Knowledge magazine issue 038 (June 2001)

["","Frontlines1 THE MINUTEMAN Transferring from walls to canvas and expanding If you can\u2019t make that then keep your head up for horizons in the process, the Minuteman exhibition Temper\u2019s self-styled \u2018corporate bombing\u2019 as Sprite Wolverhampton based artist, Temper, displays the stays faithful to the soul associated with the launch limited edition cans featuring his designs technique and versatility that has kept him at the movement, basing itself around Temper\u2019s lifestyle. between May and August. \u201cFor so long street art has forefront of graffiti culture. The right to a solo graffiti not really been recognised as a credible art form and exhibition is justified by the painter\u2019s history and See the show at Birmingham Museum and Art so events like the \u2018Sprite\u2019 Urban Games as well as outlook: \u201cI want to make people understand we\u2019re not Gallery 26 May-22 June, Arc in Manchester (0771 the limited edition cans and bottles, give people a going away. I can do what contemporary artists do, 4410131) and in London (0207 2414111). rare opportunity to see graffiti in its rawest and most just using aerosol.\u201d creative state and not just as an act of vandalism.\u201d 08 KNOWLEDGE","REPRAZENT Frontlines2 After three months touring JAM: TOKYO-LONDON Australia, New Zealand, US and Canada, Reprazent return to the Celebrating the creative communities of UK for the release of, \u2018Lucky two parallel cities, East and West, \u2018JAM: Pressure\u2019, on June 11. Roni Size Tokyo-London\u2019 offers a rare mash-up and Suv remixes are on the drum of creative urban culture. Without & bass double pack alongside a prioritising any one art form, Jam brings \u2018Ghetto Celebrity\u2019 instrumental, the most innovative practitioners of art, while MJ Cole, Layo and fashion and music to an experimental Bushwacka! and Ils all rework the exhibition in the Barbican Gallery from track on two separate 12\u201ds. 10 May-8 July. Based on the idea of a musical jam, the The band are also playing three original \u201896 exhibition was one of the live shows in June: Bristol Rock on first to bring non-mainstream creative 6 June and Manchester Academy activity together in a major London on 7 June and Po Na Na gallery, the second will similarly feature Hammersmith in London on 8 many Japanese artists whose work will June. Guest DJs on the first two be seen in the west for the first time. dates are Marky, Craze, Bryan This includes Groovisions, a design Gee and Stanton Warriors with team, who are famous for creating t Kenny Dope replacing Marky for he household Japanese Chappie the London show. character. There will be a special late night open- IT\u2019S BIGGER THAN ing event for JAM: Tokyo London on HIP HOP... Friday 11 May featuring DJs, bands and a hip hop crew from Tokyo. Admission is Hip hop takes to the streets of \u00a37\/\u00a35, information is on 020 7638 8891 London for the whole of June in a festival put together to strengthen RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY all parts of the culture. Faces like Skitz, DJ 279, Sin Cru, Adee and Better than school, apply to The Red Bull Music Academy in New York this September to get a free musical education. The Steam are to play teacher at various two, fortnight sessions are open to just 30 people from all over the world. Get selected past the extensive application and events around the city. All are you will be flown to New York to learn industry tricks, secrets and skills from the best possible teachers. Equipment dropping in to the day long launch companies give lectures on gear, such as the Akai sampling workshop, which is all donated so the studios can be used party on 2 June at Hackney\u2019s when not in class. Last year Kemistry and Peshay attended as guest lecturers, this year the academy gets each student a Ocean club, which provides a gig somewhere in New York. Get your form from www.redbullmusicacademy.com window into the events of the month to come. You can participate at KNOWLEDGE 09 producer, DJ and breakdance workshops, graff murals and \u2018Visuleyez\u2019 image shows, or get hold of one of the LHHF maps and just walk the street. Pick up the fashion trail for a tour of design- ers and retailers of UK urban streetwear and if you pass a bar- bers\u2019 look out for \u2018The Barbershop Quartet\u2019, a relaxed space for bed- room MCs and DJs to develop their skills in a public environment. Night time means clubtime and only the finest hip hop provided by the likes of Pogo, DJ 279, Big Ted and Shortee Blitz. Participating venues cover north to south: Scala, Mass, Cargo to name a few and watch city roofs for artist spotlights at Tower Records and Footlocker. Get info on all of the events from www.londonhiphopfestival.com","Frontlines3 ECOSYSTEM 1.0 SIDELINES Liquid Sky\u2019s DJ Soul Slinger is organising a four day event, Canada\u2019s Vinyl Syndicate have a Ecosystem 1.0 in Manaus, (bang in the middle of Brazil\u2019s new improved website. Check Amazon rainforest). The aim is to produce an ecologically www.VinylSyndicate.com for yourself. friendly event plus help raise awareness and support for Greenpeace and \u201cother non-governmental corporations Sage, UFO! & Elektra introduce that help protect the environment, local population and Phylum Recordings out of San indigenous people\u201d. Francisco. Forthcoming releases include Sagelektra\u2019s \u2018Rapture\u2019, Inspired by the 2000 Green Olympics which incorporated a Sage\u2019s \u2018Agent Orange\u2019 and UFO!\u2019s series of guidelines that were used especially in the \u2018Crack Whore Sleeze\u2019. \u201cWe want construction of the olympic village, Ecosystem 1.0 has the the dancefloor smash,\u201d they say, goal of becoming a place of learning. The idea is that the \u201cbut, just as important, we want public (made up of foreigners, locals and people from other our records to make you think and states in Brazil) participate in the event without leaving feel as well.\u201d behind a trail of destruction. \u201cThe people will have the opportunity learn how the Amazon really is through Lee Coombs likes to mix tribal beats workshops and presentations from local people. The event with electro break-house and he does is to serve as a way of communicating how important it is to exactly that on his compilation LP preserve the largest tropical forest in the world,\u201d explains \u2018Future Sound of Retro\u2019, due June 25. Rebeca Lerer of Greenpeace Amazon. Computing tunes for the future, the Scheduled to run from August 2-5, the event features top idea for the Balkan Radar label began electronic acts and DJs from around the globe: Lamb, on an Atari ST in a basement during Afrika Bambaataa, JJ Frost, Bryan Gee, Craze, Randall and the Balkan conflict. Four years later, Mixmaster Morris are just some of the confirmed line-up and the downtempo breaks of while the likes of A Guy Call Gerald, Moby, DJ Krush, Drazen\u2019s \u2018Ancient Future \/ Warp 7\u2019 is Grooverider, Trace and Armand Van Helden are TBC. For their first release in April \/ May. The more info check www.liquidsky.com \/ www.greenpeace.org guys behind the label are also or e-mail [email protected] associated with Lift, Bosnia\u2019s first drum & bass club which opens at MUSIC TO MOVE TO Alipaina 19, Sarajevo in June. From your computer to your car, Way Out West have signed a multi Traxdata have launched the mStation. album deal with Distinctive Breaks A digital jukebox, mStation stores up to having left BMG some months previ- 3,000 tracks in a unit no larger than a ous. The label will release WOW\u2019s CD autochanger. Plug it into your dash new LP, \u2018Intensity\u2019, this summer. and listen to your CDs and downloaded tunes with no loss of sound quality Hard Leaders plan a CD & triple vinyl whatsoever. Saving an average length compilation for May time featuring a CD takes six minutes and then it\u2019s mix of tracks from Pulse, Justice, instant access all the way. Choose to Carlito & Addiction and Peshay store alphabetically or in directories (TBC). The album \u2018Modern Living\u2019 to create your own playlists or also features more downtempo compilations. The package comes with vocal songs and Canadian hip hop everything you need and will set you from Buck 65. back \u00a3550 from Dixons. You can now buy Intercom merchan- TORYMON dise i.e. vinyl box sets, promos, releases (all the back catalogue is The relaunch of the Sony backed site, available) and t-shirts from the web- Torymon.co.uk, sees a branching out from the site www.intercomrecordings.com as original service that offered advice and support well as hearing all the new tunes. for ambitious producers. Now music-makers Just released is Tommy Knocker\u2019s are given a forum in which to showcase the \u2018Let Me Tell You \/ Startime\u2019, to be results of the advice received. The Toryumon followed by 60 Minute Man\u2019s \u2018Mystery Battleground allows users to post their tracks \/ Electric Emotion\u2019. Intercom have against others\u2019 and then monitor the reaction also signed Sketch and Code for their from other visitors. first release on the label. Battle it out through four different rounds while CINEMATICS Beat wizard Klute starts up a new being voted on by the public as to whether the label, Commercial Suicide, with its track should stay or be defeated. Ten CDs of The Cinematic Orchestra are currently putting the finishing touches to a first release out in May. Klute also has the best tracks are distributed to music second album, released this September, including collaborations with a upcoming releases on 31 Records companies for artist promotion, through the St Louis jazz icon and a UK rapper. The band commence a North and Certificate 18 and has been busy website itself and direct to shoppers through American pre album tour in June and then travel to Europe, Japan and in the studio working on music for TV Japan\u2019s biggest CD retail shop, CCC. Australia late in 2001. Orchestral producer, J Swinscoe will also be DJing ads and PlayStation games. at a variety of dates in the UK and abroad, while working on a solo As well as making sure you know which plug production project for Talkin\u2019 Loud. Coming out on May 1, goes in which socket, Toryumon also \u2018PeteStrumentals\u2019 is the album to persuades artists such as I G Culture, Mark B, follow \u2018Soul Survivor\u2019 from long-time Rennie Pilgrim and Midfield General to reveal hip hop head Pete Rock. the equipment that they recommend and other insider tips. New Vision America launch in June with the help of label boss Eric Salazar, aka Emptyhead, and his three track drum & bass \/ breakbeat single, \u201cIvory Coast\u201d. Artists waiting their turn at the US branch include, Adam Pfe, J. Dub, Nommo Ogo, 10 KNOWLEDGE","Frontlines4 Glo Lab and Red Math who has PERFECT COMBO \u201cLanding Messiah\u201d ready to go on a Ram vibe. New Vision America will be Those highly coveted Movement \/ Brazil working with all at New Vision and football tops have been flying out of the there may be some collaborations on Bulldozer office like hotcakes with everyone Time Frame\u2019s forthcoming new EP. from Roni Size to Bryan Gee proudly sport- ing theirs. The Nike \/ Movement collabora- Skitz is busy on two fronts at the tion has already been a very productive one moment; his own label Titan Sounds this year as some of the DJs helped launch has its fourth release expected late the \u2018Boing\u2019 trainer at special showcases May. Skinnyman and Tibz feature this round London. More developments are time around with \u2018A London Sumting\u2019. scheduled for later in the summer, especial- Earlier in May, \u2018Countryman\u2019\u2019s sec- ly for the limited edition junglist fashion ond single drops, \u2018Are You On It\u2019 is freaks hiding out there; all Movement have the excellent chosen track from Skitz to say is \u2018Keep your eyes to the floor\u2019. To and Covert, with the Roots Manuva win one of four ultra-exclusive Movement \/ pairing \u2018The Killing\u2019 on the flipside. Brazil football tops, write in with the name of Movement\u2019s Thursday home. The wide-ranging Warp Records have expanded to take Anti-Pop AMMO FOR LIFE Consortium into their stable. The three members, Priest, Beans and Internet radio sounds have come down from all corners to London\u2019s Ammocity: Moving Shadow, Hospital, Titan and Funkin\u2019 Sayyid come from an Ozone Pussy have so far passed through the Regents St studio. Those involved are bringing the freshest, most diverse UK background, the label responsible for underground tunes from both established DJs and pirate set-ups to a global audience. Every host adds a new show each Mike Ladd and Company Flow\u2019s week, extending the broad selection of music offered. With expansions into the live arena planned and \u2018Ammo City... East\u2019 takes on hip hop. The first Anti-Pop already rolling in Cargo, the underground styles are set to take a hold. 12\u201d arrives in September with an album to follow and the odd gem of She-One and Etch One are doing their artistic best to ensure this happens too, with their own brand of \u2018advertising\u2019 springing originality to pick up in-between. up all over town, causing a few city councils some concern. It doesn\u2019t take long to realise that Ammocity also holds an equal mix-up of written content. The topical and thoughtful site has spiky opinions on everything from football and conspiracy German label Intrauterin have a new theories to Tony Blair and De La Soul\u2019s first LP. Chatrooms encourage conversation but with reviews, photography, TV clips release coming late in 2001 from and the radio shows, you can be quite happy as an onlooker. Next time you\u2019re near a computer, reload ammocity.com. newcomer, Jens K. Label headmen, Baze, Djunkiii and Homebass join To win yourself two exclusive Ammocity Ts, taken from a hand numbered run of just 100, forces to work as a collaboration write in telling us who presents the Sunday Best Chill Out show. \u201cIntrauterin Alliance\u201d. The first track to look for is \u2018Der Geist Gottes\u2019, a rave KNOWLEDGE 11 sound with a drum & bass bassline. The Dub Pistols have a new album out in September, \u201cSix Million Ways to Live\u201d on Universal Records. The first single release will arrive July\/August. New Vibe is a brand new label aiming to inject some original raving spirit back into the drum & bass scene. Based in Manchester, the crew behind it are hoping to capture the energy of early rave through its vinyl releases. Manchester\u2019s own XTC, under the alias The X, and newcomers Prophecy and Neurotix have tracks planned for release. Prophecy is up first and due to hit the street in July. Gran Kru Records launch their campaign for 2001 with \u201cA Letter To Tony Blair Vol 1\u201d, a compilation of British hip hop and drum & bass. Black Twang, MSI & Asylum, Roots Manuva, Codename John (Grooverider), Krispy, Optical & Ed Rush, Digital, 57th Dynasty and Out Da Ville all feature on it in a call for more airplay for British urban music on radio playlists. \u201cA Letter To Tony Blair Vol 1\u201d arrives in the shops in June. Ryme Tyme has a personally titled album, \u2018Ryme Tyme\u2019, due for release this July on his own label, 1210. The compilation comprises \u201cof the best tracks I\u2019ve made or been involved with\u201d. Fierce and Ed Rush take mix duties while Ryme Tyme selects and MCs. \u2018Move VIP\u2019, \u2018Payback\u2019 and the exclusive \u2018Resurrection\u2019 and \u2018Semi-Instrumental\u2019 appear alongside new tracks.","Frontlines5 Declaime has finally completed his long-awaited first album DIESEL FOR U \u201cAndsoitissaid\u201d. Prepare for some summer hip hop madness on 4 June. The first Diesel U-Music Awards, designed to encourage unsigned hype for underground Hip hop\u2019s favourite guest MC, the artists took place on April 4 at the Shepherds Biz Markie, is finally getting around Bush Empire and were hosted by DJ Spoony to completing his first LP on and Emma B. Skitz was chosen by Moving \u2018Superrappin\u2019. \u2018Weekend Warrior\u2019 Shadow as Best Drum & Bass for his track should arrive by late summer but \u2018Voyager\u2019 with Fat City selecting the soulful there\u2019s a good chance of seeing the beats of Erban Poets to win the Best Hip Hop beatboxing legend before as he category. DJ Yoda took home the award for tours across Europe\u2019s festivals. Best Scratch DJ from DMC\/Technics as all the winners performed their tracks live to the Bassbin\u2019s finest, Beta 2 and Zero Empire on the night. Diesel have produced a Tolerance have a tentatively titled winners CD which can be picked up free from \u2018Minder\u2019 EP due out in June on the any Diesel store... and if you think you can do legendary Reinforced label, just better, there\u2019s always next year. before Naphta teams up with Badman for an as yet untitled track. ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE Replicant Audio is a new South Legends of the Dark Black and Knowledge London label focusing on real beats. Magazine are joining forces for the Dance Day of Vector Burn, Chris J and Misanthrop this year\u2019s Essential Music Festival. Moving away all have debuts to look for from June. from its usual Brighton home onto East London\u2019s Hackney Marshes increases the event\u2019s capacity to Breaks maestros Elite Force present 20,000 people. Dance Day is July 14 when the \u2018Godfather EP\u2019 on the US label Reprazent, Ice T, Adam Freeland and Mr Scruff will Leftwing. With featured tracks be blazing tunes to the assembled. Gather in the previously unavailable in the States, Legends of the Dark Black \/ Knowledge arena to be this is set to be the first of several treated to performances from Goldie, Grooverider, EPs from the City of Angels offshoot. Fabio, Hype, Randall, Optical, Andy C, Ed Rush, Next comes an Elite Force mix CD. Kenny Ken & Rap with GQ, Fearless & Skibadee Meanwhile, Lunatic Calm celebrate provide the vocal compering for the day\/nighter. Buy the long-awaited completion of their your tickets for \u00a335 from Ticketmaster Look for more second album, \u2018Breaking Point\u2019, news and the chance to win tickets next issue and scheduled for release on City of at www.essentialfestival.com. Angels\/V2 late in the summer. JONZI D Kool FM Live comes online for continual broadcast from May. It\u2019s all The Aeroplane Man is a piece of theatre following a black man\u2019s journey from East London on a global mission to find looking good with special guest his spiritual homeland. Starting in an environment where many different cultures co-exist, The Aeroplane Man travels shows each week, live sets from to places where his experiences question the idea of what \u2018Home\u2019 is and ultimately bring him to his destination. London clubs and live cams to match. based writer\/choreographer Jonzi D has developed the first \u201899 run into a new version, adding film and digital www.KoolFmLive.com technology to his journey around the UK. Startling visuals and performances help to recognise the blend of British sub-cultures and the hybrid society that questions its own identity. 11\/12 May: Oxford Playhouse, 16\/17 May: Midlands villains, Vicious Circle Newcastle Playhouse, 28 May: Derby Playhouse, 29\/ 30 May: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. appear in a short film called Boxed and release a second 12\u201d, \u2018Bwoy\u2019 12 KNOWLEDGE late in May. Wolftown label mates Villains have remixed their first single, \u2018UK Sound\u2019 for a June re-release, complete with all new verses and a video. Coldcut, the Ninja Tune grand- masters have had enough of the General Election already and release a single, \u2018Re:volution\u2019 on 4 June along with a video full of political satire. Watch the Guilty party\u2019s video at www.guiltyparty.cc. www.bombsounds.8m.com comes as an established, recommended drum & bass site that carries a broad mix of stories and issues. Updated daily, the independent site is open to contributions from all who support the scene. Billabong are bringing their global pro Skate Team to west London\u2019s PlayStation skate park. The \u2018Free Skate\u2019 plan is to pay your \u00a33 between 1pm-5pm then chill, chat and skate with boarders like Bucky Lasek, Brian Patch, Tas Pappas, Pat Channita and Ali Cairns.","Frontlines6 VANS UK SUMMER TOUR TOMMY\u2019S BOYS FINAL FANTASY The Vans UK skateboard team are running their first Albums that influence hip hop are a rarity, so Tommy The PlayStation\u2019s Final Fantasy series combined ever UK skatepark tour early this summer. The eight Boy have taken it upon themselves to re-read the have sold more than 30 million copies since the first day tour starts on 26 May and runs for eight days, history book and issue the classic De La Soul LP, release in 1987 and based on this success, a full- hitting nine parks across the country. The team list is \u20183 Feet High and Rising\u2019. Including a number of length animated \u2018Final Fantasy\u2019 film is due for release now confirmed: Peter King, Mark Channer, Chris additional tracks and aiming to be with us in June, in August 2001. Making a move away from the usual Oliver, Olly Todd, Dan Cates, John Robinson, Dave the album arrives with a cluster of others from the action adventure computer games that become Chesson, Emilio Arnanz, Mark Churchill, Chris likes of Stetsasonic, Digital Underground and Afrika films, the RPG epic should make for a stunning ride, Pulman and Paul Robson will be blazing a trail Bambaattaa. All part of the Tommy Boy 20th especially as the game\u2019s Executive Producer has across our finest skateboard spots. Each date on anniversary celebrations. De La Soul are currently taken charge of the movie too. the tour will feature a demo from the full team. For working on \u2018Art Official Intelligence Part 2\u2019, hopefully tour info, team profiles, competitions and daily due before the year\u2019s end, before visiting Europe for Saga IX sees a departure from the futuristic environ- updates as the tour happens, check out: a number of dates over the summer. ment of VIII, opting for an archaic medieval backdrop www.vanstour.co.uk or call 020 8877 9907. in which to host the eternal battle of good versus evil. GIVE IT TO ME RAW To get hold of one of four copies of the four disc BROTHER adventure, a set of FF figures and a limited edition raw42.com are all about offering promotional tools poster from the Japanese advertising campaign, Takeshi Kitano\u2019s \u2018Brother\u2019 follows tough guy for emerging artists, right from small beginnings to write and tell us which format the first FF appeared Yamamoto\u2019s escape from Tokyo\u2019s gangland into LA publishing deals. Think of it as the ground floor of on a) Nintendo b) Dreamcast c) Game Gear life. Hooking up with his drug dealing brother\u2019s mob, A&R. The team provides reviews of your music, Yamamoto, who doesn\u2019t speak English, takes over promo CDs, technical articles and news. Request TONY HAWKS 3 the crew and proves to be a silent, deadly force. your track be considered for licensing though and Without warning, he shoots Ken\u2019s supplier and raw42 will call on their contacts and try and secure Activision has announced that it will release the next entire Chicano gang to take over their turf. Before a deal. The licensing program matches artists with instalment of the best-selling skateboarding simulator, long, it\u2019s all-out war. See the East-West clash in labels, promoters and media opportunities, Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater. Appearing on six formats, cinemas from May. everything is done to help bring artists through the expect version number three to add realistic urban set- A&R\/reviewing structure direct to a label. tings with pedestrians, cars, traffic accidents, natural TINNITUS disasters and changing weather conditions. Add to Recently the team impressed LTJ Bukem with the this a world tour of skate mecca\u2019s including Skater\u2019s Adam Bray, one of our Decksterity mix-tape winners quality of their music on offer. The music maestro Island in Middleton, Rhode Island, Rio, Los Angeles, a no less, is conducting important research into DJ signed the o.r.g. tune \u201cUne Femme de la Mystique\u201d load of new pro\u2019s and deeper multi-player modes and hearing damage and tinnitus. He is offering free to Good Looking, having been mailed a CD by it seems unlikely Tony will spoil the series. hearing tests in London or Edinburgh that last one raw42 and then requested to hear more. Making hour to all DJs who play out regularly. He is also the process easier for Bukem and fellow ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONVENTION looking for venue managers to let him test decibel professionals is the new VIP lounge streaming facil- levels during their busy nights. Anyone who would ity, allowing the industry to log in to hear screened, 10-13 May are dedicated to The Electronic Music like to help us all enjoy clubbing long into the future unsigned tunes directly. Convention of Switzerland at the Bea Bern Expo. 50 without the threat of deafness or tinnitus should live acts, 250 artists and 90 labels mean for profes- e-mail: [email protected] sionals and punters alike, the Convention caters for business and pleasure with daily exhibitions and night- PARADOX PRODUCTIONS ly events. LTJ Bukem, Freddy Fresh, Hexstatic, Alpha Omega & MC GQ, Pascal, Optical, Alex Dallas, Minus Paradox returns to his studio after six months of 8 and Phoebe One ensure the line-up\u2019s success. tours in time to launch the Paradox Productions label. May welcomes release number one, Alaska\u2019s EASTSIDE \u2018Aries Maze\/Drum Sessions\u2019 and this sets the precedent. Paradox\u2019s eyes see \u201ca formula free drum Hailing from East London, Eastside Records (not to & bass \/ beats stable. I want to build a new be confused with A-Sides\u2019 Eastside label) aim to Reinforced and Good Looking\u2019 under one roof. After develop local artists. The label hopes to build a long a label launch party in Switzerland, the rest of the term outlet by reinvesting back into their community, world will be paid visits by the Paradox sound and gradually giving other deserved artists the chance of cameras, as all PAs are filmed for the new LP and breaking through. Their contender working the DVD on Reinforced\/Sony Japan. breaks and drum & bass is Illmatika, who can pro- duce, rap, rhyme and sing and proceeds to on new In other digital projects, the producer has been single \u201cDa Illmatika\u201d due in June (TBC). supplying a major console manufacturer with music and has a forthcoming seven track EP on Reinforced entitled \u2018the>drum\/works-vol<2\u2019. As well as this a vinyl only Drum Sampling \/ DJ tool called \u2018Paradox Breaks Vol.1\u2019 is near completion and will surface on Good Looking. The best place to keep up with movements is: www.paradoxproductions.co.uk KNOWLEDGE 13","TRUE PLAYAZ WORDS: PAUL SULLIVAN TPlrauyeaz ))TRUE PLAYAZ TRUE PLAYAZ HAVE BEEN KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE WITH SOME CHOICE TWELVES AND EPS. NOW THEY\u2019RE ABOUT TO DROP \u2018PLAYAZ 4 REAL\u2019, A HOT NEW COMPILATION ON US. KNOWLEDGE CATCH UP WITH THE CREW TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY\u2019RE AT... )) The industrial brick and steel interior of the main room happier with this LP than \u2018Real Vibes\u2019 to be honest. If \u201cI was in a rave listening to the d&b and I was also in London\u2019s Fabric clubspace is a familiar sight to many this new one does as well, I\u2019ll be more than happy. checking the pirates for the garage and could see what junglists these days, particularly fans of the True Playaz Where \u2018Real Vibes\u2019 was only 12 tracks, this album has it was that people could relate to, why they were liking collective. On the last Friday of every month, the space 20 on it, with loads of variety, a few tracks from guests, the latter and not jungle,\u201d says Hype. \u201cJungle was is taken over by the crew (Hype, Zinc, Pascal and downtempo cuts... it\u2019s all there.\u201d getting to sound like hard techno, which reminded me guests) for an evening of potent rollers and floor- of the gabba stage that music went through. This was wrecking flavours. The night \u2013 which has been running Over the last year or so, the label has been keeping a scene that was originally mixed cultures, classes and for almost a year now at this venue - is, according to itself in the frame with a few sterling releases. Pascal\u2019s sexes and in a lot of places there were more boys than Hype, \u201cone of the club\u2019s best nights \u2013 at 5am the \u2018P Funk Era\u2019 EP and Zinc\u2019s \u2018Beats By Design\u2019 EP made girls, more whites than blacks and I\u2019m like hang on a punters are still jumping around and shouting for more.\u201d a lot of noise a while ago and, more recently, there\u2019s minute, it\u2019s losing what it had. The 138 tempo is good in been the duo\u2019s \u2018Directors Cut\u2019 EP, DJ Red\u2019s \u2018Everything a sense. I mean, drum & bass is like Marmite innit? You At 3pm in the daytime it\u2019s a different story of course, Has Changed\u2019 and Universal Project\u2019s \u2018Soundclash\u2019 either love it or you hate it, but with slower stuff, the with staff cleaning and preparing the bar for the coming EP\u2019. Hype meanwhile has been keeping himself busy garage men might like it, if not the breaks people might night\u2019s events. We\u2019re here at this time so that the crew with remixes, such as his lauded reworking of Mos be into it, there\u2019s more choices. can do some press shots for their forthcoming Def\u2019s \u2018Oh No\u2019 and his mix of Double 99 \u2018Freakazoid\u2019. compilation album \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019. It\u2019s the first compila- Perhaps the biggest tune to emerge from the Playaz \u201cWhat\u2019s good about d&b is that it\u2019s special precisely tion from the posse since 1998\u2019s \u2018Real Vibes\u2019, and fea- camp over the last year or so hasn\u2019t been drum & bass. because it doesn\u2019t gel with other things. We\u2019re not like tures exclusive cuts from the trio plus some surprising \u2018jungle\u2019s shit and we do this now\u2019. I could do never say inclusions from guest artists like Lemon D, Fellowship, Zinc\u2019s \u2018138 Trek\u2019 \u2013 set at 138 bpm instead of the 160+ that. And no-one could say that we\u2019re jumping on any The Outfit, DJ Red and Shimon. Unfortunately, Zinc has that d&b is mostly made at - caused a ruckus in scene with the downtempo stuff as the whole breaks to rush off immediately after the shoot so can\u2019t chat, but many places, not least of all in the nu skool breaks and thing is where people like me and Groove and that Pascal and Hype remain to give the low-down. garage scene\u2019s. Since then, all three producers have come from. We were around before there were break- been tinkering with slowed down beat-feasts on beat, when we were playing breaks over house, so we \u201cThe concept behind \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019 is that there\u2019s the side, with Zinc and Hype even starting their own ain\u2019t jumping on nothing - anything to do with breakbeat something for everyone, a true representation of drum labels (Bingo and Naughty respectively) to cater for stems back to this. Plus all the Ganja stuff always had & bass,\u201d asserts the ever loquacious Hype. \u201cI\u2019m such excursions. downtempo bits on, they just never got much attention.