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In 2003 Hed Kandi unveiled a side to its personality that until then had been dormant and largely unconsidered both by fans and label alike. It’s no secret that the label is firmly rooted in the soulful, funky genre of House Music with laid back ‘Chilled’ titles becoming extremely popular from very early on. As we moved from 2000 towards the mid 00’s however, House Music and club nights alike, started to show more and more of a penchant for darker side of dance music, the dirty electro sound and the possibilities it presented became more and more popular. Just look where we are today. Producers are constantly pushing what we expect them to do to the very limits and the control one of today’s well crafted tech house tracks can have over a crowd is often astonishing. Inspired risk and forward thinking are what creativity and success are born from. House Music its self would not exist without this expression and experimentation.
It is no surprise then, that a sound that was so popular was to be explored by such a popular label, it was time to hold house music down and tickle it till it pee’d and 2003 kicked off with Hed Kandi’s first adventure into the darker side of House Music namely - Twisted Disco. Dark and dirty yet still groovy and deep it welcomed tracks onto the compilation from artists including DJ Gregory, Who Da Funk and Dirty Vegas. Some welcomed this new adventure with open arms whilst others were more sceptical, 6 years on however and the twisted genre has become a revered release in the Hed Kandi calendar. Hed Kandi’s bad boy persona but still with loads of the quintessential grooving sound the label is renowned for, ‘Twisted’ strikes a perfect balance whilst representing the forward thinking side of the label. Today, the twisted title allows the label to fully defect from the norm and rare remixes constantly step into the limelight.
What is evident looking back over the Twisted journey to today is that Hed Kandi was rubbing shoulders very early on with the heavyweights of today’s Electro and Tech communities, a retrospective of some of the Twisted theme’s high points speaks for itself. Below we have compiled some of our favourites here at HK, a task which was a great deal of fun may we add! So why not become a YouTube DJ for an hour and stretch your sound system’s legs with the following:

Twisted Disco 2004

The Paddle (12” Mix) - A great example of main room thumping tech. This is an earlier release from DJ Touché, now a festival favourite under the moniker ‘Fake Blood’.

Twisted Disco 2005

Twisted Disco 2006

Twisted Disco 2006

Twisted Disco 2007

Twisted Disco 2008

Twisted Disco 2009