The Stanton Sessions may have been voted one of the finest breaks records of all time, but we’re equally in love with Stanton Warriors’ Midas touch when it comes to their remix work. Their Fabriclive 30 compilation, for instance, has one of the slickest transitions from house-heavy Peace Division into classic Booka Shade that we’ve heard in a while – on the same mix, they’ve got no problem fusing full-on drum’n’bass (Chase & Status) with Mylo/Freeform Five re-edits – all without breaking a sweat or sacrificing their allegiance to the school of nu-skool breaks.

The Warriors, aka Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley, started out deejaying at outdoor parties in the early 1990s before releasing Sessions, which shoved them firmly into the electronic scene limelight; they followed five years later with The Stanton Sessions 2, commonly known as the Lost Files. Famously fluid with their production abilities, they’ve pushed the envelope with fellow breaks-lovers Plump DJs, often remixing bootleg remixes that they had remixed twice before. If you didn’t quite follow – think of a musical version of Chinese whispers with electro-influenced, bass-heavy results.

The duo, which takes part of its name from manhole covers made by UK company Stanton Ironworks, has a reputation for being remarkably prolific – the Warriors released Sessions 3 in 2008, and have an enormous catalogue of both ‘official’ and unofficial remixes, which even stretch into the hip-hop world (Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes). Their prodigious work rate makes it hard to pin them down to one specific genre – a bracing breath of fresh air amid a local scene dominated by trance and progressive house. Despite their current status as breakbeat superstars, of which there are few (others include Evil Nine, Freeland and the Plumps), the Warriors’ humble beginnings as good old-fashioned party-starters guarantee that this is going to be one hell of a night.

Sabrina Lee