\u201d 16 KNOWLEDGE","Hype and Pascal both admit that the scene is fiery \u2018Disturbed\u2019, a cool Danny Breaks remix of artist album challenge? \u201cI don\u2019t have the time,\u201d he stepping out of those darker days though, and the Pascal\u2019s first ever tune on the label, \u2018Cool Manoeuvre\u2019, sighs. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me. The problem is that I\u2019m very compilation, they say, reflects this as well as their a remix of DJ Red\u2019s classic \u2018Everything Has Changed\u2019, critical of myself and also I don\u2019t work quick enough own sound. \u201cNone of us have been all that busy these followed by four downtempo cuts \u2013 of varying bpm\u2019s and I\u2019m not in the studio enough. I\u2019ve got the last few months with anything other than this compi- and vibes - from Zinc, Hype and Pascal. confidence right now but no time. Zinc\u2019s working on lation,\u201d shares Pascal. \u201cIt\u2019s a real representation of one but I just want to get more twelves out. I\u2019ve got the True Playaz sound. We don\u2019t have a set style. \u201cI made a conscious decision not to put the hard side five things on the album plus a twelve lined up for People say we\u2019re jump-up but we\u2019re not, we make of drum & bass on there, like the Bad Company sort June and I want to keep pumping them out. As I DJ jungle and drum & bass and that\u2019s it. This album has of stuff,\u201d says Hype. \u201cJust because in the last two a lot I don\u2019t feel the pressure so much. everything on there, which is what we\u2019re about. We years there\u2019s been so much of it. It\u2019s all good - I\u2019ve just make our music and let everyone else get deep been playing it - but there\u2019s been too much, so I don\u2019t \u201cLast year my grandfather died and I opened my and political. We\u2019ve also opened the gates over the want to come with that stuff. As a DJ I try and show eyes to just life, in that I enjoy life and do what makes last year so we now get stuff from other people, the different flavours rather than what\u2019s happening me happy. I talk very confidently but under I\u2019m whereas we would only get stuff from close friends now, for better or worse. Some people love it and always worried but now I\u2019m like \u2018fuck it, don\u2019t worry\u2019. before. There\u2019s new people coming through, which some people moan that I don\u2019t play the latest stuff I make tunes that I like, fuck everyone else and what has just happened naturally, like a progression. but I\u2019m very passionate about the scene and I think they\u2019re expecting. At the end of the day there\u2019s no Albums should be about that \u2013 there\u2019s no point in put- it\u2019s important that people hear all the styles that make record on the planet that everyone likes. All we can ting loads of tracks that all sound like the same one.\u201d it up. Now we\u2019re at a stage where the scene is do is sit there, make music and release it, and the comfortable again. We\u2019ve had all these periods with more people that like it and buy it the better.\u201d \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019 indeed rolls through a range of flavas. one style dominating, like the jazzy stuff or hip hop On the first disc we get Pascal\u2019s Method Man sam- stuff, but now we\u2019re at the stage again where it\u2019s all True Playaz is the last Friday pling roller \u2018Sky\u2019, Hype\u2019s tuff, funked up jam \u2018All I together again.\u201d of every month @ Fabric. Have\u2019, the ethereal soul of Fellowship\u2019s \u2018Dark Flower There will be a special launch party Remedy\u2019, Lemon D\u2019s vocal \u2018Right Here\u2019, and Zinc\u2019s So now this comp is now completed, and seeing as for \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019 at the same venue mellow but massive \u2018Casino Royale\u2019. Disc two brings Zinc and Pascal already have elaborate EP projects over Carnival weekend. us The Outfit\u2019s percussive stomper \u2018Cleancut\u2019, Zinc\u2019s under their belts, will it be time for Hype to step to the KNOWLEDGE 17","MIAMI WORDS: KATHLEEN LINGO PICTURES: CLEVELAND AARON \/ DAVID MURPHY & RACHEL PATEY MARKY BRYAN GEE JJ FROST DAZEE DOM CHAD MUSKA Miami))GETTING INTO MIAMI MODE WHY DO PEOPLE GO CLUBBING? FOR THE MUSIC? 18 KNOWLEDGE","FOXY FERNANDA PORTO CHICKABOO JIMBO & JOHN B DJ CRAZE EMPRESS TC IZLAM RUFF STUFF BAD COMPANY )) RAY KEITH No, it\u2019s really all about sex and drugs, at least that\u2019s really didn\u2019t, than dancing. Complete chaos and The definition of Miami Mode is to let it all go and give the impression the annual Winter Music Conference excess rules in Miami, all the rumours you have into the gravitational pull of the Washington Avenue in Miami gives, for better or worse! If going out really heard on that front are true. club scene. Once you are in Miami Mode all the rules is JUST about the music then the huge parties with we make for ourselves about what type of music we mouth watering line-ups that go on during WMC The best part about Miami is the people you meet; like, which drugs we will take, who are friends are, would have been filled with sweaty throngs shaking these are the people that give you the lowdown on and how much sleep we need quickly evaporate. their groove things. The crowds in the clubs were which parties to go to, and where to get drugs, and Your M.O. becomes all about having the best time dancing, but most of the moving and shaking that then through them you meet more people who possible, and not giving a fuck about anything but goes on at WMC is not on the dancefloor. Sure, know about better parties and better drugs. This that. For example, there is the phenomena of the people dance, but usually it looked more like people might sound like a good or bad time, depending on \u2018genre vertigo\u2019 where DJs and scenesters from one doing intoxicated undulations while screaming your personality. But really Miami can be the best scene will disperse into their opposite scenes so as loudly about some deal or piece of completely made few days of your life, if you let yourself go and to enjoy their Es, drinks, puff or blow without having up gossip to people they thought they knew, but get into Miami Mode. to talk shop. At one drum & bass night a posse of KNOWLEDGE 19","MIAMI THE BEST PART ABOUT MIAMI IS THE PEOPLE YOU MEET; THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GIVE YOU THE LOWDOWN ON WHICH PARTIES TO GO TO, AND WHERE TO GET DRUGS, AND THEN THROUGH THEM YOU MEET MORE PEOPLE WHO KNOW ABOUT BETTER PARTIES AND BETTER DRUGS. very well known European house DJs were spotted The Thursday before WMC started the locals of Sunday and Monday were two monster nights for chilling out. Why were they there? So they could Paradigm Shift and 4Front Records from Boston drum & bass. On Sunday the local Evilbase crew escape their own scene to take full advantage of threw a party called Ginger which ended up being and Philly\u2019s Circle Promotions threw another d&b Miami Mode. Ditto at a packed house event, where broken up by the police. The space was in a event at Level. The line-up included a lot of the a group of drum & bass bigwigs were spotted residential area in the City. It had a huge room with hard, dark, techstep crew: Trace, Ed Rush, Optical, downing copious amounts of substances; everything curved white walls and a smaller chill room. The Bad Company, Andy C, Shimon, Red One, Fierce, is topsy turvy in Miami, and that\u2019s what makes it party was packed with a chilled, friendly crowd. Matrix, Stakka, Skynet, Dom & Roland, Marcus such insane fun. The line up included Marcus Intalex and DJ Lee Intalex, Technical Itch, Usual Suspects, Ink, Loxy, from the UK, Influx Datum, Egg Foo Young, Lifeline Deep Rooted, Mr Mendez, Gridlok and Element The preceding is the author\u2019s completely biased & Tangent of Beatcamp, DJ 3D from Chicago and a with MCs Ryme Tyme, Skibadee and Gon2far. take on the WMC scene and the proceeding is the host of others. Unfortunately, the cops shut down scoop on the goings on for drum & bass at Miami the party at about 2am. Influx Datum were on the On Monday the World Of Drum & Bass party put on WMC 2001 and beyond... decks causing quit a stir when the pigs forced by Formation, Most Wanted, Groove Connection everyone out. (On a side note Influx Datum have and Groundscore hosted DJs Grooverider, Kenny To get a picture of what the other 360 days a year two tracks coming out on New Identity they played Ken, Fabio, SS, Bailey, Andy C, Shy FX, Storm, are like in Miami when WMC isn\u2019t going on that night.) No one wanted to leave! The party was Ray Keith, Krust, Die, Bryan Gee, Randall, Knowledge turned to Marco of Beatcamp for the 411. a great teaser of things to come. Aphrodite, Twisted Individual, Kaos, Siren, Craze, The rave scene in South Florida has always had a UFO!, Sage, Hive, and E-Sassin with MCs Audio jungle element. Like most US cities d&b plays second Friday night Knowledge magazine and Movement Angel, MC?, Collaborator, Fearless, Skibadee, GQ, fiddle to house and trance, but it is gaining in hosted a huge get down at Level on South Beach. and Dynamite. This blow out was held at Salvation, popularity. A few weeks after WMC on April 20th a Level is a big, glammy club like Twilo in NYC or but the word on the street about this event was the huge rave called \u2018Nickel Bag of Funk\u2019 brought John B, Fabric in London. It has the same hard ass security, shitty sound system. In reality, the whole Dylan, Matrix, Cause 4 Concern, Dread, Genr8, expensive drinks and trendy crowds as these Conference was plagued by bad sound, and no Prowler and Element along with other DJs from venues do. The Knowledge and Movement crews one is at fault here but the club owners. other genres to rock the five room party. Marco said built a heavy, dancefloor oriented line-up of B2Bs: this was just about the biggest non-WMC d&b line-up DJ Craze \/ Dazee, Bryan Gee\/Ray Keith, Gulembo Tuesday night Rawkuts and Beatcamp put on he had ever seen, and it represented the momentum \/ Wish FM, and JJ Frost \/ Empress. John B played parties right next to each other on Washington of the current scene. a surprise set alongside Perfect Combination in Avenue. People went back and forth all night place of a few no-shows, and it was a real treat for between the venues, and both parties were Miami can be cheesy and touristy at its worst, and all to hear him play his Spanish influenced track equally packed. The Rawkuts party was very much most of the big clubs cater to the form of dance music \u2018Tequila Slammer.\u2019 Marky played some excellent a NYC meets London event since it was done in trendy at the moment which usually isn\u2019t drum & bass. Brazilian tunes as well. The Latin influenced tracks conjunction with Renegade Hardware\/TOV (the But raves, small club events and warehouse parties were such a huge hit that night since Miami is a very labels will be collaborating on the re-launch of TOV keep d&b alive. The main draw local d&b DJs are Latin city. Craze was a big hit as always mixing in USA). The line up included Seen, Chris Thomas, Element, B Boy Roy, Randolph and Genr8. An some hip hop with d&b. John B, Usual Suspects, JL, John B, Jo-S, Reid important distinction in the layout of Miami is between Speed, Carlos Soulslinger, Reid Speed and Pollen. the Beach and the City. The Beach clubs only allow in The atmosphere of the Knowledge party was one of DJ Seen said there were so many MCs on the mike people aged over 20, which is a new law as of 2001, a big, drunken family reunion. With most people at his party that no one could tell who it was let but the City still allows clubs to have 18 and over door having just arrived it was a mess of d&b behind- alone if it was an American or Brit, but Skibadee policies. WMC holds about 80% of its parties on the the-scene illuminati from Dmarie of Groundscore in and TC Izlam were definitely there. Beach. As a result, there was some concern this year San Francisco to Letitia from Makeda in London all over filling up clubs without the 18-20 year olds. On exchanging hugs, kisses, phone numbers, and The Beatcamp party had a hectic line-up of mostly top of that there were more parties this year than ever drinks. There were quite a few casualties, the party Miami, UK and San Francisco talent including before. Marco said he was a little \u201cworried\u201d about how got really messy in a good way. For example, a Marcus Intalex, Craze, SS, Loxy, Juju, Influx WMC would play out this year with this loss. And he certain UK DJ got dragged out by security (only for Datum, Grrl 13, Felix the Dog, Calibre, Twisted was right to worry, overall the parties did turn out to being too drunk to stand) to a US punter puking her Individual, Gridlock, Joe Shockely, Empress and be a little less crowded than last year, but it was guts out all over the club. Starchild. Marco from Beatcamp reported his awe nothing too drastic. at the line-up and the guests like Goldie and Roni Saturday a big outdoor rave, Ultra3 2k1 Festival, on Size, who were also seen at the Rawkuts party. It The Beatcamp crew has been throwing drum & bass the Miami waterfront provided two stages for drum & was quite a night for d&b! events in Miami since 1997. They put on monthly bass. Drum & Bass Arena hosted Total Science, \u2018Beatcamp Presents...\u2019 but gave up doing their Andy C, Mampi Swift, Bad Company, MC GQ and Metalheadz threw a closing party on Wednesday weekly last year. Now another crew headed by DJ more. Plus Bryan Gee, MC Chickaboo, DJ Rap, with Storm, Bailey, Goldie, Randall, Loxy and Marly Shadow Spirit does a weekly called Kryptonite on JJ Frost were all spotted making the crowds move. Marl at Club Fuel. This event ended rather Fridays. Besides Beatcamp, the other noteworthy This event was aimed at all the young-uns who dramatically with cops and club security ganging crew in South Florida is Evilbase from nearby Fort couldn\u2019t get into the Beach parties, and it really made up on some party-goers. Evil club security brought Lauderdale. All the local crews got into the act for up for their loss. On the other stages such greats as down a lot of highs at a number of parties, that WMC by doing their own parties with a mix of local Carl Cox, Sasha, Deep Dish and much more gave and soundsystems were the dark clouds over and out of town talent. There were dozens of great the kids a chance to check out almost every DJ WMC this year. parties during WMC. The details of the goings on are spinning on the beach over the course of WMC in too criminal to print in this family magazine, but here one super packed day. And it was in such gorgeous The best word to sum up WMC is tiring. It takes at are some standout moments: setting that even the old folks could have fun. least a week to recover. See you next year! 20 KNOWLEDGE","","SPLEEDLINCS : COVER CD WORDS: RAHUL VERMA PICTURE: COURTNEY HAMILTON Speedlincs ))COVER CD THIS ISSUE\u2019S COVER CD IS PRESENTED BY AN IMPRINT THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO HAVE HEARD OF, SPEEDLINCS. REMEMBER WHERE YOU READ ABOUT IT FIRST - WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO BLOW-UP. BIG-TIME. )) Speedlincs is the brainchild of Vital, Matt Corbett web-based radio station. The station happened to on our own sort of tip, more musical - technically and Chris McBride and although they may be the be Mr C\u2019s [of the Shamen and The End fame] latest they [Next Wave Of Jazz] are musicians so they new kids on the block, they have been around it venture, Gaia (www.gaialive.co.uk). Soon enough have got a lot of experience working in the many, many times over the last decade. Vital was, as he puts it, \u201cDJing and working on little commercial sector.\u201d projects,\u201d in and around the creative centrepoint of Matt and Chris met at school and put their first Hackney, East London. Before long Chris and Matt The live aspect is also evident in the night tunes out in 1990, before going their separate crossed paths with Vital, found common ground Speedlincs are involved with promoting, at the ways (Matt went to Norway to engineer house and revived their live project as Next Wave Of Jazz behest of Mean Fiddler, which they launched in music, while Chris went touring around the US). and created Speedlincs. Vital\u2019s involvement is April in Ladbroke Grove. The opening night line-up Matt explains that, \u201cChris got bored of traipsing producing for the label, A&Ring and general label featured Adam F & J Majik with three decks, two round hillbilly states and I got sick of the lack of management or, being, \u201cthe oil if you like\u201d. Which mixers and MC Moose over the top, with Frost in daylight so we ended up back in England.\u201d brings us up to the present day and Speedlincs, support. London junglists should keep an eye out which Vital has a lot to say about. for the first Thursday of every month; in May the By now it was the 1990s and at one free party, Reinforced crew will be gracing the decks. rather than just getting shit-faced, they decided to \u201cSpeedlincs stands for live incorporated sounds,\u201d take along their \u201csamplers and junk\u201d and says Vital, hence lincs, but what about the speed Commendably the Speedlincs manifesto includes performed \u201ca six hour set of proto-drum & part of it? \u201cOur logo is a little speed camera, which a pledge to \u201cbring on up-and-coming artists and bass\u201d. Bookings rolled in and they performed at is about catching the moment when someone is get them some recognition.\u201d This is more than Glastonbury, Drum Rhythm and Amsterdam\u2019s racing along, whatever the speed. You\u2019ve got an apparent when it becomes clear whom exactly is premier live music venue, the Melkweg. However, excerpt, a snapshot of that moment. It\u2019s like a involved in the Speedlincs crew. It puts The Wu as the band grew in number to six, so did egos photograph in a sense.\u201d And how did this concept Tang Clan to shame, in number at least: and in true rock \u2018n\u2019 roll fashion things went awry evolve? It\u2019s as simple as, \u201cbeing caught on the M4 Pys.co.lab (aka Vital\u2019s production moniker), Next and they split. speeding while listening to tunes.\u201d Wave Of Jazz, Future Thinking (aka Sketch, Code, DM Cut, Shylo and Emile), Simon Templa, Vital meanwhile was working away at a record And what of the live element, is it in same sort of vocalist Maiya J, MC Primus, MC LSD, KW (a shop in Southampton and DJing before he returned vein to Reprazent - Kosheen - Breakbeat Era? vocalist who has worked with Addiction and to the big smoke and was persuaded to DJ on a \u201cIt\u2019s not really on that kind of flex,\u201d says Vital. \u201cIt\u2019s Formation), Gwen and Ishan. 22 KNOWLEDGE","How do all these inputs fit togeth- DJ VITAL Blackmarket. He\u2019s suggested we 10. NEXT WAVE OF JAZZ er? Well, it seems there\u2019s no hard TAKES US THROUGH give it 2001 make over and freshen it and fast rules or rigidity, as Vital HIS MIX... up with some remixes, so watch this WHAT DO I DO explains: \u201cwe\u2019ve got three or four space. This is just a preview of what\u2019s to studios which gives you the option 1. NEXT WAVE OF JAZZ come from NWOJ. Jael, the vocalist, to think, \u2018right do I want to do hip 6. D.M. CUT will be working with us on future hop, garage or stick with drum & WE DECIDE vocal exploits. bass?\u2019 It makes it kind of free. We This track happened by pure acci- BACK STABBERS are a collective of artists who all dent. We didn\u2019t realise we\u2019d get the Particularly nice intro to this tune and 11. PSY.CO.LAB have our base in drum & bass, but techno feel until we\u2019d mixed it down. it just keeps growing through a set. we do different stuff.\u201d A wise idea We like the bouncy vibe and it\u2019s The Amens sit comfortably in the DISGUST as drum & bass seems to have great for keeping the set rolling. second drop and cement all the Innit great what you can do with old enjoyed a new lease of life by tak- sounds. drum machines and a bit of analogue ing in elements of jazz, house, 2. NEXT WAVE OF JAZZ synthesis? This track didn\u2019t get much garage, techno and soul rather 7. S.K.A.B. ALLIANCE of a run but we are looking to press than just breakbeat and hardcore. WHAT WE DIE FOR up more for the masses. This is our current release with a DEEPA So far the Speedlincs discography wicked remix from Eniac & Cyrix, the This backed \u2018Venus\u2019 and was written 12. VITAL is strictly limited with an EP, Search Engine boys, to give it that about a year and half after it came \u2018Evolve\u2019, out last year. One of the twisted take. Pounding roller with out. We found it quite strange to put MUSICA EXPLOSICA tracks \u2018Skanning For Life Forms\u2019 sweet vocals. out as a release, it got a good Devilishly hot tune from yours truly. was picked up by Moving Shadow response. There\u2019s not many copies This tune has been on dub for time for their \u2018Killa Bites\u2019 LP last year. 3. HASTE & CAB E floating about as we did quite a small and is itchin\u2019 to be released. This Beyond that \u2018What We Die For\u2019 run. tune will get remixes from selected their third release is out on promo ICE PACK artists from the Speedlincs stable and they are getting some good These boys have packed a blinder 8. NEXT WAVE and more. feedback. with this tune, it\u2019s thematic, and it\u2019s a OF JAZZ tune that keep building. It\u2019s still on 13. VITAL However, it\u2019s the thought and dub and being played at a club NEAR BE AFRAID detail behind the scenes, that YOU! Keeps your eyes open for this tune. GINGERBREAD MAN bodes well for Speedlincs. After all, Special preview mix for the We don\u2019t know what we going to do if you can draw inspiration from 4. SKETCH & CODE Knowledge readers - for your ears with this track, still on dub. Send any anywhere, including a big brother only!! Vox by Kirsty, maintaining the suggestions to us on a postcard... state and police speed cameras, LOCKJAW NWOJ vibe. then you\u2019re going to go far. Watch Nice little ravey anthem from Sketch 14. THE MIGHT this space. & Code. Still getting dub plate pres- 9. D.M. CUT sure. KLONE FILTA DANCE ALONE Downtempo breakbeat style with 5. S.K.A.B. ALLIANCE Sweet vocal tune with funky ass some classical grit thrown in for bass. Sits nicely with the current vibe good measure. Watch out for LSD\u2019s VENUS of the d&b movement. Lyrical mayhem mix in the not too This was one of our first releases and distant future. it\u2019s still being caned by Nicky","THE BAYS WORDS: STU C PICTURE: TOM OLDHAM TheBays ))THE BAYS NO RECORDS TO PROMOTE, NO PARTICULAR NEED FOR THE ATTENTION - THEY DON\u2019T EVEN PLAN THEIR LIVE SETS. THIS AIN\u2019T YOUR USUAL PROMOTE-THE-LATEST-ALBUM KINDA INTERVIEW. )) After witnessing an unsuspecting crowd frugging fran- Never the most visual of performances they con- \u201cAll they\u2019re doing is regurgitating something that tically to a set from The Bays in the midnight hour, fess, what comes out the speakers is all important, was played by real musicians at some point,\u201d Andy Knowledge dragged a few of the players to one side. urging positive crowd reaction. Mr Middleton adds, hoping that this band is re-educating a few Interrupted only by succinct praise from the newly con- explains the theory: \u201cIt\u2019s always; band on stage, people about the essence of it all. This is part of the verted, we tried to find out just what the fuck they think above the level of the audience. There\u2019s a hierarchy movement to bring it back, proper live. It\u2019s become they\u2019re up to. Simon Smugg, Andy Gangadeen and thing going on and we don\u2019t want that.\u201d this run-by-accountants industry and, at the end of Tom Middleton are the chosen ones to detail the phi- the day, the music is superfluous. That whole thing losophy of the band on a mission to save our souls. Let Further examination of the whole Bays mission has to come to an end.\u201d Hence the lack of officially me explain. Campaigning against the cult of the super- could lead you to think that, if many more heads released Bays product. Simon starts: \u201cWe might star DJ, reacting against the over inflated personae of pursue the same line of thinking, a lot of DJs could use a download or something like that, and that\u2019s those that simply play another\u2019s records for big money, soon find themselves redundant. It ain\u2019t as easy as the only way you\u2019ll get it. We really want people to and reminding those that forgot about the sheer funkin\u2019 that though. \u201cSadly, the way the industry is at the see it because if you listen to it without being power of rocking it live, The Bays are back in town. moment, there\u2019s too many people in too powerful there...\u201d positions controlling things,\u201d is Tom\u2019s sobering view- With no rehearsals, no set plan and no releases point. \u201cTheir compilations are selling millions of \u201c...It\u2019s a second hand experience,\u201d scheduled, The Bays offer you special, never to be units, they\u2019re in control at the moment but at some adds Tom. repeated moments. Sets tighter than your average point opinion it\u2019s gonna shift because ultimately gnat\u2019s one, moving across tempos, through breaks and people aren\u2019t stupid. They are being conned at the According to Simon the club environment is where found sounds, all interpreted for the 21st Century. Like moment but they\u2019re gonna realise that they\u2019re pay- they wanna do it, a suitable catalyst for energising it should be, heads creating exciting dance music ing a lot of money for regurgitated rubbish.\u201d their combined histories into transient funk. \u201cWe because they have to. \u201cWe know where we\u2019re trying to usually insist that we don\u2019t play on stage because go and that\u2019s the thing that helps us try and get there,\u201d The reaction against absurd excesses in the dance it\u2019s a barrier between us and the crowd. We like to starts Simon before admitting that talk about this kind of music world is obvious. The younger brothers and set up on the dancefloor.\u201d The band strive to be project runs the risk of sounding really \u201cwanky.\u201d It\u2019s a sisters of some of the most hardened ravers are part of an atmosphere rather than the focal point. side project but a very important thing for them all. Tom more likely to fancy a bit of Slipknot or Korn than It\u2019s the beats and riffs that should be taking centre adds to the explanation: \u201cBecause we\u2019re not actually the some remix promo pressure. The Bays can all stage, or even the paying public. In turn the mem- signed to a label, that means that there\u2019s no pressure. see more validity in bands like that \u201con stage rip- bers suggest: a crowd with their backs turned to We\u2019re not promoting anything - we can just enjoy our- ping it up\u201d than the crime of a lot of computer based the band, all the lights off or the crowd on stage selves. Pure creation.\u201d production. with the band in the pit. 24 KNOWLEDGE","Simon moves on with the appraisal of where the or call and response routines to make the crowd feel rehearse. That\u2019s the whole point. We don\u2019t talk about Bays fit in. \u201cSometimes they don\u2019t get it. They\u2019ll just participatory, it\u2019s about the breaks, the grooves and it.\u201d Sounds familiar. \u201cIt\u2019s there for a split second and be standing there expecting some singer to come out the swinging of hips. then it\u2019s gone,\u201d smiles Tom. and put his foot on the monitor.\u201d For Andy, \u201cit\u2019s important to offer the whole thing and Andy gets deeper: \u201cWhen you get that in tune with it, \u201cOr maybe they just think we\u2019re miming,\u201d sighs Tom. not be snobbish about just being a DJ, or just being it\u2019s like a higher state to reach, not like a recital All factors in the environment influence the way a a band.\u201d They\u2019re more interested in exploring the or anything technical, you just get inspired to do Bays set eventually sounds. How the band are possibilities offered by this side project than wearing something - and you\u2019ll never play that again. feeling, how the crowd reacts, mistakes, everything. live credentials as a badge of authenticity. \u201cIt\u2019s not a One moment can inspire the next hour, as it sparks massive selling point,\u201d suggests Simon as we \u201cIt\u2019s just a moment in time,\u201d he stresses, taking off an infinite rhythm. \u201cOur policy is that everyone approach the subject of \u2018the point of The Bays\u2019. \u201cYou pleasure in pointing out that, \u201cit\u2019s so non-corporate, a just does what they wanna do. There\u2019s no wrong,\u201d don\u2019t here people saying; \u2018You know that Miles move away from every kind of clich\u00e9, every kind of Simon expands. Davis? He can play! He can actually do it! Of course expectancy of what you\u2019re supposed to do as a he can fucking do it, that\u2019s what he\u2019s there to do.\u201d band.\u201d By attempting to redefine a few rules, The \u201cWe\u2019ve just got a few things going on that are Bays hope to counteract the tide of illusion that has a slightly different from what everybody else is doing,\u201d There\u2019s some frustration in his voice while Tom lot of kids aspiring to be in boy bands or girl bands. explains Andy. \u201cHopefully that\u2019s inspiring, hopefully singles out an example of DJ culture at its extreme, \u201cThey just want instant stardom and success, people really get off on it, seeing it live, feeling what\u2019s questioning the idea of face offs in boxing rings. without the work or talent. That\u2019s why there\u2019s no going on. There\u2019s a whole connection thing, we\u2019re \u201cThese so called DJ producers? Get them in there real stars out there.\u201d trying to interpret what they\u2019re feeling too...\u201d with some gear and see if they can really rock a crowd, from nothing. That\u2019s the challenge.\u201d In an ideal world The Bays would be touring schools, For Tom, revisiting breaks is \u201ca language our combating the poor attitude to music education generation understands.\u201d Many may not know the He\u2019s not trying to overplay what the Bays are doing; handed down from the government, offering work- originals but, \u201cthey know the snippets that have been the point is valid. This set up is always gonna be shops on the inner wisdom of why real music is recycled over the last decade.\u201d Combining their more \u201cin the moment\u201d than any DJ spinning the source of all. \u201cThese kids have got very little collective experiences, the band stake a claim to pre-recorded music can ever claim to be. They seem inspiration today. The \u2018live shows\u2019 that they go and knowing, \u201cwhere peoples heads are at,\u201d ensuring the to revel in the fact that the whole affair is kinda see, what are they?\u201d asks Tom rhetorically. \u201cIt\u2019s just mutant funk hits a club crowd where they wanna be transient, relishing the knowledge that things played a dance routine and a load of plastic fools in stupid hit. This ain\u2019t about lengthy solos to show and prove tonight may never be heard again. \u201cWe never costumes. Pantomime!