When I arrived, the club was bouncing to the sounds of De La Soul being spun by Jonathan Wall, who always likes to take the warmup set whenever Fuzzy bring out the big guns. He is however very good it at, having played opening sets for a long list of famous DJ’s. What I always like about Jonathan’s sets is the variety, he sticks to a genre or theme but manages to nicely circumvent and work around it playing tracks that you wouldn’t normally expect to hear. He played a few wickid tunes and had the crowd worked up nicely for the arrival of The Breakfastaz.

Relative newcomers to the breaks scene the Breakfastaz are the hottest thing out at the moment with a string of successful releases and remixes on all the big breaks labels not to mention being voted best breakthrough act at the Breakspoll Awards last year. As of yet they have not built up the name or pulling power of some of the breakbeat heavyweights a fact evident in the only medium sized crowd (the second room was closed off and there was plenty of room to move on the main floor). Name or not, the quality is certainly there hence why I was able to spot a few Sydney breaks DJ’s in attendance, even Auxiliary made the trek up from Newcastle to see the boys.

For me, the set they played was everything that breaks should be mixing equal parts funk and fury. Evidently not stuck on one particular sound they managed to squeeze in solid examples of all of the mass of influences that makes nuskool breaks such an interesting genre, from ragga to rock and from trance to techno you could hear it all. There was definitely a London feel to their sound though with all the nice ragga and garage influenced tracks you would expect from people involved in the London hip-hop scene (the boys worked making hip-hop, garage and R&B before moving to breaks) Evil 9’s – Restless went down a treat as did the ever popular breakbeat remix of Outta Space. Tight but creative mixing, interesting drops and sudden but effective changes of pace all proved they are as proficient behind the decks as they are behind the mixing desk.

Only two of the trio were present for the show, and their energy behind the decks was also refreshing. They were getting into it dancing and fooling around and you could see that they were really enjoying themselves. They clearly love what they do, something which comes across in the sound and certainly makes the punters more up for it, when Midnight came on the whole crowd started singing along with them.

Although they were both active for the full two hours it appeared to be Froe playing a slightly more hip-hop inspired, party oriented mix for the first hour and Merf bringing out the ultra heavy shite for the second hour including Atomic Hooligan’s new hit Just One More, a cranking mix of Turn Me On and the new Freestylers and Pendulum collaboration Fasten Your Seatbelt.  Both were equally skillful behind the decks pulling off every mix without a hitch even when they had the other one sticking his arm in to tweak a filter.

The quality of the music made the 2 hour set seemingly float by and before I knew it Hijack’s favourite closers The Impossibles were scratching and rhyming over the last couple of Breakfastaz tunes. In a cool twist the final tune was dropped, a chunky number with a nice morphed bassline but when it got to the break they wound up the tempo only to drop it in again as a wicked Drum and Bass track which had everyone going mental for the last 5 minutes. The floor was certainly a touch emptier after the Breakfastaz left and although I missed most of their set I’m sure The Impossibles lived up to their reputation and kept YU pumping till daybreak.