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Renegade Hardware was instituted in mid 1995 as an outlet for the harder and more experimental music our artists were producing. Renegade Recordings and Trouble On Vinyl had both already successfully founded themselves in their own niche and as Jungle/Drum & Bass continued to mutate with a sound called 'Hardstep' emerging. TOV immediately rose to the challenge adding an imprint that once again broke away from the mainstream structure of the music. The new label, Renegade Hardware, captured perfectly the essence of this fresh techy music and was an overnight success.

Albums have played a big part in the Renegade Hardware success story with ‘Quantum Mechanics’, the first, released in 1997. The brilliant ‘Armageddon’ followed in 1999 and proved once again that the label had their fingers on the pulse, generating an LP that was both dancefloor heavy and futuristic. ‘Essential Rewindz’ mixed by Grooverider managed to outsell both previous albums.

For 2002 Hardware stepped up the pace with 2 massive EP projects. 2004 saw the release of the massive "Skool of Hard Knocks" LP, featuring the absolutely epic and totally timeless cut "Minds Eye" by Pendulum & Bulletproof. In the same few months, Raiden furthered his already excellent reputation with the 'Utopia' EP and Chase & Status made their magnificent debut in the shape of the '20/20' remix, originally by Future Cut.

Today Renegade Hardware averages out the highest number of record sales of the TOV music group, and can lay claim to both the biggest ever selling record from all three labels - Usual Suspects 'Killa Bees' - and the highest national chart position achieved by any of the labels - No.34 Ð for Dillinja's massive hit 'Twist 'Em Out' in June 2003.

Hardware continues to go from strength to strength. Now reaching our 62nd release pays testament to the quality and quantity of groundbreaking music that continues to be procured and released by the label.