D-Zone Records

In association with Dance Zone Records.

D-Zone was started in an Essex bedroom in early 1990. It was a way of releasing harder dance material from Andre Jacobs's original label, Dance Zone. The first release was possible due to the friendship that André had with Danny Donnelly of Boogie Times Records (& later Suburban Base Records). Dance Zone Records had been hit by Spartan Distribution going bust and Danny bought 1000 copies of the first d-zone track, 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 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 Michael Gray, Jon Pearn, Tim Laws (Gabrielle & The Lighthouse Family), Kevin Beber & many more. The label also worked with the 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 Suburban Base Records, Reinforced Records, Strictly Underground Records, 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 "Far Out" with in Germany.