Bear Essential Promotions and Slam Funk Productions unite to bring you Essential Slam Funk Records - ESF, a Brisbane based, Australian label founded by Bear Keen, Reuben Stocks. Together they bring you over 20 years experience in promoting and playing dance music and a life-long passion for electronic music.

Over the years ESF has provided platforms for underground music and art to thrive - in the outdoor and indoor scene; from festivals (secret sessions, tribal sessions, outback playground) to club nights (The Underground Resistance) and to art spaces and aerosol workshops.

ESF has given many artists a stage for the first time. Now it's time for ESF Records to bring you quality electronic music from across Australia and around the Globe - the best progressive, psytrance, techno, chill and experimental sounds around. ESF Records will deliver new, cutting edge artists along with those already established. Nothing but the essentials to slam that funk to dance floors everywhere.