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Up Tha Wildstyle (feat. DJ Supreme)
About Porn Kings
Porn Kings sit right in the middle of that rougher British club sound where house, hard house, breakbeats and rave attitude overlapped. “Up to No Good” is the obvious anthem, but the run that followed — “Amour (C’Mon)”, “Up to the Wildstyle”, “Sledger” and “Shake Ya Shimmy” — shows a project that knew how to turn underground energy into records big enough for the UK singles chart.
Liverpool club pressure with crossover instincts
Porn Kings emerged in 1996 with a sound that was hard, cheeky and direct enough for rave culture, but structured tightly enough to break into the mainstream.
The project was originally formed by Davy T, Paul Rowland and Dan Evans. Davy T and Evans had already worked together in 2 Funky 2, the Liverpool act behind the 1993 club hit “Brothers & Sisters”. That background matters: Porn Kings did not arrive as outsiders borrowing rave language after it became fashionable. Their records came from musicians already embedded in the North West dance scene.
The first version of their breakthrough circulated as a white label titled “Pumping the Junk”. It used material associated with Josh Wink’s “Higher State of Consciousness” and was quickly picked up by All Around the World Productions. Reworked as “Up to No Good”, it entered the UK Singles Chart in September 1996 and peaked at number 28. On the UK Dance Singles Chart it went considerably higher, reaching number two.
“Amour (C’Mon)” followed in 1997 and performed even better on the main UK chart, reaching number 17. Kenny Hayes joined the project during this period and contributed to subsequent writing and production. The records were bluntly effective: hard-edged drums, rave stabs, chopped vocal phrases and very little wasted motion.
The biggest UK chart result came with Porn Kings vs DJ Supreme. “Up to the Wildstyle” reached number 10 in January 1999, turning DJ Supreme’s already familiar “Tha Wildstyle” idea into a bigger crossover record. The same year, Porn Kings issued the album Up to No Good, collecting material from the project’s first phase.
Later singles kept the name visible in British club culture. “Sledger” charted in 2001, and “Shake Ya Shimmy”, made with Flip & Fill and featuring 740 Boyz, reached number 28 in 2003. Porn Kings also accumulated remix credits for artists including DJ Quicksilver, Young MC and Pamela Fernandez.
Older biographies often describe Porn Kings as a 1996–2006 act, but the name has continued to circulate well beyond that period through reissues, remixes and live appearances. Spotify currently lists Porn Kings on 2026 concert lineups, so treating the project as simply closed after the mid-2000s misses its continuing presence on the UK nostalgia and classic-dance circuit.
Key moments
A short run of singles was enough to leave several durable club records and one UK Top 10 hit.
Porn Kings form in Liverpool
Davy T, Paul Rowland and Dan Evans establish the project after earlier work in the North West dance scene.
“Up to No Good” breaks through
The All Around the World single reaches number 28 on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the UK Dance Singles Chart.
“Amour (C’Mon)”
The follow-up peaks at number 17 in the UK and gives Porn Kings a second number-two placing on the UK Dance Singles Chart.
Top 10 with DJ Supreme
Porn Kings vs DJ Supreme take “Up to the Wildstyle” to number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
Up to No Good album
A full-length release gathers the project’s late-1990s club material under the title of its best-known single.
“Sledger”
The single reaches number 71 in the UK, keeping the project active as British dance music moves into a new decade.
“Shake Ya Shimmy”
The collaboration with Flip & Fill, featuring 740 Boyz, peaks at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart.
Still present on the live circuit
Porn Kings appear on current UK classic-dance and festival lineups alongside other major 1990s and 2000s acts.
Essential releases
Three singles that explain most of the Porn Kings story without needing much extra context.
Essential tracks
The core records are concentrated in a relatively small catalogue, which makes Porn Kings unusually easy to enter.
Small catalogue, outsized footprint
Porn Kings never needed a huge discography to become recognisable. Five singles reached the UK Top 75 between 1996 and 2003, with “Up to the Wildstyle” going Top 10. More tellingly for a club act, both “Up to No Good” and “Amour (C’Mon)” reached number two on the UK Dance Singles Chart.
The records also capture a British dance culture that was less interested in neat genre boundaries than later retrospectives sometimes suggest. House, hard house, rave samples, breakbeats and commercial hooks all sit beside each other. “Up to No Good” still sounds like the clearest statement of that attitude: raw enough for a club set, immediate enough to survive outside one.
Connections around Porn Kings
The project was closely tied to the Liverpool and North West dance network rather than operating as an isolated studio alias.
2 Funky 2
Davy T and Dan Evans had earlier been involved with 2 Funky 2, best known for the 1993 dance hit “Brothers & Sisters”.
DJ Supreme
The 1999 collaboration “Up to the Wildstyle” became Porn Kings’ highest-charting UK single, reaching number 10.
Flip & Fill
Porn Kings later teamed with fellow UK dance act Flip & Fill for “Shake Ya Shimmy”, featuring 740 Boyz.
Official destinations
Verified streaming profiles and catalogue destinations.
Editorial profile prepared using Official Charts, Spotify, Apple Music, MusicBrainz and contemporary catalogue references.
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