Its almost 2 years since the haunting vocal and melody of "the underground", was born. It seemed that the original would be impossible to better, but John Creamer & Stephane K deliver a fantastic mix that will fit into anyone and everyone's set. They slowly work up a deep twisted groove with lots of nice percussion and good use of samples from the original track. Award winner Peter Rauhofer shows us why he has been at the forefront of underground house music for the past 12 years. Using all the right elements of the original, this drives along very nicely then breakdown half way through to leave the awesome vocal.

Regress recordings is the off shoot imprint of Made records, the origin of the highly anticipated 'Rapture' track by Lio. The A-side 'Sufi' is a haunting and spine tingling track that will make you cringe with fear and utter satisfaction at the same time. The subtley of the deep and sophisticated drum patterns are well complimented by the frightening and dissolving middle eastern effects. The chilling and perennial breakdown proves that this record is undoubltly ahead of its time. Further evidence resides in the fact that it has been licensed to the upcoming Renaissance compilation by Nick Warren and Danny Howells and the great support provided by Pete Tong on Radio 1. The flipside entitled 'Doobie', offers a more peak time effect for the dancefloor. Just ask John Digweed, who featured it on his Kiss FM show and in his regular sets ever since he received it. The driving bassline leads perfectly into one of those piano breakdowns of long lost yesterday.

Two brand new exclusive mixes of the 80's classic 'Relax' from Saeed & Palash and Coldcut! Star 69 is always changing, never standing still, and never failing to disappoint: Saeed & Palash deliver another stomping, tribal progressive mix, that filters the vocal very intelligently - this mix is not at all cheesy and will definetely fit into most upfront jock's boxes. Coldcut's is the unusual remix, which sees them use their unigue breakbeat style that has seen them go from strength to strength on their Ninja tunes label.

A 5 piece band from cornwall with mystical lyrics, driving beats and wonderful vocals. Perfect rock/dance cross-over appealing to both Pete Tong and Jo Whiley, who are both playing it. Number 8 in the Cool Cuts chart and number 14 next week in the Buzz Chart. Photek is at the controls and the man is absoluetly on fire at the moment with recent Zero 7 and Jakarta remixes. "Led zeppelin meets dance music", (John Kennedy, XFM), "outstanding" (Cool Cuts), "Very Hot" (Pete Tong).

Kaktai welcomes this new duo to the label with a new fresh pumping angle on what is commonly termed 'hard house'. Samuel E Reeve, a name usually associated with the Tidy/Hotwax sound and new partner in crime Jon Rundell (his debut release) have come together and spawned a couple of monster pieces of dancefloor energy, which could prove to be a whole new genre in itself. 'Burnin' is a slice of absolutely thumping driving kicks and bass, encompassing techier prog sounds with techno driven snippets of sound and a whispering female vocal. When heard on a system, this has been reported to literally shake clubs like Frantic, Storm and even Brixton Academy, courtesy of BK and Andy Farley. 'Killahurtz' on the flip, has a darker edge to it and the track mainly concentrates on what happens after the break. The riff tears off and has had a devastating affect on anyone who's heard it.

Star 69 continue their success with Alma Matris' 'Electrica', No.1 in Tom Stephan's chart and No. 2 in Danny Tenaglia's. A galloping record with a killer breakdown that will savage any dancefloor, we have been constantly getting requests from DJs and customers alike for this release. Head straight for Peter's NY club edit, you'll never be able to ignore it.

After a temporary absence from the studio to concentrate on expansion and relocation, the Thumpers are back in the hot seat and doing what they do best: making what is without a doubt, the most creative and in demand underground hard house there is. This time round the usual rock-solid production underpins a floor-shaking pumpathon in 'The New Style'. Big beats, growling bass, and ruff trancey stabs combined with a wicked, in ya face rap sample gives us a bouncy groove that does the job very well indeed. This is proper UK Hard House made for dancing and shaking your stick to. Some very intricate riffs and sounds laced over a stimulating bass line and some frantic epic stabs and shots blend into a climatic breakdown and a superb electro breakbeat.

Jean is probably best known for his 'Useless' track, which came out on Subversive Records and was featured on John Digweed's Hong Kong Global Underground at the tail end of 1999. Here he fuses a tough, dark driving progressive beats track with hard features. It is a fusion of Cevin Fisher and Satoshie Tomiie's best moments and has rendered most dancefloors senseless. On remix duties, Brancaccio & Aisher take the lead. Currently doing the rounds is their own remix track 'Lovely Day', which has been an 'Essential New Tune' on Radio One and is now licensed to Credence from Bedrock. These boys are in demand and it's easy to see why. The remix is a more atmospheric, techier track, which builds and builds with jerking rhythms and uplifting pads.