\u201d KNOWLEDGE 25","SUBTITLES WORDS: KINGSLEY MARSHALL Subtitles ))BEHIND THE LINES SINCE DEBUTING ON RUGGED VINYL OVER FIVE YEARS AGO, THE NORWEGIAN PAIRING OF TORGEIR BYRNES AND KJETIL SAAGSTAD (KNOWN AS TEEBEE AND K RESPECTIVELY) UNLEASHED SPACE AGE SOUND MECHANICS FOR AN ARRAY OF LABELS BEFORE SETTLING AT THE EVER-WIDESCREEN CERTIFICATE 18 IMPRINT. )) Last year, however, saw something new emerge from approaching information from a different angle and after hearing Angel Zero\u2019s demo we really wanted to their studios. Subtitles came complete with solemn can provide a further explanation as opposed to a get it out there! He really is an awesome talent and I graphics and unusual track titles with the basslines of straightforward translation and comments.\u201d couldn\u2019t believe my eyes when I stepped into his \u2018Gathering\u2019, the TeeBee produced debut, drifting like studio as he puts everything together on a little 10 x 8\u201d smoke thrown up from a swirling percussive dervish. With this in mind, is there any such thing as a Subtitles sequencer with a one-line display. With regards Future The farside offered a taste of the epic - FSOL sound? \u201cI guess if anything our intention was to put out Prophecies, they are long time friends of ours atmospheres and heavily reverbed key sequences tracks which were as suited for listening at home as from Norway and TeeBee and I remixed a track of underpinning Photesque beat touches, fallen angels they were in clubs. We\u2019ve tried to avoid trends, but I\u2019d theirs last year.\u201d left to provide the chorus. say that the catalogue so far has retained a nice groove so the tracks work on the floors while musical Notably, this release for Domination saw TeeBee and The label rolled on, each producer taking his turn with elements and tight beats keep it from being repetitive. K take on a side each as opposed to working with Byrnes focusing towards the floor as K provided the A little dose of good old weirdness doesn\u2019t go amiss each other; Kjetil quashes any rumours as to a abstraction - liquid low-end and multi-faceted synths either - for me drum & bass is about bringing in other possible parting of ways however. \u201cIt just kind of providing the framework for complex beats far in elements of music and creating a fusion. Looking at happened that way. We shared the same studio for a advance of the introverted rave efforts which the use of that old school feel which is in so much of few years but once we got our own gear it felt more continued to dominate DJ sets up and down the UK. the music right now, it was cool at first but it has almost comfortable to record separately. I\u2019d say that we do become an easy way out for some producers - load up have two quite distinct styles, I maybe focus less on Kjetil explains what prompted the shift to there own a drum loop, bassline and make up a hardcore riff and shaking booties and more on the music while Tee, imprint: \u201cCertificate 18 does an outstanding job you have got yourself a track and some quick cash. through DJing, will be more concerned with getting the promoting our music plus TeeBee and I as artists and The whole thing has been done to death now and I track into a mix and making it work on the floor though we have both signed three album deals with them, really feel its time to move on.\u201d still keeping it interesting.\u201d but we make too much music for just one label. We also liked the idea of having 100% creative control From the first release at the label, press support has Laughing he adds: \u201cThe last few times we worked of both artwork and music. ST Holdings had been strong. \u201cThe critics seem to usually like our stuff, together we\u2019d have so many ideas between us we\u2019d approached us about setting up a label and it felt which is nice because they make up the minority of end up fighting over the keyboard, which can have natural for us to do it together. We\u2019ve practically been people who actually sit down, listen to our music and something of an effect on your individual creativity! neighbours since we were kids and even lived give feedback based on whether it\u2019s good or not. Having said that we do still sit down from time to time, together at one point so it\u2019s always been the case that That\u2019s not to discount DJs at all, just that their when we get tired of breaking each others balls on the whichever project one of us gets involved in the other reactions are rarely surprising - if the track is made to PS2, and we have another label project in the pipeline one usually gets into it too.\u201d rock a crowd then they love it while if it\u2019s on the which we\u2019re putting some tunes together for.\u201d mellower tip they don\u2019t really play it. It\u2019s sad in a way Though there has been a general thread through the as it means that a lot of good music isn\u2019t making it to On top of all this, the pair are currently putting the music, any single theme remains elusive. \u201cIt was the decks just because the DJ can\u2019t see a potential finishing touches to the first Subtitles compilation. \u201cWe important for us not to be tied in with any one, rewind. People need to open their ears and listen thought it was important to get the music out on specific style - we just wanted to put out good music beyond the Amens and low frequencies.\u201d CD and make it available to those without turntables in and allow each release to stand on its own merits.\u201d addition to the DJs. TeeBee has done the mix and Although the first four releases were produced solely we tried to prioritise the mellower, more listenable Hence the moniker: \u201cWe didn\u2019t want a name which by the Norwegian pair, the fifth saw some deviation tunes for the album.\u201d would sound too hard, or smooth or technical for that with the first external signing to the label. \u201cAlthough matter. By their nature, subtitles are a way of our initial intention was just to put out our own stuff, The Subtitles compilation is due in May. 26 KNOWLEDGE","MC FATS WORDS: ALEX FARBER PICTURE: COURTNEY HAMILTON )) \u201cWhen I used to DJ, I\u2019d play a bit of reggae and rare groove - James Brown, Freddy MacGregor - I play my old records all the time,\u201d he says. Somehow this Fats isn\u2019t a surprise; Fats may be one of the first to lend some soul power to drum & bass but he is definitely not the first to show the good effect a guttural voice can ))MC FATS have on a song. Not many MCs would point to Barry White as an inspirational figure but Fats has evidently never been afraid to learn from all areas of music: \u201cBACK IN MY RAGGA DAYS, I JUST STARTED CHATTING \u201cPeople like Barry White, they\u2019ve got an original style. You\u2019ve got to listen to what ON THE MIC. IT WAS JUST FUN \u2018CAUSE THAT WAS WHAT I he\u2019s saying, how he lays down the track. Barry White is never forceful, he\u2019s LOVED AT THE TIME. THEN WHEN JUNGLE STARTED PEOPLE always in control and a hint of a word or even a sound just sets it off.\u201d LOVED THE INJECTION OF VOCALS.\u201d NOT SO MUCH INJECTING WORDS AS LAYERING THEM OVER THE TRACK, AND FATS HAS It doesn\u2019t seem hard to imagine a multi-talented MC like Fats writing his own GRADUALLY ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A CLEARLY songs but Fats disagrees: \u201cPutting your own little shit to different tunes - that\u2019s RECOGNISED VOICE OF DRUM & BASS. what I like. People say \u2018Fats, write some tunes\u2019 but that\u2019s just not me. People do what they do. Some people sit and write song after song; sometimes I can\u2019t even string two words together. Other times I might sing four words and then come up with another line. And that\u2019s me. \u201cI can imagine fronting a live band but I don\u2019t need it,\u201d he continues. \u201cWhen you\u2019re younger you\u2019d jump something like at that but as you get older the limelight doesn\u2019t bother you. I\u2019d rather be in the back of the club where you can\u2019t see me than be up on stage.\u201d His strength doesn\u2019t come from rehearsed, pre-arranged styling but from the moment itself. This is hard to capture, you cannot always consciously turn your hand to a skill that comes naturally. Fats sees it simplistically: \u201cI just do it however I feel at the time.\u201d Accepting live vocals are not always appreciated, Fats remains positive- ly philosophical: \u201cIt\u2019s not my fault, you just change your set. I might do a more laidback backing set. And I love that more and more; going out and enjoy a nice set being played. It\u2019s not about MCs taking over, I\u2019m getting a different outlook. You\u2019ve got to be more with the track, instead of overpowering it. \u201cIt\u2019s hard sometimes competing with the boys with the pump-up lyrics,\u201d he continues. \u201cRespect to them for that but I like the more mature lyrics. You hear an MC but you don\u2019t want to hear an MC, just a hint over the record so you can still hear it. Sometimes people like that.\u201d Fats\u2019 awareness of the delicate line an MC treads is plain to see. This attitude to his craft means he is equally as aware of what a Swerve crowd enjoy, as he is when rocking a large event: \u201cAnd people recognise that, they appreciate it.\u201d Recognising the difference but then actually being able to adapt himself to suit both conditions means he is close to being able to MC for all, especially for those who do not necessarily enjoy vocals. When Fats is flowing, he could be a third deck. \u201cA lot of people in the industry don\u2019t look at it like I look at it. The impression that MCs give nowadays is they want to stand there and give it all that amped positiveness. It\u2019s not a wrong positiveness but that\u2019s what they do and that\u2019s what some people love.\u201d Far from criticising this, Fats embraces it as another part of the scene that he has to cater for: \u201cI did One Nation the other night, and you\u2019ve got 4,000 people there so you\u2019ve gotta pump it up, you\u2019re there to entertain. They want to feel energy from the MC, hear the rewind.\u201d On the subject of rewinds, Fats reveals the truest nature of his rhyming: \u201cI\u2019d rather let the DJ rewind the tune and be confident it\u2019s going to work.\u201d He compares an MCs set to a DJs: \u201cLike when you hear Bukem, it\u2019s different but appreciable. It\u2019s all about the listening ears. There\u2019s a connection.\u201d Not that he sees all areas of drum & bass as being as equally fairly balanced: \u201cI think that in some places the MC should get provided the same quality as the DJ. I don\u2019t understand why people pay money for an MC and then not cater for him. If an MC goes to a dance and wants echo he should be able to have that. Or maybe he can\u2019t hear himself. Your quality should be the same as the DJs monitors. No feedback.\u201d Again Fats\u2019 ear for a performance as a whole is proved: \u201cIt\u2019s a show, it\u2019s all about the quality. If one has it and the other doesn\u2019t, it doesn\u2019t mix properly. If they both have it, it\u2019s top notch. And if you\u2019re a raver or if you just want to go out there and chill, you want to hear a tune like it\u2019s supposed to sound, hear an MC like he\u2019s supposed to sound.\u201d Displaying a versatility that is appreciated by Randall and True Playaz amongst oth- ers and running a successful residency at Fabric Live will give him the opportunity. Let\u2019s hope we continue to hear Fats as he\u2019s supposed to sound for time to come. 28 KNOWLEDGE","DANNY BYRD WORDS: RICHARD ARNELL )) Danny ))DANNY ByrdBYRD The ongoing resurgence of those funky, soulful certainly an identifiable flava through the mid-90s and, could have made five more tunes like that, but I grooves, coupled with the continual development of to name just a few, producers like SS (Danny picks can\u2019t do it, it\u2019s not in me. I can\u2019t do things like that, original vocals in drum & bass, has to be one of the the \u2018Easymen\u2019 twelve as a favourite of the time) and 4 for money or whatever. I always have to try and do most keenly discussed topics at the moment; and Hero, through their Tom & Jerry and Maximum Style something to consciously move it on.\u201d Danny Byrd is one up-and-coming producer pushing monikers, were consistently championing these this side of the scene forward. A handful of releases sounds. To draw a direct comparison is probably And it\u2019s this attitude that breeds such fresh and on the Picasso and Tribe labels set the pace in doing a disservice to contemporary drum & bass exciting music. Take his latest work for example, the the late nineties, but it was since bowling over Tony though; for, as Danny rightly points out, times have quite awesome remix of London Elektricity\u2019s \u2018Wishing Coleman and Chris Goss, the chief sound changed and the scene has definitely moved on. \u201cI Well\u2019, which, as it turned out, became a true labour of surgeons at Hospital, that Danny Byrd\u2019s career started producing around that time,\u201d reveals Danny, love, eventually taking about four months to complete; really began to take off. \u201cand the way I view it now, which I\u2019m sure a lot of but, as London Elektricity and Hospital\u2019s Chris Goss other producers do too, is that you\u2019re not making fully says, \u201cit took a little while to do it, but it was precisely Signed on a two album deal, his first releases for original productions. It was like... you nicked a rare what we were hoping for - very musical, very deep, Hospital, \u2018Do It Again\u2019 and \u2018Changes\u2019, received seri- groove loop, repeated it so many times in the intro, and fully utilising all of the vocal elements of that ous rotation in the clubs, and were raved about in the and then you\u2019d get the drop... and that\u2019s the way I original track we made.\u201d music press; whilst a certain r&b bootie, preceding view that period. I think that now it\u2019s a lot more those releases, had already taken the scene by original and the production is a lot better.\u201d It\u2019s a perfect opener to the \u2018Plastic Surgery 2\u2019 storm. \u201cBack then no-one was really doing bootlegs,\u201d compilation, a giant of a track (albeit a big, friendly recalls Danny, \u201cthere\u2019s quite a few around now, but it This commitment to progression and the constant one), and also a personal milestone in Danny\u2019s pur- was just one of those things. I had bought a load of bettering of one-self is, it seems, what drives suit of studio excellence. \u201cI have a different agenda r&b from Uptown Records and there was an acapella Danny Byrd and his music and with his more recent with each tune,\u201d admits Danny, \u201cand on the \u2018Wishing on the \u2018BM\u2019. I had this tune going and it just seemed work the notion of a song structure has come Well\u2019 remix it was to chop up those vocals like Todd to fit with it. I was scared to play it to people though, further into play. \u201cIf I do that thing of 64 beats and Edwards,\u201d the excitement of reliving the experience because if you\u2019d ever heard the original, it\u2019s like a real then a drop it isn\u2019t gonna sound like me anymore. I now clearly showing on his face and in his voice. \u201cIt\u2019s smooth ballad... which I haven\u2019t got a problem with, used to do that, but you\u2019ve got to bring new something I\u2019ve been trying for years to do, and when but I know that a lot of other people in drum & bass arrangements to drum & bass. For the last, god I started getting it, it was like... \u2018oh my god... this is would do, so I was surprised at the way it went off.\u201d knows how long, everybody has been doing that exactly like what I\u2019ve been hearing in my head...\u201d A \u2018drop\u2019 arrangement, but you\u2019ve got to move it along. moment of clarity, I do believe. Maybe Danny shouldn\u2019t have been so surprised, for So, maybe start a tune with vocals and bring in the the building blocks of jungle drum & bass have bass straight away. It might make the DJs job hard- Danny Byrd\u2019s remix of London Elektricity\u2019s always been peppered by the essence of funk, soul, er, but I don\u2019t really give a fuck. I could have really \u2018Wishing Well\u2019 can be found on \u2018Plastic Surgery 2\u2019, r&b and rare groove. These kind of beats were caned it after those first two Hospital releases. I out now on Hospital. 30 KNOWLEDGE","DANNY BYRD WORDS: RAHUL VERMA PICTURE: COURTNEY HAMILTON RedMaster ))REDMASTER )) Although it may seem hard to believe, a decade ago Finn has been playing every release so far and he Christine Leach of indie-jazz band Baby Fox and drum & bass didn\u2019t exist, even jungle was in its played \u2018Flash Back\u2019 at Movement and everyone went co-writer of Madonna\u2019s \u2018Ray Of Light\u2019, Shahin Badar infancy, and the sound of the UK underground was mad, so there\u2019s been a good response from the of The Prodigy and Skibadee. But for the moment he hardcore. A quick straw poll of headz (born pre-1980) dancefloor,\u201d she explains. wants to concentrate on being in the studio, running for their top tunes and producers of this era would the label and establishing its profile. undoubtedly involve Baby D\u2019s \u2018Let Me Be Your Both Wildchild and Floyd are very conscious of taking Fantasy\u2019 - the popularity of its ethereal vocal still it one step at a time though. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a lot Another project of Floyd\u2019s is establishing his own hasn\u2019t waned and seems to be remixed and more to come from all of us, we\u2019re still finding our music publishing company, Little Dragon Music. This repackaged for a new generation of ravers every few sound and our feet, we don\u2019t want to be on anyone entails getting to grips with the nitty-gritty of music years. Another familiar response would be Acen - his else\u2019s style - we want to create our own,\u201d says Wild licensing, royalties and canvassing alternative immortal \u2018Trip II To The Moon\u2019 trilogy captured the Child. Similarly, Floyd feels that this is crucial to Red avenues for revenue - TV for example. One track he essence of the phenomenon with its splicing together Master\u2019s success: \u201cSound and style take time to wrote and produced with Diane Charlemagne of incongruous samples (including James Bond establish, for us at the moment it\u2019s about establishing (of \u2018Inner City Life\u2019) was used for the theme of a BBC film scores), to form an incredible, yet barmy, series of that sound. You can listen to Ram or Virus and you 2 sci-fi show \u2018Farscape\u2019 last year. hardcore classics. can pinpoint their sound straightaway, and although we want people to be able to recognise our sound With years of being involved in the music business The common link between the two is the involvement that can only happen when we are established. So for Floyd\u2019s sortie into music publishing is no great of producer Floyd Dice, who also formed one half of us it\u2019s about making the stuff, seeing if it\u2019s good surprise and a similarly measured approach pervades The Brothers Grimm and was an integral part of the enough and putting it out there.\u201d Red Master too. Wildchild\u2019s DJ gigs in the UK (she legendary Production House stable. Fast forward to recently wowed the Movement faithful at Bar Rumba, the present and Floyd, in tandem with Wildchild What has Floyd been upto since his appearance in Bryan Gee included) and abroad (tours of America (Emma Weaver) have launched their own imprint, the video for \u2018Let Me Be Your Fantasy\u2019 on Top Of The and Germany beckon in 2001) are ideal to gauge Red Master, so Knowledge caught up with them to Pops in 1994? Well, he\u2019s been busy juggling a dancefloor reaction and keep Red Master\u2019s finger get the low-down... number of projects, though it is obvious something firmly on the pulse. Similarly Wildchild\u2019s job at top d&b untoward has gone on during his time with Production distributors SRD is invaluable in terms of contacts in \u201cFloyd and I are really good friends and have been House. However to his credit he passes on the the industry. Equally Red Master will not be dictated working together for a few years, and it\u2019s always been chance to dish the dirt, preferring to look to the future to do by fads or fashions. Even if Floyd is responsible our aim to start up our own label,\u201d says Wildchild, an and be positive about Red Master. for one of the seminal vocal dance music tunes of ex-Kool FM resident who made her debut on the all time, Red Master will not be jumping on the station in 1994. She co-produced the first He has put in the groundwork for an album, though current vocal bandwagon just because it\u2019s in vogue. (\u2018Hitchhiker\u2019) and third releases (\u2018Flash Back\u2019 - out in this is very much a work in progress: \u201cThat\u2019s \u201cWe are interested in doing vocals, but it\u2019s something May) with Floyd while their second release (\u2018Moon something I did a while back, in my eyes it\u2019s more of that will filter in when we have established our sound,\u201d Quake\u2019) was by Acen. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for any new label a demo thing - getting to work with certain people. explains Floyd. these days as DJs get sent so much stuff, and unless Later on I want to go back and remix tracks and put it it\u2019s from a big label they don\u2019t really play it. Mickey out as a proper album.\u201d Floyd has collaborated with Are there any angles they haven\u2019t got covered? 32 KNOWLEDGE","COMBINATION RECORDS WORDS: CHRIS MUNIZ PHILIPP MAIBURG\u2019S CURRENT TOP 10 1. F & L - Lie (Kabuki remix) (Combination\/white) 2. The Green Man - I Go (dub) 3. Megashira - When Worlds Collide (Phoneheads remix) (dub) 4. Grand Unified - Sweet Sound (dub) 5. Kosheen - Suicide (Moksha) 6. Nasty Habits - Deep Beats (31 Rec.) 7. Simon V - Fruity (T G M remix) (Santorin) 8. Maiburg & Ayala - Schlagabtausch (dub) 9. London Elektricity & Robert Owens - My Dreams (Hospital) 10. Aquasky - Structure (Sonix) Combination ))COMBINATION RECORDS )) Philipp Maiburg of Phoneheads fame is remembering Philipp: \u201cWe envision Combination as a very act With only three 12\u201d releases under its belt, the label is the early days of the scene. A time when anything was orientated platform for underground dance projects of set to drop its first full-length release \u2018Traffic\u2019 this May. possible and genres had yet to solidify into anything all kinds. We want to build up our acts and give them A compilation of bits from their primary artists rigid or specific. \u2018Rave\u2019 music was everything wrapped the opportunity to realise their album ideas with us. alongside a well chosen number of outsiders provides into one big electronic ball that drew from all corners of Two of our acts are combinations of artists of different a brief outline and introduction into what the label music. Of course those days are long gone and it genres - we are absolutely determined to experiment hopes to represent. As expected, the collection is wasn\u2019t that long ago that Philipp remembers being and break some rules.\u201d nothing short of inspiring with some lovely surprises frustrated by the limitations of what the drum & bass waiting for those who are wary. world was offering (and allowing). It was about that One act that Combination helped to create is that of time that he began to envision a new style of music. Fellmann & Louise. Michael Sauer, one of Germany\u2019s Special guests include Hidden Agenda, where the One that was able to incorporate basic drum & bass top freestyle DJs, alongside Hamburg\u2019s Max Fellmann Gooding brothers get a little post-Metalheadz aesthetics (development, intensity and funk), while melded minds under the Fellmann & Louise electro-boogie going on with \u201cReturn\u201d. Danny Breaks allowing for different perspectives on rhythm, sound pseudonym to create a most unique hybrid-pop sound drops an intergalactic \u201cBeat Biter - Martian Scratch expression, tempo and its relation to pop music. that grooves and moves in a soon to be classic way. mix,\u201d while Germany\u2019s own Kabuki remixes \u201cMi Novela Biografica\u201d by Le Mans, a Spanish folk-music band of Philipp: \u201cFor me, drum & bass remains the most pow- Philipp: \u201cMichael is one of my favourite DJs. His all things. Promising to be like nothing you\u2019ve ever erful club sound and as a drum & bass DJ I\u2019m always selection is close to what I\u2019m trying to realise with the heard, Combination succeeds in creating a most trying to display my favourite facets of the genre. The label. He combines different genres like drum & bass, refreshing journey sure to blow minds along the way. fact that it contains elements of soul, jazz, funk, hip techno, hip hop and house, and he does it in a way hop and techno is exciting to me. As a drum & bass DJ that shows the relationship of the different styles to Philipp: \u201cI think the times of people not accepting and producer one has the chance to show his musical each other. He calls it \u2018the worship of breakbeat something because it doesn\u2019t fit in their scenes should roots in a non-explicit way and that\u2019s fascinating.\u201d wizardry in all its facets.\u2019\u201d be over. My heart beats for drum & bass, especially when you\u2019re talking about me as a DJ, but that Tired of songs that \u201call ended up sounding the same,\u201d The label\u2019s collaborative approach to music is best doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m keeping myself away from look- Philipp approached Oliver Drewes, the marketing exemplified by another pair of artists united under the ing left and right.\u201d director of Carharrt, with an idea for a label that Combination flag, Swimming Pool. Michael pushed the boundaries in ways that had yet to be Scheibenreiter (Phoneheads) & Antonelli (a master We wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. With a host of explored. Oliver was obviously impressed - shortly minimalist for those unfamiliar) work something out genre defying singles and an album from Fellmann & thereafter, Combination Records was born. Built on that pumps with the monotony of techno yet subtly Louise (as well as rumours of a possible full-length the foundation of taking a step back and re-examining shifts in a way that hurts it feels so good. Using the from The Green Man), the future points to exciting electronic music in general and breakbeat-inspired basic premise of fusing drum & bass and minimal- times and wicked transformations. drum & bass specifically, Philipp hoped to bring techno, the duo have created something far deeper disparate artists together who, under artificially than could have possibly been initially imagined. Be sure to check the websites for more: imposed limitations created by genre boundaries, may www.combination-rec.de never have the opportunity to collaborate. www.phoneheads.de 34 KNOWLEDGE","BREAKNECK WORDS: STU C PICTURE: COURTNEY HAMILTON Breakneck ))BREAKNECK THERE\u2019S A SYNERGY WITH THIS CREW. COMBINING A HARDENED CLUBCHILD (VLAD), AN ORIGINAL RAVE DJ (TAMSIN) & A PROFESSIONAL STUDIO HEAD \/ DRUM & BASS TECHNICIAN (PETE AKA VOYAGER) )) Breakneck have lived three different versions of the In this hybrid musical form, Breakneck combine all their of wider acceptance. In Tamsin\u2019s view, the two are not last decade. Uniting as each approached saturation histories. If their contribution to the TCR 50 compilation, mutually exclusive. \u201cWe wanna make big dancefloor point with their previous allegiance, the three set about \u2018Atomic Agent\u2019, is reminiscent of the early nineties, lost tunes, not clever little technically superb things for the assaulting the dancefloors from a nu skool breaks in the jungle, links are obvious. Tamsin held it down for end of the night when the DJ finally dares to play it. We angle. Not only has the collaboration worked on vinyl, Roast around London\u2019s clubs and warehouses and as want proper middle of the night, banging tunes.\u201d the bond has increased to include PlayStation Voyager, Pete was pursuing beatscience. Vlad, living You can still rock a club without making obvious teamwork and an infamous range of Breakneck the club life of hard house was also seeking something \u201cpunters tunes\u201d she insists. breakfasts. According to Tamsin, \u201c...it\u2019s a very impor- more. They had to seek the middle ground, combining tant part. Listen to the music and you can imagine the pasts to forge future funk. \u201cIt\u2019s also luck when you\u2019re The heavier techno influences that have dominated kind of food we make.\u201d If you\u2019ve wrapped your ears dealing with different tastes and different musical drum & bass production over the last few years have to around any of the group\u2019s vinyl excursions you\u2019ll be backgrounds. We\u2019re lucky that it clicked.\u201d Though initial be at least partially responsible for artists seeking well aware that only healthy appetites need apply. sessions were difficult as Vlad explained his fever for the fulfilment on the outside. \u201cThere was a lot of backlash nu skool, the results speak for themselves. from that \u201895, \u201896 period where everyone was talking More and more drum & bass soldiers have unleashed about \u2018coffee table\u2019,\u201d Pete reminds me. \u201cAll this bullshit sub 150 bpm breaks tunes over the last two years. With darker edges prevailing in Breakneck\u2019s music, Vlad from people who didn\u2019t really understand where it was Aquasky, Blu Mar Ten, Zinc, BLIM, Hype and is keen to point out the need for a \u201cfunky configuration.\u201d coming from.\u201d The commercialisation and subsequent T-Power, Lemon D will all have their own reasons for Dark for dark\u2019s sake is something they avoid, but they\u2019re retreat to the underground is a repeated cycle in music, slamming on the brakes, but any talk of desertion not afraid to get noisy. \u201cTake Tipper, he can make a as corporations buy into it, scene leaders tighten their should be ignored. Tamsin\u2019s view is simple: \u201cIt\u2019s still pneumatic press sing. For me that\u2019s a challenge of grip and make the music uglier. \u201cI saw it before in the dance music we\u2019re making, I don\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve got expression.\u201d With Breakneck the music is constructed early rave days. As soon as it started to go commercial up and deserted drum & bass or changed. I\u2019m doing for the floor, trying to emulate emotions and energies the top flight DJs and producers take it back, the same thing; cutting up beats.\u201d from their collective pasts. \u201cWe already know the breaks deliberately make it as non commercial as possible by and the tempo is the same as the stuff I was playing at making it dark and nasty.\u201d On the same topic, Pete feels more will make the Roast,\u201d is Tamsin\u2019s explanation for the fever she feels switch once barriers are broken. He admits the, for this. \u201cIt\u2019s always created a wicked vibe to dance to, a Throughout the two hours spent with Breakneck, there\u2019s \u201cbreaks felt like they weren\u2019t arriving quick enough,\u201d great rhythm and a great speed. It\u2019s great party music.