D-Zone Records

In association with [l=Dance Zone Records].

D-Zone was started in an Essex bedroom in early 1990. It was a way of releasing harder dance material from [a=Andre Jacobs]'s original label, Dance Zone. The first release was possible due to the friendship that André had with Danny Donnelly of [l=Boogie Times Records] (& later [l=Suburban Base Records]). [l=Dance Zone Records] had been hit by Spartan Distribution going bust and Danny bought 1000 copies of the first d-zone track, [a=Hypersonic] "Dance Tones" that André had got Spartan to pay for. This track was produced by André & Danny because André had booked a studio session in Surrey but his car had been stolen. Danny offered to drive André to the [a=Michael Gray]'s studio in Surrey so André asked Danny if he'd like to help with the track. D-Zone started the careers of many artists including including [a=Michael Gray], [a=Jon Pearn], [a=Tim Laws] ([a=Gabrielle] & [a= The Lighthouse Family]), [a=Kevin Beber] & many more. The label also worked with the [a=Blapps Posse] and many other great producers that André had admired from his DJ'ing days. The label stopped releasing singles after just 3 years when André wanted to try something new. The biggest selling artist on the label was Tekno Too (Tekno 2) who's anthemic Jet-Star sold over 50,000 copies in the UK alone. It missed out on a top 40 because the first batch of 5000 sleeves had the black barcode printed over the blue background which meant they couldn't be read by Gallup's chart machines, a lesson painfully learned by André. Geri Halliwell was a dancer for Tekno Too. D-Zone also worked with [l=Suburban Base Records], [l=Reinforced Records], [l=Strictly Underground Records], [l=Rising High Records] and many other labels exporting their tracks around the world. André repaid Danny by helping Sub Base get their first foreign deal for [a=Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era] "Far Out" with [l=ZYX Records] in Germany.