Nukleuz the first official solo BK release since the legendary '(Let The) Rhythm Move You' last summer, 'Domination / Go Around' cements our main man's status as the king of the (hard) beats. Two slices of maniac stomping fodder, this is the sound of the future. Relentless beats and monster hard trance riffage is destined to send the rave monkey massive into a frenzy of 'avin it mayhem from start to finish. Bigger than Godzilla and ruffer than King Kong!

'Moody' was first around over three years ago on US label Kult Records and was championed by the likes of Sasha, Digweed and Tenaglia. It is progressive, house and tribal all fused into one dynamite track, with driving percussion, tough drum programming, driving beats, hard stabs and chords and a superb male vocal, all blended together into a fierce, unstoppable groove. A track this good can only be accompanied by set of remixes that do it justice, so Junior have called upon three of the best in the business, to deliver a set across two twelve's, that will quite simply blow you away, kicking off with Pete Heller's 'Stylus' vocal. Look out for the Futureshock and Beloved mixes, out on 17th December.

"Much championed by Tenaglia on its release three years ago, this compulsive vocal house cut has crossed the Atlantic and returned with mixes by Junior's Pete Heller....we're plumping for Pete's hypnotic take, a gradually building collage of overlapping electronica, keeping all the vocals and taking them further out into space. Hard enough for fans of Stylus Trouble, but far, yes, moodier, for those vital strobe-lit moments"

A. Side : Mexicali - Guess where The Captain went on holiday this year! Somewhere at the bottom of their tenth Margarita The Captain & Tom Silk were possessed by the ghost of a Mariachi band and demonized by the sound of a Rave horn. Producing one of the most barking Tinrib offerings to date. Totally crazy - but terrifyingly catchy - you have been warned. AA.Side : Bass People - Turn it over and 'Bass People' is more what you may expect from the boys. A relentless, galloping trancer with phat synths and lovely lip-smacking kick. The Captain will be performing live at the 10,000 capacity Likity Splitz event organised by Skills on November 17th in San Fransisco. 'Mexicali' has been part of his live set since September and has been met with fantastic reactions by all. 'Mexicali' is the opening track on the new Tinrib Fish Tales Vol.5 CD album to be released on November 12th.

A. Side : Mexicali - Guess where The Captain went on holiday this year! Somewhere at the bottom of their tenth Margarita The Captain & Tom Silk were possessed by the ghost of a Mariachi band and demonized by the sound of a Rave horn. Producing one of the most barking Tinrib offerings to date. Totally crazy - but terrifyingly catchy - you have been warned. AA.Side : Bass People - Turn it over and 'Bass People' is more what you may expect from the boys. A relentless, galloping trancer with phat synths and lovely lip-smacking kick. The Captain will be performing live at the 10,000 capacity Likity Splitz event organised by Skills on November 17th in San Fransisco. 'Mexicali' has been part of his live set since September and has been met with fantastic reactions by all. 'Mexicali' is the opening track on the new Tinrib Fish Tales Vol.5 CD album to be released on November 12th.

Perfecto finally release the sought after Hernan Cattaneo and PMT mixes of the Dope Smugglaz classic 'The Word'. Both mixes add a sinister edge to the Dope's take on the Grease classic. The PMT mix was commissioned especially for the Swordfish soundtrack, the Travolta blockbuster that hit the big screen this summer, whilst Hernan has added new depths to the original manically twisted melancholic monster. The Smugglaz - Tim Sheridan and Keith Binner - are as notorious as they are famous: their beards, famous houses (Tim lives in Jimmy Hendrix's old flat) and Madonna shenanigans have earned them almost as much attention as their acclaimed programming, mixing and instrumentation skills. Deep, dark and ultimately addictive, these tracks growl.

Richard F steps forward to release this absolute gem of a house track. If you Imagine Tenaglia, Slam or Lawler in the booth, they've been layering grooves, keeping the dancefloor simmering, they need a record to take the club over the edge, its got to be raw, dirty and straight to the point. 'Cookie Dough Dynamo' is that cut - pure dancefloor destruction. It breaks in the middle to a strange but very effective vocal then POW, in comes the sexy, driving beats, which create a truly magnificent, hypnotic groove. This is the future sound of house music: meaty, big and bouncy.

Bedrock's huge 'Heaven Scent' gets a stunning and breath taking remix from the ever on form P.O.B, better known to his friends as Paul Brogden. No stranger to success, he runs his very own Siesmic label which is very closely linked to Platipus. They are due to release his album 'Essence' shortly. He has released tracks sych as 'Boiler', licensed to Nick Warren's 'In Brazil' Global Underground CD and 'The Fly', which came out on Sasha's 'In Ibiza' Global Underground CD, as well as a track by the name of 'Waah', which came out on 'Communicate - Northern Exposure 4', and all of these being picked up for license by Platipus. As you can see his credentials are impeccable and this superb remix, he has delivered of one of the biggest progressive anthems, will only strengthen his reputation as one of the best.

