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SANS

Antonio Sánchez

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BreakbeatBreaksUK BassUK GarageSpain2024-present

SANS is the recording name of Antonio Sánchez, born in 2002 in a village in the province of Jaén, in southern Spain. The town itself has not been published. Beatport's biography places the project there and describes a DJ and producer shaped by electronic music from childhood. SoundCloud lists the profile in Jaén. The commercial catalogue is documented from 2024.

He defines the style in that same biography: a fusion of breaks and UK garage, with a wide range of sounds. It is not breakbeat with a generic bass tag attached. On the album Excelsior, "Just Pretend" is filed as UK Garage / Bassline. The rest of the catalogue sits mainly in Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass, roughly 134 to 140 BPM.

Samay Records is the early house. "707" came out there on 16 August 2024 at 135 BPM. Samay compilations that year place him alongside Ro73, Woter, GreenFlamez and Jormek. "Dark Angels", also on Samay, followed in 2025. That stretch disappears when the story is reduced to a single 2026 title.

83 is the main label of the current catalogue: Beatport associates 21 tracks with the imprint, far ahead of the rest, and BeatStats concentrates the bulk of his performance there, across nine originals. "Excelsior" is not a single. It is a ten-track album released on 12 March 2026. The tracklist runs through "Excelsior", "Check This", "Feel The Music (Album Remix)", "Rider" with Buson, "Cyborg (Album Remix)", "Energy Up", "Bring It Back", "Memories", "Dreams" and "Just Pretend". Beatport placed it on the March Breaks / UK Bass shortlist, in Best New Breaks that month, in Weekend Picks week 11, on On Our Radar 2026 and among the year's best tracks so far in the genre. On BeatStats the title cut is his highest-scoring original, ahead of "Rider", "Run It Back", "Bassline Pressure" and "Memories". "Rider", with Buson, had already come out on 8 January 2026 at 136 BPM. "Echoes of Rhythm", again on 83, is the latest release: 18 September 2026, 138 BPM. The songwriting credit on Excelsior is listed as Antonio Sanchez.

Around 83 the label network is no longer incidental. Banana Club carries a run of 2025–2026: "Connection", "Don't Stop" and "My Race" in 2025, "444" in 2026. "Connection" appears on the compilation Fresh Breakbeats Vol. 1, with FM-3, Rhades, MBreaks, Bowser, Terrie Kynd, Jormek and AceNoise. Elektroshok weighs in during 2026 with "Get Low" (19 February), the remix of Rasco's "Pure Bassline" (2 April, 134 BPM) and "Bassline Pressure" (13 May, 137 BPM). That remix is his strongest remix on BeatStats. Raveart releases "096" on 28 January and "Run It Back" on 7 July at 137 BPM. Distorsion Records issues "Hellbound" on 21 April at 140 BPM. There are also cuts on Space Pizza, Warriors Beat Return, Dirty Kitchen Rave and Rough Division. Buson is the central collaborator; Periko appears on "Perro con Periko".

The DJ work is documented outside the studio. In 2026 he plays the Pure Bassline stage at ElRow XXL, a b2b with Cude at the Heat closing of Boiler XL, and the Pure Bassline bill of Made in Spain Festival, alongside Bowser, FM-3, Rhades, Hankook, Orebeat, Kuplay, Mutantbreakz, Karpin, Kultür, Rasco and The Brainkiller. The year gathers "Rider", "096", "Perro con Periko", "Get Low", the Excelsior album, the "Pure Bassline" remix, "Hellbound", "Bassline Pressure", "444", "Run It Back" and "Echoes of Rhythm".

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ESSENTIAL TRACKS

707
Connection
Rider
Excelsior
Memories
Pure Bassline (Sans Remix)

KEY RELEASES

707 (2024)
Samay Records, 16 Aug 2024. One of the first documented commercial singles.
Dark Angels (2025)
Samay Records. Follow-up on the early label.
Excelsior (2026)
Album, ten tracks, 83, 12 Mar 2026. Title cut is his strongest original on BeatStats.
Rider (2026)
With Buson; 83, 8 Jan 2026, 136 BPM.
Run It Back (2026)
Raveart Records, 7 Jul 2026, 137 BPM.
Echoes of Rhythm (2026)
83, 18 Sep 2026, 138 BPM. Most recent release.