You heads are in for a treat… Chronos Records, for all of you that don’t know, have one of the sickest artist rosters in dubstep. You ‘steppers already know that I am a huge fan of Diesel, and he is just one of the power houses in a line up that includes the likes of Dr. Philth, Dayn, and Mister Six. Chronos just dropped some MASSIVE downloads on us, as well as previews of their label’s current release: Screwface EP. I was recently able to speak with George about his label and here is what he had to say…
George, is it just you that runs the label?
It’s me and my partner in crime Ant Marshall. I dragged him up from Bude years ago to come live in Brum back in the days when we cared for nothing else apart from wobbly jump up drum and bass. When the filthy dubstep started coming through we immediately jumped on board. Living in the South West we didn’t have any good clubs to go to but had heard dubstep coming through on the rave scene, particularly when we were at parties towards Bristol. It was really satisfying and a little bit suprising to see it hit the club scene up here so quickly. Considering we’ve DJd together for so long, it was a no brainer for both of us to start the label.
When did you guys start Chronos Records?
We’ve tracked the really filthy end of dubstep closely while it’s developed as it’s the stuff we’ve enjoyed playing out the most. Youtube has always been a valuable resource in finding new producers and we picked out a few early on who we thought were pushing things in a nice direction. We basically started off thinking about how we could make sure these guys got the promo they deserved while making sure they were making the stuff they enjoyed making. One day a friend said “Why don’t you sign them?” and after spending a couple of days reassuring myself it wasn’t a totally ridicullous idea we got on the case. The end of last year was spent getting all the details sorted and this year is about pushing the tunes.
Where is the label based out of?
Based out of badman Brum. The big heads in the scene have been moaning a lot over the last year or two about how shit it’s been. This year has got off to a fucking HUGE start in the second city with regards to events, the artists the city is pushing and now dubstep’s newest make you grinfrown so hard you crapyourself record label. You’ll be seeing plenty of us outside Birmingham as well. Bare. Expect big things this year.
Are you producers yourself?
We’ve dabbled in the production however too many laptop melt downs led to us slowing down last year. We’ve decided that we’d rather put our effort into getting the label pushed this year and then down the line we might get back on it. Although we don’t produce much we do DJ a lot. It’s nice that so many of the artists we loved to fill our sets with are signed to us now. Hit up our youtube channel for an example of our deck battering.
How did you line up such a powerful roster so quickly?
To be honest with you we were massively suprised that these guys haven’t already been signed. Once we spoke to them about where we wanted to go and who we’d got in mind to fill the roster they were all on board pretty quickly. All of them want to see the genre continue to go deeper into the insanity that they weave on their computers and so liked the idea of a label that was only about that from the outset. We’ve sort of jumped onto the scene quite quickly which a lot of people have mentioned, but we wanted the guys to suddenly appear with a release and suprise everyone. The stuff they are producing at the moment is ridicullously sick, so there’s plenty more to come.
How did you come up with the name Chronos?
You have no idea how much of a ballache this was. If you think of a name for a label…it’s taken. We spent so long going through various names and finding out they’d all been done that it got ridicullous. We ended up getting pissed off and writing up a list of totally stupid names and checking them as a joke…and nearly all of them were taken as well. I mean seriously; who called themselves “Cunt Records”. Check it IT’S ACTUALLY A LABEL. We wanted something punchy and had considered various names with impact to do with space and time which hadn’t been viable so I thought I’d check some names of deities through history that had something to do with them. Saw the name Chronos and we both immediately knew that was going to be our name.
Even Shit Records had been used…I mean come on!
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Well one things for sure, if it were called Shit Records it would just emphasize how filthy their lineup really is. Be on the lookout for big things to come from these talented guys, I can’t wait ’til we get ‘em over here in America!
MYSPACE
YOUTUBE
Screwface EP Minimix by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP: Dayn-Out There by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP: Diesel – Fucked Up by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Mister Six-They Will Destroy Us by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Dr Philth- Spekta by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Dr Philth – Electro Wank - by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Diesel – Slippery Nipple by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Diesel-Butcher by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Dayn- Stomp by DUBliminalCOM
Screwface EP Preview: Dayn – Slam On by DUBliminalCOM
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