\u201d no lull in conversation, each member has found some at first, listening to the sounds his two team mates renaissance in breakbeat fusion. A refreshing were championing. Something that started as a bit of When quizzed about their label, Rennie Pilgrem\u2019s TCR enthusiasm from people who between them have a laugh - Pete was \u201cdragged into it\u201d Tamsin imprint, \u201chealthy atmosphere\u201d, \u201cchilled\u201d and \u201ccool\u201d are witnessed many dance music mutations over the last jokes - has become a way to expand and explore. \u201cIf phrases used. The general feeling is that, like the ten years. It would be easy to remain cynical but that\u2019s you\u2019re a producer or artist, it\u2019s almost your responsi- members of Breakneck themselves, the people involved not the vibe here. Pete explains it best: \u201cIt\u2019s wicked, bility not to paint yourself into a corner,\u201d Pete insists. have lived through the bullshit and make the right moves man. The amount of late night conversations we used to \u201cYou have to push the boundaries, push the to avoid it now. Underground credentials - all important have in the studio about all different scenes, how it envelope out. You\u2019re obliged to use everything that\u2019s in the UK as we know - are never in question here, but would be wicked if it just all comes together. Breakbeat around you, 360 degrees.\u201d that doesn\u2019t prevent the artists from seeking the benefits is the unifying element for the UK dance scene.\u201d 36 KNOWLEDGE","ASPECTS WORDS: STEPHEN LAWSON PICTURE: TIM \u2018THE WARDEN\u2019 Aspects))ASPECTS KNOWLEDGE CATCH UP WITH WARPED WEST COUNTRY B-BOYS ASPECTS ON THE EVE OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM TO TALK FUNK, BREAKDANCING PARENTS AND WITCHCRAFT, NATURALLY.... )) \u201cMaking an album is like giving a monkey a pen and \u201cStarted breaking,\u201d Specify jokes. \u201cI\u2019m Alistair Crowley\u2019s lovechild. I have the same heroin getting him to draw a naked woman; he\u2019s just going to problem,\u201d he jokes, \u201cI\u2019m well interested in religion in start wanking.\u201d So says Ian Merchant aka El Eye The Dirt \u201cYeah, did a headspin on the kitchen table.\u201d general. I read a lot about it. It\u2019s just a real English thing; Merchant of the West Country\u2019s premier hip hop crew, we\u2019ve got old religions. Where we come from, it\u2019s quite a Aspects. The group\u2019s debut album on Hombre \u201cWith no pants on.\u201d West Country thing... the wicker man and all that. Rather Recordings, \u2018Correct English\u2019, was a year in the making. than shy away from that, I\u2019m addicted to the supernatural.\u201d A year that saw Aspects develop from a motley crew with This kind of banter comes naturally to Aspects. Their a lively stage show and a scattering of respected twelves sense of humour pervades everything they do. You\u2019d Knowledge wonders if this addiction has extended to and mixtape appearances into the professional - but no have to be terminally po-faced not to raise a grin at dabbling with the black arts. less motley - outfit that sits in front of us today. Aspects\u2019 antics on record. \u201cNo, I\u2019ve never done anything that weird. I\u2019ve gone to The album is an irresistible medley of dusty funk and \u201cWe don\u2019t try and take ourselves too seriously,\u201d seances. I filmed an exorcism for my media course. I went self-deprecating humour, and the group sounds tighter Mantis confides. to interview this guy from the Corinthian church. He\u2019s a car than ever. This comes as a pleasant surprise to Ian, who park attendant by day and an exorcist by night, a spiritualist. insists the album\u2019s creation was a haphazard affair, \u201cI think it\u2019s part of being English,\u201d Ian says, Him and his gang went up to Manchester and we went with hence, his colourful simian simile. Aspects\u2019 producer \u201cBlackadder, League Of Gentleman... It\u2019s not hip hop, them to exorcise this girl.\u201d Specifi is surprised, too, but more by our perception of his but hip hop used to be funny. And it wasn\u2019t just Biz production on the album: \u201cThere\u2019s pretty much no funk Markie; there was always something to laugh at. \u2018The \u201cDid you \u2018exercise\u2019 her?\u201d Specify asks. breaks on there at all.\u201d Humpty Hump\u2019, all that shit. \u201cI \u2018exercised\u2019 her the wrong way, got arrested. But it was for \u201cIt\u2019s funkier,\u201d says Ian, \u201cthe breaks we use are really hard \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re out and out funny but I think that\u2019s real. I found it disturbing. They [the spiritualists] all had weird to get and if Specifiy wasn\u2019t a really disturbed person what English people are good at. Everyone\u2019s good at accidents and suddenly became \u2018psychic\u2019. Not one of who started collecting records as a child, and never something; we\u2019re just good at being funny.\u201d them\u2019s fucking normal. leaves his room, it wouldn\u2019t be an influence. I think it\u2019s down to having a weirdo in the group.\u201d Aspects found their niche a long time ago, when they \u201cBut it\u2019s interesting, what people believe. This guy had an realised there\u2019s nothing wrong with being white and accident; a piece of glass went through his head and he Ryan agrees, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have a weirdo in the group.\u201d English, and in a hip hop group. Ian and Beelzebubber, started hearing voices. So rather than thinking his brain was Aspects\u2019 third MC, both hail from Taunton, in the damaged somehow, they believed he could channel ener- \u201cYeah, if we didn\u2019t have one, we\u2019d be fucked. We\u2019d be depths of the West Country, where things are a little gies. That\u2019s just one example of weird shit I find interesting.\u201d making Swizz Beatz [producer for Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z different from your average hip hop hotspot. and DMX]. Our producer wears Farahs. That\u2019s how funky Beelzebubber elaborates: \u201cWhere I first had a drink \u201cWe\u2019ve done a track on the album called \u2018Intrigue\u2019, and it\u2019s he is.\u201d with Ian, that pub was where Judge Jeffries decided just all intriguing stuff on that vibe,\u201d Mantis says, \u201cCos what witches they were gonna hang. They used to I\u2019m not all that intrigued by some guy in his G ride Aspects\u2019 funk credentials go beyond breaks and have the wassail, which is from a pagan festival to do pedalling crack...\u201d sta-press trousers. As lyricist Probe Mantis says, \u201cWe with the apple harvest...\u201d deliberately wanted to reach people who might not Thank God. The hip hop scene\u2019s a brighter place for Aspects understand the lyrics but can dance to it. My mother \u201cAfter Halloween there\u2019s big pentangles drawn in the and their extraordinary extracurricular interests. listened to my album and...\u201d park and shit. It\u2019s wicked,\u201d says Ian, who\u2019s clearly fascinated by this stuff. 38 KNOWLEDGE","UGLY DUCKLING INTERVIEW: ALEX FARBER PICTURE: MIKE REES DUucgklyling ))UGLY DUCKLING \u201cWATCH ME DROP A LITTLE FLAVOUR ON BOTH SIDES OF THE EQUATOR AND WALK WITHOUT A COMPASS TO ROCK YA WHOLE CIRCUMFERENCE...\u201d )) After the success of their \u2018Fresh Mode\u2019 EP, ARE EUROPEAN People Under The Stairs in our van. The CAN YOU EVER SEE YOURSELF Andy, Dizzy and Young Einstein come OR US CROWDS MADDER? whole drive from Boston to Toronto, about PERFORMING ALONGSIDE THE LB back into effect for a full length, animated Well, Euro\u2019s drink more booze which ten hours, Thes-One had to hang his pants COMMUNITY OF SNOOP, DOGG hip hop onslaught, \u2018Journey To Anywhere\u2019. usually equals a wackier crowd but, hon- on the luggage rack on top of the car. POUND AND ALL THE REST? Andy took time to answer some questions estly, every town is a little different. Only at gun-point. from Knowledge... WHO WOULD YOU IMAGINE TO BE DO YOU THINK UK HIP HOP CAN THE WORST GUEST MC TO HAVE ON WHICH CITY HAVE YOU WHY \u2018UGLY DUCKLING\u2019? MAKE AN IMPRESSION IN THE US? AN UGLY DUCKLING TRACK? HAD THE MOST AMOUNT OF FUN WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? Possibly, but I think it\u2019s important that That guy from Limp Bizkit would be the IN SO FAR? We never really fitted in with what was British groups carve out and perfect their worst MC on any track. London. This last time the shows were going on in our local scene and we never own identity first before they worry about really good and that\u2019s what I like most thought ourselves too handsome so the US. Too many UK rappers try to AND WHO WOULD YOU about travelling. we went with Ugly Duckling. We also sound like they\u2019re from New York and we LOVE TO MAKE A TUNE WITH? wanted a really stupid, cartoony name have our own New Yorkers so we don\u2019t Any one of the Jacksons. UGLY DUCKLING TAGTEAM STYLE because most hip hop groups are all need one from Leeds. When the British AT WRESTLEMANIA: serious with names like \u2018Architects Of rap bands have their own sound, as a YOUR STYLE IS SO LIGHT-HEARTED. WHAT TUNE ARE YOU GOING TO Science\u2019 or \u2018Cultural Dialect\u2019. couple do right now, and scene then the WHY DOES HIP HOP TEND TO TAKE WALK IN TO? exporting opportunities will grow; as they ITSELF SO SERIOUSLY? Easy, \u201cEye Of The Tiger\u201d by Survivor. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE YOU REP- have with many UK dance and rock acts. I call it White Boy disease ie. Limp Bizkit RESENTING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC? and Eminem. Most of these kids grow up in UGLY DUCKLING LABEL BOSSES. We just like funky, funny, classic hip hop WHAT DO UD GROUPIES boring towns where they find nothing to WHO WOULD YOU LOVE TO SIGN TO but I have met people who get into the LOOK LIKE? WHO HAS THE MOST do but smoke weed, listen to gangsta rap, YOUR LABEL? music for different reasons. I like the kids FUN WITH THEM? act tough and stare at each other. After I would sign rock-rap bands to make who say that they\u2019ve never felt comfortable They are all beautiful, young ladies with that, it\u2019s just a matter of supply and sure they DIDN\u2019T come out. on the hip hop scene because they were high self-esteem who would never do demand. These kids have never had the too goofy or smiley (or just not into anything dishonourable. If you want any opportunity to hear the real thing. I don\u2019t ON ONE OF YOUR TRACKS YOU underground hip hop enough). But with us, further details, ask Dizzy... know what would ever change this pattern. TALK ABOUT UK BOOTLEGGERS, they can just relax and have fun. Maybe if a good group had some success. HOW WOULD YOU DEAL WITH THEM WHAT\u2019S THE FIRST Formerly fun-loving De La Soul had a big ONCE YOU CAUGHT UP WITH THEM? WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE TRACK WEBSITE YOU\u2019LL VISIT AFTER THIS? hit record in the late 80s and it helped to I would politely and passionately appeal TO PERFORM LIVE AND WHY? I\u2019m going to a sports site to find out the turn the tide, momentarily, for the culture. I to their sense of justice and honesty Right now it\u2019s \u201cEye On The Gold Chain\u201d final score in the LA Dodgers game. hope it happens again. which, I feel, would make them because it\u2019s uptempo and energetic. I like Today is opening day of the baseball understand that bootlegging is wrong. to get the people moving and jumping and season. DO ALL WHITE RAPPERS OWE SOME- that song seems to work. THING TO HOUSE OF PAIN? WHICH ONE LP WHEN DID YOU DRINK Yeah, thanks to House Of Pain every SHOULD EVERYONE LISTEN TO? WHO\u2019S THE BEST BREAKER? EVER THE MOST IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE? stupid white kid I know has a goatee, Tie: \u201cStunts, Blunts and Hip Hop\u201d by TRY ANY MOVES ON STAGE? THEN WHAT HAPPENED? wallet chain, wife-beater tank top and acts Diamond D and \u201cBreaking Atoms\u201d None of us can break worth a crap but I\u2019ve never had any alcohol or done any like a hardcore, tough guy idiot. So they did by Main Source. Dizzy\u2019s got some nice pop-lock moves that drugs in my life but you can ask either of contribute that and, because of them, the he often busts during shows. my partners about extreme drunkenness. Irish people finally got the recognition they Ugly Duckling\u2019s \u2018Journey To Anywhere\u2019 On one tour, Einstein barfed on the so richly deserved. is available from May 7 on XL. Look for 40 KNOWLEDGE live dates over the summer.","))ART : MAO MAO WORDS: DANIEL TURNER 44 KNOWLEDGE",")) Good things come to those who wait, and for anyone who has watched Mao paint - this is definitely true! What he lacks in speed though he more than makes up for in style and content. Focusing mainly on characters rather than elaborate lettering, his pictures look deceptively simple but those few lines carry a heavy message. A true \u201ccountryman\u201d born and raised in the South West, and currently residing in the beautiful surroundings of north Devon. This may have kept him out of the limelight to a certain extent, but it has also has kept him and his family out of the nasty city and in a place where it is actually nice to live and bring up your kids. The beach and the surf is just down the road and everything runs at a much slower pace (which suits this dread fine!). The exile of living away from the beaten media track (i.e. London) gives his work a different angle to many city based artists and designers, as can be seen in the Cost Infected Farming Mad Cow piece - but it does not affect the relevance or the message - babylon and the \u2018shitstem\u2019 affects everyone, whether they\u2019re countryside or cityside and everyone can do their bit in beating it down. Bristol with its long standing graff, music and skate crews is nearby so he can keep up to date with everyone there, and on his missions to London and beyond \u2018nuff people check for him and he is never short of a place to stay. Along with his partner in crime \u2018Dirty T\u2019 he runs Sewerside clothing, providing the designs and graphics while Ol\u2019 Dirty takes care of the business side. however, Sewerside is about much more than just clothes, and is unique in the fashion world because it actually stands for, and means, something. \u201cPositive vibes in a negative environment\u201d is what they are all about, and by creating clothes for skaters, snowboarders, surfers and like minded souls - they are making a statement about how surfers can\u2019t surf cos the sea is full of sewage, and how the babylon police stop you from skating and doing what you want to do. This ethos and outlook carries through to their other method of getting the message across - parties! Since the Criminal Justice Bill was introduced they have made sure that their parties always go with a bang, and in the land of crusty techno they have brought the salvation of hip hop and drum & bass to the masses in the South West via the Pig Farmer\u2019s mighty sound sys- tem. Held in locations like barns, fish farms, and the infamous Kingsley and Mission nightclubs, with a big event hopefully on the beach this summer (depending on foot and mouth as much as word of mouth!) people have travelled from all over the country to check out these mad parties - phat sound systems, ruff beats and cool people. Anyone who came across their sound system, mini ramp, and graff wall in the bottom corner of the cabaret field at Glasto 2000 will certainly remember it, as will the organiser woman who pulled the plug on the Sunday afternoon after a wild weekend of breaking the rules and rinsing it out all night! (yes, even Glastonbury is a wee bit corporate when it comes to decibel levels in the middle of the night, but it was an honest mistake bringing a 15k rig when the limit was 3k!) Mao\u2019s most recent project was the back cover artwork for DJ Skitz\u2019 album and the animation for the \u2018Domestic Science\u2019 video. Originally Skitz asked him to do the back cover for his excellent \u2018Countryman\u2019 album - and what started as just a couple of characters ended up being a picture of all the MCs and DJs who contributed to the album. When the response from everyone immortalised in ruffneck caricature was so good, it was a natural progression to animate the characters of Skitz, Tempa, Estelle and Wildflower for the \u2018Domestic Science\u2019 video. After some sleepless nights, drawing hundreds of original frames and fitting them with Steve Mitchell\u2019s 3D digital backgrounds to create a new mix of styles - analogue and digital together, the finished product looked so good it was moved from the end of the video to the beginning, and was shown on Yo! MTV Raps between Snoop and KRS 1! With plenty of people eager to work with him, crews up and down the country appreciating his artwork and wanting to wear his clothes, and a collaboration with high class Wedgewood china for an exhibition at the V & A museum in the pipeline, the future looks bright. As more people commission artwork from him , so more green (of both the dollar and herb variety) will come his way. BIG UP $EWER$IDE! Check www.sewerside.co.uk e-mail [email protected] \/ phone 07980 098773 KNOWLEDGE 45","))GALLERY : CHU 01 02 GALLERY: CHU CONTACT: 07966 169917 WEB: www.schudio.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected] Use 3D glasses (not supplied). See for correct use 01: 'Letting the side down' - canvas for MackDaddys, Bristol (aerosol on canvas) 2001 10: Freestyle for Fresh 2000 held at the Custard Factory 2000. 45ft x 7ft 02: 'Deparchure Lounge\u2019 - Urban Games, Clapham Common, (aerosol on timber partitions) 1999 11: 'On a Swiss Roll' - detail of Swiss Embassy commission, (aerosol on brickwork) 2001 03: TurnTableTank sketch - (biro sketch) 12: 'One Owner, Low Mileage' - Scratch @ Scala, London (aerosol on brickwork) Oct 2000 04\/05\/06\/07: Flyer designs featuring the Superschool 2000. (biro sketches) 13: Various animations stills, inc. 'Stereo Equipment' - TurnTableTank showcase movie (CGI) 08: 'Graforiginees' feat. Task Force - Cover design for BreakinPoint magazine, (CGI) 1999 \u2018CHU's your Moment\u2019 @ Cargo, London 2D, 3D & 4D works 10th July to 6th August. 03 09: Press advertisement for www.blupencil.co.uk (biro sketch) 46 KNOWLEDGE","04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 KNOWLEDGE 47","Drum&BassSingles DRUM & BASS SINGLES REVIEWED BY: LURCH & SHAREE IT\u2019S IN THE BAG\u2026 ONLINE D-N-B STORE AT WWW.KNOWLEDGEMAG.CO.UK THE ADVOCATE another superb track from the Bad DJ DARA chaotic tune, throwing down ruff, turbu- Company crew. Suggesting nothing of lent drums, raw techno stabs and a APOCALYPSE \/ SELL YOUR SOUL the imminent audio destruction in the KILOS \/ RANGER deadly vocal that really makes this tune DEMONIC intro, we roll with bright beats, smooth ORGONE whole. A bit rough around the edges but and soaring pads and some bizarre vocal the vibe is most certainly there. L An off-kilter twelve, as you may well snippets to the drop, before the Reese One of America\u2019s top drum & bass DJs expect from The Advocate. The incessant hook, mid-range swarm and rumbling sub delivers the dancefloor beats to Orgone. DIGITAL sounds of \u2018Apocalypse\u2019 certainly live up to combine for slaughter. This rawness is \u2018Kilos\u2019 builds well with frenetic bongo their title, as a cacophony of demolition well so balanced though, with lighter breaks, melodic bass and punctuating THE SWAMP \/ RED MIST bass and furious Amens thunder down elements of the track intertwining with the vox, but the old skool chord hook on this CREATIVE SOURCE with reckless abandon. A merciless tune, terror sounds, as the latter occasionally track is more \u2018Sesame\u2019s Treat\u2019 than \u2018Mr that takes no prisoners. \u2018Sell Your Soul\u2019 fall away, allowing the lively beats to Kirk\u2019s Nightmare\u2019. A shame really \u2018cos the Possibly the moodiest track to have then opts for a very different tack, rolling parade with the travelling, melodic synths. backbone of the tune is good. \u2018Ranger\u2019 is graced the Creative Source catalogue - smoothly, though still with a blistering A very cultured track. L a lot better though, with its mental, Digital gets all grizzly on the cavernous dancefloor presence; and through its garbled vocal blending with Twilight Zone sounds of \u2018The Swamp\u2019, resplendent in an spread of searing guitar licks, deep bass BLUE keys over a funky bassline and tight, orgy of splintering Amens and subdued and dramatic strings will keep you hooked skippy beats. L darkness that\u2019s sure to please all the to the very end. L DEADBEAT \/ RELEASE hardcore heads out there. The air then SOUTHERN SESSIONS DECODER & SUBSTANCE clears on the flip, but only for the \u2018Red APHRODITE Mist\u2019 to drift into view, soon to envelop BELAY DIALECT EP you in its tight percussive snare, as the CLOUDBREAK \/ KARMA SUTRA BREAKBEAT CULTURE obscure industrial drones and sparse COME DOWN DUBBING COWARD \/ TAKE CARE jazzy bass lead you further into this BASS HAZE PLATE SOUTHERN SESSIONS With the buzz surrounding Kosheen strange and hypnotic groove. Deep. L APHRODITE growing by the day, there couldn\u2019t be a These are the next two coming up on better time for the release of this new EP DOPESKI Keeping the pressure on, Aphrodite steps Germany\u2019s Southern Sessions label, and from Decoder & Substance. Showcasing forward with another two releases on his they\u2019re both worth checking. Blue running the more underground drum & bass SLAYER \/ STYLEZ TERRIFIC own imprint and, true to recent form, with that characteristic stripped back and flavas that they have championed for the CHEMICAL WARFARE there\u2019s something for everyone in this eerie, rolling vibe on \u2018Deadbeat\u2019, while best part of a decade, while also featuring selection. \u2018Cloudbreak\u2019 intros with a nice laying down more gruelling drum work the considerable talents of MC Jakes on Some lively gangsta funk comes to the blend of interlocking drum edits, keeping it and a fuller sound on the melancholic the lead track, this has got to be one of fore on \u2018Slayer\u2019, a more melodic track than all on a lively tip before the serious, \u2018Release\u2019. Before that though is the debut the most dynamic releases from its title suggests, but the best rub on this driving bass comes in; contrasting well release from Belay, a new signing to the Breakbeat Culture to date. The bouncy, twelve from Dopeski is the phat and furi- with the funky sounds and fills that roll label, hailing from their hometown of techno groove of \u2018Dialect\u2019 further shows ous, hip hop jungle hybrid, \u2018Styles Terrific\u2019. through the track. \u2018Karma Sutra\u2019 then Munich. \u2018Coward\u2019 moves on a fluid, and this duos firm handling of vocals before A flava formerly known as jump-up? L touches down on a saucy tip, full of well executed, tech-step, as does the giving way to the more hostile strains of gasps, moans and dirty vocals while similarly styled, though more panic- \u2018Dog Fight\u2019, a dark and menacing Amen DRUMSOUND & simple beats and that juicy, Aphro bass stricken flip side, \u2018Take Care\u2019, to make this track that would challenge studio pal Tech SIMON BASSLINE SMITH bounce do the rest. Onto the next twelve, another solid wax. L Itch in the stormiest of weathers. \u2018Icon\u2019 and my favourite, \u2018Come Down Dubbing\u2019. soon returns us to more pleasant DUBTRACK \/ SUPERSONIC Flinging down some warm reggae flava, CAUSE 4 CONCERN pastures, with its sunny chords and TECHNIQUE nice funky breaks, sustained bass and a shakers, juicy bass, neat vocals and fresh little taste of that early Aladdin flava (for HIGH DOWN beats, while continuing this rolling vibe, Tuff bongo breaks, a travelling synth line those that know), this is a tight and rolling STRANGE NATURE the \u2018Squadron\u2019 take off on a stealth and bright chords bring the intro flava track with a pretty unique sound in TIMELESS mission that seals this vital release. L on \u2018Dub Track\u2019, spreading an uplifting vibe today\u2019s d&b climate. The heavy vibes of across the cut, building nicely for the \u2018Bass Haze Plate\u2019 then tidy things up, Alongside \u2018Future Funk\u2019 and \u2018Give It 2 DJ DELTA ruff ride that follows. At the drop, a reflecting the vibe of \u2018Cloudbreak\u2019 to \u2018Em\u2019 on the Hardware EP, \u2018High Down\u2019 is pummelling bassline enters the mix, complete a proper varied set of tunes. L one of the best tracks I\u2019ve heard from DELIVERANCE \/ CONNECTED memorable dub vox add spice and with Cause 4 Concern to date and shows FIRECLOWN the intro ingredients flowing through the JOHN B them to be well and truly on a roll. Again track, this is a real dancefloor livener. it\u2019s that urgent, sparse and funky style This is the second release from DJ Delta Simple melodic hooks do the work again SKY\u2019S THE LIMIT running wild through the cut, with a on Fireclown, and together with his on the flipside cut, with the playful piano MOVE YOUR BODY (REMIX) distant female vocal and choice bleeps forthcoming release on Penny Black as and chord combo the key, while military SHOEBOX providing the hooks, meanwhile the stern Stormtoopers, he is building up a neat style drums and a steady horn line assist beats and juicy bass swing their pants catalogue of work. \u2018Deliverance\u2019 is a in keeping this minimal cut in check. L Returning to Shoebox, and with a much below. A must for all those future stronger release than the previous two, funk dancefloors. L A-SIDES John B lays down a pair of right tasty, techno influenced vocal tracks. \u2018Sky\u2019s COMMANDO BIG REQUEST \/ SPREAD LOVE The Limit\u2019 just rolls and rolls with its & DAMAGE HARD LEADERS intoxicating fusion of dreamy vocals, hypnotic synths, filthy bass surges and SW11: DUB SPECIALIST A Hard Leaders special here, as A-Sides touches down with two blistering tuff drums being hard to resist. On the SKULL KRUSHER dancefloor cuts of a contrasting nature. As the title suggests, \u2018Big Request\u2019 is a other side the electro-fied remix of \u2018Move TRANSFER dub-influenced dancehall slammer, with a monstrous Amen and bassline drop Your Body\u2019 approaches more stealthily, that is bound to get \u2018em calling for the reload. \u2018Spread Love\u2019 then flips the script treading a cleaner, trancey path into Following tracks on Invader, Spektrum with an altogether smoother groove, as tight bubbling beats, a nice blend of vocal your subconscious. L Audio and Outbreak, Damage teams hooks, glowing melody and deep but lively bass drive this funky roller home. up with Commando for the first release on Two for the front of the box. L BAMBOO this new label. The lead cut is an Amen, rave chord and dub vox rinser, but what NEW DAWN RELICK \/ THE JOINT really caught my ears was the strangely FORCE titled \u2018Skull Krusher\u2019. A ruff tune, but in the light of \u2018SW11\u2019 it\u2019s more of a skull Two new releases at once from this soother. Using a wicked vocal sample, Florida based label and collective. On this beefy drums (OK, the odd filtered Amen one, Bamboo takes full advantage of the edit), simple funky bass and rood stabs, tribal bongos to create a groovy riff that this skankin\u2019 tune is pure runaway. begs you to dance to it. Full vocal lines Must check. L run throughout while some serious pressure filled beats traverse alongside DJ DAMAGE analogue surges. A real rinse-out. \u2018The Joint\u2019 provides some more tribal-esque FIRST CONTACT beats and a rasta style vocal snippet. INVADER Moody reverse synth melody casts a melancholy shadow on the cut. The If you\u2019ve been buying drum & bass in Paradox-esque drum work pushes the the past year then you\u2019ll have a good idea track to another level of craziness. S what kind of flavas this record has buried in its grooves. Relentless Amen pressure, BAD COMPANY select old skool vocals and an alien atmosphere run through the powerful PLANET DUST \/ SPEEDBALL original version of \u2018First Contact\u2019; while PROTOTYPE with Dylan applying his mental drum edits for the remix, this is a slammin\u2019 Protoype emerge for 2001, and with it darkside release. L bring the long-awaited \u2018Planet Dust\u2019, KNOWLEDGE 51","Drum&BassSingles ( ( (((( IT\u2019S IN THE BAG\u2026 )))) ) ) DUNE to have made such an impression on the JUNGLEBOY Although you could hardly call Kemal & drum & bass scene with just a handful of Rob Data old timers, the past few years ORACLE \/ RESISTANCE: 2050 tracks. Fellowship steps up again for this CONFLICTED \/ LOVE ME has seen them on an unstoppable rise BREAKBEAT SCIENCE release, bringing a real taste of summer FORCE through the scene, and here they fully dis- with this pair of uplifting rollers. \u2018It\u2019s A play those ruff and rolling futuristic flavas Hot on the heels of the \u2018Remixology EP\u2019 Mystery\u2019 surfs a smooth bassline roll, nice Palpitating drum hits and wood block that have served them so well. Narcosis come these two fresh tunes from Dune, Rhodes, disco strings, driving beats \u2018n\u2019 melody intro \u2018Confused\u2019. A light echo on deliver in a similar sci-fi vein. A more aggro AKA Double A & Twist. Displaying their bongos and diva vocals, but if a more the synth stabs gives it a bit of a selection of metallic squawks dominate versatile approach to drum & bass they saucy bottom end is required, then just flip dubby\/dreamy effect. FX\u2019ed out sample the track but, with eerie melodic elements first showcase the delicately trippy, sensu- to the sassy strut of \u2018Feelin\u2019 Good\u2019 for and bassy stabs come in the early giving the cut balance, it\u2019s a worthy ous sounds of \u2018Oracle\u2019, while for afters further rock solid, jungle funk. L breakdown and then you get clubbed over bedfellow for the blazing \u2018Konspiracy\u2019. L allow us to see the darker side of the the head with a hard Amen fest. At the consciousness in the minimalist guise of FOOTMASTERS midway point, you\u2019ll have sworn you KOM\u2019AH \u2018Resistance 2050\u2019. Both quality tunes. L & KENNY KEN crossed over a time portal back to 1996 when darkness reigned supreme. Evil GALACTIC SPIN EBK \/ CITIZEN & FUTURE FAT CAP \/ SALAD SURGERY bass is pushed to its growly limits while TREASURE HUNTERS UNKUT the Amens go to the sushi bar for some PURIFIED AUDIO 2000:2000 \/ NEO expert slicing. It\u2019s got a great mixable COMPOSITE Ruff bizniz once again from Unkut. \u2018Fat outro too. Nice one. Swanky, sustained RADIANCE Cap\u2019 keeps things tidy with military style strings are the first thing you hear on the The third, and probably best, Composite drums, rising hardcore riffs, dirty bass and flip. Then along comes a floaty female LALO\u2019S BEAT \/ TUNA SALAD assault to date, here flipping two different pure dancefloor energy; while the more vocal sample. Hard Amens aren\u2019t too far PURIFIED AUDIO drum & bass styles sourced from the gruelling flipside sees Kenny dropping behind and bust in like a battering ram Federation \/ Central Intelligence axis. The into the studio with a serene intro and with some squishy bass that seems to Top draw, clean and melodic beats on money shot has to be \u20182000 : 2000\u2019, with a raw bass grind. L compliment the beats like fish compli- offer once again from