V/Vm

In league with plunderphonic pirates and dancefloor punks like Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Kid-606, and Dj Olive, Manchester's V/vm ("volume versus mass") crew brought a well-needed boot to the backside of the increasingly humorless dance scene of the late '90s, polarized on one side by mindless club trance and on the other by self-serious bedroom boffins. A duo comprised of James Kirby and Andy Mcgregor (aka Jansky Noise), V/vm produced a series of releases notorious for their crude (but lovingly detailed) packaging, high collectability (usually only 100 to 500 copies), and, in many cases the music itself, a devastating assault on both copyright laws and hearing levels.