Power Vacuum is a british label, founded 2012 in London by producer Milo Smee aka Bintus.

Smee is a pragmatist, first and foremost. _»It’s a way to get my hands on the sort of music I enjoy DJ-ing with«_ he laconically responds to the question, what his motivation behind founding a label was. He does not consider himself a vinyl-purist, but prefers Decks to CDJs, and releasing records yourself of course leads to lot of quality content for the DJ bag. Power Vacuum’s minimalistic approach to packaging and design has a similar reason. _»I remember Mark Broom packing his records for a gig and every one was just in a white inner sleeve, which I never thought of doing myself but it suddenly made total sense – why carry all the extra weight of cardboard sleeves which could be used for more records«_. At the outset this club compatibility was also extended to the releases, which assembled five to six tracks and were meant to function as a small collection of secret weapons for the DJ-Booth.

And what’s inside? Initially sounds like the British kind of paranoid, Acid-heavy Techno, which borrows elements from the Hardcore Continuum. _»I needn’t really add to that. I will though because this is one of the few things that’s clear in my head – you might want to go put the kettle on…«_, Smee grins and begins to reminisce. Over the golden years 1991 and 1992 in north-east London, where he was introduced to British Hardcore from Prodigy to Altern-8 at the venue Tootos. Power Vacuum is supposed to not only follow that tradition, but advance it through releases by Bintus himself, Techno legend Mark Broom or all-rounder DMX Krew under his pseudonym EDMX. _»I want to imagine people feeling as charged as I was hearing loud freaky sounds in a big room full of nut bags!«_. Not only seasoned pioneers find a home at Power Vacuum, though, but also youngsters. The »Vectors« series of compilations already assembled contributions from Objekt, J. Tijn and most recently Pan Daijing and Duran Duran Duran.

An essential aspect of the »Vectors«-series is that the artists later return to Power Vacuum with a solo-release. Another one materialized in January 2017 with the release of the third installment: Every track as accompanied by its own video by John Brown. _» Also I’m a failed artist myself, who used to do videos at University before an early exit to pursue music, so there’s probably some latent video frustration on my part«_, laughs Smee, who now redirects that task to his creative surroundings. While Power Vacuum is a one-man-operation at its core, there are many helping hands – be it concerning videos, digital artworks or other things, as he freely admits. As long as the records save some space in the bag and bring back the spirit of glorious days past to the dance floor, that’s all the better