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DRUM&BASS//BREAKS//DUBSTEP
THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MARCH 2010
Weekly DnB Listings
Swerve Coming Soon
Wednesday S.O.M.E. Nights The Den 10pm - 3.30am
Friday Fabriclive Fabric 10p - 6am
DnB Listings
Thur 11th March Dj Profile's B'day Bash East Village 9pm - 2.30 am
Thur 11th March Red Bull music academy presents Scala 9pm - 1am
12x12
Fri 12th March Chikabu 10th B'day Bash Fabric 10pm - 6am
Fri 12th March Together Launch Party Ft Sub Focus The Coronet The- 10.pm - 5am
atre
Sat 13th March Innovation & Best of British 16th B'day Fire Complex 9pm - 6am
& reunion of in the Dam
Ed Rush & Optical
Sat 13th March Old Skool Nation Club Life 10pm - 6am
Sat 13th March We fear silence & Cable presents Cable 10pm - 6am
Metalheadz
We’ve been listening to Ed Rush and Optical since they were playing
Sat 13th March Hidden Core vs Hooked vs Impact re- Hidden 10pm - 6.00am
cordings
on pirate radio back in the day. We sent our secret double-barreled
Tue 16th March Mumzy, Nasha, Deshi Movement & Al- 93 Feet East 8pm - late
weapon Rebecca Anna-John to teef some tunes and find out if they
pha Omega
could withstand her super natural powers.
Fri 19th March Sudden Def Hidden 10pm - 6am
Fri 19th March Shockwave meets Jambo Mc's B'day Bar 7 9pm - 3am
Rebecca Anna-John
Bash
Fri19th March Fabriclive ft Fabio & Andy C Fabric 10pm - 6am
You’re in the studio today, what of the conference. Every DJ wants I’d recommend that at the end of
Sat 20th March A Decade of Dance Club Life 10pm - 6am
are you busy doing at the mo- to play, it’s a special part of the year, August.
ment? you can’t dream of putting that line
Sat 20th March Grace The Den 10pm - 6am
At the moment we are concentrat- up on here, you’d only get two of Any advice for young produc-
Thur 25th March Bobby Friction, Nasha, & Sukh 93 Feet East 8pm - late
ing on the Audio album project, it’s those names for that money, there’s ers?
Knight
blown away the few people who a big variety, so you’re definitely get- You need commitment, not a lot of
have heard it so it’s going really well. ting your money’s worth. people last, they get bored or don’t
Fri 26th March Playaz night ft Grooverider Fabric 10pm - 6am
We really wanted to give something make money so you need the drive
Fri 26th March Jungle Mania The Return Hidden 10pm - 6am
back by bringing in strong drum You’ve been named a ‘pioneer to want to do something rather than
and bass producers, so it’s a bit of of Neurofunk’. What were you settling. It’s about experimentation Fri 26th March An Evening with Krafty Kuts Matter 10pm - 6am
a dream come true on both parts. influenced by to make that and people who have amazing vi-
Sat 27th March Awol goes Awol Indigo 10pm - 6am
We’re trying to do a different sound, sound? sion. It takes hours in the studio
quite housey, I think deep and dark Wormhole was combination of rock trying things out, it’s not just about Sat 27th March Urban presents N.O.S Drums Edge 9pm - 3am
drum and bass is starting to get a with what Matrix was doing, it all de- talent it’s about applying it every day
Sat 27th March Drumatics & Friends Driver 10pm - 5am
housey tinge, it’s a natural progres- pends on where your heads at. We and practicing. You have to be ex-
sion of what’s going on. I think it will we’re influenced by Ram Records tremely computer efficient, before
be better than the last and I’m really and the Bristol scene and we threw was more to do with ears, but now
happy with it so far. in the harder element. There was a new producers are using their eyes
more urban environment where we and looking at the screen. I still keep
grew up. Around our studio in Soho my old gear around, ill never sell it,
there were constantly prostitutes just to remember what is all about.
around, it really seedy and shady
and that got brought into record, I What do you think of the dnb
think you have more extreme views scene today compared to how
when you’re young. it used to be?
