Exams over. Term over. Year over. Hope you’ve enjoyed the last 9 months or so in York, and enjoyed some of our events too.

Another end. Another beginning.

It’s been a bit of a different year for us at Breakz. We’ve had fewer events of our own, but been part of a lot more collaborations. Over the past year, we’ve worked with the Herbal Mafia, RAG, James, Langwith, Derwent and many other societies and groups to bring you a much needed fix of drum and bass through some big bass bins. And we’ve already started working with YUSU Ents (and many others) on next term’s freshers’ week to ensure the music you love continues to be represented.
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Tomorrow (26 Jun) is the Internet Radio Day of Silence. Many major webcasters like Yahoo! Launch, Rhapsody, and Pandora are taking part, along with a large (and growing) list of smaller stations.

The Day of Silence is in response to huge royalty rate increases that are likely to force many webcasters off the air. Smaller, ‘long tail’ stations – those playing the sort of music we care about – are likely to be the hardest hit, along with those offering innovative, potentially disruptive services such as Pandora and Live365, leaving only a few monoliths to play out the same Top 40 playlist-driven pop that is failing (in the US at least) to capture interest, enthusiasm, or audiences.
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Woodstock 2007 takes place this Saturday (23 June). This year there will be 12 hours of music performed by 27 bands across indoor and outdoor stages, with headline performances from Make It Better Later, Fenna Rhodes and the True Ingredients, …Accept Instruction and Apply the Breaks. Breakz Battle of the Bands picks Tape Pack (live dnb - 1800 indoor stage) and Vudu Guru (dnb / Arabic melodies) are both performing as well.

Representing pre-recorded music, Breakz and the Herbal Mafia join together bring you a marathon 12 hour DJ session. We will be playing out the tunes in Vanbrugh JCR throughout the entire event, starting off with some reggae to provide you with a mellifluous backdrop for your day in the sun. Things step up a gear at around 8, when we kick off with dubstep and breaks action for a couple of hours, before climaxing with our trademark thundering drum and bass finale.
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Far more than just a Club D, Big D brings you live music, DJ sets, fairground rides and many other performances spread across Derwent and Langwith colleges. This year’s circus-themed Big D offers you a bouncy castle, bungee, rodeo bull, surf ride, three bars, BBQ, beer tent, ice cream and candyfloss.

Musically, Lil’ Chris will be headlining, with performances from Platinum, OMNI, York Samba, Comedy Soc and Juggle Soc. And of course Breakz will be there, mixing up the tunes all night.
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Want to get involved in running some of the best events staged in York? Breakz is run by a small team of people with little in the way of hierarchy, so you really can get stuck in, take decisions and make a difference from the start.

We need:

• DJs - the core of everything we do, really
• MCs - if you can spit out some tight lyrics over dnb, hip-hop or anything else, we want to hear from you
• Organisers - booking acts, running events on the night, scouting for venues and opportunities
• Promoters - designing posters and flyers, working with printers, contacting media and other ents organisers, website, email campaigns, distribution

If this sounds like your kinda thing and you’d like to be part of the team for the next year then now is the time to get involved! Come along to the Breakz AGM THIS Wednesday (13 June) at 1515 in Derwent bar.
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