22 Facts About Luna-C

Luna-C was born on Christopher Howell, 1 May 1973 and is a British DJ and record producer, known for his work in breakbeat hardcore music.

Luna-C founded Kniteforce Records in 1992, for which he produced tracks and remixes under various aliases.

Luna-C was a huge fan of hip-hop music and DJ'd in his spare time well before he experienced the UK rave scene and hardcore music.

Luna-C was persuaded however to go to the hardcore club Labyrinth in 1990, and it changed his view of the music and the scene forever.

Luna-C soon began buying hardcore music in Music Power Records in Ilford, London, and Boogie Times in Romford.

Some of Luna-C's productions mirrored this to keep up with the sound, and in 1996 he set up Malice Records to cater to the hard-edged gabber sound that was being mixed with UK happy hardcore.

Luna-C ended up using the label to release tracks from his various aliases.

Luna-C got into trance music and started an unsuccessful trance label called Strange Room.

Luna-C continued to engineer for the label, and produce tunes under yet more guises, but Kniteforce stopped releasing at number 60.

Luna-C forged a set that included custom-made dubplates that he created.

Luna-C released a couple of tracks under the Keep It Fresh label, which were old style breakbeat hardcore, but these sold under 500 copies.

Luna-C had once produced a jungle-style tune on a one-off release on JFK Recordings as Hired Gun; under a variety of different names again, Howell started to release tunes on the Influential imprint.

Luna-C had requests for represses of the Kniteforce back catalogue, but the original plates had all been destroyed when the vinyl pressing plant the label used went bankrupt.

Around this time DJ Deluxe, a longtime Kniteforce fan, approached Luna-C about creating an official Kniteforce Records website.

KFA releases sold quickly and on 10 May 2002, Luna-C bought back the Kniteforce Records label, all its subsidiaries, and all the rights to the music and the logos.

Luna-C began DJing a planned set, the "Supaset", which incorporated every style of hardcore music and varied in tempo throughout with the aid of Luna-C's self-produced "DJ Toolz".

The sets were popular among followers of hardcore music, and Luna-C's released material displayed a harder edge and skipped wildly between breakbeats and gabber.

Luna-C had already established an online Kniteforce store after its previous outlet closed down, and much of Kniteforce's revenue had actually started to come from merchandise sold on the site.

At the beginning of 2006, Luna-C announced that it was unlikely there would be any further KFA releases on vinyl due to rising costs and relatively poor sales.

On 11 June 2006, Luna-C married fellow KFA artist Bexxie.

Subsequently, in December 2015, Luna-C announced he was engaged to his long-time girlfriend, Cindy Carter, and expecting a baby in Spring 2016.

Wilder Read Howell was born 30 March 2016, and a few months later, on 24 September 2016, Luna-C married Cindy Howell.