Saturday 05 May 2012
11pm - 3am

The Mash Up Mix...

Get ready for a true night of Music Mash Ups! The Cut Up Boys - The UKs biggest Mash Up Djs, signed to Ministry of Sound, are ready to bring their unique brand of Mash up madness, blending Dance, Urban, Drum and Bass, Dustep and more into a night of true carnage!!!

Support from DJ DNA Deficient

What is a mash up? Its where a DJ combines the vocal from one track and puts it over the backing track of another.. and who are the Kings of the Music Mash up? THE CUT UP BOYS!

Just one of the new mash ups which will feature on their new CD out beginning of May

Some of their previous work:

Who are the Cut Up Boys?

The Cut Up Boys are one of those rare acts that can safely claim to have the midas touch. Their previous  10 albums have dominated the compilation charts with 4 of them hitting the number 1 slot, cementing their position as one of the hottest production teams in the music industry. The Mash Up Mix series, produced by The Cut Up Boys for Ministry of Sound, is one of the most innovative and commercially successful new musical franchises of recent times. Blending together a myriad of musical genres such as House, Drum n Bass, Trance, Electro, Breakbeat, Hip Hop, Indie, R+B, Hardcore and Dubstep into intricate, free flowing mash-ups, these iconic albums have been a bona fide sensation. Without exception all 9 albums released so far have gone gold and stuck to the top of the compilation charts like leeches. Having been commissioned for and produced over 200 pioneering mixes for BBC Radio 1 and performed in front of countless huge, adoring crowds at clubs and festivals, The Cut Up Boys have developed a large and growing cult following. Their reputation as “Kings of the Mash Up” is indisputible. Utterly committed to delivering the highest levels of creativity, originality and professionalism in everything they do, The Cut Up Boys are currently about as hot as it’s possible to get.

Artist Biog:

The Cut Up Boys are Nick Barnes and Matt Brooks, two DJ/producers from Dorset who earnt their stripes in the music industry during the halcyon days of British dance music. Already well known in the industry, they really started being noticed by the public when they were commissioned by BBC Radio 1 to produce a 30 minute “Cut Up Mix” for Dave Pearces drivetime show. The Cut Up Mix was broadcast every thursday from 7.30 to 8 pm and was infamous at BBC Radio 1 HQ for consistently sending the text system into meltdown as requests for information about their unique mash-ups poured in. A truly legendary series of broadcasts, over 50 Cut Up Mixes were broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and are now recognised as being seminal by music historians in terms of introducing the sound of the mash-up to the mainstream. Judge Jules was quick to recognise that a very special buzz was growing around Nick and Matts productions and, in an unprecedented move, enlisted The Cut Up Boys to produce the first 10 minutes of his massive Friday Radio 1 show. These wild “Cut Up Cuts” were an instant smash and are still spoken about in tones of hushed reverence by the dance music cognescenti. Such was the massive popular appeal of these radio broadcasts that The Cut Up Boys soon had the entire record industry on their case to make an album. Ministry of Sound were one of the very few labels to actually understand the true nature and potential of the mash-up concept and so the Mash Up Mix series was born in 2005. The rest, as they say, is Geography.

At the turn of the millennium the boys were to be found as fundamental elements of the stellar success of Slinky, the Bournemouth nightclub that turned into a global dance brand. Matt ran the Slinky record label, which was responsible for a string of massive dance hits, the million selling “Operation Blade” by Public Domain and “Fire Wire” by Cosmic Gate being just two of them. Nick ran the Slinky recording studios which was the source of an incredible series of compilations which not only sold by the bucketload worldwide but also massively raised the bar in terms of innovative mixing techniques for dance compilations, an evolution that is still ongoing with the pioneering Mash Up Mix series. Slinky provided an excellent environment for Matt and Nick to hone their almost impossibly wide range of skills by allowing them to work or perform alongside a who’s who of dance music including Paul Van Dyk, Judge Jules, Pete Tong, Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold and many many more. The relationships they forged then have continued through their recent career including the 150 “Cut-Up-Cuts” they produced for Judge Jules BBC Radio 1 show. As if such gold standard success in terms of music and radio production were not enough, The Cut Up Boys have also become one of the hottest live acts in the UK.

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