Better than it was for a long time.
Who would you say is worth When I started it felt like I was a
looking out for? frontier and felt older people didn’t
Mindscape, Prolyx, Audio, Icicle, I re- understand but now you hear it on
ally appreciate deep drum and bass. crisp adverts and Formula 1, it uni-
Definitely everything Matrix made, versally exists. But it doesn’t have
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he 100% invented the style they are the same air of excitement of dar-
following, ing to be different, which is what the
dubstep heads are thinking now, like
How did you meet? What do you think about music
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how we were taking rave records
You’ve worked together for so going digital and illegal down- and recreating it into a new thing,
It’s virtually impossible to track the progress of
long, you must have quite a loading like taking the baton and putting in
strong relationship.
Drum and Bass without two names cropping
I don’t think the majority of people your little bit. Humans were banging
Yeah we do, I think we know how to are thieves, because they don’t think on a rock and now we have this, it’s
up at major turning points throughout its history.
piss each other off and forgive each about what they are doing, but the taking someone’s idea and working
other and also when not to know public will realise that musicians on it. Dubstep hasn’t had enough
when to push it. We grew up in Lon- have a right to make a living. We time to develop yet but I think dub-
Ed Rush and Optical, other- and Bass today. of the first L.P and injected it
don around the same place, it was can’t live on bread and water and step and drum and bass has and will
wise known as Ben Settle and It was the creation of their ‘Virus’ with a more upbeat and dance-
through a mutual friend called Dun- you’re shutting down the source. I last.
Matt Quinn are still regarded label, the singles it spawned floor friendly vibe. Arguably los-
can who was one of the first drum think people are realising that it’s
amongst the most talented and and the first full length LP - ing favour with their next albums
and bass DJs called Trace. not cool to steal, the internet needs What do you think the next step
influential producers to have ‘Wormhole’ that cemented the like ‘The Original Doctor Shade
to mature. Its a giant warehouse of for dnb will be?
ever been involved with DnB. It reputations of the two London LP and Chameleon, it would be
How would you describe the goodies but soon the cupboard will It’s always a progression onwards.
was in the late 90’s, around the based producers. Tracks like the 2009
scene in Miami? run bare and then you’ll just be left One guy might do a tune with bag-
time of No U-Turn’s Torque L.P, ‘Compound’, ‘Bacteria’, ‘Crisis’ album ‘Travel the Galaxy’ that
A lot of people think Miami is like a with the enthusiastic amateurs. pipe over drum and bass. Even if
that the dark, space-age sound and ‘Watermelon’ can all still be hailed their return to form. Whis-
hot Brighton, full of old people sun- your DJing every week, you never
of what started to be called heard at clubs today – a testa- pers of another album being
ning themselves but for that par- Best or weirdest rave you’ve know. If it were predictable I would
‘tech-step’ began to take hold ment to their quality, both musi- released this year have already
ticular week it’s an amazing time to played? have given up by now.
of the scene. Alongside other cally and technically as well as started to circulate, which is ru-
go, because all the big promoters In Puerto Rico we played in a cave
legendary names such as Nico, the influence that the two artists moured to be based heavily on
come, there are about 20 big clubs with bats and 4000 people under-
Trace and Fierce, Ed Rush have had over many modern pro- the original sound that captured
all taken over, it’s like the whole Ibiza ground, Or in Shambhala in British Catch Ed Rush and Optical at the
and Optical started to radically ducers. After ‘Wormhole’ came so many people’s imaginations.
season wrapped into one week. Be- Columbia, it was out in mountains Miami Winter Music Conference
change the approach to pro- the pairs second album, ‘The Needless to say, people are
fore people didn’t know what drum with brown bears and crazy wildlife, 2010, playing at Viram on the 24th
duction in a way that had major Creeps’ an equally influential getting excited.
and bass was but now we’re official like an intimate hippy festival, with March at Heathrow Lounge.
impacts on what we call Drum work that took the twisted funk
and being asked to play at the heart naked people sleeping in teepees...
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