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Killing Sheep Records the past, the now and the sad pathetic crumbling future.
Born out of abstract poverty in the last throes of the Newcastle Hardcore Empire, Killing Sheep was originally a series of events held at the now non existent Hunter On Hunter hotel. A collection of new and in all honesty mostly terrible programmers banded together under this banner to rage around their bedrooms to overdriven basslines, distorted 909 kick drums and sped up to fuck Amen breaks.

Many a failed demo opportunity at Bloody Fist Records took it's toll on the crew, including my own very shitty fucking attempts at Gabba infused anthems.

Time went by, most people moved on with their lives (for better or worse), but Epsilon and myself (the magnificent Sean) were determined to sink further into the abyss when we released the formers debut CD, Homemade Bomb.
It was a stunning success, we were showered in praise from the international music press, Epsilon received a Grammy nomination and a set of indestructible golden stake knives......
No that's nonsense, we sold a few copies here and there and established the label in the tradition of old skool 8 bit Hardcore with a new style of splintered breaks; amusingly and mildly note worthy, this was the first time we had heard of the term Breakcore.

As years wanked on again and many a welfare form later, Epsilon and I started to move apart sonically, I became slightly curious to Drum & Bass music and started to fade away from Hardcore gigs and focused my inner chi towards the promotion of local Dark Drum & Bass nights.

Not terribly content with playing Baldurs Gate 2 and other awesome Black Isle games in between the sparse gig dates, I decided that Killing Sheep needed to get involved with more releases and a shift of focus towards DNB provided an outlet beyond biting off the success of Bloody Fist's low fi raw Hardcore sound.

Successfully completing a bullshit Government grant scheme for new businesses, I poured the recently gained but minuscule amount of finances into the CD compilation Vile Techniques. No one was doing crap like this; a non mixed heavy Drum & Bass and Breakcore release that featured the likes of DJ Hidden, Paulblackout, Rotator and Noize Creator.

Drum & Bass music was pretty homosexual back then (surprisingly still is) and Killing Sheep was an ugly wart infested cunt that no distribution company would touch with their really tiny “play it safe” cocks.
Many phone calls were made and the howls of derision and mocking tones regarding the name of the label didn't really affect my awesome determination to get our products to the random punters around the globe that didn't subscribe to the notion of female vocals and piss weak drums as the cutting edge of “Electronica”.

At last a Saviour was found in a newly formed American outfit called Soundclash distribution..... God I was naive.

Promised a P&D deal after the first release of KSHEEPV001 DJ Hidden / The Enemy & Kid Kryptic I was lured into handing over approximately 3000 quid for the pressing of our debut vinyl.
Months passed by and soon it became clear that bongs and boasting on line about awesome new tattoos seemed to be Soundclash's priority over shifting units.

So they went under, I received one shitty payment for a handful of stock sold and the masters for KSHEEPV001 were forever lost. Fantastic.

Having a big sook to Mark N about failed ambitions resulted in him picking up the label in conjunction with Sound Base Music; we put out two releases together, KSHEEPV002 The Enemy and KSHEEPV003 DJ Hidden before moving across to the Drum & Bass focused Load Media in the UK.
Getting the P&D off of Load Media at the time was quite an achievement considering the bullshit surrounding every aspect of the label that many a UK fag often whined about “To Heavy, no one will buy this, how about removing the bass and adding a chorus of bummers shouting out easily digestible funky catch phrases”.

Now every bastard and their monkey out there is running a dark Drum & Bass label under the guise of Snare and Bass.

KSHEEPV004, KSHEEPV005 and KSHEEPV006 were all released bypassing all the usual routine and trappings of forum nobbers and clearly outselling the whale noise bollocks that seems to be held in such high esteem these days.

So now we are up to the seventh vinyl release, being monumentally disengaged with the snare, snare and even more snares scene the focus has moved back to my original passion Hardcore, but a new form of Hardcore, high quality Drum & Bass meshed with Gabba kicks, bringing in IDM and *shudder* Breakcore infulences.
Basically mixing it all up and doing away with specific genres.

Till the next explosive update, dicks and fannys!