In the early 1990's a new genre of urban style dance music emerged from an already popular and ever growing rave culture in the UK. It was hardcore in its purest and earliest form. Producers who were former B-Boys started sampling from hip-hop's heritage and injecting sped up funk breaks and interweaving them with all manner of craziness including old reggae licks, uplifting piano riffs, dirty techno stabs, samples from kids TV shows and even a certain cat who told us the dangers of our public highways!!! It was this almost unashamed experimentation that gave the music a freshness and a feeling of raw energy the likes of which had never been known before. Carved out by teenagers sweating it out in bedroom studios, rattling out a few hundred white labels and selling them to underground London record shops from the back of a van. A multitude of self propelled musical missionaries inspired by the party, creating music for the party and each one of us believing that sentiment that "Hardcore will never die". By 1992 the genre had taken the nation by storm. 

A decade later Warehouse Wax was launched as a spearhead label for the reincarnation of this genre of music which had by then, spawned so many others. The original idea to start the label was conceived by Vinyl Junkie and Darkus in 2002 and shortly afterwards they teamed up with the legendary Austin Reynolds of Suburban Base fame and recorded a few tracks, which would eventually become Warehouse Wax 001. 

To date Warehouse Wax have released 13 singles and 2 albums. Now after a short break recovering from the death of vinyl, and seeing the rise of an exciting new era of early jungle style breaks (Future Jungle), Warehouse Wax return to re-launch the label into the digital domain.

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