J COURAGE

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Beginning with the Chicago House music of the mid to late 80’s, J Courage later switched his attention to the sound of the UK Hardcore rave scene. Furious breakbeats began to take the place of pulsating 808’s and the quickly evolving sound fascinated and drew him in further and further. The birth of Jungle and its transition to DrumnBass were the defining moments for this young producer. Diving head on into DrumnBass, he spent the next 5 to 6 years fully enveloped in the sounds—collecting vinyl, CD’s, pirate radio mixes, and whatever he could get his hands on—there wasn’t much he hadn’t heard. Then around 1997-98 something happened—a new sound. The marriage of his two musical loves: the stomping 4x4 beats of House and the huge distorted basslines of DrumnBass. “This was the music I was waiting for. It was a new sound, it was fresh, and it combined everything I loved about music.” He followed UK Garage through all of its incarnations, garage, 2-step, grime and dubstep.

Fast forward to 2008. Jason Currie a.k.a. J Courage finally realized his life-long dream of starting his own record label. Now the owner and resident producer of both Trenchant Recordings and Trenchant Dubs, J Courage continues to pursue his love of music by discovering and promoting new and exciting talent from around the world. Trenchant's roster as of July 2009 already includes artists from the UK, Austria, Netherlands, France, Germany, Russia, Canada and the US. J Courage seems to be on an endless pursuit to create, discover, and promote bass-heavy, dance-floor friendly music.

PRODUCERS / REMIXERS
J Courage | Chas10 | El Rakkas | Juju | DJ Whoa-B | Bombaman | TKR | Radian | MonstR
Thunderous Olympian / Olin | Aquadrop | BetaSP | Chrissy Murderbot

EMCEES / VOCALISTS
Shizzle | Xploder