The very first monthly Break Inn party featuring Against the Grain head honcho Skool of Thought.
SKOOL OF THOUGHT
The driving force behind the award winning Against The Grain & SuperCharged record labels and club nights, home to the likes of the Freestylers, Krafty Kuts, Splitloop and of course Skool Of Thought. He is the guy responsible for the enormous Paplo Gad “When I Was A Yout”, Groove Armada “Superstylin” and Beastie Boys “Fight For Your Right” breaks bootlegs. Described by IDJ magazine as “an underrated genius” for his Heavy Weight Breaks album and recognised by DJ magazine as helping form the “nu skool breaks” scene. Skool Of Thought is now set to release his debut artist album “Random Acts Of Kindness” on Against the Grain in October. It’s time for a lesson from skool!
Around 8 years ago whilst flicking through some dusty vinyl in a Brighton record store, Skool Of Thought had a chance meeting with a certain DJ known as Krafty Kuts. After establishing a mutual respect for breaks the pair decided to get their heads together and start a club night to showcase new music and new talent. SuperCharged was born with the dynamic duo as resident DJs and the who’s who of the emerging breaks scene as guests, the night would later be recognised as a fundemental part of helping form the scene we now know as “breaks”. SuperCharged continues to run week in week out and last month was voted 21 in the top 50 club nights in the world. “If dance music is in decline then the 400 strong clubbers who turn up to SuperCharged every Wednesday missed an important meeting” added Source Magazine.
From this success Skool Of Thought and Krafty Kuts launched two record labels “Against The Grain” & “SuperCharged”, two labels to cope with the volume of booty shaking music the pair had install! With Skool Of Thought as label manager they released a string of club smashers and enjoyed a succession of number 1 hits in DJ magazine’s beats & breaks chart. They won best new label at the 2003 Breakspoll Awards and later went on to sign the Freestylers. Last year the labels went in to overdrive with the Freestylers “Push Up’ single hitting top 10 in the 5 countries, most notabley in Australia where the song hit number 2 in the pop charts making it the biggest selling breaks tune ever with over 100,000 copies sold worldwide!
So when Skool Of Thought was not busy running club nights and record labels he was making the transition from DJ to producer with huge tracks such as “Sound Check” and “Feel The Music” and mixing the monumental “Heavyweight Breaks” album, all of which hit number 1 in DJ magazine’s beats & breaks chart and clocked up some serious sales. Fast forward to 2006 and Skool Of Thought is close to completing his debut artist album with studio partner Ed Solo for release on Against The Grain in October. The album takes a more musical and organic approach to breaks and promises to inject some soul back into the scene with it’s heavy dub reggae influences. “I’ve really enjoyed helping pioneer the bassline breaks sound but feel the need to explore more musical influences whilst retaining a dancefloor sensibility, much like Roni Size did with Reprazent a few years ago” explained Skool Of Thought.
PRESS ON SKOOL OF THOUGHTS & HEAVYWEIGHT BREAKS:“This is a scene and a sound quite like no other and SuperCharged’s Skool Of Thought rules triumphant” 5/5 DJ magazine
“powerful, bass-heavy belters from most of the major players on the breaks scene. My advice, kids? Take a break from Skool.”
8/10 DJ magazine
“Speaker busting, ball tingling, body rocking breakbeat with a line up that reads like the who’s who’ of what’s hot on the scene right now.” 5/5 Knowledge mag
“If you’re in to filthy raw breakbeat then this is for you, tearing simply tearing.” 5/5 IDJ
“This sets out to represent the sounds of respected Brighton breaks night, Super Charged. Kicking off with ‘Sound Check’, the work of residents Krafty Kuts & Skool Of Thought, it charges straight in with heavy b-lines. Hard but funky it takes in respected artists from Player One and Soto to more recognisable names including Tipper, Plump DJs, FreQ Nasty and Ils.
Heavy indeed.” 5/5. SEVEN
“A quality peak-time mix that never lets you down.” Large magazine
“Skool Of Thought is an underrated genius” IDJ
DISCOGRAPHY:
Mix Albums:
Skool Of Thought presents ‘Heavy Weight Breaks’ SuperCharged
Skool Of Thought & Void ‘Life in Brighton’ SuperCharged \ Stompaphunk
Skool Of Thought presents ‘Heavy Weight Breaks 3’ SuperCharged
Singles:
Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought ‘When I Was A Yout’ SuperCharged
Skool Of Thought ‘Funky Town’ SuperCharged
Skool Of Thought ‘The Devil’ SuperCharged
Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought ‘Feel The Music’ SuperCharged
Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought ‘Loud Noise’ SuperCharged
Krafty Kuts v Skool Of Thought ‘Sound Check’ SuperCharged
Skool Of Thought ‘Devastate’ SuperCharged
Skool Of Thought ‘World Of Music’ Filth
Skool Of Thought ‘Turn it up’ Trigger \ Botchit Breaks
Remixes:
Groove Armada ‘Superstylin’
Beastie Boys ‘Fight for your right’
Freestylers ‘No Replica’
Pressure Drop ‘Spirits Fall’ One Eye
Kosheen ‘Hide U’ DMC (DJ only)
Echoic & Ransom ‘Seven Of Nine’ SuperCharged
La Luna ‘To The Beat Of The Drum’
Spence ‘Hyperian’ Pure Funk
Hard Candy ‘3 Days’ Catskills
