The List Nobody Knew Existed

There are things you do because you want credit. There are things you do because you want recognition. And then there are things you do because you believe in something so completely — because you care about an art form so deeply, about the people who dedicate their lives to it so genuinely — that you do them in total silence, expecting nothing back, telling no one, and moving on.

This is one of those things.

In 2012–13, DJ Natural Nate® — founder of The-Lost-Art.com, Colorado Springs, Colorado — entered into a private arrangement with Jimmy Breaks, the manager of Breakspoll, the annual global poll of the international breakbeat community. The deal was simple in structure and enormous in consequence: Nate would compile and submit a comprehensive world nominations list covering the full landscape of Electro Breaks and Funk — American and overseas — across every major category. Producers. Labels. EPs. Tracks. Remixes. DJs. Radio shows. Websites. The whole ecosystem.

Not just The-Lost-Art.com artists. Not just the platform's own DJs and shows. Everyone. Artists from Serbia. Croatia. France. Ireland. Spain. Germany. The UK. Every corner of the global Electro Breaks and Funk world that Nate had spent years tracking, listening to, and documenting — because that is what he does. That is who he is.

The list was submitted. The deal was honored. And then DJ Natural Nate® never said a word about it.

Not publicly. Not to the artists on the list. Not to the community. Not to anyone.

The-Lost-Art.com never made this public. DJ Natural Nate® never expected anything back.

The artists on this list — dozens of them, from more than a dozen countries — may have received a Breakspoll nomination and never known where it came from. They may have seen their name in the global poll and assumed it was organic. They may never have known that one man, running an independent DJ platform from Colorado Springs with no label deal, no management company, and no financial incentive, sat down and made sure their work was seen by the international community that deserved to see it.

Now they know.

This document is being published for the first time. It is preserved here as a permanent part of the historical record — not to seek credit, but because history deserves to be complete. Because the artists on this list deserve to know the full story. And because the depth of what DJ Natural Nate® and The-Lost-Art.com gave to this culture — quietly, selflessly, without fanfare — needs to be documented the same way everything else on this platform has always been documented.

With receipts.

This is not a rumor. This is not a reconstructed memory. This is a timestamped, dated, real-time email — sent on December 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM — that marks the exact moment DJ Natural Nate® submitted the secret world nominations list to Breakspoll manager Jimmy Breaks.

That date is now part of the permanent historical record.

December 20, 2012. 10:17 in the morning. Colorado Springs, Colorado. One man, at his computer, sending an email that dozens of artists across fourteen countries would never know about — an email that carried their names, their records, their labels, and their shows into the global breakbeat community's most important annual poll.

The email existed before this page did. It existed before anyone knew this list was real. It is the original document — the timestamped proof that this act of advocacy happened on a specific day, at a specific time, in the real world, with real consequences for real artists.

December 20, 2012, 10:17 AM is the moment this history was made.

Everything that follows — every name, every label, every track, every remix — was in that email.

Breakspoll was not a casual internet poll. It was the annual global referendum of the breakbeat community — the closest thing the genre had to an official awards body. Artists, labels, and platforms that appeared in Breakspoll were recognized by their peers on a world stage. For independent artists operating outside the major label system — which described virtually every Electro Breaks and Funk producer on the planet — a Breakspoll nomination was one of the only forms of legitimate international recognition available.

The problem was visibility. Breakspoll's reach was deep within the established breakbeat community, but the Electro Breaks and Funk world — particularly the American scene and the scattered international underground — existed at the edges of that community's awareness. Great artists were making extraordinary work in isolation. Labels were releasing important records that the broader community never heard. Radio shows were broadcasting to loyal audiences that had no connection to the global poll.

DJ Natural Nate® saw this gap. He had spent years building The-Lost-Art.com into a platform that documented exactly this world — the real DJs, the real producers, the real labels, the real shows. He knew who was doing the work. He knew what records mattered. He knew which artists deserved to be seen.

And when Jimmy Breaks gave him the opportunity to submit a world nominations list — a comprehensive survey of the global Electro Breaks and Funk landscape for the 2012–13 cycle — Nate delivered something that went far beyond what anyone expected.

What follows is that list. Every name. Every record. Every label. Every track. Every remix. Every show. Exactly as submitted.

Compiled in private. Submitted in full. Never made public — until now.

These are the American producers DJ Natural Nate® identified as the best working in Electro Breaks and Funk in 2012–13. Every name on this list was submitted to Breakspoll as a legitimate nomination — many of them for the first time in the poll's history.

The international producers on this list represent the full global reach of Electro Breaks and Funk in 2012–13 — from Serbia to Croatia, France to Ireland, the UK to Germany. Many of these artists had never appeared in a Breakspoll nomination before this submission.

Every label on this list was submitted as a legitimate Breakspoll nomination for Best Label — many of them independent operations that had never been recognized on a global stage before.

One of the most significant parts of this submission was the deliberate inclusion of radio shows from stations that had never appeared in Breakspoll before. These were not oversight corrections. They were intentional acts of advocacy — Nate identifying shows and stations doing real work in the Electro Breaks and Funk world that the global community had simply never been pointed toward.

