About Warehouse Wax
In the early 1990′s a new genre of urban style dance music emerged from an already popular and ever growing rave culture in the UK. It was hardcore in its purest and earliest form. Producers who were former B-Boys started sampling from hip-hop’s heritage and injecting sped up funk breaks, interweaving them with all manner of craziness including old reggae licks, uplifting piano riffs, dirty techno stabs, samples from kids TV shows and even a certain cat who told us the dangers of our public highways!!! It was this almost unashamed experimentation that gave the music freshness and a feeling of raw energy the likes of which had never been known before.
Carved out by teenagers sweating it out in bedroom studios, rattling out a few hundred white labels and selling them to underground London record shops from the back of a van. A multitude of self propelled musical missionaries inspired by the party, creating music for the party and each one of them believing the sentiment that “Hardcore will never die”. By 1992 the genre had taken the nation by storm. It was a magical and euphoric time for those who experienced it, however it was short lived and in the constantly evolving musical revolution that was taking place, this sound was soon forgotten.
A decade later Warehouse Wax was launched as a spearhead label for the reincarnation of a genre of music that spawned so many others. Including Jungle, Drum & Bass and happy hardcore!!!
The original idea to start a label dedicated to the sounds of early 90’s breakbeat driven hardcore was conceived by John (Vinyl Junkie) and Simon (Darkus) in 2002 and shortly afterwards they teamed up with the legendary Austin Reynolds of Suburban Base fame. Together they recorded a couple of tracks, which would eventually become Warehouse Wax 001. Soon after Darkus left to set up his own label called Hardcore Projektz leaving control of Warehouse Wax to Vinyl Junkie who over the next few years would resurrect long forgotten artists like Phuture Assassins, Nebula II, Orca and Sub Love, as well as pushing the sounds of some talented new producers. This sound would become known as Hardcore Breaks…
Between 2003 & 2008 Warehouse Wax released 12 records on vinyl, some of which also pushed the early sound of Tearout Breaks and featured artists like Ed 209, Control-Z and Backdraft. Now, after a short break Warehouse Wax have re-launched themselves into today’s digital marketplace. Keeping with the Old-Skool vibe that they still have great passion for, but also pushing forward with a new sound. A sound that is currently gathering momentum in the UK… Known to some as Future Jungle and to others as 140 Jungle or Jungle Breaks. Here at Warehouse Wax we don’t care what you call it, its just great music to us… Bass heavy music with a breakbeat as its driving force…
