currently our main artist & label head honcho is D-Funk, who has previously released music on critically acclaimed & uber-cool Westway records, forward thinking electronic music label Nitrous records, Bestival main players Sundey Best Records, hot new underground house label Dandy Kid Records, impressive break beat main players Dusted Breaks Recordings & nu funk powerhouse Manmade Records.

Up:Start Music plans to release 1 original artists EP every 6 weeks or so with the label's debut release, d*FUNK's original 3 track EP, 'Bust This' / 'Drop Out' / 'Sonic Boom' being released in Feb '09. Since the first release we've hit consistently hit top 10 charts (in various genres) across many MP3 download stores such as Junodownload, DJDownload as well as picking up great reviews from Mixmag & DJMag.

To begin with Up:Start Music will be a download only label, distributed intensively across a broad number of music download web sites both in Europe & USA. But plans are to move the label on as quickly as possible & explore different mediums of release, be it traditional vinyl or other, newer mediums.