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It all feels natural to be making this music. And what better place is there to be doing so than on a label run by your pals? Lee, you also spin soul and funk on occasion. What records have made the most profound impact on you? Rous: Yes, Andy and I play alternative sets occasionally, including the street soul, funk, disco, and boogie breaks of our youth. We travel around a great deal and play some huge dancefloors in the small hours. We are so grateful to still have this platform. However, developing an alternative set has allowed us to DJ when the sun is shining and you can see all the smiley faces in smaller, more intimate venues, in places where you can speak to the dancefloor and they can hear you shout without the use of a microphone.

You guys came up in your career paths alongside the Stanton Warriors. How does it feel to be working with them on the Punks Music imprint after running your own record label for some time? We all used to DJ [together] and party with each other back then in our innocent years, and now we have come together to put music out on their fabulous Punks imprint.

Lee : Andy's got a studio in Soho, London, so we do all of the work there. Andy : Yeah, we do all the tracks together while we're both there and then and produce the whole thing. I do the sort of technical stuff and then we both make the descisions about what we're going to keep what we're going to get rid of, what the tracks should sound like HRFQ : You receive so many offers to produce remixes so how do you decide what to work on?

Do you have any sort of criteria? Andy : Well, it's got to be something we really like, that's the first point. And it also has to be something that's different to our style, so we can do something different with it.

If it's something too similar to your own style, you're not going to be able to do anything with it. It's too much of a classic, and I think certain things are just too sacred to us to touch. Lee : Other things like "Humanoid" Stakker Humanoid which was a big remix of ours from a few years back and a big old tune that we enjoyed when we were younger, although the energy is similar to a lot of the stuff in the original track, we felt that the drums needed beefing up and there were a few things that could be changed.

Electronauts' "Bumper" was a funny track simply because it's one of the first track we got asked to do and we found a vocal in there that was just so "hooky". And although it was a very small part of the track, it was enough to give us the enthusiasm to do it. Andy : "Push Up" by Freestylers was a really good one for us because the original track is great. It's a real pop track, but we really love the vocal as well as the arrangement. On top of that, we've recently also done a remix of Rennie Pilgrim, but we're actually trying to do some more of our own stuff at the moment and not do the remixes.

We've actually got about 6 or 7 new Plump Djs tracks finished so far with "The Soul Vibrates" to be hopefully released in August or September of this year with a B-side called Bullet Train inspired by the experiences we've had here in Japan. There might also be another release before Christmas, and we've got a lot of tunes lined up besides that; one called "The Pressure" which we've been playing regularly and has been going down well, and another called "Space Base".

It's really good, as it means that it makes our sets that bit more individual. Lee : Possibly early February or March next year we're hoping to release a compilation of some kind and then maybe see how things go from there with possibly another artist album the following year.

It's nice when people ask us where we see things going and our take on the future of breakbeat, but it's just important that we keep on enjoying what's going on at the moment. HRFQ :You mentioned before about breakbeat making it's way into the mainstream, how do you see the immediate future for beakbeat? Andy : I don't think it's ever going to be as big as house. All this, even before the whole thing comes crashing down with some utterly dire rapping from Raphael Lamotta.

Victim meanwhile, sounds like a Sneaker Pimps B-side, Lost In Space is limp funk and only the Prince influences of Theme X come close to the mark, watered down though they are. As with 's Eargasm album, the duo fare better on the dancefloor tracks, and anyone who owns one of their mix compilations.

Yet even the likes of System Addict or Rocket Soul sound like they're treading water, content to just scale a series of predictable peaks over some fairly workmanlike beats. The latest LP from the breakbeat's leading lights may be lacklustre, but a dearth of ideas isn't typical of the genre as a whole.

Plump DJs meanwhile, have grown flabby with complacency. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. This lead to a golden era of breakbeat releases masterminded by label creators Jem Panufnik and Justin Rushmore of Soul of Man fame.

Their list of collaborators reads like a line up at superfestival: Mark Ronson, Deadmou5, Fatboy Slim, Orbital… the list goes on. Incredibly the Plump Djs have continued to maintain relevance on the electronic dance scene, a passion for innovation and strong friendship being the main fuel to their fire.

Some of the worlds best nightclubs and venues have also felt the power of repeat Plump DJs shows.