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Hedflux is DJ/Producer Steve Young.
Steve has been sewing his DJ oats up and down the country for nearly 15 yearsunder various pseudonyms. You could say it all started at the age of 10 when hebecame obsessed with making compilation tapes for his pre-pubescent buddies, butit was probably the early 90s when he started playing out at local gatheringscalled "Discos" that he actually learned to mix.
Beginning with early house and rave music, his teens took him through techno andhardcore and eventually on to liquid drum & bass which he played obsessivelyfrom 95 to 2000. But with the new millennium dawning, the old sounds started toseem ...well, old ... and he grew bored of D&B and generally lost faith in dancemusic altogether. For a while he concentrated on learning the art of musicproduction, focusing mainly on ambient and chill-out sounds. However in 2001,during a Ram Records night at The End in London, he discovered BREAKS (thankyou, Klaus!).
Steve created Hedflux as his Breaks moniker and started DJing again, in andaround London, whilst shifting his production focus from chill-out stuff tofatty bombatty breakbeat badness. In one of his first serious productionefforts, he won a remix competition for New York band Misfilter, with his remixof "A Place for You".
In March 2008, after waiting almost a year for its release, his first single'Music is my Weapon' hit the streets and has been "tearing roofs off" across theworld ever since. Like a kind of 'consciousness broadcast', the transmission hasattracted like-minded souls to respond with offers of kind words, great music,and amazing opportunities, including an invite to DJ on Annie Nightingalesprestigious Breaks & Beats show on BBC Radio 1.
You can catch Hedflux DJing regularly in Norwich and Peterborough where he isresident DJ at Psychedelic Breakdown and frequent guest at the long runningnights STUFF and Twisted Skunk. His DJ sets involve an energetic blend oftech-funk, breaks, tech-house and electro, tightly knitted together with anemphasis on deep psychedelic vibes.
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Member Since: 4/30/2006
Band Members: Hedflux, Ableton Live, Cubase 4, Native Instruments Battery, Massive, Kontakt
Influences: Breaks, Psytrance, Tech-house, Electro, Psy-chill, World Music, Glitch/IDM.

In no particular order: Trentemoller, Dopamine, FarTooLoud, Rex, Introspective, Audiojack, Digitalis, Headroom, Zen Mechanics, Sam Hell, Bluetech, Evan Marc, Shpongle, Younger Brother, Kaya Project, Shadow FX, Nagual Sound Experiment, Tipper, Ott, Murcof, Pink Floyd, Terrence McKenna, Bill Hicks, Bruce Lee, David Lynch, Buddha, Ian Xel Lungold, quantum physics, mathematics, outer space, inner space, hyperspace, consciousness expansion, psychic experiences, psychedelic artwork, mushrooms, Ayahuasca, source energy, law of attraction, DJing, sunny festivals, intimate nightclubs, dreams, open-mindedness, empathy, understanding, creative resonances, good friends, good food, dancing, love, peace, my two cats and my gorgeous wife!

Sounds Like: tech-funk, breaks, psychedelic, deep, driving, groovy ...
Record Label: Sinister Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gunclub at Number one on Beatport

yep - Gunclub is at number one on beatport. And I didnt even have to get my mum to buy 50 copies ;-) :D Big thanks for the support!
Posted by Hedflux on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:18:00 PST

Gig dates and other news ...

Greetings peeps! Just wanted to put out a communication with some updates on stuff, and what i'm gonna be up to in the near future. First up, if you didn't catch my DJ mix on the An...
Posted by Hedflux on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:49:00 PST

Check this out ....

http://www.myspace.com/thetimestretchersThese bad boys have put together an awesome little video mash-up to the sound track of "Music is my Weapon" - it uses cut up scenes from the film Tron. Go...
Posted by Hedflux on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:24:00 PST

Tips for making fat breaks

Greetings! The good lads at Soundstosample.com asked me to write an article on 10 tips for producing fat breaks, and so I finally got it finished at the weekend - please check it out ... http://sound...
Posted by Hedflux on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

Hedflux on Annie Nightingale this Saturday

Greetings! I'm well chuffed to say that I have been invited to do a mix for none other than the first lady of breakbeat - ANNIE NIGHTINGALE!!!Things have moved pretty fast; I submitted the 30 minute m...
Posted by Hedflux on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:16:00 PST

Another spanking M&TH CD Review ....

Thank you again, DJ Mag :)--------------------------------------Minimal and tech-house are officially the new electro, so it's no surprise that a slew of sample collections are coming to the market to...
Posted by Hedflux on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:28:00 PST

New Track

New track up on the mypsace played called "Nonstop". Please check it out and leave comments :)The tune will be getting released by the lovely people at Breakin Even records with a remix from Ben Hash ...
Posted by Hedflux on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

Music is my Weapon Reviews

"Music is my weapon" is slowly diffusing out there into the minds and record bags of DJ's all over the place ahead of its release next month. The main man Jimmy Mofo over at nuskoolbreaks.co.uk had th...
Posted by Hedflux on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:58:00 PST

Minimal & Tech-house CD Reviews

I'm chuffed to say that Computer Music and Future Music magazines have both given "Minimal & Tech-house" outstanding reviews!! Here's what they had to say:FM"Those of you looking for real cutting-...
Posted by Hedflux on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:48:00 PST

MIMW Promo released

Hey up :)The promo of "Music is my Weapon" has finally been sent out. If you are one of the lucky few to get a copy, let me know what you think :)The track will be released on digital only, and comes ...
Posted by Hedflux on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:16:00 PST