After a fantastic success last term the Breakz Bus returns to take us to one of the legendary Subdub nights in Leeds.

For just £20 (entry ticket included) the night begins with a coach ride from Goodricke at 10:45pm to the West Indian Centre, where you’ll have a night with some of the best dub/reggae, dubstep, and drum & bass that Leeds has to offer.

And as if that wasn’t good enough the Breakz Bus will return at the end of the night for a relaxing, chilled out coach journey home.
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Breakz and Base team up to bring one of the true pioneers of the dubstep movement to York - Benga.

A forerunner of dubstep, Benga’s productions have been instrumental in shaping its development since the very beginning, and are often cited as a big influence on many young upcoming producers today.

Releasing records on Tempa, Big apple Records & planet mu Benga has an extensive discography including several combined releases with Skream, and more notoriously, the anthemic ‘Night‘ co-produced with Coki.

Check Benga on MySpace
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Legend of the DNB scene DJ Hazard joins us in York for an evening of ‘jump up’ mayhem featuring explosive drum and bass, bouncy breaks and smooth hip hop.

Arguably the king of jump up drum & bass, and solid veteran of DJ Hype’s labels Playaz and Ganja, he’s rocked the scene with classics such as ‘Busted‘, ‘Mr Happy‘ and ‘Machete‘.

http://www.myspace.com/djhazarduk

Support comes from Illtrak, Chris C, Jethro, Spoonfed, Benflex with MC Pean on the mic.

Extra bass provided by Soulspun and Cranky Soundsystems.

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Herbal Mafia bring you a dubstep and drum & bass set from the amazing Benny Page, responsible for releasing some the biggest D&B and dubstep anthems of 2008 on Shy Fx’s Digital Soundboy label.

He is known in the scene for his exceptional mixing abilities and huge basslines – check his tunes on MySpace.
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A 90 minute set from DJ Chef, the fifth best dubstep DJ on the planet with double figure residencies all around the world including the legendary FWD, DMZ and Hench nights and a regular slot on Rinse FM. If you’re not into dubstep, this guy will probably change your mind… seriously awesome!
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Herbal Mafia invites local talent to bring you a night like it used to be when we first started raving… Old skool, jungle and drum & bass from the masters playing the classics and new faces playing the freshest beats.

And it’s free before 11!
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The annual (or whatever) clash is on us again, York’s top drum & bass DJs go head to head in a soundclash of bass on the new improved Fibbers soundsystem. Last time Breakz took the edge and the Mafia want revenge, this could get messy!

Also on the night are the legendary True Ingredients, a 10 piece live hiphop & funk band who have supported numerous huge names and had their music included in films and TV shows including ‘Skins’. Their videos have featured on MTV Base and Channel U and they have had airplay on BBC 1xtra….they are phenomenal, don’t miss them!

http://www.trueingredients.com/
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Fancy a night out?

Want to party at the legendary Subdub night in Leeds?

What’s that though? You don’t want the mess & effort of public transport?! Never fear, Breakz are here!

Thats right, Breakz are giving you the opportunity to get to and from Subdub without any hassle! For just £20 (entry ticket included) the night begins with a coach ride from Goodrick at 11pm to the West Indian Centre, where you’ll have a night of with some of the best Dub/Reggae, Dubstep & Drum & Bass that Leeds has to offer. And as if that wasn’t good enough there will be a relaxing, chilled out coach journey home at the end of the night.

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With Herbal Mafia’s imminent move to Fibbers, they leave the WMC with a special send off alongside the crew who are replacing them… Featuring special guest Kromestar (Dubstar), one of the finest dubstep DJs on the planet.

SoulSpun’s new and improved Soundsystem will be linking up with Cranky’s also improved Soundsystem to bring you 10kW of the deepest bass yet heard in the WMC. They’ve already made quite a few cracks in the building, this time they might bring it down!

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How to use a little AJAX magic to hide the York lists service and give your site visitors a much slicker experience when they subscribe to your mailing list.

We’ve looked after our own mailing list for years. We had a nice database of users hosted on the website that was pretty flexible, easy for us to use and very easy to which to sign up.

But sending out mail is another matter entirely. We currently have around 700 addresses on our list, and it has become increasingly difficult to find a server that is prepared to send out that many messages. We had to resort to splitting mailouts, VPNing to York and dodging angry system administrators in order to get our mail out. And culling the dead emails from the list wasn’t much fun either.

So we’ve finally given up and got a York Lists account. In many ways it’s great: emailing the list is now as easy as, um, sending an email, and it deletes invalid addresses automatically.

A nice personality

But it’s a bit of an ugly thing. We used to have this signup form. The lists service gave us this one instead. It doesn’t match the rest of the site and provides far too much useless information on screen.

It would be nice to use the old signup form with our new lists account. And luckily we can.

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