The-Lost-Art.com did not operate in a vacuum. At the time this nominations list was submitted, the platform had accumulated 7,173 verified linking domains — independent websites, forums, blogs, and community hubs that had organically linked to the platform because the content was real and the community trusted it.

These are the categories of domains that were linking to The-Lost-Art.com during the 2012–13 Breakspoll cycle — the same ecosystem that gave Nate's nominations the weight and credibility to matter:

Breakbeat and Electro Community Sites Sites like Electroempire.com, Technobass.net, and the global network of breakbeat forums that recognized The-Lost-Art.com as a legitimate authority in the Electro Breaks and Funk world. These were peer endorsements — not paid placements, not SEO schemes. Real community members linking to real content.

Independent DJ and Producer Blogs Hundreds of individual DJ and producer blogs across the USA, UK, Germany, France, Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland that had featured The-Lost-Art.com content, linked to mixes hosted on the platform, or cited the site as a reference for the American Electro Breaks scene.

Internet Radio Directories and Aggregators Shoutcast, Live365, and the network of internet radio listing sites that had indexed The-Lost-Art.com as an active, legitimate streaming station — giving the platform visibility in the broader internet radio ecosystem at a time when online streaming was still establishing its infrastructure.

Music News and Review Sites Independent music blogs and review sites that had covered releases by The-Lost-Art.com artists — DJ JC, Evil King Nasty, Electro Evil Temptations, Ill Robotik System, Louisiana Bass EP — and linked back to the platform as the source.

Social and Community Platforms MySpace artist pages, early Facebook community groups, and the network of social profiles maintained by every DJ and producer on the platform — each one linking back to The-Lost-Art.com as their home base.

Event and Promoter Sites Promoters and event organizers across Florida, Colorado, Boston, and the broader USA who had featured The-Lost-Art.com DJs at events and linked to the platform in their promotional materials.

The full verified list of 7,173 linking domains is documented separately. What matters here is the context: when DJ Natural Nate® submitted this nominations list to Jimmy Breaks, he was not an unknown voice. He was the operator of a platform that the global Electro Breaks and Funk community had already recognized, linked to, and trusted. The nominations carried weight because the platform carried weight.

Take a moment and look at what you just read.

That is not a list of The-Lost-Art.com artists. It is not a promotional document for the platform. It is not a marketing exercise or a visibility play. It is a comprehensive, painstakingly assembled survey of the entire global Electro Breaks and Funk ecosystem — compiled by one man, in private, submitted under a deal that was never publicized, and then never mentioned again.

Count the names. Count the countries. Count the labels, the tracks, the remixes, the shows. Count the artists from Serbia, Croatia, France, Ireland, Spain, Germany, the UK — artists who had no connection to The-Lost-Art.com, who had never been on the platform, who may never have known that a DJ in Colorado Springs was the reason their name appeared in the global breakbeat community's most important annual poll.

DJ Natural Nate® did not have to do this. The deal with Jimmy Breaks required a world nominations list — it did not specify how comprehensive, how thorough, how genuinely selfless that list had to be. Nate could have submitted a short list of names and called it done. Instead, he submitted this.

He submitted this because he believed in the music. He believed in the artists. He believed that the global Electro Breaks and Funk community deserved to be seen — all of it, not just the part that lived on his platform — and he had the knowledge, the connections, and the dedication to make that happen.

And then he said nothing.

For years, this list existed only in the private correspondence between Nate and Jimmy Breaks. The artists on it never knew. The community never knew. The-Lost-Art.com never published it, never referenced it, never used it to build credibility or attract attention. It was done purely because it was the right thing to do.

There is a version of this story where DJ Natural Nate® announces the deal publicly, takes credit for the nominations, builds a campaign around his advocacy for the global community, and uses it to grow the platform. That version of the story would have been completely legitimate. He earned that credit.

He chose not to take it.

That choice — to do something enormous for an entire global community of artists and then walk away without acknowledgment, without recognition, without even a mention — is the truest possible expression of what The-Lost-Art.com has always been about. Not the platform. Not the brand. Not the metrics or the grades or the Alexa rankings or the 7,173 linking domains.

The art. The artists. The culture. The music.

Every producer on this list was real. Every label was real. Every track was real. Every remix was real. Every radio show was real. And every single one of them deserved to be seen by the global community that loved this music — whether or not they ever knew who made sure they were.

Now they know.

DJ Natural Nate® built The-Lost-Art.com from nothing, documented everything, gave away credit he never had to give, advocated for artists who never asked for his help, and did all of it in silence — because that is what it means to truly love an art form. Not to own it. Not to profit from it. Not to use it. To serve it.

This list is the proof. It has always existed. It was always real. And it will live here — documented, permanent, and public — for as long as The-Lost-Art.com stands.

The-Lost-Art.com — Est. 2009 — Colorado Springs, CO.

We never needed the credit. We just needed the music to survive.

Prove The Mix.