Martin van Zeelandt / TCD
Hardcore Breakz Vol. 1 - 10 by Craig Scott (2022-2023)

If you are a regular to this site, you know I do love my music slightly faster, and harder. I do love everything with a decent bass, melody, and all the other bits that make a track stand out from the standard top 40 tunes. I am mainly a Hardcore Techno fanatic, but I can appreciate other styles too. And sometimes you rediscover genres you've forgot even existed, and it lights up a spark deep down inside of you. Thanks to Craig Scott, my Hardcore Breaks/Rave Breaks light has been lit, and something inside of me has arisen. And now, I am fully emerged into this largely underrated style!
Craig Scott's first mix was uploaded roughly 6 months ago, and I found it by accident. I was already following his Soundcloud channel, as I fell in love with his Hardcore Techno mixes. This new series, which he called 'Hardcore Breakz', was an instant hit! Not the success it should have been, but it was a hit in my eyes. I think I've played his first mix at least 100 times. And as of right now, I am listening to it. I am so in love with the concept of this mix series, and even though it isn't new and others have done it, Craig seems to have perfected it, and only chosen the finest tracks coming out of the scene. The finest of the finest. The crème de la crème, as the French would say!
Once I discovered this series, I started frantically look at Craig's page nearly every week, to see if he'd posted some new stuff. After the initial mix, it became my drug. I was an addict for Hardcore Breakz, and to this day I am hyped up to see new mixes emerge. He is my dealer, and I'm the junkie, waiting for new stuff!
I became addicted, and the craving was there. I've listened to all his mixes over and over, and only a week ago did the tenth instalment emerge. And I thought I would do this series justice by not writing a review of each mix Craig has done, but a combined review of all ten mixes!
Normally I am not a fan boy of anything. I don't always freak out. I've been disappointed in the past on many occasions, when you assume your 'hero' is awesome, and then you meet them, and they aren't as cool as you'd expect them to be. And I don't know Craig Scott nor have I ever met him, but his mix series does things to me. Unexpected things. Makes me feel extremely good, powerful, and energetic. He might be a very pleasant man, but it is the thing he's created I am excited about. Like a teenage girl am I sitting here, listening to his mixes. My heart skips a beat when I hear these freakishly good tunes.
Before I turn into a George Michael song, let me show you the tracks used for all mixes:
Hardcore Breakz 1
Z-Neo - Dope Enuff
Dystance - Rewindz
Z-Neo - Never Been To Berlin
Vinyltrixta - Make It Hardcore
Z-Neo - The Next Generation
Zensation - All Night Long
Z-Neo - High As A Kite
The Prodigy - Rip Up The Sound System (Paul Cronin Mix)
Z-Neo - Keanu Raves
Beardy - The Race
The House Crew - We Are Hardcore (Pete Cannon Mix)
Dragon Fly - Visions Of Rage (HWND Mix)
Gareth Monks - Power Plate
DJ H - Break Em
DJ Nexus - Techwaxer
BufoBufo - Golden Frog (Crashead Mix)
Crashead - Voidwalker
DJ Flow - Let's Go (Boizo Edit)
Z-Neo - For Your Love
Hardcore Breakz 2
DJ H - Beginnings
Yolk - Music 4 Da People (Nicky Allen Mix)
Nightmare & UFO - Fever
Lennie De Ice - We Are IE (Remix)
DJ X Cess - Music Is Moving
DJ Ham - Most Uplifting (New Decade Mix)
Amaretto - Itch
Matty B - Let's Go Crazy
Nayim & Luffy - Reach Out
Radicall - In The Shade
DJ Seduction - Surrender Yourself
Uplift - Brutal (Refix)
