My Year In Hard Dance

Hard Dance Top Trumps

Gigs Played: 80 ish

Tracks Released: 5

Countries Visited: 2

Biggest Crowd Played To: Cream Aug Bank Holiday

Longest Set: 3hrs

Compilations Mixed: One - Out Jan 19th 2009

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JP & Jukesy

What's been your biggest achievement of the year?

Finally getting the events side of things off the ground. It had been on the agenda for us for ages & to see it all come together at the Custard Facorty in August was great for us. We have to say a massive thank you to both Jimmy Dean from Xstatic & James "Valex" Jackson for all the help on the first event. Roll on the Deprivation 5th Birthday with Xstatic on December 13th

What moments will you never forget?

Each year there are always stand out events over the calander. As ever this year has been such, both the weeknders have been amazing... Creamfields was quality, as it has been for the last three years, Tidy Norway & the Xstatic Garden party are also worth shouts for great gigs...

Who's been your favourite newcomer of the year?

Jimmy Dean has been kncoking out some great tunes and wicked warm up sets around the country. After years of hard work its good to see Valex getting the exposure he deserves with his array of tracks and cheeky remixes. Adam M has had a great year too with HI-Oktane doing well on both event and label front's

Who's been the artist of the year for you?

Production wise Paul Maddox & Dom Sweeten have been right on the ball with countless amazing tracks (as every year!!!). Some new great prodcuers have been emerging this year too, Dave Owens, James Nardi & Frank Farrell have all been on fine form. DJ-wise we have seen some amazing sets from the likes of Andy Farley, Ian M, Karim & Paul Glazby

What's been your favourite label of the year?

It would be shameless to say our own label so we would have to say that both Tidy & VC have had a great 2008. Sam Townend took a very brave move in the summer to move onto a new format to release music to the masses and fair play to him as it has been a HUGE HUGE success. It's paved the way for other labels to follow suit & hopefully will get the music out to the masses again.

What do you think has been the best track of the year?

Hands down has to be 'Echelon' by Curve Pusher AKA Dave Owens. Slick production, bags of energy & a great hook have made this tune massive for us in the second half of 2008

What's been your favourite event of the year?

Hard House Academy was great in October, that venue is simply amazing. But for a few reasons we would have to say TW14 in March, it just pipped it for us and it was yet another superb weeknder put on by Tidy

What's the funniest thing that's happened to you?

We had a long weekend of Brighton on the Friday then London & Nottingham on the Saturday. To cut it short that weekend ended up with us having 3 flat tyres over two differnt cars. It was'nt funny at the time but looking back now it was pretty comical turning up to the last gig of the weekend after a very very slow drive up the M1 with the space saver tyre firmly attached to the front of the car.

What do you have planned for the next year?

A big push with our Events at the Custard Factory, coming up in feb we have a very exclusive 8hr set from the King of Hard House - Andy Farley. Expect special back to back sets with his from the likes of Steve Thomas, Paul Maddox, Pete Wardman + many many more. Dj wise we have just a great new team behind us at Tidy helping us with our bookings so it's looking to be a great 2009... Oh and we really cant wait for the return to Magna in March

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