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SIDELINES
DJ Krush supports his 7th LP, ‘Zen’,
by touring Europe throughout June
and July. UK dates in July include
Fabric on the 13th before finishing
at the Essential Music festival the
day after.
D-Story, formerly of Arsonists fame,
has stepped out on own to produce a
new 12”, ‘Roll Out’. Meanwhile, The
Arsonists themselves bring out a new
album, ‘Date Of Birth’ in September.
Combination Records release the a
pure drum & bass album from The
Green Man LP in the autumn.
The functional drumandbass.de web-
site has been relaunched to represent
the strong German drum & bass
scene. Most content is translated into
English to help international visitors.
ICE MINUS - SERVED CHILLED
Humdruma Recordingzwas formed in
Ice Minus Recordings’ first release is breaking out this summer. The label focuses around the Ice Minus collective, a long serving
1998 by DJ Satin after six years of
Bristol crew consisting of Bart Icus, Ayton, Keiren Lomax (Kire 1) and Joe Publick. Having released on Hardleaders, Audio Couture,
playing out in LA as he wanted to add
Moving Shadow and Tech Itch, and connections with old partnerships remain and will continue to be maintained. Look most
his own flavour to the scene.
immediately to Moving Shadow’s ‘Killabites 2’ EP, a sampler to the forthcoming album, for Ice Minus & Decoder’s ‘Drowning’, Ice
Humdruma offers d&b on a ragga,
Minus’ ‘Jabba’ Ice Minus & Technical Itch’s ‘Altered Beast’. Compiler Technical Itch comments, “The ‘Killa Bites 2’ EP basically
hip-hop, jump-up tip and look out for
consists of tracks from our little crew with various people working together. It was a good way for us to get eight tracks out together
the ‘Rude Metal’ CD album out in
as a mini album, something we haven’t done before.”
August. ‘Lexus & Beamaz’ is the
single cut from the project to look for
Ice Minus’ first track on their own label is the suitably titled ‘Break The Ice’, plus another an old skool remix awaiting legalities. Ice
earlier in the month.
Minus and Decoder have completed a track, ‘Angel’ ready to rock after it’s been tested on dub. Looking to add to the Bristol sound,
the boys feel a lot of producers, “Are coming out of the cracks and building on something that others in Bristol have been doing for
East Coast Mix, ‘Another Reason to
years.” Not that going over old ground appeals: “Everything coming out will be well produced and polished.”
Rhyme’, is a hip hop documentary out
Check www.iceminus.co.uk for more info.
July 2. Nas, Q Tip, Jay Z and record
industry insiders reflect on struggling,
surviving and politics amongst hip
ESSENTIAL
hop culture. As they trip back to old
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Queensbridge hangouts and chill in
As mentioned last issue Knowledge have
the studio, the rappers consider
joined forces with Legends Of the Dark Black
where hip hop has brought them.
for this year’s Essential Music Festival. The
full arena line-up can be confirmed as
Munich based label, Compost,
Grooverider, Fabio, Rap, Hype, Randall,
celebrate their 100th release with a
Optical, Andy C, Ed Rush, Darren Jay,
double album entitled ‘Compost One
Kenny Ken, Dazee and Trex with GQ,
Hundred’ arriving on July 2. The
Fearless, Skibadee, Foxy, Frenzy, Junior
compilation comprises new, exclusive
Red, Magika and Illmatica all on mic duty
tracks from the label’s roster including
Truby Trio, Minus 8, Fauna Flash etc
throughout the event. Elsewhere Public
etc and is accompanied by sleeve
Enemy, Reprazent, Q Bert, Jurassic 5,
notes from Gilles Peterson. Compost
Dilated Peoples, Aspects, Mr Scruff, DJ
will be doing a UK tour in July.
Krush, Luke Vibert, Adam Freeland, Rennie
Pilgrem and Freq Nasty play various stages.
Skitz’s second single from the
unmissable ‘Countryman’ LP is ‘The
Kosheen, Biz Markie, Mark B & Blade, Jeru,
Killing’ which includes mixes by Skitz
Ugly Duckling and Rodney P and Skitz are
& Mad Money Wah and Mr Rodney P
among those joining the party on the Sunday.
and Supanatchlus. Keep your ears up
Other attractions include the first leg of the
from June 25. At around the same
Xtreme Vert Sk8 series showing riders Ali
time, Skitz’ own Titan Sounds has its
Cairns, Pete King, Dave Allen and Jocke
fourth release from Skinnyman and
Olson skating for $25,000. The breaks being
Tibz. One of the tracks is to be called
rinsed in the Experiments arena will be
‘A London Sumting’.
twinned with some cutting edge technology
for a world exclusive in interactive video
After the success and sell out of ‘The
mixing. Using specially designed sensor-pads
Rabbit’ EP, Gain Recordings latest
the crowd take part in the show by simply
release available in June is ‘Diced
treading or dancing on sensor pads placed
Turkey / Disconnected Funk’ written
around the dancefloor and triggering live
by Wrisk and Mu Ma respectively.
audio and video samples.
Aquasky have taken it upon them-
Tickets are £35 for each day or £50 for a
selves to launch Incident, a platform
weekend pass from Ticketmaster but you
specifically designed for other artists
can win one of five weekend pairs (including
tunes, with a particular emphasis on
one VIP pair) by telling us where the
international heads. First up comes
Essential Festival’s last location was. Tekken from Holland with his tracks
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