Settle Down - E's Restrictions
Pete Cannon - Amphetamine
Radicall - In The Air
Blame - Music Takes Me Higher (Blame Remix)
Amaretto - Black Gap
Beardy - Future Time
Blame - Check It Out (Blame Shadow Mix)
Hardcore Breakz 3
Liquid Crystal - Radiate (Sub Foundation Mix)
M27 Hardcore Junglist - Playing Games
Dave Skywalker - Asmodeus
Innercore - Rush MF
Paul Cronin - Lemme Come Again
Haze n Fader - Only You
Liquid Crystal - The Power Within (Jedi Mix)
Kefford - No More
Settle Down - Seen
Z-Neo - Reese You
Pete Cannon - Just A Dream
Borai - Kinda Dangerous
Crashead - Shafted
The Hypnotist - Hardcore You Know The Score (Innercore Mix)
Crashead - Everything
Z-Neo - So Easy
Gareth Monks - The Manix Stampede
Dave Skywalker - The Track With The Long Note
Hardcore Breakz 4
Shades Of Rhythm - Summer Of 89 (Blame & Boizo Edit)
Rave 2 The Grave - Liquid Is Liquid
Kathy Brown - You Give Good Love (Disaffected Mix)
Degrees Of Motion & North Base - Shine On
Rave 2 The Grave - NRG
Jimmy J & Cru-L-T - DJs In Full Effect (Liquid Mix)
Private Caller - Backwards
2 Bad Mice - Bombscare (Radio Killaz Mix)
Blame - Music Takes You (Boy Raver Mix)
Solardo - Enough
Techno Age - Movin On (Nicky Allen Mix)
Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensations (Origin8a & Propa Mix)
Infekto - Everything Hardcore
DJ X-Cess - Gypsy Woman
MKII - This Is
The Prodigy - Android (Afterlife Mix)
Pillz - Hardcore Bass
Adelphi Music Factory - Area 39
Sekret Chadow - The Love Bug (Remix)
Ratpack - Searchin For My Rizzla
Hardcore Breakz 5
Lennie De Ice - We Are IE (Solo & Blades Mix)
Justin Jay & Denham Audio - Swarm
L Major - Raving Cru
Rave 2 The Grave - Papua New Guinea
Swankout - Whooo!
Underheadz - The Theme
Dismantle - Street Knowledge
Mr Frog - Almax
Rave 2 The Grave - Zero B
Adam Vyt - Bad Boy
Origina8a & Propa - Channels (Warehouse Mix)
Digital Purpose - He Didn't Do It On Purpose
Swankout - Planet Rising
L Major - The Future
Suga 7 - Rave Party
Doc Zee - Don Of All Dons
Jack & Play - Notion (Boizo Edit)
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Crone Mix)
Denham Audio - Feel The Panic
Emeli Sande - Heaven i(Pyramid Mix)
Hardcore Breakz 6
Shadow Child - In Your Arms
Andy Wilson - I Need Somebody (Nefti Mix)
Clarke & East - My House Is Your House
JT Company - Don't Deal With Us (Dusky Mix)
4AM Kru - Pianos Raining Down
DJ X-Cess - You Got The Love
DJ Pooch - Dig This
Resin - Set Me Free
Darren Styles, Dougal & Gammer - Take Me Away
Case 82 - In The Rain
Clarke & East - Drop That
Cut & Paste - Give Into The Rhythm
Rave 2 The Grave - Give A Little Love
Rasco & Jonay - Addicted
Bop & Subwave - Rave I Didn't Know Was The End
Swankout - Brinin 92 Lovely
Dusky - E-Dawn
Rave 2 The Grave - My Sound
Z-Neo - 89 Voyage
Hardcore Breakz 7
Polo Lilli - I Won't Let You Go
Lucas - City Lights
E Zee Possee - Everything Starts With An E (Disaffected Mix)
Prism BRK - Area 8
Dexta & Crypicz - Together (Danny Scrilla Mix)
Beagle - Original Control
D Vibe - Power Within
MKII - Tango
Sub Fusion - Psychotic Bleeps
Amaretto - Untitled 1
New Decade - Be Ambient
DJ Seduction - Unstoppable
Z-Neo - The Presence Of Evil
Rebel MC - Get Ready
Polo Lilli - Loneliness
Nolige & Decepter - Junglism
Warrior One - Fyah (Bojcot Mix)
Benton & Bluetoof - Set Pace
Shy FX - Light Up
Hardcore Breakz 8
Awesome 3 - Don't Go (Hyper On Experience Mix)
Billy Daniel Bunter - 92 Breakbeat Underground
9Trane - Bad Habit
Mary Droppinz - Let Me Love You
Sub X - What You Do To Me
Michael Ange - Catch Me Ravin
DJ Max - Your Love (Nicky Allen Mix)
Dakota - Crush On You
Dissy - Manic Panic
MKII - Rhythm Is Moving