Holland\u2019s Purified its rugged techno steps, bruising ments chips. What I like most about Audio camp. Kom\u2019ah brings a nice and pummel-bass, sci-fi bent and all-round GRIDLOCK Jungleboy is he\u2019s not afraid to chop the funky, minimal vibe to both tracks: \u2018floor blazing properties, though the DJ DREAD drums and throw in breakdown interludes \u2018Galactic Spin\u2019 gets stepping right from the abstract sounds of \u2018Neo\u2019 is sure to find with entirely new patterns. One to pick up top of its lunar quest, while the more favour with the deeper hardstep crowd. L KREEPY KILLER \/ DEVIL GIRL if you like that old school cut-up feel. S gentle drift that introduces \u2018Treasure TECHNORGANIC Hunters\u2019 masks the deep, aquatic ESKOBAR FEAT. LEMON D KEL hypno-beat that follows. Before that one No info on the release date of this fourth drops though, Radiance delivers an apt IT\u2019S YOURS wax from Technorganic, but for the crazed SO FINE \/ TWISTED release, with \u2018Lalo\u2019s Beat\u2019 and \u2018Tuna RETURN TO 125TH STREET Amen-techno assault of \u2018Kreepy Killer\u2019 and WHITE Salad\u2019 both glowing with a more upbeat, TRUE PLAYAZ the dark, rolling sounds of \u2018Devil Girl\u2019, look jazz funk edge. L out for this US label in the independent Bootleg shenanigans, and like so many A coup here for True Playaz, as Eskobar stores. For more of the same, also check recent under the counter releases, this M&M and Lemon D make their debut on the the previous release, \u2018The Rattlesnake one is definitely worth asking about. label, and if you\u2019re a fan of those Valve EP\u2019, featuring Ju Ju. L \u2018Twisted\u2019 is a deep, tech jazz, drum & bass GO REMIX sounds, then you\u2019ve just got to pick track, rolling with dramatic strings, bluesy WHITE this up. \u2018It\u2019s Yours\u2019 is the ruffer of the two, HAK W\/HIVE horns and Blade Runner passages, but leading with oriental chimes, choice hip the big tune here is \u2018So Fine\u2019. Rinsing Further bootleg goodness for you lot to hop flava and that patent line in bass, GLOK Whitney Houston over filtered Amen, dark hunt down, and with this one we see drum and edits. As far as mental beats go, BLACK PEARL bass and eerie synths shouldn\u2019t really Moby\u2019s classic rave tune \u2018Go\u2019 get a drum & they don\u2019t get much better than this. work, but it does. Nicely. L bass re-work. Massive in the raves back Equally as essential is \u2018Return To 125th First up is the Hive remix. Hive changes then and destined to be massive in the Street\u2019 which finds the fruity D flexing his the main drums of the original to a more KEMAL & ROB DATA raves once again, ten years later. Even jazz funk muscle over some contrasting, scattered, shuffling syncopation that builds NARCOSIS the sceptics should check this one out. L but chunky beats, to give this 12\u201d that to a light cacophony after the first drop. all round appeal. L Nice and ruff. The bass blasts are also KONSPIRACY \/ ESCAPE ROUTE MARCUS INTALEX tweaked to a fine subby variety. Oscillating INDUSTRY & ST FILES FELLOWSHIP synth riffs pulsate throughout. Hak\u2019s original is a tough firing blast of a nice After an incredible launch, courtesy of UNIVERSE IT\u2019S A MYSTERY \/ FEELIN\u2019 GOOD hardstep variation. Cut-up samples and Total Science and Davide Carbone, LOSE CONTROL DEFUNKED bass throbs give it an abstract feel. A total Industry are back with another twelve of METALHEADZ With this being only the fourth release on raucous of sound. S established and up-and-coming talent. Defunked, there aren\u2019t many other labels Just like their recent 31 Records release this is another long awaited issue from the JOHN B CAUSE 4 CONCERN IT\u2019S SO REAL \/ NO-ONE LIKE YOU SYMPTOM EP TANGENT RENEGADE HARDWARE It\u2019s John B himself who takes the first release on this, his new label dedicated to the more melodic and vocal styles of drum & bass. \u2018It\u2019s So Real\u2019 opens the account and One of my personal favourites from the recent EP selection from Hardware, with this drops something of a garage flava; rolling out sparse skippy beats, a clean staccato one holding four different takes on the dark funk style. \u2018Skewer\u2019 brings the most bass to make you bubble plus, of course, a wicked vocal blend. \u2018No-One Like You\u2019 hardcore terror, opening the account with a tight blend of deep melodic subs, needling then steps out on more fluid, rolling tip. A delicate fusion of keys, sax and guitar, mid-range and sheer drum demolition, while wreaking a similar kind of havoc is the together with deep, driving bass provide the backbone, as an enchanting combination Usual Suspects ruff percussive remix of \u2018Research\u2019. The quite brilliant, \u2018Give It 2 \u2018Em\u2019 of male and female vocal melts all over this delightfully sumptuous track. A quite finds C4C laying down their own pedigree breed of electro-funk, all deep, spacious brilliant introduction to the new label. Check it. L and lively, while completing the four with equal panache are the spooky rolling sounds of \u2018Symptom\u2019. With so much variety on offer here, this EP is sure to reach 52 KNOWLEDGE beyond the Hardware core. L","Drum&BassSingles ONLINE D-N-B STORE AT WWW.KNOWLEDGEMAG.CO.UK Manchester duo, again with a versatile MOS DEF, PHAROAH moving. The flip then takes a different of darkness in the mix. The flipside cut is of edge and holding two dynamite tunes. MONCHE & NATE DOGG route. Still rolling hard, but with some red a very similar flava; a touch more grizzly The deep roller, \u2018Lose Control\u2019 trades the raw flutes and a juicy live bass taking the in its mid-range tones and with a tuffer, more obvious techno-oriented angles, but OH NO lead, \u2018The Boss\u2019 erupts into a driving jazz steppin\u2019 approach on the drums. L with male vocals and warm melody RAWKUTS funk ride that gives this twelve more blending nicely with the delicately sinister versatile dancefloor goodness. L RAREFORM air and those edgy bass tones, this is a Coming with two flavas, \u2018Heavyweight\u2019 wickedly rolling and wonderfully balanced and \u2018Smooth\u2019, John B turns his remix POLLEN & STILL LIFE ODE TO THE ENEMY track. The same can be said of the hand to this popular, and totally runnin\u2019, WORST CASE SCENARIO massive lead cut \u2018Universe\u2019. A sublime hip hop joint. If you like the vocal and you LOOKING GLASS WHAT\u2019S THE POINT IN ANYTHING? number, that glides along on a sea of like drum & bass then there\u2019s little more RUMBLE NEW VISION shimmering strings, warm synths, deep recommendation needed. Both mixes driving bass, and a bright drum track; smash up their appropriate dancefloors; POLLEN \u2018Ode To The Enemy\u2019 is one sickass track. while together with those choice vocal so don\u2019t sleep on this. L Best grinding bass I\u2019ve heard in a long edits, is a cut that guarantees a drop of SEDUCTION \/ SKY SWEEP time. Makes me want to put my head right sunshine in the dance. L MULDER RAWKUTS in the bin! Treacherous Amens... seething effects... what more can I ask for? \u2018Worst MILAD NUMBER STATION \/ CHANGE UP Two from Pollen, with \u2018Seduction\u2019 fusing Case Scenario\u2019 is a total opposite. Full on URBAN TAKEOVER r&b vocal hits, gruesome Amens and an electro vibe, fast moving drums and vocal D-TOWN SOUND A tight release here from Bristol\u2019s man of acid swarm, while the brighter, though no hooks from Manik D and Sophie B make THE ONLY mystery, with this wax featuring a more less dirty, \u2018Sky Sweep\u2019 travels on a carpet this one a little more involved that your LOSTRACK sinister set of \u2018floor stormers than of grizzly undulating bass. It\u2019s the Rumble average d&b cut. The last one is a previously. Stepping drums, spooky lead release that makes most impact though, surreal little journey into the mind of a \u2018D-Town Sound\u2019 begins with a muted intro lines, dirty mids and sustained subs do the and together with Still Life they turn in a stressed out producer. Only a minute and quickly moves into tight rattling drums damage on the simple but effective vocal and Amen smasher on \u2018Looking long, but great for creating a weird, before a second breakdown and build-up. \u2018Number Station\u2019, while for afters it\u2019s Glass\u2019. The \u2018Deep mix\u2019 offers an alterna- spooky intro to your set. Props to NV for With the formalities out of the way, a slightly darker affair, as raw hip hop tive to the brutal thrust of the original, and thinking out of the box there. S D-Town takes off like a heat seeking mis- vox, old skool drum breaks and wobble that\u2019s the cut for me, with its gentler sile. Moving, roll-out drums and pulsing b- bass combine. L stepping groove, but I\u2019m sure many will RED ONE lines make for a real tear-out, possibly be frothing over the lead. L even a rewind. \u2018The Only\u2019 creates a NEXT WAVE OF JAZZ DREAMS \/ SIDE STEP tension early on with turning synth jabs, PREDATOR RATIO wind-up beats and haunting synths. WHAT WE DIE FOR Two different dancefloor styles here from Watch it after the break. Cut-up beats with SPEEDLINCS DISS-INTEGRATION \/ SMUGGLERS Red One. \u2018Dreams\u2019 touching down with Amen fills surround the techy stabs and This debut release from New Wave Of ACETATE trekking sci-fi flavas, and delivering the deep bellowing bass. S Jazz sees the Speedlincs label deliver beats in a manner you may guess, though their best yet in the shape of this tuff vocal TROUBLED MINDZ the undulating bass and dirty stabs ANT MILES roller. Driving beats and nervous techno of \u2018Side Step\u2019 cut a much more rugged bass accompany the powerful vocal and TERMINAL \/ INTERSAT stance, reflecting the suggestion made THE ESSENCE haunting vibes of the simply tearing \u2018What ACETATE in the title. L INDUCER We Die For\u2019, while on the flip there\u2019s a LIFTIN\u2019 SPIRIT more intricate and off-key beats remix Already out there is the Troubled Mindz REKOIL & POISON from Reinforced\u2019s Search Engine. Further twelve (AKA Cause 4 Concern), where we Strangely enough, this is the first release extending the appeal of a twelve that all find the boys throwing down some indus- JAH WITNESS as Ant Miles on Liftin\u2019 Spirit, though lovers of vocal drum & bass and futuristic trial funk on the hard stepping \u2018Terminal\u2019, BAD MAGIC obviously not the first release on the label flavas should check. L while rugged metallic breaks and dark SPEKTRUM AUDIO from the Liftin\u2019 Spirit himself. \u2018The technology gets a rinsing on the dramatic Two more slices of dancefloor madness Essence\u2019 is one of those ruff with the NU TONE futurescape of \u2018Intersat\u2019. After that, from Spektrum Audio. \u2018Jah Witness\u2019 smooth rubs, with soft pads and washes Predator returns to Acetate with a nasty blending dub vox, percussive drum being draped over a strong riddim track, GRAND CENTRAL \/ THE BOSS twelve of rolling bass, running it all crisp breaks and rave loops in an intense brew while \u2018Inducer\u2019 takes you on a more BETA and fluid on \u2018Diss-integration\u2019 before drop- that is strictly for the headstrong. \u2018Bad punishing glide from the off, rolling out in ping some heavier steps on \u2018Smugglers\u2019. L Magic\u2019 appears to tread a breezy and true Ram style. Nothing to blow your Two ruff, but contrasting licks here, with bubblin\u2019 path, but the layer of deep subs, mind, but a tasty filler. L rolling Amen pressure and old skool RANDOM SOUNDZ retro vox and Raindance stabs keep it chords raining down through the turbulent CHRIS SU circling the M25. L \u2018Grand Central\u2019, a relentless assault that is sure to keep the harder dancefloors M13 \/ E.M.D. MUSIC 4 EVER \u2018M13\u2019 is a hyper techno rampage, building in intensity throughout, with a little sprinkling INK KENNY KEN KAOS THEORY EP EVERYMAN (REMIXES) RENEGADE HARDWARE MIX & BLEN\u2019 All OJs will know about \u2018Everyman\u2019, Kenny\u2019s signature tune from back then and, as A tearing EP from Ink, holding an array of damaging tracks, with one of the biggest you\u2019ll no doubt agree, these new mixes are a most welcome arrival. First up is a dirty, guns in this package being his collaboration with Dylan on \u2018Need You\u2019. Rolling it out raw step-a-thon, with deep and deadly subs rolling, ruff beats to keep you moving and rugged, percussive and tribal, the vaults are unlocked for the classic vocal break and a classy cut-up of the original \u2018Everyman\u2019 vocal. In short, a killer dancehall tune. The melodic darkside drones, while a selection of tasty stabs run wild across this reggae vocal is rolled to the maximum through the intro on the flip, but beware of this bruising track. Ruff. The past is raided once again for the title track, as countless diversion, for the drop heralds a more thunderous mix, complete with mental dub FX, drum breaks and percussive loops are sliced and diced, while a bewildering array of which will satisfy all the hardhat crew. There\u2019s something for everyone on this record, samples fly in and out of the mix. Quality mental stuff once again. Elsewhere, and is a tune that will no doubt be rinsed all summer long. Wicked. L \u2018Re-Lock\u2019 lays down heavyweight drums and sustained subs in a more abstract groove, while to complete this essential Hardware EP Twisted Anger re-style \u2018Murder KNOWLEDGE 53 Inc.\u2019 with trademark Amen pressure. L","Drum&BassSingles IT\u2019S IN THE BAG\u2026 ONLINE D-N-B STORE AT WWW.KNOWLEDGEMAG.CO.UK REPRAZENT More Try\u2019, punctuated by horn blasts and SONIC & SILVER TOTAL SCIENCE vocal snippets. Off-key but rolling. \u2018Self LUCKY PRESSURE Destruct\u2019 opts for a different, though TELL ME \/ BACKHANDER BORDERLINE 2000 \/ JUNGLE TALKIN\u2019 LOUD equally abstract approach, adding a little L PLATES JUNGLE mystery with its melody and building METALHEADZ Third single and a bona fide highlight from a more spacious groove through the rid- Number two on the new L-Plates label, the \u2018In The Mode\u2019 album, with this one dim, track and aquatic bass hook. with this one dealing two contrasting cuts. TOTAL SCIENCE finding Onallee in the limelight, injecting her Something a little different. L \u2018Backhander\u2019 blazes through in a rush of instantly recognisable vocal style to the furious beats and nasty bass, and while BUSTIN\u2019 LOOSE \/ ELEMENTARY mix. In a magazine like this, there\u2019s little DJ SKINNY the melodic rolling vibes of \u2018Tell Me\u2019 paint a TIMELESS need to go into detail on track that\u2019s more serene picture, both boast an already an anthem, but there are a few STREET GANGS \/ MR BONGOS equally forceful dancefloor presence. L \u2018Borderline 2000\u2019 intros at length with remixes you need to know about. I\u2019ll get UNDER PRESSURE sparse metallic beats, breaking down for the surprises out of the way first of all, and SPIRIT \/ DIGITAL the harsh bass to show itself, cue classic that comes in the shape of the Layo & DEODA vox and pads and the track bursts back Bushwacka! remix where we find them on RAYGUN \/ RAS 78 into life. A pounding cut for sure, but with a rare drum & bass excursion, and coming BASS-SINE \/ ACID FUNCTION intrigue a plenty, there\u2019s no escaping the up smelling of roses. Elsewhere, Roni UNDER PRESSURE tight grasp of this serious cut. A more serves his dark and driving \u2018Hit Mix\u2019, SIMON BASSLINE SMITH chaotic, heady blend of beats are absolutely tailor made to bust up a dance, Numbers two and three from the newly unleashed on the tearing \u2018Jungle Jungle\u2019, and Suv an excellent Amen take, while formed Under Pressure, with that familiar, JUNGLE 99: DIGITAL DUB MIX \/ this one with more overt old skool also on the drum & bass promo package is rolling sci-fi bass a dominant theme TROUBLE influence and, with so much happening a track called \u2018Lend Me Your Fuckin\u2019 Ears\u2019; through all four tracks. \u2018Street Gangs\u2019 FUNCTION through the track, it\u2019s a credit to their essentially a re-touched instrumental of intros atmospherically before dropping production skills that you can hear so \u2018Ghetto Celebrity\u2019. Essential, once again. L into some schizoid electro riffing, while A pair of rather moody releases here from clearly the definition of each sound. On the the darker flipside matches lively Function, though with Digital\u2019s \u2018Ras 78\u2019 Timeless twelve, a more laid back take on RUFIGE CRU percussion with moody techno stabs. standing out as the exception to the rule. the heavyweight unfolds through the Harder beats break through on the His serious and stripped remix of \u2018Jungle melodic \u2018Bustin\u2019 Loose\u2019, while the nervous STORMTROOPA VIP \/ THE BEACH following twelve with the grinding \u201899\u2019 kicks things off, and while the gigantic rattling groove of \u2018Elementary\u2019 fits nicely METALHEADZ \u2018Bass-Sine\u2019 before Friction completes the old skool stabs of \u2018Trouble\u2019 begin to up the with the vibe of the Metalheadz release, rumbling bass of his \u2018Acid\u2019 remix. L pulse rate, these cuts didn\u2019t really ignite rolling with the deep sensibilities of This twelve was originally promoed last for me. \u2018Raygun\u2019 then lays down brutal \u2018Borderline 2000\u2019. Quality gear. L year, but only now gets an official release; SMOKEY JOE VS DJ BEN mid range power and doom laden subs also signalling the start of a lengthy in za menacing fashion, while \u2018Ras 78\u2019 TRON Metalheadz campaign on your ears. Very Q REASON \/ INSIDE blends ruff Amens, rumbling bass and much Goldie in sound and style, though SMOKERS INC. haunting ragga vocals. L SURFING \/ ATOMIC with so many re-designs on the GLOBAL THANG Reinforced blueprint, it\u2019s not so easy to tell A cross channel collaboration here, STORMTROOPERS nowadays. \u2018Stormtroopa VIP\u2019 is a ruff-ass between the Smokers\u2019 Smokey Joe and Two dark and minimal excursions on offer trip into the darker realms of jungle, France\u2019s DJ Ben, with both cuts heavy on THE MIRAGE EP here. Crisp snapping snares, rising strings complete with heavyweight interlocking the subs, rave sounds and driving beats. PENNY BLACK and grizzly bass guide you in on \u2018Surfing\u2019, drums, a cascading collage of paranoia \u2018Q Reason\u2019 is a real churning track, and before dark stabs, knocking subs and hooks and a twisted trumpet riff that really comes with a storming second half switch, Closely following the bone-crushing clattering Amens finish the job off. Similar tops the tune off. \u2018The Beach\u2019 is something while the darker strains of \u2018Inside\u2019 Special Branch debut, here comes elements also do the legwork on \u2018Atomic\u2019, of an antidote, reminiscent of \u2018The Sea\u2019 in complete this rugged retro ride. L another new singing to Penny Black, with to complete a twelve of fierce, though its strings, ambient sounds and touches of this EP from the Stormtroopers being familiar, \u2018floor flava. L warm bass, and although the track does J SMOOTH an equally weighty package. The lunar drift into a more demanding stride, it still trek of \u2018Mirage\u2019 guides you in on a UNIVERSAL PROJECT retains its epic elegance. L JECKYLL & HYDE \/ Z CHAMBER comparatively gentle wave, building in ARGENTO stature as it rolls, but holding a deep BLEACH \/ THE TRUTH? SAPPO groove throughout. The pain is duly dealt UNIVERSAL PROJECT Churning techno riffs blend with steppa on the second track though, the original ONE MORE TRY \/ SELF DESTRUCT beats and smooth female vocals on the mix of \u2018Alive\u2019, as it grinds its way down a Following their track for Hardware and the GLOBAL THANG lively \u2018Jeckyll & Hyde\u2019, while a moodier dirty minimal path, keeping you hanging \u2018Soundclash EP\u2019 on True Playaz, selection seems to surface on the flip. The on for that classic vocal drop which gives Universal Project run with a monster first Hold tight for some sparse and frantic half time drop signals a switch though, as the track its name. Onto plate two, and release on their own label. \u2018Bleach\u2019 is the percussive action in the shape of \u2018One folky strings and a bass twang enter the here you get a relick of \u2018Alive\u2019, keeping big one, guaranteed to cause dancefloor mix, before \u2018Z Chamber\u2019 heads off on its the original ruffness and injecting it with frenzy, as it charges forward on an new-found, spaghetti western flex. L some bubblin\u2019 acid lines, while complet- undercurrent of pounding subs, almighty ing the EP in the fiercest of fashions is industrial sounds and catchy vocal PERFECT COMBINATION \u2018Murderous Style\u2019. L snippets, while with truly vicious vibes dished on the deadly grind of \u2018The Truth?\u2019, EP SUB ERB N\u2019 KAOS the flipside should come with some kind of MOVING SHADOW hazard warning. Dark. L BATTLE AT THE PLANET Jimbo debuts on Moving Shadow with an EP featuring some of his harshest material PROJECT 5 VOLATILE STATE to date, though fans of his deeper styles may find that there\u2019s little for them here. BIRTH \u2018What Lies Beneath\u2019 and \u2018Highway 5\u2019 both fly out of the trap on a stomping, techno tip, ASSIMILATE \/ GLACIAL while the second plate holds the fierce Amen tracks, \u2018Bring Back The Bongos\u2019 and Originally floating around on white at the ARCANE \u2018The Slice\u2019. If you\u2019re after heavyweight beats then check this out, but followers of end of last year, and somehow slipping previous perfect combinations may feel a little left out. L through the Knowledge net, these are the Average fare here, with brooding sounds first cuts from Garry Jarman and Guy flowing through the intro of \u2018Assimilate\u2019 Cutler on their new Lancaster based label. before the switch into a raucous tech - With Jude Sebastian, AKA Proteus and funk session; meanwhile the more one third of breakbeat act Koma & Bones, experimental \u2018Glacial\u2019 leads with frantic in front of the desk you know the bongos and slinky, sliding bass. L production is gonna be tight; so, if fierce, frantic beats and big, dirty basslines are ZINC \/ HYPE needed, then check this. L CASINO ROYALE \/ DEAD A\u2019S SU8M3RG3D TRUE PLAYAZ 110 \/ OUT OF (REMIX) Sampler to the forthcoming \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019 OHM RESISTANCE album, and while Hype flexes on a down- tempo tip, what you\u2019re gonna be wanting This Washington DC based label has been this for is Zinc\u2019s super slinky \u2018Casino holding its own and gaining a foothold Royale\u2019. Warm funky bass and firm beats Stateside and you can see why with fire the track along, while the freaky vocal releases like this latest from frontman Kurt and wonderfully exotic melody give Gluck (aka SU8M3RG3D). Starting off the track its inimitable character; all com- with odd scattered drum hits, \u2018110\u2019 builds bining to whisk you away from the dark to a frenzy of filtered Amens and over- dancefloor to a sun-drenched paradise, loading bass. Sick beat work throughout, where the baddies have three nipples and interesting cuts and weird effects put this there\u2019s always time for a vodka martini. one so high up on my list. The flip offers up Uplifting and inspirational. L a more straightforward tune which remixes an old downtempo classic. Buzzy TO HEAR & BUY MOST OF THESE REVIEWS (& bass and big lumbering breaks carry this one right out to the \u2018floor. S MORE CURRENT REVIEWS NOT FEATURED HERE) GO TO: www.knowledgemag.co.uk 54 KNOWLEDGE","HIPHOP SINGLES REVIEWED BY: BEN WEAVER & LOPEZ HiphopSingles UNIVERSAL ONRY OZZBORN dialect injecting much charisma. SUPRA SOLDIERS Actually Karizma (fellow Notts MC) VENOM EP guests alongside Midnyte for the trail SILHOUETTES STREET VETERANS EP PART 2 B.S.I. blazing \u2018All Stylz Anthem\u2019 but not TRADE WINDS \/ WINTER SKY TONGUE TIED before the indelible Cappo and Scor- LANDSCAPE Onry Ozzborn is part of the Oldominion Zay-Zee tear lyricists new sphincters War relies on strategy. Attacks are crew who hail from Seattle, Portland on \u2018No Pain No Gain.\u2019 Re-rinsing a Lalo I\u2019m becoming spoilt, I\u2019m sure of it. made in stages. This record is the and Oakland. This EP is his debut break and simultaneously spawning a Another 7 inch from Landscape and second assault in an ongoing battle, release and it\u2019s four cuts deep. First up classic. Those two are killing it right whaddayaknow, if it isn\u2019t some str8 one that shall commence in the London is \u2018Venom.\u2019 Let me begin by stating this now and this is some more of that hard butta ish! Or plainly put, another streets just as soon as a mediocre is the some of the illest US shit I\u2019ve knock biz. Styly reveals his old skool delectable offering from Supra, studio crew comes anywhere near Universal heard of late. Very creative lyrically, roots in the upfront dissfest that is \u2018Filter supremo and cream of the North. There Soldiers Ricochet and Ultra. War with crew members shining and subtle, Out The Weak\u2019 proving that in terms of is some hard work being done up there stories get spat your way and these perhaps even electro influenced pro- beats, rhymes and cuts this guy has at Landscape and this one is all emcees seek heat, so rock camo and duction from Pale Soul. In fact, the further stepped up his whole game. instrumental. Thoughtful composure lie low. Starting where part one left us \u2018snake charmer\u2019 hook sung on this This comes with instrumentals, bonus within three blissful soundscapes. (in a smouldering heap somewhere in harks back to some 80s soul (the good beats and accapellas. Impressive. BW Something to play while letting your the eastern bloc, perhaps) is an all new shit too). Next up is \u2018Immortal.\u2019 This one mind wander. So much thought has \u2018Immortal Combat\u2019 after which some is Onry\u2019s own creation whereby the MICRODISIACS gone into these tracks, this man must obligatory \u2018War Stories\u2019 ensue. Next is option of being undead is discussed on have inspiration plumbed into his lab, the reflective \u2018Street Veterans\u2019 followed a sick break with flutes and strings drift- TOO LATE \/ WHEN THE RAIN STOPS \u2018cause it sounds like he\u2019s got it on tap. by the thunderous \u2018Rotten Apples\u2019. Bad ing in and out the mix. Dope bell chime LANDSCAPE Melodious and crisp, seek it and seeds indeed, club dominating as well. Turn this M.F. over and hear refresh ya spirit. BW production from AH Fly and tight \u2018Lights Out\u2019 it\u2019s unavailable elsewhere An utter gem finds its way to my clutch- uncompromising verses. This is some (not even on Ozzborn\u2019s soon come LP es, a 45 slab of wax from Manchester\u2019s DE LA SOUL John Matrix shit, with uncut machete \u2018Alone\u2019) and features Sole of Anticon largest, the Microdisiacs. Keeping their scenes ya get me?! Commando tactics, fame. Lolloping breaks, personal poet- vinyl assault fast and furious, hard and THRU YA CITY overlook at your peril. BW ics. Very, very tightly executed. Things heavy they manage to spit ill one-liners THE ART OF GETTING JUMPED finish up with \u2018Daredevils\u2019 a suicidal and keep vibes alive and soulful - TOMMY BOY TALIB KWELI journey, to hell maybe. Peep lines like thanks to production overlords Supra & HI-TEK \u2018My chariots of fire bleed blue, the oxy- and Evil Ed. Those motherfuckers are A slice of summertime listening from De gen never touches emotions in my the noughties Bach and Beethoven, La. \u2018Thru Ya City\u2019 is a head nodder, DOWN FOR THE COUNT game of Clue...