What duo has had everyone from Laurent Garnier to FreQ Nasty & Lee Coombs describe their tunes as ‘Blinding’ ‘Huge’ ‘Absolutely f**king rockin it’ and so on…?
That project is JDS. After teaming up with Julian Napolitano (of “Perpetual Motion”), Darren Pearce and Julian wrote the huge club hit and Ibiza Anthem “9 Ways”. This was snapped up by FFRR Records (after fighting off bids from the likes of Positiva) and only narrowly missed out on a Top 40 place…instead earning itself a place as one of the all time club classics. Never ones to be static, Darren & Julian took the JDS project forward and in 1998 came “London Town” (Pepper Records), closely followed by “Destiny Calls” (Incentive) in 1999. More recently they released the huge ‘Blackout’ on TCR prompting comments of ‘Brilliant’ from Laurent Garnier and causing Norman Cook to state that JDS ‘do the best breakdowns ever’! (Norman Cook has also asked to remix the flip ‘Don’t Be Alone’).

They rocked Breaks & House world yet again with another ‘stupidly massive’ (James Zabiela) tune ‘Purple Funky Monkey’. Radio1 dj’s caned it and it was one of the biggest selling tunes ever on TCR aswell as being nominated for Best Single in 2005’s Breakspoll awards. Their sound has become so in demand that they’ve remixed everyone from Orbital and Jason Nevins to Rennie Pilgrem in the last couple of months.

Darren Pearce of JDS has been moving dancefloors with his DJ’ing for over 10 years and is increasingly in demand. He’s recently completed highly-successful tours of South East Asia and Australia and with many future dates across Europe the JDS experience is likely to be coming to a town near you!

They’ve just released their debut album ‘The Adventures of the Purple Funky Monkey’ on TCR to huge critical acclaim with 365 mag summing it up nicely when they said ‘Breaks does not get any better then this. Essential in your collection!

The support the album’s garnered from fellow dj’s is amazing. In their own words:
Krafty Kuts ‘Faultless’.
Phil Hartnoll (Orbital) ‘Love the album!’
Drumattic Twins ‘The JDS album is probably the best breaks album in the world…reeespec’
Hernan Cattaneo ‘The JDS album is simply fantastic. I’ve been recommending it to every single person I meet.’
Soul of Man ‘Blinding. The album is totally fab.’
Annie Mac ‘I love it. Really high quality’.
Judge Jules ‘I more than like it... Love would be a better description of my feelings!
Crystal Method ‘JDS rock’.’
Anne Savage ‘Absolutely love the JDS album’.
Kid Kenobi 'Without doubt some of my biggest tunes during the last two years have come from JDS. Indeed I've been warned on numerous occasions to stop playing them. I'm still to head the warning. Thank God for JDS I say.’
Alessio Bertallot ‘Best example of the breakbeat culture so far’

Expect big things…….

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London