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Stacy McClure

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Stacy McClure is a DJ and producer from Jacksonville, Florida. He works under his own name rather than a separate alias, and his public profiles place him there without ambiguity: Bandcamp states Jacksonville, Florida in so many words, and the official ShenaniGoons biography returns to the same city as the project's home. He has been active as a DJ and producer since around 2000, with a later hiatus and a documented return to commercial release in the mid-2020s.

His own SoundCloud biography says he has more than twenty years of experience as a DJ and producer, that he had to step away for a time, and that he later came back to music. That account is the clearest correction to earlier readings that treated him as a 2020s newcomer. The catalogue now circulating on Beatport is recent; the career behind it is not.

The longer timeline is confirmed by ShenaniGoons, the brother duo he forms with SiR1 (John Kraft). Beatport presents them as a Jacksonville pair with more than two decades behind the decks and in the studio. Their official biography states that they have been working as DJs and producers since 2000, beginning in the vinyl era and developing through local clubs and the Jacksonville underground before moving into digital production, breaks and bass music. In 2025–2026 that project has become central to McClure's commercial activity.

McClure's current identity is explicitly tied to Florida Breaks. In October 2025 he released This Is Florida Breaks on Gigabeat Records, filed on Beatport as Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass and running at 133 BPM. The title is not a critic's label: it is the artist's own framing of the music. Jacksonville, the 808 drum machine and the historical vocabulary of Florida electro, booty bass and broken-beat club music all sit inside that lineage.

Gigabeat Records is now his principal label home. Almost all of the commercial discography that followed the return sits there, including All I Want, This Is Florida Breaks, ASS Poppin, All Alone, Rock The 904 with DJ Genesis, I'm Falling, Lets Hit Em With The 808s, the Troublemakers EP and its cuts 808 Pulse, Back At It, Energy, Never Backing Down and TroubleMakers.

The stronger discographic return arrives in 2025. This Is Florida Breaks appears in October; ASS Poppin follows in November; All Alone in December. From January 2026 the pace increases: Rock The 904 on 5 January, I'm Falling in February, then Lets Hit Em With The 808s and the Troublemakers EP in April. That rhythm matches his own account of having been away and deciding to come back.

The Troublemakers EP, issued in April 2026 with ShenaniGoons and SiR1, is the most substantial statement of this second phase: five tracks — 808 Pulse, Back At It, Energy, Never Backing Down and TroubleMakers — all on Gigabeat. The release was selected for Beatport's Best New Breaks / UK Bass: April 2026.

Within that run, 808 Pulse became one of his most commercially impactful tracks of 2026, with Lets Hit Em With The 808s and the Troublemakers EP also moving strongly through specialist charts. Those titles, together with This Is Florida Breaks and ASS Poppin, make the 808 / Florida-breaks language explicit: recent productions recover that regional aesthetic and the drum-machine vocabulary associated with it.

Outside the Beatport-facing breaks catalogue, McClure's Bandcamp hosts an extensive set of personal edits and remixes of artists such as KREAM, Armin van Buuren, KSHMR, Hardwell, MORTEN, David Guetta, ATB and Tiësto, alongside breakbeat work. That material shows a broader producer and remixer practice connected to EDM, house and drum & bass, but it remains secondary to the breakbeat project that defines his current commercial identity.

Rock The 904, the 2026 collaboration with DJ Genesis, underlines the local attachment: 904 is Jacksonville's telephone area code. All I Want marks an early point in the recent collaborative run with ShenaniGoons and SiR1.

In 2026 McClure is fully active. He is best understood as a Jacksonville Florida-breaks DJ and producer whose path begins around 2000, is interrupted and then resumed, and whose present catalogue on Gigabeat — especially This Is Florida Breaks, 808 Pulse and the Troublemakers EP — makes that regional identity unmistakable.

KEY RELEASES

This Is Florida Breaks (2025)
October 2025; 133 BPM Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass. Explicit regional identity statement.
All I Want (2025)
Early collaborative title of the return with ShenaniGoons / SiR1.
Rock The 904 (2026)
5 January 2026; collaboration with DJ Genesis. 904 is Jacksonville's area code.
Lets Hit Em With The 808s (2026)
April 2026 single; one of the stronger chart movers of the return.
Troublemakers EP (2026)
April 2026 with ShenaniGoons and SiR1 (808 Pulse, Back At It, Energy, Never Backing Down, TroubleMakers). Selected for Beatport Best New Breaks / UK Bass: April 2026.
808 Pulse (2026)
From Troublemakers EP; one of the most commercially impactful McClure titles of 2026.