\u2019 Find this EP. BW believe. Only funkier. Both cuts ooze blessed with the dulcet tones of DV RAWKUS mood, and are lifted by the wit and tidy Alias Khrist on the chorus. The B side STYLY CEE elocution of the crew. Nice. BW gets the most plaudits though. Plug 1 A standout release this, thanks to the A and Dave\u2019s tales of bodily harm over a side version featuring Ty and Black THE CRUSOE EP NOBODY sweet, chopped up Latin rhythm have Twang sparring alongside Mr Kweli. It SON all the ingredients for a Carnival sounds bloody good, go and buy it. SHADES OF ORANGE EP favourite. Effortlessly good records Solid beats from Hi-Tek, very Rawkus. More from the Notts trooper and one CATSKILLS seem a staple of De La Soul\u2019s back Well worthwhile for club rinsage. The half of the Lost Island crew. This time catalogue, this being no exception. L not so interesting Talib solo version is around the workaholic Styly delivers a Nobody is actually a somebody. One included, but lyrically it can\u2019t be faulted. bumper double 12\u201d package and it Elvin Estela in fact. He knows a thing or MARK B & BLADE Content remains as high as we\u2019ve looks like he\u2019s saved us his best work two about making beats too. Part of come to expect from this dude. BW until now. The rhymes come at you LA\u2019s ever flourishing live hip hop scene, YA DON\u2019T SEE THE SIGNS frankly and honestly, with that midlands this man provides a lovely backdrop for WORDPLAY \/ SOURCE 2 Mex to flex on for the A side cut PLATINUM B-BOY STATUS AWARD \u2018Shades Of Orange\u2019. Corking, and Another shrewd move from the UK\u2019s that\u2019s a sentiment only affirmed more biggest hip hop artists. This track was ASPECTS ASPECTS so by Brighton\u2019s Mex (2 Mex and Mex, originally released last year, but with all funny isn\u2019t it) dealing us a remix. An the radio play, I reckon those guys BEST MUSIC PSYCHOBOOGIE 7\u201d unholy break is immortalised here. He\u2019s have done good to drop it again. All a sick man that one. Go on, turn her three versions are heavy duty, uncom- HOMBR\u00c9 HOMBR\u00c9 over and get yer lugs tuned in to \u2018Faces promising and suit Blade\u2019s flow to a Of The Deep\u2019 with Aceyalone. It ain\u2019t tee. But before some over zealous The fruits of Aspects labours are finally blossoming and these singles approach half bad you know. \u2018Sixth Sense\u2019 and sorts get their knickers in a twist, the \u2018Sun Child\u2019 are worthy rap-less excur- contents of this single should be put in the listeners\u2019 senses in a well practised leg sweep to wedgie combo. It\u2019s worth sions to finish. Proper MCs, proper perspective. The focus has to be on the beats. Just bloody marvellous. BW Feeder remix, even though the original the chaffing though as considerable freshness is on each platter. \u2018Best Music\u2019 version and Nappa remix are tasty too. THE PLANETS Having a guitar driven cut is the best is a good old ode to hip hop and gets the remix treatment from 7Stu7 (his debut business move they could make in the GLOBAL present climate of music. I really hope production duties for Aspects) and DJ Vadim. Quite simply a quality release, RED SEA ENT. this single breaks them into Radio 1 A playlist and to the masses who only credits go equally to both the original and rerubs as the production quality is Reaching out, still hot on the heels of know Limp Bizkit & Eminem. Any bitch- the successful \u2018Circle Of Light EP\u2019 is the ing about it (and it\u2019s bound to generate tight throughout. Obsessive crate digging has been noted as a pre-requisite for first single from The Planets \u2018The enough) is lame as it is only a remix, Opening\u2019 LP. The proceedings kick off nothing more, so give it up and wish this level of beatmaking. \u2018Psychoboogie\u2019, on the other hand, laces a twisted with a upfront track, \u2018Set Flames\u2019 them success. Black slaps also to Phi produced by Celph Titled with some Life Cypher for bringing their own banger of a beat under verbal pranks and tales of dancefloor violation spun by sick-as-you-like cuts from DJ Go. special flavour to the table. A quality Confident one liners are the order of single of the highest order. L El Eye, Probe Mantis & Bubbalouie in their own demonic fashion. Crafted into the day. Then comes \u2018Global\u2019 featuring none other than Slug from Atmosphere L FUDGE 7\u201d form it is the bastard child Biz Markie & Joe Ski Love couldn\u2019t hide from the and Musab. An ill combo with a positive message, not to mention some ultra LOVE LETTERS world. Two singles out (don\u2019t forget the LP too) and they\u2019re both Dope with a tight flows. Two mixes of this are here, REMEMBER THE TIME one from Ant another by Winchester; BRICK9000 capital D. This is some of the finest most original hip hop these shores offer. L with deejay\u2019s Go and Yo blazing it up. It\u2019s a thoughtful and original approach Another of the increasing numbers of to the concept, conscious and fresh. Yank indie artists finding a home on this A priority purchase, under or over- side of the Atlantic, L Fudge now ground. BW resides at the Belgian imprint Brick9000. Now I\u2019m not brave enough to straight-up bitch these artists, but the 56 KNOWLEDGE","HiphopSingles content never reaches those levels OC isn\u2019t the man he was, but on the mic DELINQUENT us Europeans seem so willing to & NTENSE REESE he\u2019s still bad so no arguments - that\u2019s HABITS assume all things American naturally \/ STIMULUS the bottom line. His return prompts the reach in the rap world. Maybe this is warm feeling felt when finding a long RETURN OF THE TRES a little exaggeration on my part and WHAT U WANT FROM ME lost blim down the side of the sofa. L ARK 21 dues to L Fudge for consistently DON\u2019T TELL ME turning a good verse out. \u2018Love Letters\u2019 LEGACY 4 LIFE DJ BOMBJACK This must be the follow up to their hit deals with past love over some nice \u2018Tres Equis\u2019 from a few years ago. organ licks that producers make to A double a side from L4L Records FUTUREPROOF EP Delinquent Habits are representing measure for this vibe. On \u2018Remember pushing street level hip hop from New SEVEN RECORDS LA and this single takes equal The Time\u2019 Fudge works through some York City. I get a little confused about measures of Hispanic and traditional more contentious matter with the the marketplace we rap devotees are Not quite a long player, the hip hop gusto to create the vibe. help of Outty Cas and Wil Vill. The gui- part of, when hearing content like this \u2018Futureproof\u2019 EP still has far too many \u2018Return Of The Tre\u2019 is blessed with tar loop is nice and fits well with the that leans more towards commercial cuts on it to be a single. DJ Bombjack a killer Latin horn loop that makes the conspiracy chat. Good material that\u2019s rap (synthed up beats and all), on an provides the mix of skits and b-boy track. The vocals switch between worth a listen and that\u2019s as positive as indie imprint. Anyway, just because it\u2019s instrumentals. A big up has to go to the English and Spanish with ease over I can get. L not to my taste, the 12\u201d holds its own sturdiness of the drums on every track, the beat and, to complete the regardless. Firstly, OC will always get as that\u2019s what makes the whole EP package, there\u2019s a liberal peppering BAS 1 a big thumbs up. This ain\u2019t his best by bump. For a collection of instrumental of cuts all over the beat. It\u2019s those any means, but that extra yard of style songs, I don\u2019t rate some of the horns that qualify it to rock a jam near HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE that seems to be a natural by product melodies and the loops chosen, espe- you. Keep your ears pinned back IT\u2019S A KLASSIK of his verses takes it one step ahead of cially the guitars on \u2018It\u2019s On\u2019. This is my for this on dancefloors soon. L HERATIK the rest. On the B-side Stimulus main- only gripe and Bombjack\u2019s production tains the lyrical standards and check sensibilities have kept everything else CHRIS LOWE Props should be garnered onto Bas 1 the remix of \u2018Don\u2019t Tell Me\u2019 for the sounding lovely. L for this hella good piece of wax. punchiest and nicest beat to grace this THE TREACHEROUS THREE Both sides exhibit a virtuoso display of piece of wax. L RISE ROUND AND ROUND West Coast lyricism. With flows to BRONX SCIENCE go and spitting everything abstractions BIZ MARKIE THE WICKEDEST FLOW to anthems, Bas 1 represents fully NO FAITH From the growing home of hip on the mic. \u2018Highly Effective People\u2019 is TURN THA PARTY OUT BRONX SCIENCE hop, Bronx Science, Chris Lowe my top choice. The beat and bassline SUPERAPPIN drops more no nonsense lyrics for are rough and are topped with a Rise is one member of the soon to be your enjoyment. Both tracks are haunting organ lick. And with his hallu- To get the Biz onto wax is a coup propmasters, the Demigodz crew. Like working hard, but go straight to the cinogen fuelled lyrics, Bas flows all and nothing less. So Superappin his learned friends Apathy and Celph A-side first for a heavy group cut over the beat with finesse. \u2018It\u2019s A deserve a mention for this public Titled, this emcee deals in that straight featuring Sadat X and long lost mem- Klassik\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be taken lightly service. And, more importantly, it\u2019s up NYC type of bragging. With beats ber of Leaders Of The New School, either. Another presentation of next also a very tasty track. Paul Nice is hooked up courtesy of Apathy on the Dinco D. These kind of credentials level bragging over heavy beats is the certainly a shrewd choice as A-side and Celph taking the duties for aren\u2019t to be taken lightly and the order of the day. Mad respect for beatmonger, because without hesita- the flip, the sound is as fresh a take on content from both guests doesn\u2019t dropping a single that works new tion he aims another fatty at your ears. their crews bumping, hungry style as disappoint. The sparse piano on the styles in such a funky way. Go and With a stripped down, funky break you\u2019ll get. Rise gets most busy with his B-side, \u2018Round And Round\u2019 is a much search this out. L chugging the beat along, Biz does flurry of mad battle rhymes on \u2018The better platform for Mr Lowe to do his the honourable thing and drops Wickedest Flow\u2019. Another strong single work though. Another simple, good unadulterated old school nonsense from the Bronx Science stable. L quality slice of US hip hop. L and of course it sounds amazing. Biz KELA JEHST HEAVY ARTILLERY: ALL TERRAIN SERIES ONE HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER JAZZ FUDGE LOW LIFE To add to the sweep of mighty fine UK material that has been assembled this Superior beat box emcee and all round superstar Killa Kela drops a wild 12\u201d of month comes a classic to be. Jehst has pulled all the stops out for this EP and his own. Utilising the mic talents of Boston\u2019s Akrobatik for the title tune, we have drops some of the nicest beats and rhymes of this year. There\u2019s not a weak cut some stripped down, bass heavy vibes not to mention a nifty scratch or two on the record, every track and skit has the toughest drums, but the style of from Plus One. Things get jazzier and more experimental on the flip with \u2018Step production is more melancholy than hype. His choice of breaks has unearthed Then\u2019. It\u2019s a hella smooth groove yo, with The Audio Cooks on the keys some of the most beautiful melodies too. As a wordsmith Jehst does the busi- keeping things soulful. This pushes at the confines of this music, and in short is ness, his turn of phrase and delivery sit comfortably amongst the beats - a nod a bit of a landmark. The most original release out there right now. Watch out for to Ricochet & Tommy Evans as well for turning out two ill guest spots on \u2018The more where this came from. BW Trilogy\u2019. In terms of style, the material runs along similar paths as much of the output from YNR and Lowlife. In comparison it\u2019s got to be said that \u201cHigh Plains Drifter\u201d is the most complete package I\u2019ve heard of late. To summarise, the man deserves props and for this single, props he is most definitely gonna get. L KNOWLEDGE 57","BREAKS SINGLES REVIEWED BY: LURCH BreaksSingles VARIOUS classic rave elements over tuff beats making it and funky dancefloor fodder - OK it\u2019s nothing GROOVY ONION an essential hardball twelve. Also look out for ground breaking but both cuts are smashing it TCR 50: EP\u2019S ONE & TWO the crucial \u2018I Can\u2019t Take It\u2019 on \u2018Botchit Breaks on the floor. If you see it, buy it. MEMPHIS FUNK TCR 4\u2019, another track that fully expresses Si Begg\u2019s CARBON unique take on the dancefloor. PEACEMAKER In case you hadn\u2019t noticed, TCR have reached Featuring four mixes over two 12\u201ds, with two their 50th release and, to celebrate, are releas- LEMON D CRISIS breaks rubs to choose from, \u2018Memphis Funk\u2019 ing two double packs of fresh tunes. The first FAT is a nice and simple, fruity floor tune. Both the holds the deep and rugged beats of \u2018Subsonic\u2019 B-BOY\u2019S REVENGE original and Deep Fried mixes fill the room from Vigi & Flip, \u2018Everybody\u2019 from Silicon Valley R&S Welding a variety of hip-hop breaks (including with friendly vibes, the former laying down the Def Stars and Breakneck\u2019s acidic \u2018Atomic a hefty dose of JVC Force\u2019s finest moment), more powerful strutting beats while latter opts Agent\u2019, but the stand out here has to be Koma This new mix of the awesome \u2018B-Boy\u2019s big beats, funky driving bass and some lively for a more rolling approach. & Bones\u2019 delicately balanced \u2018Morpheus\u2019, a Revenge\u2019 sees Lemon D join the growing acid wiggles, this makes an impact straight dramatic and driving masterpiece that goes ranks of established drum & bass producers away. A no-nonsense, good-times tune. VERONICA down well on a variety of \u2018floors. The following releasing breaks rubs. Rolling with all the ruff, EP features tracks from Rennie Pilgrem & tribal flava of the original jungle lick, this mix B.L.I.M & CHRIS CARTER GIRLS GOTTA HAVE FUN Arthur Baker and, with a nice, bass heavy keeps things stripped back and sparse, URBANSTAR remix of \u2018What I Got\u2019, Dub Marines. Meanwhile, perhaps a little too much for some, but once CHECK IT OUT \/ I ROBOT turning the heat up even further on slate two you get this heavyweight cut in the mix you\u2019ll TRACK Some ruff breakbeat garage mixes here from are the sublime steps of 2 Sinners \u2018Ubiskiboo\u2019 hear just what it can do. Headtop, with the dub mix being the one and Ellis Dee\u2019s particularly saucy \u2018How Do You A lot of interest surrounding this one, as to head for. Moody, but nicely balanced, this Want It\u2019. Not to be missed. TIM WRIGHT B.L.I.M. launches his own label with the highly one runs with sci-fi FX, vocal snippets, crisp sought after collaboration with Chris Carter, \u2018I two step drums, some smooth synth riffs AQUASKY & MASTERBLASTER THE SEARCHER \/ THE WALK Robot\u2019. Wanted by Rennie Pilgrem for TCR, G and a deep, hypnotic bassline. Better than NOVAMUTE chose to keep this one to kick off Track and, the title suggests! KONTROL \/ I STAND TALL once heard, you can understand why. With the PASSENGER This is a right corker here from Tim \u2018Tube Jerk\u2019 killer combination of \u2018I am a robot\u2019 vox, crystal DAHSHEKA Wright. Fusing the best of electro, 2-step, breakbeats and ruff, rolling percussion, alien Resurrected for, I think, the third time, techno and breakbeat on one fantastically fat melody and filthily freaked bass, it\u2019s gonna be BUTTAS Aquasky\u2019s own Passenger imprint hits back 12\u201d, there\u2019s something for everyone here. \u2018The a hard job keeping this one away from the WEA with a couple of double-rood, bass-jacking Walk\u2019 is a filthy slice of breakbeat house, but turntables. The warped, \u2018Check It Out\u2019 is monsters, and if you\u2019re into the beats that it\u2019s \u2018The Searcher\u2019 that\u2019s destined for most equally as essential, laying down some chunky More breakbeat garage flavas, and on this they\u2019ve put through Botchit recently, then don\u2019t regular rotation, with its dirty fusion of crisp break-house moves, which gives this twelve it\u2019s the Sunship vs Chunky mix doin\u2019 hesitate on this. Though not on such a dark skippy beats, raw mid range and gnarly bass twelve that versatile touch. most damage. Trimming the vocal back to the and bruising tip as \u2018777\u2019, these two cuts really all giving it a massive crossover appeal. catchy chorus, a few defining lines and ad hit the mark - blending tight skip-along beats, a WOOKIE libs, this is the mix that will see the rolling bass bounce and dub-house flava on SOUL OF MAN most crossover action, with its backbone \u2018Kontrol\u2019, while the more aggro \u2018I Stand Tall\u2019 BACK UP of winding warp bass and phat selection runs on driving electro-beats, hip-hop flava and KILLA BREW SOUL 2 SOUL of drum breaks. surging bass licks. FINGER LICKIN\u2019 As heard all over Radio One, and featured in VARIOUS MR MAGIC Gearing up for a very busy year, Finger Lickin\u2019 the Dreem Team\u2019s TV campaign, \u2018Back Up\u2019 certainly ain\u2019t messin\u2019 with this first tune for gets a proper release. No doubt the mix you\u2019ll COMIN FROM THA D:BLUEPRINT O\u2019BLEEK INTELLIGENCE EP 2001, as Soul Of Man return to wax with a be most interested in is the Zinc remix, but if (INTUIT-SOLAR) O\u2019BLEEK INTELLIGENCE glorious \u2018Killa Brew\u2019. Head straight to the \u2018Killa you haven\u2019t heard it and are into your vocals, Mix\u2019 for the breaks and prepare yourself for a do check the original, \u2018cos it\u2019s dead good. Something a bit different for this page, but this Two slices of deep and soothing breakbeat stunning blend of old skool vocal hooks, Credibility shattered, we\u2019ll turn to that remix. tech-funk twelve from Detroit is sure to appeal here. The lead cut, \u2018A Deep Thing\u2019 takes a deliciously warm bass and tuff, driving Concentrating on the flamenco guitar riff and to some of you. Electro comes in the shape blissful two-step stance, rolling out on a bed of beat-play, Guaranteed to slay a dancefloor in piano hook, Zinc rips into this track with of Dopplereffekt\u2019s already legendary hypno-bass and off-key atmospheric washes, 64 bars. The progression and structure of this characteristic phat bass and tight, rolling beats, \u2018Pornoactress\u2019 and Keith Tucker\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s Time, making it a quality cut for the warm-up, chill-out track is something to enjoy as well, shifting holding it down on a deeper tip than some of while the furious techno-bass of DJ or even bed-time. The flip gets a little livelier, a mood effortlessly and drawing you deep inside his other bassline grooves and, all in all, Godfather\u2019s \u2018Whatulookinat\u2019 and Aaron Carl\u2019s bit more intricate on the beats, but with the the groove. Sure-fire bizniz. blazing one of his best 138 treks to date. \u2018No No\u2019 are sure to offend yer ma! emphasis still on the smooth, this is an altogether refreshing release. SQUAREPUSHER SCUBA Z SPEC-X-RAY STABILIZER MY RED HOT CAR INSTANT WHIP REVAMPED RAVER WARP ODD PLASTIC RAYGUN PEOPLE COME UP FUNCTIONAL BREAKS Reminiscent of Aphex Twin\u2019s \u2018Windowlicker\u2019 Head straight for the Terminalhead remix here, Break heads will want to head straight for the and taking influence from early jungle, UK or suffer an ugly punch up between B.R.A., minimal electro re-rub from Vandal on this STABILIZER garage, folk and porn, this is a nicely fucked up Carter U.S.M. and E.M.F. Roaming, dubby twelve, while also check the previous Raygun piece of music. Marrying some seriously bruis- breakbeat is what you will find here, while also release from DJ Scissorkicks, \u2018Everyday ELECTROPHOBIC EP ing time-stretched Amen edits, loopy warped worth checking is their remake of Only Thing\u2019, featuring mixes from Phantom Beats BOOMBOX bass, \u2018bad boy\u2019 chants and the lullaby vocal Kismet\u2019s \u2018Game Boy\u2019 on Lemon Groove. and Stabilizer. \u2018I\u2019m gonna fuck you with my red hot cock\u2019, is There are a fair few cuts floating around right probably insight enough for you to make your LONDON ELEKTRICITY now from Sir Stef of Stabilizer, all displaying mind up on this crazy, but classy, record. this man\u2019s considerable musical flair and studio ROUND THE CORNER know-how. \u2018People Come Up\u2019 goes to DJ HYPE HOSPITAL Functional Breaks, a lively acid funkster, and is undoubtedly one of the label\u2019s strongest MENTALLY ILL 2 KILL \/ SHOTS The long-awaited Landslide re-rubs touch down, and with solid plate play from jocks like EZ releases to date. Remixes come from Phantom NAUGHTY and Freq Nasty on the garage and breaks circuits, the buzz around this tune is large to say Beats and Spoon Wizard, but for me it\u2019s the the least. Very funky and ever so fresh, this is soulful breakbeat music at its very best, and original that does it every time. On a different More naughty flava from Hype, with \u2018Mentally perhaps the best version of this track that has been produced to date. Coming with two quite tip, is the breathtaking \u2018Electrophobic EP\u2019 on Ill 2 Kill\u2019 drawing on dark bass and spectral different, though complimentary mixes, these beats are designed to make you feel better. Boombox, this one holding four tracks of deep piano loops. The similar, but more effective, and juicy, melodic electro-breaks, all begging \u2018Shots\u2019 then hits the floor with ragga vox, some for club play, and sure to become and spooky, staccato strings, those trademark essential plate on the united dancefloors of the clattering drums and a mixture of bottom end world. Absolutely top gear. squeeze and demon bass boom. Raw. ORBITAL GOLDSPOT PRODUCTIONS DJ ABSTRACT FUNNY BREAK FFRR BOOZEY \/ IDENTITY CRISIS VEHICLE As you would expect, the first single from Orbital\u2019s new album comes with some serious Crisp, crisp production runs through these two remix pressure. Layo & Bushwacka! turn in rubs, both falling slightly left of centre, as they quality tech-house and mid-tempo beats ver- tread a less-worn path to the dancefloor. sions, but the real bomb for the breakbeat floors \u2018Boozey\u2019 is an infectious percussive number, is the Plump DJs mix. Probably the best of their and once the rockin\u2019 vibrato bass is dropped recent remix bouts, this one takes the ruff funk there\u2019s no stopping this minimal stack shaker. route, rolling out layer upon layer of goodness \u2018Identity Crisis\u2019 then takes the vibe even in the mix and, with plenty of movement deeper, but with true funk running through its throughout the track, no matter how often you nervy, tribal bass and edgy, stuttered beats, hear this, it\u2019s one tune that you won\u2019t tire of. this one\u2019s a real grower. BUCKFUNK 3000 UNKNOWN ARTIST HIGH VOLUME RAW 24 FUEL WHITE Fuel hit us with one of their more direct, No info on this except the Raw 24 etching dancefloors missiles in the shape of this men- around the label, but if the rolling bass & tal cut from Si Begg. \u2018Hi Volume\u2019 is a twisted breakbeat sound is your passion, then you\u2019ve bassline thumper, mashing up a myriad of just got to get a hold of this. Two tracks of tuff 58 KNOWLEDGE","Mp3 Reviews MP3 REVIEWS BY SENSE ICOTEC bassline feel with the tireless beats. In VACIOUS angst ridden atonal synth sweeps fact, the only flaw I could pull from this swim around in the background. The BIRTH OF PION track really is the uninspiring reverse SWORDED remainder of the drums are made up of WWW.MP3.COM\/ICOTEC cymbal use. It\u2019s a bit like using a drum WWW.MP3.COM\/VACIOUS sharp pieces of constructed white roll in trance or house music... i.e. it noise. Beyond the elements, and as \u2018Birth Of The Pion\u2019 is one of those always does the job of \u201cfinishing the bar More dark horror film stylings here. dark as this track is, the bright mix of pieces of music that makes you stop off\u201d but it\u2019s just something that\u2019s been Once again, a very impressive tension the drums gives it an upbeat almost and stand still. Other mundane tasks in done so many times before. All in all, to building intro to the track and the beats contently happy feeling, much the life fall by the wayside and seem totally make an impact on the vinyl d&b scene, and snare all sound a lot sharper and same way that happy hardcore pointless. This is atmospheric drum & these are the kind of tracks new and stand tall in the mix. The bassline has a appeases its fans. Not that it brings a bass of the utmost quality. The feeling upcoming producers should be making, lovely smooth texture to it - it covers smile, more so an evil grin! From an of space, depth and movement is no nonsense floor pounding tracks. both the high-end and the low-end aesthetic point of view, originality is the breath taking. The skills on offer here frequencies and doesn\u2019t sound like it\u2019s key, as the entire piece has been are truly inspirational. The long beauti- MO-SYS been distorted to death but more like written, and not sampled, with careful fully orchestrated intro sets up up for a coaxed into sounding that little bit attention being paid to synthesis. huge blast of beats which at first may COSMIC VOYAGE nastier as it\u2019s been built. An excellent be a little off-putting for the mood you WWW.MP3.COM\/MO-SYS inclusion of some really stand out WAVESHAPER have been put into, but you soon climb hi-hats really add that great Konflict \/ on-board this wonderful journey This tune has nice light pads and a Optical styling to the track. It\u2019s great to SKYLITES through sound. Then we slip back into simplistic sub bassline. The beats here hear the FX haven\u2019t been forgotten WWW.MP3.COM\/WAVESHAPER the swaying enchanting pad lines with roll very smoothly, with a real \u2018live drum- about this time as the tune rolls on and waves of electronica passing overhead. mer\u2019 feel and if these are programmed, on. The more you hear this one, the Although advertised as ambient d&b, then hats off to the skills right here! The more it grows on you. this, in my opinion, is essentially SPOROPHYTE whole track has quite a commercial feel. another 2-step dancefloor piece. Apart from the beats, it\u2019s definitely the CEREBRAL INTEGRATION Slightly darker than previous offerings, MINDFORGE type of track that grows on a listener. this tune benefits from a rather more WWW.MP3.COM\/SPOROPHYTE There\u2019s no real high impact sounds SIMULACRUM complex melodic structure - it sounds apart from the beats and it\u2019s a very WWW.MP3.COM\/CIRECORDINGS like two or three analogue synths are Simplistic bassline stabs are pulled smooth and gentle affair with straight up fighting over who can supply the coolest along by a great sounding pulsing FX synth line leads played and mixed very A mystical swirling type sound gets us bassline - but by some amazing sound which gives the track that nicely. All the different elements of the in the mood and the whole intro build production sleight of hand they never important sci-fi lick. Once again, some track just seem to drop nicely into each up would work wonders for any DJ out get in each other\u2019s way - I wish my experimental percussive elements other (if you understand what I mean!). there. This is one frantic roller with basslines could do that! The magic is feature here and they really give a great manic synth stabs and cool underlying completed by some filter-swept ambient new definition to the track. To say they NOCTURNAL INC. bassline grooves being the main focus pads floating menacingly overhead. sound like spoons being played at throughout. The tune definitely has a breakneck speed may sound a little DIMENSIONS (PHANTASM wicked techno feel to it with a lot of TRANSIENT strange but they have that \u2018plucking\u2019 CONTINUED) different styled arpegs running at sound to them, maybe created by some WWW.MP3.COM\/NOCTURNAL breakneck speed that combine very GYPSONIC kind of flanging effect. Anyway, there\u2019s well with some tight compressed beats WWW.MP3.COM\/TRANSIENT a skill there making the listener think... \u2018Dimensions\u2019 is a fairly experimental and some simple percussion flying \u201chow the hell did he do that?!\u201d It\u2019s d&b track. The beats are of top quality, over head. There are plenty of nicely Right from the beginning I know that I\u2019ll always a great ingredient and shows conjuring that feeling of consistent mad- timed mini-drops and the tune flows like \u2018Gypsonic\u2019. I\u2019m not sure what it is - originality and a fresh approach. Once ness throughout the track, plus there\u2019s ever so well into its different stages the intro is not extravagant in any way; the main bassline kicks in it\u2019s pure some nice innovative arrangement using a nice variety of bassline still, that sustained melody has dancefloor material. This time around going on here too. I particularly like the melodies and those synth stabs just something special. When the beat kicks we have a heavily effected bass guitar mood that the abrupt cuts make to the get rougher and tougher as the tune in, the tune really lifts. Transient man- line which gives that great contrast of whole of the track. Everything is shoots along. There\u2019s nice subtle use ages to get that lovely feel of velocity tech and funk. This one rates alongside stripped away giving a nice feeling of of filtering with the beats in various and relaxation, which is so characteris- anything you will hear from the other big desolation. There\u2019s no build up but places in the tune and it all adds to the tic for atmospheric drum & bass. It has online talents in the same style of say instead a full-on terror attack on the amazing tension created. a little bit of the same feel as \u2018hasty Mobiuz and Cycom. Straight down the listeners brain right from the start. The boom alert\u2019 by mu-ziq. \u2018Gypsonic\u2019 has line skills from this Canadian producer. basslines are pure evil in style, NOKTURNAL so many layers and so much attention morphing and bending and they mix to detail that my rough analysis here will RAN:DOM well with an interesting zip-zapping FX RITUAL not do it justice. Anyway, the beats are sound. I particularly got right into the WWW.MP3.COM\/NOKTURNAL astonishing. It must have taken forever GENERATIONS beats nearer the end of the track. It\u2019s to program them; they are very varied WWW.MP3.COM\/RAN_DOM that \u2018worm break\u2019 that I always love and Not since the likes of Panacea have I and contain an endless stream of it really gets that \u2018head-nod\u2019 element seen someone so accurately capture bleeps, blips, noises and scratches. The \u2018Generations\u2019 is straight-up, minimal going. This one\u2019s a definite wake up call the darker side of drum & bass. Only other sounds also fit very well into the dancefloor business. The atmospherics for any listener. The key to this one\u2019s this time dropping such a brighter song. The melodies are well arranged; are of a \u201cwhispering wind\u201d type sound appeal though is the sad sounding tube sound to the upbeat evil and without all smooth but interesting and they and are blended nicely with a metallic sounds used. They sound like a cross the drama. Cleanly distorted reverse contrast well against the somewhat bell, which gives the track that essential between a sonic beep and a bell being sine waves for bass, and clean 909s at harsh beats. However, I would have depth. More deep sub bass here again chimed, but really slowed-down. double time, this has a bit of amped up liked more low-end in this tune, the bass and this time, it\u2019s joined by a much A great sound though and it\u2019s bounced forward energy yet in such square gets lost in the massive soundscape. more interesting bass lead line. I can around the spectrum very nicely. form. C64 sid chip style distorted acidy here Matrix style programming when blips climb over the top of the mix, and listening to this - that typical Virus bring it all to a crux, while bee swarm KNOWLEDGE 59","ALBUMS REVIEWED BY: RICHARD ARNELL \/ LOPEZ \/ BEN WEAVER Albums DRUM & BASS may anticipate, Hidden Agenda flow with two slabs VARIOUS of mid-tempo breakbeat funk. True to the label\u2019s RAY KEITH musical history, and with a simultaneous display of TUNED IN cerebral sound and dancefloor rhythm, \u2018Platinum CIA ALIEN ENCOUNTER Breaks 3\u2019 reinforces the central position that UFO Metalheadz holds in the drum & bass scene. RA With their sensational debut album, \u2018Advanced\u2019, released last year, Total Science have been \u2018Alien Encounter\u2019 is the second album from Ray VARIOUS amongst the front-runners in applying the fresh Keith on his UFO label, following up 1999\u2019s angles to the original jungle blueprint, and for this \u2018Contact\u2019, which held the original version of the D\u00c9J\u00c0 VU new project have hooked up with some of their dark, vocal anthem \u2018There\u2019s Something Out There\u2019. EBONY contemporaries from back in the day, also enjoy- Lea, the vocalist on that tune, also features on a ing renewed success, along with a batch of number of tracks through this new album, and it\u2019s With the concept for this album hatched well over a dynamic young upstarts. Digital & Spirit deliver a those that have the most impact here: \u2018Show A year ago, and so arguably pre-dating the old skool track each, \u2018Fu Man Chu\u2019 and \u2018Moving Target\u2019, Little Respect\u2019 and \u2018Silly Games\u2019 both of a revival that has swept through the drum & bass before joining forces as Phantom Audio to bring scene, this proto-jungle compilation is a welcome on the awesome sounds of \u2018K2\u2019. Marcus Intalex particularly huge nature. That\u2019s not to say the release. For the seasoned ravers out there, Shy FX & ST Files flip their smooth groove script with the instrumentals pale in comparison, far from it, for takes you on a trip down memory lane, rolling out edgy \u2018305\u2019, while Total Science excel on the there\u2019s \u2018floor ammo a plenty to fire up the darker the tracks that signalled the first flash of a lighter, hardcore sounds of \u2018Kingpin\u2019 and the vocal led drum & bass dancefloors here, while look out for and for the fresh-faced junglists this is an essential \u2018Juicy Fruit\u2019. TeeBee also features with a remix of the tracks \u2018Acid Rock\u2019, \u2018Bypass\u2019 and \u2018Frequency\u2019 history lesson. Of course a number of Shy\u2019s own \u2018Freeze\u2019, and the hotly tipped Futurecut, Invaderz which are only available on the 12\u201d LP sampler. On tracks feature, namely \u2018Original Nuttah\u2019, \u2018This Style\u2019 and Calibre complete the line up. Full up of beats the CD version, \u2018Alien Encounter\u2019 also comes with and \u2018Wolf\u2019, and when put together with bonafide for the dancefloor, and with the second CD put a Ray Keith mix CD; so if the elegantly brutal sound classics like Jo\u2019s \u2018R-Type\u2019, the original \u2018Babylon\u2019, together by DJ Randall, this is another fiery hot of The Terrorist is your flava, don\u2019t sleep on this. RA \u2018Mutant Revisited\u2019 (both the original and Trace drum & bass package for your collection. RA remix), Dextrous\u2019 \u2018Loveable\u2019 and that incredible first VARIOUS release on Juice, \u2018Oh Gosh\u2019, this is a mix that HIP HOP showcases the broad range of flava that made 01.1 jungle what it is, and that\u2019s what makes \u2018D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u2019 ASPECTS MOVING SHADOW so special. RA CORRECT ENGLISH The sixth volume of this budget priced sampler VARIOUS HOMBRE series from Moving Shadow and with \u201801.1\u2019 reverting back to the 99p price tag this is well worth PLAYAZ 4 REAL How often does a hip hop LP come out that\u2019s putting your hand in your pocket for. Featuring 19 TRUE PLAYAZ whole as a package? We all know it\u2019s not tracks from last year, and some of this year\u2019s enough, so to hear \u2018Correct English\u2019 from start to unreleased material, Rob Playford takes you The 20 track deep \u2018Playaz 4 Real\u2019 opus is ready to finish and not have to restrain my trigger finger through the sounds of Technical Itch, Dom & go, and this is certainly one of the finest breakbeat from the skip button is always nice (fuck any talk Roland, Aquasky, Ryme Tyme and Calyx. While for collections this label have put out. All tracks are of vested interests before I start brown nosing Omni Trio fans there\u2019s a real treat, in the shape of brand new and unavailable elsewhere, and with too - credit is given where it\u2019s due). To start with, \u2018First Contact\u2019, taken from the forthcoming \u2018Even this collection touching down with so many different the album flows really nicely. A collection of Angels Cast Shadows\u2019 album. RA styles and flavas (check Pascal\u2019s awesome songs, or an LP that arranges it for you into an ill mid-tempo groove, \u2018Step Up\u2019), it\u2019s an album for all little parcel is no contest. Technically, as a group VARIOUS you beat-freaks out there. Hype, Zinc and Pascal they can hold with the best of them in the UK and obviously feature heavily, bringing their individual further. The beats are super bad. Specify PLATINUM BREAKS 3 musical recipe to the table, while laying down deserves an abstinence medal for so selflessly METALHEADZ enough of those characteristic ganja traits to make devoting the use of his hands to banging out this volume instantly recognisable. Pascal rocks it beats on his MPC. And the break prowess dis- To coincide with their current 12\u201d campaign, hard and funky on \u2018Sky\u2019, and rolls out those played is sickening, with enough variety to stop Metalheadz back up their charge into 2001 with this masterful, deeper moves through \u2018Keep It Real\u2019 and that samey sound less well equipped producers timely compilation. It\u2019s a broad selection of beats, all \u2018Roll Play\u2019. Hype drops the gangsta jazz of \u2018All I suffer from. Nu Balance rocks raw cuts through- previously unavailable, save Goldie\u2019s \u2018Beachdrifta\u2019 Have\u2019 and flows with hip hop flav and deepest bass out much of the album and then there\u2019s the lyrics. and Photek\u2019s \u2018Freeway\u2019, with original label artists on \u2018Situation\u2019; meanwhile to go with the already And please, enough about the West Country turn like Hidden Agenda, Source Direct and Doc Scott classic, \u2018Casino Royale\u2019, Zinc then offers the self- of phrase already, it sounds good. Bubbalouie contributing tracks alongside new recruits, John B explanatory, and simply blazing \u2018174 Trek\u2019. leads the three pronged attack with his smoke and Total Science. Spirit also makes his debut, with Breathing further life into those addictive bleeps damaged style. Then El Eye and Probe Mantis one of the strongest of his recent licks, \u2018Solitaire\u2019, and bass, before turning his hand to the rugged, strike in a pincer movement and display some and it wouldn\u2019t be a \u2018Headz release without an ethereal steps of \u2018Pitcher\u2019 and the stuttered Amen sick lyricism. The word play creates a mine of appearance from his Phantom Audio partner, drive of \u2018Disturbed\u2019. Guest appearances come from quotables and the flows scoot all around the Digital, who hits you with \u2018B-Boyism\u2019 and the Lemon D (ruff), The Outfit (c\u2019mon!), Shimon music. More importantly though, it\u2019s funny and reggae-tinged \u2018Pull Up\u2019. This sinister strain of sound (smooth) and Danny Breaks, on his space-age funky. These two elements elude (or are ignored also runs through another best of late, this time from remix of Pascal\u2019s\u2019 Cool Manoeuvres\u2019, while by) so many artists that when they both come Source Direct, on the spacious and eerie \u2018Dog Fellowship and DJ Red both deliver their own along at once it\u2019s kind of a revelation. There are Style\u2019; Total Science display the darker side of their exquisite vocal styles on \u2018Dark Flower Remedy\u2019 and criticisms, but they\u2019re too minor and anal for print. rhythmic alchemy on \u2018Cube\u2019, while Doc Scott the \u2018Everything Must Change\u2019 remix. Available on What more can I say? An essential piece of hip updates his signature tune in the dramatic guise of double CD and six slate vinyl, this is another hop vinyl. L \u2018Drumz 2000\u2019. The more uplifting, melodic aspect of compilation that you cannot do without. RA the label\u2019s repertoire is taken care of by Sci-Clone, with the long-awaited release of \u2018Everywhere I Go\u2019 and, through the stunning vocal styles of John B\u2019s \u2018Diversify\u2019. Meanwhile, as followers of the Zest label 60 KNOWLEDGE","Albums BROTHER EL in the know who feel their steez, so to speak, will Thang\u2019 to \u2018Gin & Juice\u2019 and so on. The second CD feel this one. Infectious indeed, with catchy rhythms in the set is a pretty bizarre combo of remixes that THROUGH THE CRACKS OF CONCRETE a plenty and a safe as houses formula exercised aren\u2019t as good as the originals and a selection of THE BEAT BANK throughout. Uptempo delivery from Kriminul, very the r&b Death Row put out. Nothing apart from street oriented, almost hip hop standard fare in fact. Tupac\u2019s super diss \u2018Hit \u2018Em Up\u2019 touches the tracks Voicing his innermost thoughts from somewhere in Yet this LP serves punters the fodder they cry out that made the label famous. There\u2019s ample Chi Town comes Brother El. On a spoken word tip, for, although it may be deemed one dimensional, it\u2019s quantity of the good stuff to ensure repeat playing, expect intellect and high brow expression as this deliberate and spotlessly presented. BW though. Possibly the closest to perfect summertime emcee scatters the patter on some ambient tunes. music you\u2019ll hear. L It\u2019s trance like and somewhat enchanting but El still LONE CATALYSTS has his tootsies on the sidewalk with deep issues in VARIOUS mind. \u2018Through The Cracks Of Concrete\u2019 is what HIP HOP the title might suggest; a closer look at life with in B.U.K.A\/GROOVEATTACK SCRATCH VOLUME 1 depth perspective. Exploratory. BW RAWKUS Proculture and big on the whole live performance In conjunction with the Scratch club comes a HI - TEK tip, the Lone Catalysts have made quite a name for compilation of everybody\u2019s favourite hip hop tunes. themselves. It is now time to peep the long player. Shit like Souls Of Mischief \u201893 Til Infinity\u2019 or Original HI - TEKNOLOGY Steeped in hip hop tradition this is filled to the brim Flavor \u2018Can I Get Open\u2019 (still the best argument for RAWKUS with positive vibes. 21 tracks take you on a ride that Jay Z being a good emcee!) How about \u2018Popcorn\u2019 starts in their native Ohio, but soon branches by KMD, good choice that, none too obvious. Finally the man responsible for production on outward to reach heads everywhere. Emcee J There\u2019s old classics from Love Bug Starski and Reflection Eternal, Black Star and a whole heap Sands and beatmonger J Rawls know what they\u2019re Digital Underground, plus modern ones like DJ more gets his first solo joint. Amassing a crew of doing, creating music from the heart and music far Serious & D-Sisive with \u2018Popped.\u2019 It\u2019s a hysterical like-minded individuals has consolidated his sound. removed from the nonsensical drool of many a tune in which the emcee describes various methods And \u2018Hi - Teknology\u2019 is treading well worn ground, peer. It\u2019s energetic and lively, and clearly a and ways to abuse pop stars, physically and men- but Hi - Tek must be comfortable with it as this LP contender for some heavy rotation in the coming tally, but mainly physically. 14 cuts in all. Have it. BW is a confident solo debut. All the long time summer months. Yo, you got props over here! BW associates are present, Talib Kweli, Mos Def and VARIOUS Mood to name three. Surprisingly it is the latter who MALARCHI drop the nicest material. \u2018Breakin\u2019 Bread\u2019 is one of STYLES UPON STYLES 2 the strongest tracks, with Mood lacing lyrical gems FORGOTTEN WORLD STONEGROOVE over a beautiful horn melody. Other contributors GEMTOY These people are the compilation dons and this time worth mentioning are Cormega, Buckshot and they\u2019ve really hit that nail head on. Pure Jonell on a r&b cut. It is musically a very soulful Holding it down for east London, Malarchi has risen underground offerings from the US of A but without album and proves Hi - Teks calibre on the boards. to prominence in his home town over the past year. a wack joint in view. Tracks such as \u2018Nikehead\u2019 from He still loves his jazzy guitars, clipped snares and Here he makes his full length debut and Lexicon grab you instantly, as any trainer obsessive those heavy basslines though. Anyone with a springboards his persona onto the rest of the will agree. It\u2019s specifically an ode to kicks. Next are taste for the jazzier side of rap music should world. Swiftly following up his recent singles, the the sick battle raps of Apathy & Open Mic with Celph definitely take a listen. To those into Kweli or Mos LP showcases the many facets of this artist. With Titled producing \u2018Science Of The Bumrush\u2019. Crazy Def, this is essential. L several thoughts and topics being discussed the illness. Other standout material is present with Louis listener will soon learn they are dealing with an Logic\u2019s \u2018Postal (Workmans Comp)\u2019 an exclusive INSANE MACBETH intelligent human being. It\u2019s a very urban offering detailing the bane that is the day job. Dope. experience, more rap slickness than raw b-boyism, There is a lot of cool shiznit here, too much to go into THE RETARDATION PROJECT but not as shiny as you might imagine. Once you now, but trust me, if you want 12 tracks of quality INSANE RECORDINGS get past the marketing and industry side of the underground, get this record. BW whole package you\u2019ll realise you can\u2019t fault him on Original hip hop heads will be familiar with this artist, the mic. Malarchi raps good, simple and plain. You BREAKS & BEATS Insane Macbeth has been around for well over a won\u2019t find much in the way of turntablism or decade, producing hardcore underground material sampling genius, instead you\u2019ll discover some BADMARSH & SHRI for the devoted. So now, in 2001 and enjoying a straight forward anthems and tough wordplay. This renaissance, what we could use is a reminder of hits home on cuts like \u2018Da Shock\u2019 where our M SIGNS those vibes almost lost these days. Some post spars head to head with Canibus. Who say that UK OUTCASTE Britcore maybe? Nope, sod that media pigeon hole can\u2019t rock?\u2019 There\u2019s a lot here. Hear. BW Dripping with emotion, from the moment the ting and check the line up of guests; Kinetic Effect, melancholic sounds of the title track drop, you feel Grizzly, The Icepick, Sindecut\u2019s Crazy Noddy, VARIOUS that you\u2019re in for something special. And you\u2019d be Shaka Shazzam!, Hunkillbury Finn and new artist right. Featuring the vocals of UK Apachi (this man Ripper. Those who listened in awe to the aforemen- GREATEST HITS can sing!) on the aforementioned cover of the Tenor tioned artistes in the days of way back will rush out DEATH ROW Saw classic, \u2018Signs\u2019, the album, draws influence and get this. Those unfamiliar seeking insight from reggae, latin, folk, hip hop and UK dance cul- should do the same. This LP is void of pretence, it\u2019s A compilation of stone cold classics if ever I saw ture. Moving effortlessly between ruff, uptempo hardcore and cynical but not without laughs and one. The music Death Row has released over the \u2018floor work-outs like \u2018Swarm\u2019 and \u2018Bang\u2019, the deep brings together some of London\u2019s most past ten years has tipped the scales of good and and organic sounds of \u2018Day By Day\u2019 and \u2018Sajaana\u2019, accomplished acts all under the one umbrella. BW bad quality. And maybe unintentionally, this being and the sensuous, soundscape of \u2018Appa\u2019, this is an an honest depiction, shows both extremes of the album of exceptional quality. Breaking down JIGMASTAS label\u2019s roster. The music Dr Dre and co. barriers, and with such beautiful music throughout, championed is some of the low-down dirtiest hip this is an album that you must get involved with. RA INFECTIOUS hop you will have the pleasure to hear. If you get LANDSPEED the CD, stick with the first disc. The track listing is a KNOWLEDGE 61 roll call of undisputed hits, from \u2018Nuthin\u2019 But A G If you\u2019re after some polished NY hip hop look no further. Jigmastas Spinna and Kriminul have been gathering props globally over recent years, so those","Decksterity )) MIX TAPE COMPETITION Origin Unknown and Total Science forms a better description fits the bill, give him a call now while you foundation than ever before for a new breed of DJ - can! The mix opens with a sample and Jurassic Five Word up people, here we go again with this issue\u2019s the drum & bass turntablist, one who uses innovative instrumental, before long the intro of Omni Trio\u2019s \u2018Nu mix-tape winners. Plenty of badness in the mailbag mixes to elevate the drum & bass experience. Birth\u2019 drops in the mix, and as the beat eventually this month, so big up all those who submitted... the drops on that, Gracie brings in the J5 acapella. That\u2019s standard (and number) of entries has been steadily The science of turntablism has become incredibly a good example of the kind of advanced mixing I\u2019m climbing over the last few months. We\u2019re still refined in recent years, and this shines a light for a talking about, it\u2019s all very effective and holds well in inundated with d&b mixes though, so breakbeat and new way of elevating d&b in the mix using the mix with solid scratch patterns and good timing. hip hop heads around the world - get your shit custom-planned tricks with sound FX, soundtracks, The body of the mix consists of tracks from London together and hook up with us. Feedback on 99% of acapellas, hip hop tracks with the EQ tweaked, Elektricity, Marcus Intalex, Nookie, John B and the tapes \/ CDs submitted can be found by contact- lyrical wordplay (i.e. selecting meaningful lyrics to cut Kosheen, so there are plenty of vocals there already, ing the impartial Knowledge mix-tape advisor - the into the mix)... not to mention taking advantage of but Gracie deftly fits the various acapellas and Rogue ([email protected]); whether that aforementioned d&b production quality, and samples around these to create a jazz-tinged musical you get a slating or props, there will always be scratching fuck out of the riff on the latest Dillinja tapestry. Original stuff, well executed - nice one. some useful advice. track. It\u2019s an exciting new take on d&b, it tears up the clubs when it\u2019s done right, and the potential for OVERSEAS WINNER There\u2019s only two winners this month, so before they original ideas when mixing two or more musical get their dues, it\u2019s time for a few words about the genres is infinite. I also think it\u2019s worthy of more NAME: JAN FORSANS convergence of drum & bass and hip hop turntablism coverage, but first I want to know what YOU think... DJ NAME: DUST in the DJ arena. It\u2019s a minor phenomenon in the whole if enough people are interested in this, then I\u2019ll do HOMETOWN: PARIS, FRANCE scheme of things, with the only major-league players something about it, simple as that. E-mails to the DJING FOR: 4 YEARS being DJs Craze and Marky - but it\u2019s certainly rogue as usual, please... watch this space. CONTACT: [email protected] popular on the underground (bedroom) mix-tape (France+) 06810 24258 scene, so here\u2019s a bit of history on the subject. And now for the winning mix tapes! DJ Dust claims the overseas trophy this issue, coming The rawness of hip hop has always had a presence UK WINNER through with a weighty selection of exceptionally well in the prehistory of old skool and jungle production - mixed, rock-hard d&b. Formerly a breakbeat DJ with after Shut up and Dance and Silver Bullet came the NAME: DAVE CLARK production credits, Dust\u2019s style has evolved into jungle scratching, time-stretched breaks and sped-up DJ NAME: GRACIE over the last few years; indeed he will soon be samples of 2 Bad Mice, DJ Hype, Sonz Of A Loop Da HOMETOWN: NOTTINGHAM releasing a remix of a track by German artist Cycom Loop Era and Acen. Circa \u201894 we saw the establish- DJING FOR: 4 YEARS on his own label, we\u2019ll keep you posted on that. ment of d&b as a music running at a standard 160- CONTACT: [email protected] Claiming that this is his first ever mix-tape (surely not), 165 bpm tempo, with it coming the opportunity for mobile 07780 703103 the overall professional quality does tend to suggest sampling 85 bpm hip hop vocals and instrumental that you\u2019ll be hearing more from this guy either in per- hooks. A honeymoon period ensued - we all As if to prove the point I made before, a UK mix tape son or on vinyl. A nicely mac\u2019d up tape inlay informs us remember \u2018Super Sharp Shooter\u2019 and \u2018This Style\u2019 has arrived that successfully blends drum & bass with that the tape is packed full of slick darkness and old being superb examples of the success of this genre... hip hop sensibilities. DJ Gracie (apparently a Gracie is skool vibes from the likes of Ed Rush & Optical, In the last four years, however, we\u2019ve seen d&b cast a type of Brazilian martial artist.... fe real...) admits to Renegade Hardware, Substance, Bad Company and aside the use of obvious sampling and define itself as not having had that much real club experience - his Digital. The mixing is faultless and there are some a distinct, credible musical genre. Nowadays, the time has been spent refining his style to \u201ctry and give devastating roll outs scattered throughout, what else benchmark production standards evident within myself a more individual sound\u201d - well, it was worth it. can I say? Check this guy if you can. And apologies to material from artists as diverse as Digital, Kosheen, As of September, Gracie will be in Australia for six Jan, I found your letter and yes, your English is much months, so if you\u2019re looking for a DJ and this better than my French. Quelle surprise. 64 KNOWLEDGE","Decksterity If you would like to enter the mix-tape competition, TRAKTOR speak, means that it\u2019s the place to go to check then go to www.knowledgemag.co.uk where you will out all the newest turntables and mixers, and find a full run-down of the competition rules; plus the Following such award winning software products as actually get your hands on them! Now in its 24th list of the previous winners and their contact details. Reaktor and the B4, the next from Native year, PLASA 2001 will feature many of the attrac- Instruments Berlin is Traktor, the first fully profes- tions that contributed to last year\u2019s success, BEDROOM BEDLAM sional DJ software. Integrating two high-quality including the Gemini sponsored DJ Competition players and play list section, Traktor comes with an and The PLASA Technology Gallery, that houses In a postscript to our own Mix-Tape Competition, a intuitive visual interface that gives you a real time, all the latest new products entered into the brand new site, www.bedroombedlam.com, has waveform display for both decks, allowing you PLASA Product Awards For Excellence. Keep recently appeared on the net dedicated solely to the advance inspection of audio material and graphical- checking Decksterity for further information on bedroom DJ. One of the main features of the site is ly showing cue points, that can be re-positioned by PLASA 2001, nearer the time. that it invites users to upload their DJ mixes and dragging the mouse. Elsewhere you have pitch con- review those done by others. Elsewhere there\u2019s the trol of +\/-35%, automatic beat matcher, filter section FABRIC usual range of message boards and forums, review and digital scratch feature, while the DJ mixer on sections, and web links to record labels, gear dealers Traktor even boasts a 3-band EQ and kill switches Eighteen months after the club opened, Fabric and manufacturers; while future plans include the for each deck, curve control, auto-fade, punch, have commissioned loudspeaker manufacturers hosting of online mixing contests, and producing loca- boost and mute buttons! You can set multiple cue Martin Audio to supply a new sound reinforcement tion specific content, so that promoters for new club points and create beat-accurate loops on the fly; system in two of its rooms. The full system upgrade nights can get in contact with the best untapped tal- while, as well as supporting WAVs and MP3s, was initially spurred by a demonstration of Martin\u2019s ent in their area. Traktor can also mix files directly from an audio CD. DJ monitors and following that, the remit expanded Indeed, the full version of Traktor comes with a to incorporate the entire club system. Martin RED SOUND CYCLOOPS selection of over 70 tracks and mixes from such rep- Audio\u2019s Richie Rowley was delighted to begin utable labels as Moving Shadow, Warp, Precision structuring the system with Fabric\u2019s technical man- Red Sound, the company that brought you the incred- and Blue Room. ager Dave Parry and his team, after Fabric\u2019s owner ible Infader mixer, has recently unveiled another rev- Keith Reilly had personally put the trial system olutionary DJ product. Billed as the world\u2019s first, easy To find out more about Traktor go to www.native- through its paces. \u201cWhen we put the system on to use, DJ loop sampler, Cycloops could soon bring instruments.com, where you can find the full techni- trial, this guy turned up with a bag of records,\u201d cutting edge to your DJ set up. Combining Red cal specifications as well as being able to download explains Richie. \u201cHe stood at the decks for four Sound\u2019s V2 BPM engine and another patented inven- a demo version. hours, mixing solidly, then stuck his thumb up and tion, \u2018cyclic sampling\u2019, Cycloops can create instant left. I assumed he was a DJ, though it turned out loops that cycle continuously in synchronisation with PLASA 2001 to be Keith Reilly himself.\u201d each other and the original music source. Pre-set sample lengths are available at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 Although it might seem a little premature, here The Charterhouse Street venue plays host to one beats, while all loops can be recorded on the fly, and comes your early warning of the dates for PLASA of the most cutting edge breakbeat nights currently then played back at the press of a button. Thereby 2001, this year running from 9-12 September at on offer in London, Fabric Live. Incorporating three allowing DJs to record and playback any combination Earls Court Exhibition Centre. With over 89% of the rooms of drum & bass, breakbeat and hip hop of the loop samples in sync with the original track, and available stand space already sold, and all the every Friday; the new sound system will bear wit- build up a spontaneous remix during a live perform- leading manufacturers booked into the show, ness to beats from the True Playaz squad, the ance. Red Sound Cycloops will be available very PLASA 2001 look set to build on the 13,000 visitors Valve axis, plus the V and Full Cycle crews. If soon, with a suggested UK retail price of \u00a3275. For that came through the doors at last year\u2019s show. you\u2019ve yet to get down there, then now is the time. more info go to www.redsound.com, while look out For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of For listings and general club info, go to: for a full review of Cycloops in next issue\u2019s PLASA, it is one of the leading trade shows for the www.fabriclondon.com Decksterity. entertainment technology sector; which, in street- KNOWLEDGE 65","Soundbwoy SOUNDBWOY LABORATORY elements. Using more units will give you more knobs and more Freeze lets you select a 3-second sample from an audio control over sounds, however do you like the sounds in these source and create up to 32 loops within that 3-second Send your questions to: units? I suggest you listen carefully and buy more based on sample. You control the number of simultaneous loops, [email protected] what you hear because that defines what sound you will have. timing of the replay, duration and synchronisation of loops, There are good digital units like the EMU extreme lead around and the speed of replay. SOUNDBWOY, as well, which works like a synth. So, I reckon you get down I have a copy of Cubase VST but not a clue how to use it, I your local store and use your ears. Delays features a group of up to 128 variable delays, each don\u2019t have a sampler but I\u2019m thinking of getting one very with separate control of amplitude and timing. In the stereo soon. The thing is I\u2019ve just seen your review of the computer SOUNDBWOY, version of this plug-in, the delays are assigned alternately to based Reason software and I want to know should I just get I\u2019m from Cape Town, South Africa. Could you please tell me the left and right channels. a sampler for Cubase (and if so which one with drum & bass what fairly cheap equipment I could use to produce some in mind) and continue down this path, or does it make more decent tracks. I have used Acid, Fruity loops and Orion but they It allows user settings to be assigned to one button in order sense to get hold of a copy of Reason? are never enough and they can\u2019t get as technical as I\u2019d like to that the settings from the one pre-set morph smoothly be. Is MIDI the best thing to use? I\u2019ve also begun saving for a over into the other! Complex parameter mixes allowing If you get a copy of Reason you\u2019ll have a software sampler Roland MC505 which I believe should get me rolling. Another sensational sound movements are created in no time at all. within Reason as well as synths, drum machine, Dr Rex, question I have is that I am not a DJ so how do I get my tracks effect units , mixing desk and a wickedly simple but effective out there? Do you come across many producers who are not Price: \u00a3149.99 including VAT sequencer. In fact, you\u2019ll have everything except any audio DJs and if so, how do they do it? Forgive me if I sound a bit recording or arrangement. That\u2019s where Cubase VST could naive but this is stuff I need to know. WALDORF COMES BACK come in, with audio along with all of its plug-ins and Maddin WITH AN \u201cATTACK\u201d instruments. Both can be run simultaneously. That\u2019s a good enough reason to get Reason (\u00a3299) plus you get 500 MB of Firstly, there are so many wicked virtual instruments on the Steinberg presents Waldorf Attack, a percussion synthesiser wicked sounds. As for getting a sampler there are many on computer based Cubase VST and Logic platforms that I would that works as a VST Instrument for both PC and Mac the market, but I\u2019d say get an Akai s3000xl (\u00a3750) or s5000 recommend going down this route initially, as hardware units platforms. It seamlessly integrates the sound of 80s (\u00a31050) or s6000 (\u00a31699), there are also the Yamaha A5000 tend to bring there own limitations and complexities and you analogue classics and electric club drums of the 90s into the (\u00a3800) or Roland VP9000 (\u00a31649) depending on your finan- can quickly get bored with them. Software on the other hand VST system of the 21st century. cial situation. But in your case I\u2019d say get Reason and learn can be updated and you can have as many units as you want! how to use it with Cubase and get writing some future beats. Recommended software: Logic or Cubase, Reason, Pro-52, Waldorf Attack has 24 sounds available per percussion set, Mercury-1, ES-1, ESX-24. A combination of these would far spread over two octaves. Two oscillators, each with nine SOUNDBWOY, surpass a MC505. As for getting your tracks out, like most waveforms, represent the sources. In addition to the popular I am a complete amateur. I have never been around a studio, producers in the scene you\u2019ll probably have to start your own analogue waveforms, Waldorf Attack offers three samples to so subsequently I have no clue how to make hip hop. All I label initially to get your tracks noticed and played, then create hi-hat or crash cymbals. Ring Modulation and know is that I love listening to the music and I would enjoy possibly released on established labels, but there is no easy Frequency Modulation expand the sound spectrum with a making my own music as a hobby. Where should I start and road (unless you immediately come up with a bomb track!). The Metallic component and FX sounds. how much money am I looking at to have my own system? only route is hard work and perseverance. The drum & bass Joe nation wasn\u2019t built in a day. Well, forget the studio and go get yourself a phat computer NEWS Waldorf Attack contains a filter section with six filter types, and some software, ie Logic Audio, Cubase VST or Reason resonance up to self-oscillation and an overdrive up to and get playing. GET TOOLED UP! +52dB. The two envelopes are used to alter oscillator pitches and FM amount, filter cut-off and the output volume. SOUNDBWOY, GRM Tools, Volume 2 offers a new collection of audio effects for Two modulation delays and eight outputs (two stereo, four I need some serious assistance, I\u2019m buying some synth(s) both Mac and PC, complementing the first volume. There is no mono) connect Attack to the VST world. Seamless and I don\u2019t know what to do. Here\u2019s the deal: I have roughly doubt that Volume 2 will also play an important part in dance, integration into the VST 2.0 interface means all parameters $1200 (US) and I can either buy a multitimbral polyphonic electronic and experimental music productions, jingle and to be addressed via MIDI controller allowing for more power- doodad like the Access Virus, or single monophonic trinkets broadcast effect creations. ful dynamic changes. like a Pulse Plus or Elecktron Sidstation. If I go with the latter, I can buy 2-3 of these... I just don\u2019t know which is a Reson consists of up to 128 resonant high-pass, low-pass or Moreover, twelve sounds of a drum set can be played better option. I want the ability to make serious unheard of band-reject filters, each of which resonates a single