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I've been looking for an ID on this track forever. I got a mix CD from J Da Flex back in 2004 when he was doing his Underground Knowledge show on BBC One Xtra and really pushing the early dubstep sounds as well as breakstep & grime back before Mary Anne Hobbs had her famous show on Radio 1 proper. The producer does this strange panned bassline thing that I've never heard before and I've never heard this track anywhere else.

This style isn't dubstep per say, but it was part of the dark garage sound that was going on in dubsteps infancy before half-step dominated. I really liked this dark breakstep sound because producers were going crazy with amens and breaks. People like Darqwan, Search & Destroy, Markone, Toasty Boy, Daluq, etc...

Its "Mark of the Beast" by Search and Destroy, its also on the following breakstep mix (what was called back in those days eventually).

http://www.mixcloud.com/Monesh/breakste ... by-monesh/

Respect, wicked mix!

Mark of the Beast is a percy too, such a big tune!

tune is a banger

Hey thanks a lot. I've been a big Search & Destroy fan for the longest and have several of their earliest records (Freaky was my ringtone for at least a year back then and I made the original discogs submission), but I just missed this track. Youtube didn't exist in 2004 to just look up tracks from people. You just had the audio samples for the stuff that was in stock on the record store websites and this shit was not well known what-so-ever.

Kinda funny that I also asked J Da Flex about it and he commented on the track with a completely wrong name. Haha. Massive respect to that guy though.

I normally just associated the name "Breakstep" with earlier garagy type stuff like the Bingo Beats sound. The stuff in that mix that came later was always something different to me because it sounds so different than something like Go DJ or Sounds Of The Future, though I guess it fits. I used to call the later stuff UK Breaks at the time because I didn't think it really had an official name. Was a great time to be into the sounds because so many people were doing different crazy things and everyone just vibed on all of it together.

Thanks again.

Here's a dropbox link to the J Da Flex mix that I clipped this from if you're interested.

Respect man, downloading that mix now.

holy shit that freaky tune is sick. never heard it before. defo need to get it

I'm not sure where you even heard it. I can't find a sample to listen to anywhere on youtube or google.

Ah. It's the 3rd track in that sample. They only play like 32 beats. I'd rip the whole thing but all my vinyl is at my parents place a few hours away.

great mix, anyone know the tune at 31.30, between take me and prophecy?

a full tracklist of this would be live but a bit of a long ting i imagine

on topic, playing breakstep on radio next week cos i'm hyped for upcoming pinch 04-06 on the friday anyone got any percys they'd wanna hear?

Tracklist for the mix i'd done almost year ago covering those early sounds from the 2002/2005 era
https://www.mixcloud.com/Monesh/breakst ... by-monesh/

1.Skinny by Toasty Boy [Destructive Records]
2.Mark of the Beast by Search & Destroy [Pitch Black]
3.Dibble by Toasty Boy [Destructive records]
4.Our Storm by Protocol X [Storming Productions]
5.Positive by Search & Destroy [Destructive Records]
6.She by Toasty Boy [Storming Productions]
7.The Knowledge (Vex'd Remix) by Toasty [Hotflush Recordings]
8.Detox by Search & Destroy [Storming Productions]
9.Lickable by Toasty [Dubplate]
10.Slime by Vex'd [Planet Mu]
11.Cold Blooded by Toasty Boy [Clandestine Cultivations]
12.Take Me by Dub Child [Storming Productions]
13.Crux by Broken Note [Ad Noiseam]
14.Lion V.I.P.by Vex'd [Planet Mu]
15.Guesswork by Toasty Boy [Hotflush Recordings]
16.Espionage by Search & Destroy [Destructive Records]
17.Kalemba (Reso's Aguerdente Mix) by Buraka Som Sistema [Fabric]
18.The Knowledge (Vex'd Remix 2) by Toasty [Hotflush Recordings]
19.Strange Brew by Elemental & Lohan [Runtime Records]
20.One Life by Toasty Boy [Clandestine Cultivations]
21.As One by Toasty ft. Search & Destroy [Dubplate]
22.Living by Sully [Urban Grafitti]
23.Live Life, Feel It by Toasty Boy [Urban Grafitti]

I will provide a downloadlink soon