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DRUM&BASS//BREAKS//DUBSTEP
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THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MARCH 2010 THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MARCH 2010
Breakage
“Breakage is a man with an ear for deep, deep,
subsonic frequencies. He goes in low. I think he´s
talking to Sea-life. He´s talking to the squid”
- Roots Manuva.
Tranz-mission is the biggest annual dance music event in London, a true
TGN´s Rebecca Anna John went in deep with him.
multi-arena one-off at Alexandra Palace, one of London’s most prestigious
venues. With 5 music arenas hosted by the best names in the business, this
event attracts 10,000 people meaning Tranz-mission is one of the highlights
of the London clubbing calendar - an annual event that transforms one of
London’s best known buildings into an unmatchable music venue for one
Breakage´s
night only on Easter Saturday 3rd April.
to look out for
The massive Drum & Bass line up is ably taken care of by London’s most Benga D1 12th Planet
notable D&B name - One Nation. Headlining the Drum & Bass arena is Andy
C - simply the biggest name in Drum & Bass. Also on the bill are some
Skream Benny Page Joker
true heavyweights of the scene - DJ Friction of Shogun Audio, Mampi Swift,
Caspa Nero
the legendary Nicky Blackmarket, new talent Danny Byrd, DJ Fresh, Break,
Sigma and Serial Killaz plus MCs Eksman, Skibadee, Shabba D, Fearless, The Others System
Harry Shotta, IC3, MC Wrec, GQ, Presha & Youngman on the mic.
Other arenas include Hard Dance hosted by Frantic, Hardcore by Hardcore
Heaven, Raindance look after the Old Skool while Braindrop mix it up with
their unique dubstep, bassline, drum & bass, electro and jungle.
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Lots of bass, I’ve heard “cinematic”... own way of who I am as a music wrong, the first album was great, but made in about 20 minutes, when lot, I used to steal his tape packs and take on house, make a trance tune,
I personally don’t see it myself but fan. I’ve tried to cover most of the you can’t make the same album over I’m working on a tune in my head I listen to them on the way to school. and then a punk tune. I want be that
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it’s a compliment. Somewhere in bases, some you may not even be and over again and I’ve branched think of a vocalist on top of it, and I I was the only kid at my age with my kind of guy who makes all kinds of
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boy, take us through how that to a point where I was like ‘I’ve got moved to London when I was 10 having their own sound to it. You
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Why do you think dubstep has happened. to have him, this is his tune’. I told and the first Jungle tune I heard wouldn’t know where to put them,
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recently blown up and so fast? I went to college with a guy who was shy and he loved the idea, so he got was Original Nuttah by Shy Fx, who there’s no genre it’s just very free-
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I think people are ready for some- on reinforced, one day we ended in contact with his management. is now my boss and my mate. I love style and I love that. I’d want to pro-
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thing fresh, like when drum and up going to Dolice Hill, 4hero’s was It was a very surreal experience. It many different styles but Jungle has duce an album for Radiohead... out
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bass and jungle came out no one there, and somehow he had told was my first recording session, I’m a special place in my heart. of current bands they have taken
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had heard it. Dubstep draws on dif- Mark from 4hero that he needed a big Roots Manuva fan so that was the cake for many years.
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ferent styles of music like a giant to check out my tune. I was silent, crazy for me. I was in shock for the Do you go out raving?
melting pot, I think it’s going to get I couldn’t say a word, he took it first couple hours, but he was really Yeah I’ll go out and have a couple Which other artists are you lov-
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a lot bigger, and this is just the tip straight away and told me what cool. I’ve heared stories about peo- drinks, not really ‘raving’ as such, but ing at the moment?
of the iceberg. You can hear it in needed changing and it went from ple saying ‘I’ll need this, that, I want to be there and not have to do any- System, D-Bridge and Instrumental,
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the mainstream already and people there. I was so excited I couldn’t even some drugs, and your not allowed to thing is strange. It makes me enjoy it Shyfx - he will destroy everybody!
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brushing along with it. Major labels look at them! In my dreams I always look at me!’ But all he wanted was more though. SPY’s on it, Jubei is a stupidly good
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people want it to stay underground see other producers really preparing Can you sing? are your moves? is an amazing engineer, I’ll play my
We’re picking up where
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but I think there is room for the un- there. It pretty evenly split between themselves, I was just making tunes Very badly. I’ve tried it but it all came A head nod, maybe a gun finger if tunes to him and ask him for advice
we left off last April, once
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derground and mainstream sides to drum and bass and dubstep, but a at my mums house, it was a bit of a out as one note! I’m thinking of tak- I’m drunk :) and he actually he tells me which is
again lighting up your
coexist and it can only help things. lot of different styles of each. It’s lucky run. ing singing lessons, I don’t think what I love about him. A lot of MC’s
Easter Bank Holiday
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I’m proud of the music I listen to and more dance floor orientated like I would be very good but I want to Tell me about your production... are coming through too like SP MC.
Saturday 3rd April 2010…
weekend with another
I want the producers I like to be pop- ‘Higher’, and there are rocky sorts of You were so young, how did sing well enough so if I’ve got a mel- What would you say are the If your album was a drink, which
a new decade is upon us,
monumental, unmissable
all-night event.
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ular, there is no point trying to be a tunes, there’s reggae, housey stuff, you feel? ody in my head I can sing it out in the most important things when drink would it be and why?
but the party goes on…
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good producer if no one can hear it. r&b influenced tunes, all sorts, it’s a Great, scary... anything like that I find studio and people will know what I’m producing? Definitely a cocktail, a hybrid of
I’d love my music to be a commercial big mish mash. scary, just because you’re putting taking about. Cigarettes, coffee, fruit juice, some Mojito and a Caperina, my two fa-
Tranz-mission returns to The biggest artists from A 7 º G .
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success, show my mum! out a record that people will or will form of snacks. vorite things!
London’s iconic Alexandra
How is it different from your not buy and will critic, that’s a scary How did you get into Jungle,
Palace for the Capital’s
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largest indoor dance and Old Skool collide
Tell us about the new album first album? thing, they might think ‘that tune is Breakbeat and Dubstep? I meant more technical
and the meaning behind the It’s better. The first one was where terrible’. I grew up in Buckingham, which is things…
music event of the year.
under one roof and over
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name Foundation? my head was 4 years ago. This is really close to Milton Keynes where After covering drum and bass/jun- Breakage’s new album “Founda-
5 different huge arenas
A 7 K F 9 7 ; E D F 9 G < 5 Foundations sums up everything where my head is today. It’s a bet- How did you end up working there are a lot of raves. First got into gle/breakbeat and dubstep, is there tion” comes out on March 22nd,
to provide you with the
experience.
that I wanted in one word, it is the ter representation of who I am now. with Roots Manuva and how dance music around the age of 6. anything new you want to take on? featuring Roots Manuva, Donaeo,
ultimate 21st century rave
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old foundation and the new founda- I worked a lot harder and you can was that experience? My older foster brother was really I want be a producer for a rock band. Newham Generals, Kemo, Zarif
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