frequency melodically, so that tom fills, conga grooves and other type sounds but right now my digital audio is not cutting it. If and produces an ensemble of very soft resonances in an input percussions can be created within no time. You can also you have an tips, suggestions or guidance, it would be signal. So, a drum loop for example, may take over a melodic play bass, melody or sequencer lines. With the sound greatly appreciated! component of your song, if you wish. quality that Waldorf has achieved with Attack, they prove Jason once again that software sound modules can rival their Doppler simulates the effect of a sound moving towards or away hardware equivalents. If you want to \u201cmake serious unheard of type sounds\u201d you from you. The best example of this is the variation in sound you need versatility. Ask yourself this question - do you want hear when an ambulance approaches and passes by. It can Attack should be out now. more knobs or less knobs? Multi-mode type kit usually also obtain a wide variety of unusual effects by manipulating the Retail price of \u00a3109.99 (inc VAT) means small screen twiddling and less control over individual 2-Dimensional Potentiometer in unconventional ways. 66 KNOWLEDGE","PLUG IN YOUR BATTERY NEXT ISSUE: Native Instruments has created a professional drum sampler which is incredibly easy to use. With separate sound parameters for 54 instruments, powerful modulation capabilities, ON SALE MID JUNE Battery is fast, effective and convenient. STILL ONLY \u00a32.95 Battery runs on Mac and PC platforms, either as a stand alone application or as a plug-in. WITH A FREE It also has access to the world\u2019s biggest sound libraries as it is compatible with many sample BETA RECS formats such as AKAI, SF2, LM4, AIFF, WAV and MAP. Not to mention the 20 high quality CD MIXED BY sound sets already included. JOHN B Battery can play 54 instruments at any one time creating a state of the art percussion PLUS FEATURES ON programming environment. The matrix and its intuitive drag and drop functionality are an enormous time saver when arranging samples. Sounds from different sounds-sets can be MC MOOSE, compared with relative ease and combined in to new sounds-sets without the hassle of FELLOWSHIP, re-adjusting any parameters, as they are calculated and immediately shown in the \u2018Wave BOTCHIT & Display\u2019 in real time. SCARPER AND LOTS Every sample slot features six modulation routings which include many useful and drum- MORE\u2026 oriented settings that have already been configured as presets. Each sample slot has a unique FX Loop that can be used to create modern, innovative and rhythmic sound effects, akin to extreme time stretching or granular synthesis. Up to three banks in LM4 format can be imported and used at a time, while AKAI sounds can be read directly from CD. Battery is out now with a retail price of \u00a399.99 (inc VAT). SOFTWARE M-TRON (G-FORCE) This plug-in instrument for VST\/Logic platforms is a recreation of the mellotron keyboard from the 60s, famously used on \u2018Strawberry Fields Forever\u2019 by The Beatles. This keyboard was a kind of mechanical sampler using real tape loops assigned to a keyboard playing samples of real instruments like flutes and strings. Because of the technological limitations this rudimentary sampler had a sound all its own that has now been recreated in the virtual world. This gives instant access to all those lovely old sounds and loops! Yes, there are even some live loops for each key change (very retro!). The nicest sound here are the vibes, the scariest I\u2019ve ever heard. The flutes and strings sound very good in a mellotron type of way! This instrument gives you the classic mellotron sound for a new generation. There are very few controls except for selecting sound bank, a volume and tone control. The tone control is quite interesting - it sounds a bit like a filter and has a very warm sound. The M-Tron is a must for retro enthusiasts and at this price definitely worth a look. SAMPLE CDS MONSTER BEATS (ZERO G) AUDIO CD PLUS WAV CD-ROM. This is a collection of live drumming by Chris Whitton teamed with producer Peter Henderson. There are 90 different breaks on this CD ranging from 64 to 148 bpm so it\u2019s quite well spread. These boys aimed to create \u2018something quirky and inspirational\u2019. They\u2019ve recorded the excellent drumming loops with edits and created various EQ-ed and effected loops to keep it interesting. What you get is a load of pop\/rock type live drumming with some off-key produc- tion to create some original sounding drums. Each loop has more than one EQ treatment plus dry, ambient and ultra radical processed versions. The results are excellent with sharp, clean drums alongside phat break loops and electro effected drums, there is a very broad range here. The main styles of drumming here is rock, funk, fusion and alternative grooves. The CD- Rom contains all the drum loops ready for importing plus extra loop and fill samples. RIZING DRUM & BASS This new drum & bass CD has 30 construction kits plus parts. What this means is that you get loads of parts, drums, basses, sounds and FX. All the parts you need for making your own tracks. You might like the hats in one part and a bass from another. Tempos range from 165 bpm to 180 bpm. There are loads for good drums and breaks plus percussion parts. The sounds tend to be on the techno side and I\u2019d say this sample CD veers toward the dark side of drum & bass. There are loads of hard drums and acidic basslines and techno FX so it will appeal to hardcore fans. Some of the construction kits sound like they could be tracks with a bit of work. As a straight drum & bass loops resource this is worth getting, but the sounds are a little limited. The end of the CD gives you individual basses, kicks, snares, hats, percussion, FX plus bonus samples from Trouble On Vinyl Records.","Dancefloor1 HARD EDGE DJ Dex and resident Cookie whip up the AT THE CAVERN CLUB crowd so much that by the time Hype walks EXETER on stage the dancefloor is more like a mosh pit than anything else. 300 nutters are chant- This is what a drum & bass night should be ing \u201cHype, Hype, Hype\u201d from the beginning of like. As I descend the steps into the venue the his hour and a half set through to the end, bass is so ferocious it makes my teeth rattle. and every fresh mix raises a cheer from the A blast of hot air greets me as I open the crowd. At some point during the pandemoni- door, the combination of 300 sweaty, excited um that ensues, the barrier in front of the bodies crammed into a small underground stage gets ripped down, not that it makes club. The Cavern Club was originally a pre- much difference because the DJ couldn\u2019t get dominantly live punk venue, but it\u2019s now one much closer to the crowd unless he was on of the most respected music venues in the UK the dancefloor himself. The atmosphere is attracting some of the finest DJs and bands absolutely electric. Even the MC had to go to from across the country. Hard Edge, the reg- the bar for a couple brandies to get his head ular drum & bass night, has been going for together. four years now and attracts people from all over the South West. Tonight it is predictably By the end of the night, my ears are ringing rammed. There is a busload down from the and my stomach feels like it\u2019s been in a Midlands and people have come from as far cement mixer for the last couple of hours. away as London just to see Hype. In compar- People leaving the club look slightly dazed, ison with most venues the Cavern is tiny, but but are grinning like loons. An absolutely it is no wonder that DJs are willing to travel superb night. five or six hours to play here. It\u2019s intimate and intense, the crowd are friendly and up-for-it Words: Becky Moran Photos: David Goodchild plus the music is right in your face \u2013 there is no escaping it - and people are here simply because they love it. fridays CHEW THE FAT FX, MC Skibadee, MC Det, MC IC3, MC GOIN' OFF Shabba + special weekly guests such as THE BASS AT BUG BAR, ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, Ray Keith, Mickey Finn, JJ Frost, Kenny AT VAULTZ, BRISTOL TRAP SESSION BRIXTON, LONDON, Ken, Nicky Blackmarket + MCs 9pm-2am. \u00a33 b4 11 with flyer\/\u00a35 after. Free. 7pm-2am. Info: 0207 738 Navigator, Moose & Fearless Weekly. 12 May: Masterchef & AT BAMBOO, SOUTH BRIDGE, 3184\/07776 215 180. 11 May: Wildlife Riski Bizniz, Techunique, Ba$h EDINBURGH. Display Crew; 18 May: Klaus, Atomic FABRIC LIVE Money; 19 May: Wilson & Burns, Little 9pm-1am. Weekly hip hop, broken Hooligan, Soto; 25 May: Lee Coombs. Muchacha; 26 May: Leather Apron, beats, 2-step, breaks and drum & bass Resident: Paul Arnold AT FABRIC, 77A CHARTERHOUSE Awkward, Azlan with resident G-Mac. 11 May: Felix; 18 STREET, LONDON EC1. May: Queenie; 25 May: DJ Kid COCOSHEBEEN HARD EDGE 10pm-5am. \u00a312\/\u00a310. Info: 020 7336 BASSHEADS AT URBAN, FIRVALE ROAD, 8898. 11 May: Talvin Singh, James AT THE CAVERN CLUB, BOURNEMOUTH. Lavelle, Deadly Avenger. Room 2: 83\/4 QUEEN ST AT THE MATRIX 9pm-3am. \u00a310adv. Info: 01202 555129. Dillinja, Lemon D, Jumping Jack Frost, EXETER, DEVON. LONDON ST., READING. Weekly. Residents: Orbit, Aquasky, Danny C, MC Rodney P & MC Fats. Fortnightly. 9pm-2am. \u00a33.50\/\u00a35. 11 Last Fri. every month. 9pm-4am. Element, Deep, Shaftie, Carlos, MC Manic Room 3: Ross Allen, Ali B; 18 May: May: Nicky Blackmarket; 25 May: J \u00a310\/\u00a38 NUS. Info: 07971 970703. 25 UNKLE (DJ set), Scratch Perverts, Adam Majik & Futurebound; 8 Jun: Ed Rush; May: Emission - Grooverider (tbc), DJ COUNTER CULTURE Freeland, Touche. Room 2: Krust, DJ 22 Jun: Andy C. Resident: Cookie Craze, Usual Suspects, Future Cut, Die, DJ Marky, Bryan Gee, Storm, MC Panic, MC Trip, Chickaboo. South AT THE OCEAN ROOMS Dynamite. Room 3: Ali B; 25 May: DJ HOMBU bound - DJ Craze, 2-Co, Hoopa; 29 1 MORLEY ST, BRIGHTON. Hype, Zinc, Pascal, Mickey Finn, Randall, Jun: Micky Finn, Swan-E, Randall, 10pm-2.20am \u00a36\/\u00a35 concs. Info: 01273 Frenzic + MCs GQ, Fats & Rage. Room AT LAS IGUNAS Nicky Blackmarket, Illusion, MC Trip, 608886. Sophisticated beat variance 2: Richard Fearless, James Lavelle, The MILL LANE, CARDIFF. Wong. South Bound - Rodney P, 2- from Fat City\/Grand Central. 25 May: Psychonauts. Room 3: Ross Clarke; 8 Free. Weekly hip hop, new wave breaks CO, Frenic, Hoopa. Cryonix Martin Brew, Nextmen & AS-IF; 22 Jun: Jun: UNKLE (DJ Set), Howie B (live), & deep tech house with residents: DJ Mark Rae, As-If and Henry Smithson Scratch Perverts, Touche, Tayo. Room Sek, Matt Jarvis & Neil Hinchley, JJ BEATZ & BOBZ 2: Dillinja, Lemon D, Danny C, MC Smoothie & DJ Drop DRIVE BY Rodney P & MC Fats; 15 Jun: Badmarsh AT THE CAVERN CLUB & Shri (live), Adam Freeland, Mr Scruff, HOMEGROWN 83-84 QUEEN ST, EXETER. AT CREATION James Lavelle. Room 2: Krust, DJ Die, 9pm-1am. \u00a34\/\u00a35. Info: 01392 420580. 13-21 BALDWIN ST, BRISTOL. Bryan Gee, Jumping Jack Frost, Ed AT THE WAREHOUSE 1 Jun: Cut La Roc, Darren Chapman, 10pm-4am. \u00a38 with flyer b4 11pm\/\u00a310. 8 Rush, Frenzic. Room 3 - Luke Vibert; 22 NORTH ROAD, LANCASTER. Bitesize; 29 Jun: Dominic B (Stanton Jun: Grooverider, Fabio, Ed Rush, Jun: Stanton Warriors, Dub Marines, 10pm-2am. \u00a34. Fortnightly. Residents: Warriors), Darren Chapman, Ben & Optical, Hype, Marly Marl, MC Fats James Lavelle. Room 2: Grooverider, Sub, Erb \u2018N Kaos, Lady D, DJ Wild, Lex Fabio, Bad Company, Optical, DJ SS, Scope, Gez, Jozza, Shifty & Jay B DRIVE BY MC Moose, MC GQ BITING BACK KILLIMANJARO AT THEKLA, THE GROVE, BRISTOL. FIRSTLIGHT AT THE OCEAN ROOMS 10pm-4am. \u00a36 B4 11\/\u00a38. 0117 929 AT FLUID 1 MORLEY ST, BRIGHTON. 3301. Fortnightly. Residents: Gerard, AT GENERATION X 40 CHARTERHOUSE ST 10pm-2.30am \u00a36\/\u00a35 concs. Info: Ramjack, Lurch, MCs Foxy & Risky NEW WAKEFIELD ST, MANCHESTER. FARRINGDON, EC1. 01273 608886.18 May: Red Snapper, 10pm-3am. \u00a37 adv\/\u00a38. 12 May: Cash 9pm-2am. Free b4 10pm\/\u00a33. 11 May: L; Sonic Boo; 1 Jun: Aphrodite. DUST Money, Iain Taylor, Alix Walker 18 May: Ben Wilcox; 25 May: L. Residents: Cut La Roc and Krafty Kuts Resident: Orson AT THE BASSMENT, FUEL BULLITT MERRION CENTRE, LEEDS. LIFE 10pm-2.30pm. \u00a33.50. Info: 0780 AT WATERFRONT, KING ST, NORWICH. AT DOGSTAR 3204045. Weekly hip hop and drum & 10pm-4am. \u00a39\/11. Info: 07810 562 AT DANCE ACADEMY, PLYMOUTH. 389 COLDHARBOUR LANE bass from residents Dr Dust & Zak 534\/01603 50 80 50. 11 May: Bryan 10pm-5am. \u00a312\/\u00a311. 07769680169 \/ BRIXTON LONDON. Gee, Ray Keith, Simon \u2018Bassline\u2019 Smith, www.life.uk.com. 11 May: Kosheen, 9pm-2.30am. \u00a35. Info:0207 740 6677. E.N.V.Y. MC Skibadee, Barrington, Jay Blaze, Ray Keith, Mampi Swift, Decoder B2B Weekly hip hop with residents Sahin Wax Magic. Room 2 - Mr Thing, Substance, Brackbeat Heroes feat. DJ Dellemann, DJ Vadim & Andy Smith. AT THE AZTECH LOUNGE, 415 Chrome, Just One Rapid & Gem, Quest MCs (Money, 11 May: DJ Skitz, MC Rodney P, MC TOTTENHAM HIGH RD, LONDON, N17. Sweat Pea, Slix). Arena 2: Scratch Honey Brown \u00a310 ladies \/ \u00a37 B4 12am. Starting 11 Perverts, Freak Easy, Kwesi, Plug, May and every week thereafter. Info: Sharp, Blueprint 0956 111833 \/ 0208 806 2700. Residents: Hype, Brockie, Swift, Shy KNOWLEDGE 69","Dancefloor2 NIDGE & PRASH cos it was such a big scale. We were ARE THE BASSHEADS going from a 500 to 1500 capacity. We WEST OF LONDON... want to promote music with a certain level of atmosphere. A lot of the nights GIMME THE BASS... in Reading before Bassheads brought We were running a Reading night with them a lot of attitude and called Emission early in \u201899 then the drug use. We want to keep away from Matrix opened up and approached us that, stay with more inspirational to move our night in there. Our first nights where there\u2019s a lot more soul, event was still Emission, we got 1700 more like a rave-y festival. people in to see Adam F, J Majik, Brockie and SS. From then Matrix NEXT... asked us to promote their drum We\u2019ve lined up a UK tour to promote & bass so we called the night the Emission label cos we\u2019ve got Bassheads and collaborated in the some releases due in September. second room. First with nu school From May though, we\u2019re setting up a breaks but now hip hop. We\u2019ve nice big six hour jam in the third room; got Rodney P out the London Posse bongos, didgeridoos, scratch DJ, just as guest MC. the Impact musicians freestyling. MOVING UP... Bassheads takes place on the last We originally set up Emission to give friday of every month at The Matrix, us an outlet for our PA, Impact, which Reading. has a really strong following in Reading so it was quite easy for us to bring a lot of our crew with us from Emission. But we worked really hard on the promotion side, going mental, MANGA PROGRESSION SPELLBOUND URBAN JUNGLE SESSIONS AT LA BELLE ANGELE AT PLANET K, OLDHAM ST, AT UPSTART, 243 OLD STREET, 11 HASTIES CLOSE, EDINBURGH. AT THE END, 18 WEST CENTRAL ST., MANCHESTER. LONDON, EC1V 9EY. 9pm-3am. \u00a310\/8 membs. Info: 0131 225 LONDON, W1. 10pm-3am. \u00a36\/\u00a37b411pm\/\u00a38. Monthly Free. Info: 07956 127 006. 1st Fri every 7536. 18 May: A-Sides; 15 Jun: Alleycat d&b and breaks. 25 May: Ed Rush; 29 month. 25 May: Residents & J Double & Tania Swift. Residents: G Mac, Unify, 10pm-4am. \u00a312\/10. Info: 0207 419 9199. Jun: Andy C, Si Smith (@ Rocket, Holloway - \u00a35.); 1 Jun: DY Kid & The General. 11 May: LTJ Bukem, Nookie, PFM, MC Element & Penfold. Residents: BBP, Conrad & MC Ivan; 18 Jun: LTJ Bukem, SOURCE DLB, Vega & Nexxii MELTDOWN Nookie, MC Conrad AT THE ZODIAC, OXFORD. WAH WAH AT THE BEACH REFUGE 9.30pm-2am. \u00a37adv. Info: 01865 420042. KINGS ROAD ARCHES, BRIGHTON. 18 May: Doc Scott; 15 Jun (\u00a310): Fabio, AT JAZZ CAFE 9pm-3am. \u00a38.50\/\u00a37.50 concs. Info: AT SWITCH Grooverider. Residents: DJ Lee, Jay Jay, 5 PARKWAY, CAMDEN TOWN. 01273 608886. 3rd Fri every month. 18 EUSTACE ST, TEMPLE BAR DJ Baron, MC Justiyc 10.30pm-2am. Weekly. Residents: Chris May: Randall, Zinc, Marky, Ed Solo, MC DUBLIN, IRELAND. Goss, Dom Servini, Simon Goss Darrison, MC Stamina; 22 Jun: Brockie, TEMPO TANTRUM Ray Keith, Marly Marl, Friction, MC Det & 10.30pm. \u00a37. Weekly. Info: 00-353-1- WASTED MC Darrison 874-1243. 11 May: Zero Tolerance, AT MINT. 182-186 ST JOHN ST, Naphta and Malcolm; 18 May: Elmo and CLERKENWELL, LONDON EC1. AT THE EMPIRE CLUB MOVE SOMETHANG Roy Da Bwoy. 25 May: Source and Jet \u00a33 after 9pm. Monthly. Info: 020 7253 BOGNOR REGIS. Li. Residents: Rohan, Naphta & MC 8368. Residents Marcus, Darius, Matt Beats & breaks. 3rd Friday every month. AT THE PHOENIX, 37 CAVENDISH Wuzza Juice & G Man with breaks, 2 step & bass. 10pm-3am. \u00a36\/\u00a35. Info: 07940 245724. SQUARE, LONDON W1. 25 May: Nash; 29 Jun: Tipper 18 May: Hyper. 15 Jun: TBC. Residents: 10pm \u20133am. \u00a35. 1st Fri every month. RENEGADE HARDWARE Karoshi & Disco Assassins, Spencer Info: 0973 802162\/ 0207 284 2527. THE CLINIC Chapman, Dillinger & Dave Roman Abstract beats & killa grooves from resi- AT THE END, dents Flowerz & Des 8 WEST CENTRAL ST., AT COSIES, BRISTOL. X LONDON, W1. Last Fri of the month. 8pm-1am. \u00a33 after MUTINY 9pm. Residents: General Midi & Lurch. AT LE BATEAU 10pm-4am. \u00a312\/10. Info: 0207 419 9199. DUKE ST, LIVERPOOL. AT LAKOTA, 81-83 STOKES CROFT, 1 Jun: Andy C, Ed Rush, Loxy, Dylan, TOTAL ECLIPSE 10:30pm-4am. \u00a311\/\u00a39 Concs. Info : BRISTOL. Usual Suspects, Future Cut, Frenzic + 07967 626 927. 1 Jun: Ray Keith, Nicky 9pm-5am. \u00a312adv. Info: 01179 426208. MCs Verse, 2Shy, GQ, AD & Rage AT THE FIRKIN CLUB, ELIZABETH WAY, Blackmarket 25 May: Lineup TBC. 22 Jun: Lineup PINNACLES, HARLOW, ESSEX. TBC RUMBLE 9pm-late, \u00a35 b4 10.30\/\u00a38 after. Info: 07940 saturdays 187963. 18 May: Little Joe & MC Super; 1 OFF CENTRE: SOUTH AT WATERFRONT, KING ST, NORWICH. Jun: Mampi Swift & MC IC3, Quest & MC ACCELERATED A1; 15 Jun: Food Junky & Darkness. CULTURE AT THE OCEAN ROOMS 10pm-4am. Info: 07767 444581 \/ Residents: Tony B, Ricochet, Sabotage + 1 MORLEY ST, BRIGHTON. www.fluxrecords.demon.co.uk. 8 Jun: JJ MCs Hi Rarki, Savage & Chad AT DENBEIGH LEISURE COMPLEX, 10pm-2.30am \u00a36\/\u00a35concs. Info: 01273 Frost, Bryan Gee, Ray Keith, Dimension, SAXON STREET, BLETCHLEY 608886. 2nd Fri every month. 11 May: Balisitik + MCs Moose, Darrison, VIP & TOKYO GROOVE MILTON KEYNES. Storm, Ross Allen. 8 Jun: London Infinity 9pm-6am. \u00a318.50 + bf. Info: 01295 Elektricity, Herbaliser DJs. Residents: AT FAY, SPRINGFIELD MOUNT, LEEDS. 721640\/01604 472913. 12 May: Roni Patrick Forge, Ross Clarke & Carl Faure SQUEEZE 18 SESSIONS 10pm-2am. \u00a32.50. Weekly downbeat, rare Size & MC Dynamite, Grooverider, groove & d&b from residents Cedar, ASC, Mampi Swift, Frenzic, Zinc, Hype, Nicky PERVERTED SCIENCE AT CLUB M, SOUTHAMPTON. Mike L, Bob Brazil, James Clark & special Blackmarket, Micky Finn, Andy C, guests Kenny Ken, Dangerous D & Marcus AT 333, 333 OLD ST 10pm-2am. NUS\/Members \u00a33\/4 b4 Black, Garry K, Ellis Dee, JJ Frost, Bad LONDON, EC1. TWISTED FUNK Company, Dollar & Ital, Darren Jay, 10pm-5am. \u00a35 b4 11 or members\/\u00a310 10.30pm\/\u00a35\/6. Info: 07973 Brockie, Randall. MC\u2019s IC3, Fatman D, others. Info 0207 739 5949 \/connec- AT ENZO\u2019S, HIGHPOST, SALISBURY, Juiceman, GQ, Skibbadee, Shabba, [email protected]. 18 May: Mr Thing, Big 829578\/07710 804420\/07712585690. 11 WILTSHIRE. Fearless, MC MC, Presha, Five Alive, Bang, Keith Tenniswood, John Reynolds, \u00a36\/8. Info: 01722 782618 \/ Man Parris, Craig \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Lee, Pete Herbert, L, Jay 33 1\/3, Orson, ADJ, May: Method & Blade; 18 May: DJ Red; [email protected]. 11 May: DJ Rap, Kenny Fever, Dett, Fats, Melody, Willis MC. The Greedy Giants Ken, Stingray, MC Moose & MC Fearless; 25 May: Defikew, MC Wrec & Lord 22 Jun: Mickey Finn, Aphrodite, Leggy, N- Deva & MC Fearless Tekneek; 6 Jun: (@ The Brook, Southampton) Rahzel, Masters of Momentum feat. Wrec & Tech, DJ Defikew (ABC). Residents: Deep Rooted, Ri D\u2019Rat, Joker, Point three, Wheeler, Reeda, CJay, Superdense Child, Mojo, Special T 70 KNOWLEDGE","Dancefloor3 DIGITAL TAKES US THROUGH HIS RECENT SET AT BOURNEMOUTH\u2019S COCOSHEBEEN: OPENER... SPIRIT - \u2018MAYHEM\u2019 Tough enough to start with but cool enough too. FLOOR FILLERS... DIGITAL - \u2018RAS 78\u2019 & Q PROJECT - \u2018TROUBLE\u2019 \u2018Trouble\u2019 is a really enjoyable tune to mix with as it flows along nicely. You can move or just chill to it. REWINDS... SPIRIT - \u2018RAY GUN\u2019 I only played an hour but I gave \u2018Ray Gun\u2019 a rewind. It just blasts off. ONE MORE... Q PROJECT - \u201840 BELOW\u2019 A rocksteady tune to finish with, tough but mellow. BEST OF BRITISH FOUR-GASM ONE NATION SQUEEZE 18 AT THE STRATFORD REX, LONDON. AT STRIPES, AT LAKOTA SESSIONS 9pm-6am \u00a313.50 +bf. Info: 07976 NR TOWN CENTRE, ANDOVER. 81-83 STOKES CROFT, BRISTOL. 267532\/07989 320214. 2 Jun: Mickey Monthly. 9pm-1am. \u00a34\/\u00a35. Info: 10pm-4am. \u00a310adv. Info: 0117 9426208. AT CLUB M, SOUTHAMPTON. Finn, Mampi Swift, Zinc, Ed Rush, www.blukon.co.uk. Residents: Chemical 12 May: Line-up TBC Optical, R-Type, Playa, JJ Frost & Ray (b2b) DJ Leggy. 10pm-2am. NUS\/Members \u00a33\/4 b4 Keith + MCs Ragga Twins, Skibadee, PASSENGER Fearless, Det, Foxy & Shabba. Old Skool FREEFORM 10.30pm\/\u00a35\/6. Info: 07973 - Nicky Blackmarket, Ratpack, Squirrel, AT FORM, 4\/5 GREEK STREET, W1. Ash-A-Tack, DMS & Food Junky, MC AT THE PIRATE, FALMOUTH, Weekly. 9pm-3am. \u00a35. Residents on rota- 829578\/07710 804420\/07712585690. Everson Allen, MC Jay J CORNWALL. tion: Plump DJs, Steve Blonde & Ali B 9pm-1am. \u00a34 b4 10pm\/\u00a35 after. Info: 12 Jun: Outdoor stage special - Bad BIRTH 01326 372859. 19 May: State Of Play PHONIC: HOOP (live), Oktal & Ollie Rhodes Company, First Rate, Joker & AT LANCASTER TOWN HALL, AT ENIGMA, 10 SHIP STREET, LANCASTER. INFORMAL BRIGHTON. Point3Three, Wheeler, MC Wrec. 9pm-2am. \u00a310 + bf. 20 May: Ray Keith, 10pm-2am. \u00a38\/7\/\u00a36\/5. Info: 01273 Nicky Blackmarket, DJ Guy + MCs Hybo, AT FORM, 4\/5 GREEK ST, LONDON W1. 328439. 2 Jun: Bonobo; 16 Jun: Ty & DJ SUBTUB Real Deal & The Microphone Don 9pm-3am. \u00a35. Weekly. Residents: Steve Biznizz. 23 Jun: Robert Luis. Residents: Blonde, Ali B, Unsung Heroes, Mastomic Deeds Plus Thoughts, Jon Kennedy, AT UMIST UNDERGROUND CLINICAL Steady, Cairro, Humble Munk, Quiet SACKVILLE ST, MANCHESTER. LIFE Storm, Chris Clark and Bonobo AT QUE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM. 10pm-4am. \u00a36adv\/\u00a37. Info: 0161 \u00a315adv. 2 Jun: Fabio, Doc Scott, Teebee, AT LAKOTA, PURE SCIENCE 4489431. 2 Jun: Label launch - RSL, DJ Klute, Addiction, October, Decoy. Room UPPER YORK STREET, BRISTOL. Ole, Roscoe, Serial Thrillas & DJ Marky. 2: London Elektricity, Danny Byrd, High \u00a310\/11\/12. Info: 01179 426208\/07769 AT ATOMICS, MAIDSTONE, KENT. Contrast. Room 3: Kool FM 680169. 16 Jun: Dom & Roland, EZ Info: 07976 755002. Weekly. \u00a38. Ladies TELEPATHY Rollers, Aquasky. Back Room: Elite \u00a35 b4 10pm. 9pm-2am. 12 May: Special K DESTINATION OUT Squad, Dub \u2018n\u2019 Air, Breakbeat Heroes, & D\u2019Cruze, Andy C, Brockie, Doc Scott, AT THE EQ ARENA Beat Funk. Top Floor: Moorish Delta 7, Jev + MCs Skibbadee, GQ, Fearless & WATERDEN RD, LONDON AT CARGO, 83 RIVINGTON ST, FreakEasy, Kwesi, Quest, Space Jockey EKS Man; 19 May: Mampi Swift, Brockie, STRATFORD, E15. SHOREDITCH, LONDON. Bryan Gee, Randall, Dice + MCs Monthly. 8pm\u20131am. \u00a35 b4 9pm, \u00a37. 12 MOVEMENT Skibadee, Navigator, IC3 & Fun; 26 \u00a310+bf. Info: 08700-6000888. 9 Jun: May: DJ Skitz, Ross Allen May:Micky Finn, Aphrodite, Darren Jay, Andy C B2B Brockie, DJ Rap, Bryan AT MASS, ST MATTHEW\u2019S CHURCH, Hype, Eljay + MCs Fearless, GQ & Gee, Randall, Shy FX, Phantasy, DJ ELEMENTZ BRIXTON HILL, LONDON SW2. Riddla; 2 Jun: Brockie, Bad Company, Sly + MCs Moose, Shabba, Skibadee, 9pm-6am. \u00a37 b4 11\/\u00a38 NUS or Hype, Kane + MCs Det, IC3 & Fearless; 9 IC3, Shaydee. Arena 2: Concrete B2B AT PESO\u2019S, ANLEY ST, ST HELIER, membs\/\u00a310. Info: 0171 377 9494. 1st Sat Jun: Mampi Swift, Andy C, Fabio, Randall Barrington, Ital B2B Rips, Coolhand JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS. every month. 5 Jun: Bryan Gee, Ray + MCs Skibadee, Navigator & Foxy; 16 Flex B2B Dangerous D, Papa G 9pm-2am. \u00a33. Info: 07797 720936 \/ Keith, JJ Frost, Marky, Patife, Fabio, Jun: Brockie, Kane, Probe & Ital, Ruffstuff B2B Sly, Blarney B2B Env, Tyra B2B www.terminalstate.com. Every 2nd Fierce, Ruffstuff, Wheeler, Ed Rush & & Papa Gee + MCs Det, Shabba, IC3 & Sub + MCs Five Alive, Riddla, Saturday. Residents: Fire, Snare, L Optical + MCs Rage, Darrison & Flux Fun; 23 Jun: JJ Frost, Hype, Andy C, Shaydee & Locki Duffy, Breakz, Explore Nicky Blackmarket & Crazy Legs + MCs NY SUSHI PRESENT Skibadee, Foxy & Fatman D sundays EXIT THE BIG BANG 5 RANSOM CO OP AT UNION 1,WILLOW RD, DERBY. AT SHEFFIELD SKI VILLAGE, 10pm-3am. \u00a34\/\u00a36. 12 May: Kenny Ken, SHEFFIELD. AT THE ISLINGTON AT THE VELVET ROOMS Simon \u2018Bassline\u2019 Smith, Drumsound, MC 6pm-3am. \u00a320 membs \/ NUS\/\u00a322.50. 342 CALEDONIAN RD, LONDON. 143 CHARING CROSS RD Fearless Tickets: 0207 771 2000 \/ www.tick- 8pm-2am. Weekly. \u00a33. Residents: Geko LONDON W1. etweb.co.uk. Info: 0114 2671 869 \/ Beats, Plump DJs, Elektric Lane, Soho. FLASHBACK www.nysushi.co.uk. 26 May: Andy C, 7.30pm-12am. \u00a35.Info: 0976 723 222. Grooverider, Hype, Zinc, Markey, Ed SCIENCE Future jazz & broken beats with Marc AT THE QUE CLUB Rush, TC One, TK & DJ Stav + MCs GQ, Mac, Alex Attias, Dom U, Bugz In The BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE. Power & E-ll. Breaks & hip hop arena: DJ AT THE DANCE STATION, SWANSEA. Attic crew, Modaji & Mike Slocombe 9.30pm-6.00am. \u00a315adv. Info: 0121 472 Noize, Danielson, Dee Rock & Rix, 10pm-2.30am. \u00a37\/\u00a36. Info 07977 0777\/0906 701 0060\/www.flash- Second To None 554214. 19 May: Andy C, Active, DRIVE BY PRESENTS back96.com. 9 Jun: Grooverider B2B Sidewinder, MC Cheeky B PLANET V Bryan Gee, Andy C B2B Randall, Ratty B2B Fallout, Shaolin B2B Pace AT CREATION 13-21 BALDWIN ST, BRISTOL. 9pm-4am. \u00a310adv\/\u00a312 door. Info: 07976 210767. 27 May: Roni Size, Krust, Die, Suv, Bryan Gee, JJ Frost, DJ Marky, Patife, MC Moose, MC Dynamite. Room 2: hip hop & breaks KNOWLEDGE 71","RAY KEITH INTERVIEW: ALEX FARBER PICTURE: COURTNEY HAMILTON Ray Keith ))RAY KEITH JUNGLE VETERAN RAY KEITH GETS SPECIFIC WITH KNOWLEDGE... )) LIVES crowd stopped. I\u2019ve fallen off the SPORTSMAN I\u2019m never happy with it, there\u2019s petitive, constructive and heartfelt Just outside east London. stage a few times as well. Sober! Nigel Benn\u2019s the original soldier. always something you listen to music \u2018cause there\u2019s fuck all else to He fought from the heart, and I and think \u2018I could\u2019ve done that a do. If it was hot everyone would be LOVE TO LIVE IDEAL B2B PARTNER saw him get battered. Him and little bit different\u2019. I\u2019m just happy chilling out on the beach smoking The Maldives, near the Seychelles Chow Yung Fat. Bad boy. Frank Bruno, when Bruno hung that people dance to my shit. spliffs and nothing would get done. on for the Heavyweight That\u2019s enough for me. So \u2018cause we have no sunshine MEAL NIGHTMARE B2B PARTNER Championship. He just held it, and our inner cities are all clammed If I\u2019m in Brazil I like this place called The devil. he was a soldier and a lot of times MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS up with dirty air it becomes a Radio Grill, if I\u2019m in London it\u2019s Mr in the scene we\u2019re like that. People I grew up with people like Derrick creative point. Wings in Chelsea. He\u2019s bad. INSTRUMENT try and put us down, lot of bollocks May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan The drums, I used to play a bit. going on. Atkins. Also the whole electronic NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT DRINK music scene I listened to when I My phone and my keys. Orange juice or water, I don\u2019t drink HOLIDAY RESORT WORLD CHAMP TUNE was growing up: Depeche Mode, alcohol. The Algarve, Portugal. Just for I\u2019d probably wanna walk out OMD, Gary Numan... CHILL OUT chilling, I\u2019ve been a couple of times to \u2018Shadowboxing\u2019. Being with my children, I\u2019ve got my DRIVES with my family. FILMS two boys and two girls. My older New shape BMW 3 series, it\u2019s the SUPPORTS I\u2019m old skool so I used to check for daughter dances to some of my limited edition, all silver, silver MADDEST CITY Man Utd. films starring Charlton Heston, Kirk stuff, we\u2019ve done a video of bumpers, 18\u201d alloys, on-board Reykjavik, when I landed it looked Douglas, those men were proper \u2018Something Out There\u2019 and she computer. The only thing it doesn\u2019t like the moon. Like \u2018What the DJ GEAR heroes. As a kid growing up, they goes mad so I\u2019m gonna get her do is wank, it does everything else. fuck\u2019s going on over here?\u2019 They Just my jeans and a sleeveless were like the icons. Spartacus and in my next one. got some mad clubs and everyone top. Like a tanktop so you\u2019re films like that. Bad boy films. LOVE TO DRIVE piles out when they\u2019re finished and always chilled and you\u2019re hands RINSE OUT Ferrari 355 Spider convertible. In drinks in the street, it\u2019s crazy. are free. A lot of times when GADGET Just going out for a good meal and the limited edition blue with cream. you play you have to be careful I suppose it\u2019s my wallet. Even watching a good DVD. I love my It\u2019s all about the LTD right now. SPORTS wearing sleeves because they get though as silly as it sounds, for surround sound. \u2018Crouching Tiger\u2019 Love football, like boxing. Saw Nas in the way. years I\u2019ve always run about with is a bad boy film! I like all martial CLUB lose but he\u2019s an idiot. You can be envelopes of money. So it\u2019s arts films and sci-fi. The End\u2019s good, Fabric\u2019s good, so cocky but you gotta out punch. JEWELLERY practical and I know where it is on is Movement on a Thursday. I\u2019m I did karate for about ten years and Probably my bracelet. And my me [laughs]. The BMW\u2019s got no DREAM COLLABORATIONS going on sound here. my son does it as well. I got to rings. And my chain. They all kinda pathfinder but I\u2019ve been driving Mary J Blige, Ice Cube, Ice T. brown belt, two before black. Then go hand in hand really [laughs]. for so many years it\u2019s like a sixth Any of them. CLUB ABROAD music, birds and fast cars came sense. Give me an address and Australia; nine times out of ten the along and that was it. PERSONAL FAVOURITE TUNE a roundabout destination and I CHART TUNE sound in the clubs is wicked. I don\u2019t really rate any of my tunes, can get there. I\u2019m really do like Jay Z\u2019s \u2018Hustler LENNOX OR TYSON I\u2019m always looking for the next Baby\u2019. DJ EXPERIENCES Tyson, he\u2019s an animal. Lennox one. I\u2019ve had quite a few hits UK PROS When I was younger I was playing isn\u2019t English anyway, he\u2019s a but you just move on, don\u2019t you? I think cos it\u2019s so cold and grim and ONE ALBUM on three decks and I took off the Canadian so I don\u2019t want to hear I can\u2019t be critical of music cos horrible, there\u2019s a lot of very com- Coldplay, those boys are firing. record that was playing and the anything about that. 74 KNOWLEDGE"]