Steve Hill is resident at Hard House superclubs Frantic, Fish, and Convergence as well as resident at Qwench and appearing worldwide on the Tripoli Trax tour. He is also one half of remix teams Mr Bishi, Nylon and Phlash!. He has recorded and remixed for Tripoli Trax, Y2K, Tinrib, Nukleuz, Tidy Trax, Recharge, Manifesto and remixed artists from Kylie Minogue to Lisa Pin Up and the Knuckleheadz. 'Looking Back' has been remixed by Diablo, who have recently remixed 'Backward's Bitch' for Tidy Trax, and 'Grinder', and it features vocals by Barney York.

"To say this goes off is an understatement!"

The debut release from Mark Kavanagh's label was the well received 'Da Flava' by himself and Mr Bishi with a Stimulant DJ's remix which featured on 'Hard House Euphoria 2' amongst other compilations. Mark is no stranger to the Hard House scene as Ireland's biggest and finest Hard House jock. He reviews for Muzik Magazine and writes for the Daily Star, Hot Press and BBM. He is signed to Tripoli Trax and enjoyed National chart success with his 'Bad Boy 2000' and 'Hold It Right There' EPs. The 'Go Insane' package provides a trancier feel that is proving to become ever popular within the bigger clubs across the UK. Alan Pullen is a well known Irish DJ too, and works his magic here by using the most infectious of stabs that will leave you felling dizzy.

"Go Insane? The crowd went totally mental when I dropped it!"

Solar Music Ltd was formed by three previous employees of Slinky Music after it ceased trading - Stuart Wheeler (Formerly of Discomania - Germany), Paul Woodgate and Nic Carrington. 'Feel My Desire' is the first of many huge club-based tracks that the label has scheduled for release.A pumping hard trance floorfilling glowstick-waving monster of a record. The Klubdoctorz who have remixed the track, are long time DJ partners and residents of the astonishingly successful 'Curious', a weekly Saturday night residency at the renowned Opera House in Bournemouth, also the spiritual home of the globally successful Slinky.

The long standing house label Spot On present their new subsidiary label 'On Records', with a housier music policy. The first release on this new and exciting label is by Big Ron, who had huge success under various guises, including The Dalai Beats, That Green Jesus, Mr Natural and Ashram. Now the maestro has released this superb house cut, tailor made to cause the maximum amount of devastation to the nations dancefloors. The track is full of energy and pace, superb basslines, rolling percussion, wicked synths and all wrapped up with a wonderful vocal hook which is uplifting but never cheesy. The main man delivers a darker re-work on the flip in the shape of his 'Midnight Dub', which is slightly more stripped down and deeper but still just as effective.

A pumped up heavily disco influenced house workout from the same producer that brought us Essence - 'Keep on Groovin'. Salinas recordings are definitely going from strength to strength as Aquaboogie deliver a ridiculously good organic house record that explodes half way through. Spiller style drums and a well known disco sample makes this peak time house euphoria and reinstates some welcome roughness into an all too often bland genre.

Plastic Fantastic is one of the UK's longest standing and leading independent house labels. Their previous release, the classic Eagle's Prey - 'Tonto's Drum' was hammered by all the top jocks and featured on Radio One on numerous occasions. Plastic Fantastic was recently voted the UK's Best Independent Record Store at the Muzik Magazine Awards 2001. Kevin Swain and David Snell are a duo dominating the world's dancefloors with releases on Baroque, Rhythm Syndicate and remixes on such labels as Renaissance in their various guises. 'Grind' is a massive house track with dirty, filthy and darkly devastating drums and a killer booty grinding bass. It typifies the sweaty excesses of a strobe soaked dancefloor.

"It's a quality record that doesn't ever descend into the realms of mediocrity - it's big, it's deep, it's loud, it's brash, it's Swain and Snell, it's Plastic Fantastic!"

Not since the days of BT, has America unleashed a producer as talented as Austin. His slick production skills and trademark twisted house music will take this rising young star to the top. He is already a key member of the US Nu Breed and has made many a fan along the way. This track is an awesome piece of what we know as US progressive. Dark and disurbing, this 'fuel' injected baby has been arranged to rip up the joint.

Yekuana are respected artists who became known for their excellent remix of Northface's 'Entity', which was heavily supported by Sasha, featuring on his last Essential Mix back in February 1999. Yekuana have recently signed a track to Distinctive, called 'Sonic Winds'. On remix duties here are Northface, who are currently on a roll at the moment with an amazing remix of X-Trax's 'Plan '94' (out on Pied Piper soon). They are remixing for Platipus and BlackIce Recordings. Sasha played the Northface mix during his second Homelands set and then followed it with their remix of 'Plan '94'.