B.L.I.M.
WORDS
:
RICHARD
ARNELL
PICTURE
:
COURTNEY
HAMILTON
))FROM MOVEMENT
TO MODERNIZM
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As one of the original residents at Movement and first TCR cuts, a handful of breakbeat classics and the two other thing I want to do is split both sides in style, so
artists on Emotif Records, B.L.I.M. is surely a familiar tracks that make up the first release on his Track label. one side is more straight up breaks, and the other is
name amongst the junglist old guard, with his pedigree “It kind of picked itself to a certain extent,” considers G veering off towards more tech-housey vibes. And it’s
going all the way back to the S.O.U.R. mother label. To on the album’s content, “but it just so happens that really paid off. People like Lee Burridge and Craig
some though, the B.L.I.M tag is perhaps better known everything that’s coming up is incredibly strong and Richards [residents at Tyrant] have picked up on it very
for his more recent exploits into the world of that’s one of the reasons I moved to TCR. Not only that, quickly, and the breaks bods have really gone for
electro-breakbeat, providing original material for Botchit because there’s a lot of places where there’s strong ‘I Robot’. One other thing that I wanted to do, and that’s
& Scarper, as well as laying down a selection of music, but it’s the kind of thing that I want to play, and I what’s good about having different styles, was make
stunning remixes and collaborations, most notably with want to be involved in a label where nine releases out of sure the two tracks aren’t up against each other.
Freq Nasty. This year has seen B.L.I.M. take an even ten are gonna be in my box. Permanently.” I really want each twelve to be a strong two tracker and
more pivotal position in the scene, through the launch of because each one’s doing different things, they can
his Track imprint, as well as signing to Rennie Pilgrem’s Two cuts that have already earned a permanent position stand completely on their own.”
TCR label, so Knowledge caught up with him to get the in many a top jock’s box are those first rubs on Track,
low down on these latest developments and the reasons ‘Check It Out’ and ‘I Robot’. Both collaborations The next release on Track is already lined up, also
for his sidestep from drum & bass, into the blossoming between B.L.I.M. and Chris Carter who, together with featured on the ‘Modernizm’ mix CD, and is a new collab-
UK breakbeat scene. Shara Nelson, previously combined as Kasha for the oration with Rennie Pilgrem entitled ‘Triffid’. “It needs a
magnificent sounds of ‘U’ on Botchit & Scarper. “I little bit of tweaking,” admits B.L.I.M., “because we want to
“On the musical side, I just started to feel that there always said I wouldn’t,” stresses G, on his starting up fatten up the drums a little bit, but it seems to be working
wasn’t much room to work in drum & bass anymore,” the label, “but then Klaus, one of the 2 Sinners, came to well out, and it works well in that mix. Me and Rennie are
recollects B.L.I.M., real name Gervase Cooke, also me last year and said he’d got this distribution deal with gonna do another side for that, again on the tech-ier side
known as G. “Style-wise it got a bit narrow, and this was ST Holdings, and that I should consider it. I did consider of things, and that will hopefully be due in September.”
the around the time when everything that came out it, then he rang me again when he got his first statement
sounded like Ed Rush & Optical. Tempo-wise, there’s a through and said that I should really consider it!” In the meantime, work is underway on his debut album
lot more room to work at around 135 bpm, and there’s a for TCR (scheduled for release next year) and,
lot more genres to draw from, in a set as well as in After hearing the right words from the distributor, unsurprisingly, G’s, “got a strong idea about how an
production. I enjoyed doing Movement. It was always a B.L.I.M. was convinced, and, as he says, “suddenly artist album from a dance producer should be, and
high-pressure gig and there were some very serious realised that I did have a very good idea about what I I don’t really believe in a twelve track CD of 12” tracks,
faces down there but it was a really good thing to do, a could do with a label if I had one, and that’s what was because I think it’s boring. Something with a bit more
very good lesson. DJing-wise I learnt a lot down there.” lacking, actually knowing what I would do. variety and something that’s a bit more, not wanting to
sound too clichéd, but a bit more of a journey. The vinyl
And in some respects DJing is where we’re at now, “I don’t really want to make it a serious, release a month will be re-workings, so that will be in a DJ format, and
because B.L.I.M.’s first release for TCR is ‘Modernizm’, concern,” he continues, “more like three or four a year, the CD will be more of a traditional album. Hopefully.
a mix album that showcases a selection of upcoming and the idea is that they’ll all be collaborations. The Well, that’s the plan anyway.”
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