Dave Karma - The Love
Sekret Chadow - I Wanna Sing
Gav Ley - Feel Me
Johnny B - Take Me Away
Plump DJs - Dreamland (Pirate Jams Mix)
Digital Bse & Andy Vibes - Home
MKII - Get Funky
Fonso - Smooth Operator
Bassraver - Party Freak
Smart Systems - The Tingler (Zhute Mix)
Blame - Music Takes You (Fear-E Mix)
Denham Audio - Keep On
Multiply & Ivory - Back In The 90's
Hardcore Breakz 9
Warrior One - Fyah
Jem 77 - Never Felt This Way (DJ Producer Mix)
DJ Jedi - Acid Test
Pillz - Listen To The Sample
DMS - Vengeance (Kingsize Mix)
Plastic Solution - Droppin Clangers
Billy Daniel Bunter & Sanxion - Show Me
Shar-Pei & Systec - Mystic Sunrise
Peejay - Hard Groovin
Unknown - Unknown
Paranoid Androidz - Need U
The DJ Producer - Want Some More
Mata - Next Rave
T99 - Anasthasia (Damage Inc Mix)
Z-Neo - When You Need Me
Inner City - Good Life (Remix)
DJ Rave In Peace - Let's Do It
Unknown - Unknown
Shades Of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden (House Crew Mix)
Hardcore Breakz 10
Tony Oldskool - The Energizer
Sense - The Drop
Stanton Warriors - Voodoo Magic Man
Kitchen Sink Ravers - I Want You
Force Unknown - I Want You
Chiqui - Loving You
Specimen A & Rasco - Yesterday
Billy Daniel Bunter & Liquid - Dove Removal Machine
Flat Earth Mafia - CeCe Grooves
Adam Vyt - Feel My Soul
Josh B - Nobody Else
ROP - Me & You
2 Bad Mice - Gone Too Soon
Case 82 - I Just Wanna
Stanton Warriors - PNG
Jem 77 - Climb The Tree
True Blood - Another Jam
Josh B - The Jam
Deekline & Firestarter Soundsystem - Pickle Head
Chase & Status - Count On Me
If you click on the tabs above, it will show you the tracklist for each mix in this series. It took me forever to compose them all, so be grateful that I did. And if you aren't, don't worry: the track lists are also added to each mix by Craig himself!
These mixes are the dopest things on the internet right now. You cannot find anything on the internet as cool as these Hardcore Breakz mixes, trust me. And I would never say in public that I'm in love with something, but today's the day: I am in love with the Hardcore Breakz mix series, made by Craig Scott!
The tracks are all solid as a rock. The finest breakbeat anthems money can buy. Hardcore Breaks/Rave Breaks, give it a name, but it needs to stay true to the style. And all these records do exactly that. I get the early vibes throughout each mix. Like I am teleported back to the 90s, when Hardcore dominated the world and its Mother!
These mixes are to be treasured for life, and protected. They are fyah, as some of the track titles suggest. I am sitting here, fully in awe of each mix, and they are full of energetic anthems. If I close my eyes, I am back on the dancefloor, raving the night away. Sadly not in the UK, where most of these songs dominated everything. The Netherlands had a different approach to Hardcore. But I can just picture myself at those legendary events, dancing until the sun came up. Dance like no one was watching, and no one cared.
I don't want to spoil anything, but I do urge you to give this mix series a go. I've added a Soundcloud player below, which includes a few other mixes he's done (also oldskool mixes), but the Hardcore Breakz mixes are in there too. Seriously, such an underrated series. If there's anything you need to spend your precious time on doing right now, it is listen to this series, and relive the golden years! Go back in time!
Credit goes to Craig Scott, for making this awesome mix series! Keep up the good work! Hopefully we can write another blog in 6 months, when the next 10 are done...... (wishful thinking)...
Hardcore Breakz for life!
