FUTUREBOUND & MATRIX
There’s a Viper in the Metro. A real big, nasty one, with long, pointy
teeth that’s going to bite you in the ass unless you run to the beat of
this issue’s mix CD, courtesy of Futurebound and Matrix.
The coming together of Futurebound’s Viper send the album over? I’d really like to use some of “If you’re playing on a really decent set-up with good
Recordings and Matrix’s long-running Metro conjure the stuff on our This Morning program’.” monitors, and the crowd are really brocking out,
images of snakes on a train [are you reading, New then you can get right in the mode,” Futurebound
Line Cinema?], and the sonic results are similar. Have Matrix and Futurebound awoken to the sight explains. “Sometimes you just don’t want to come off
Loveable B-movie guitars, visceral audio storyboards of Philip Schofield and Fern Britton thrashing away the decks.”
and a palpable sense of urgency are present in the to their album soundtrack? “We haven’t checked, we
critically acclaimed Viper / Metro catalogue – the don’t know,” they giggle. Is Matrix and Futurebound’s Kmag mix different
musical equivalent of Hollywood thriller feature from one they’d typically execute in a club? “There
films. The men responsible, Brendan Collins and “They were also using it on BBC snooker,” Matrix chips are a few tracks we’re putting on it from really new
Jamie Quinn, are behind this month’s cover CD. in, sighting an alien world that his music ended up in. guys,” Matrix tells us. “Vibe-wise it represents what
we would normally play, in the sense that it’s got
Futurebound and Matrix have a symbiotic “We got a lot of TV coverage,” Futurebound adds. “We quite a wide range of sounds.”
relationship. Matrix’s dance-floor pedigree is had Tour de France,” he laughs.
very impressive, having wooed the scene way “It’s definitely a representation of what we do when
back with his debut album ‘Sleepwalk’. His deeply “Lots of weird sports,” Matrix cuts in. we’re out there,” Futurebound opines. “Obviously
technical talents form a synergy with Futurebound’s we’ve had to squeeze stuff on. We like to play an
undisputed creative prowess. Movie parallels plague “We definitely appeal to the sports world,” says hour-and-a-half when we’re out there – more if
the pair, not least because drum & bass’ most-loved Futurebound. possible – but this is a 50-minute mix, so it’s a mini-
sci-fi flick is named after Jamie Quinn [he named representation.
himself Matrix long before the movie came out]. Matrix, creasing up in hysterics, manages to squeeze
out: “And Holland’s Next Top Model!” “Since our album, we’ve been trying to bring in a load
The last album by the duo, ‘Universal Truth’ (along of new artists,” says Futurebound.
with one of its picture discs) featured an illustration “Noisia sent me a text saying that they’ve been
of a De Lorean DMC-12 – the icon of the classic watching the final of Holland’s Next Top Model, “You’ve been doing that big time,” Matrix
Back to the Future movies – at their behest. This where all the contestants were brocking out to the acknowledges his partner’s hard work.
original landmark has quite literally taken Matrix drop on ‘American Beauty’,” Futurebound, somewhat
and Futurebound to Hollywood, or should we say surreally, adds. A few years back, Futurebound helped break artists
Los Angeles, as it opened up doors for them to remix such as Brookes Brothers into the drum & bass
none other than Justin Trousersnake himself. So it’s Matrix nearly dies of laughter, until Futurebound scene, who are now phenomenally successful.
a Viper, is it? “After the album, a couple of remixes steadies the boat. “The D&B community were loving
came in,” Futurebound begins. “We did a remix for it,” he says. “That was first and foremost – to make “I used to listen to their stuff and give it back to
Justin Timberlake.” sure that we were working with them and that it was them and tell them what I thought,” Futurebound
cutting it on the dancefloor.” remembers. “I’ve got a new guy called L-Plus from
“It was a house track,” laughs Matrix. “The A&R guys Slovakia. There’s a track on the Kmag mix called
had heard our album and they wanted us to do a ‘We’ve just done new track called ‘Shanghai ‘Middle East Sun’ which Andy C used on his new
drum & bass remix of it. We got the parts over and it Surprise’,” says Matrix. “Are we going to start our mix ‘Nightlife 4’ mix, and everyone across the scene
sounded really silly sped up to drum & bass tempo.” with it?” he asks Futurebound. loves it. It’s got that old skool type of Ram vibe on
the bassline.”
“I think we were kind of D&B’d out,” Futurebound “Yeah – we’re going to open with it on our mix
recalls, “so it was nice and refreshing to go in a CD,” Futurebound answers his friend’s question. “It’s really good when you get sent tunes by
different direction. As Jamie said, we did a house “We haven’t given it to ANYBODY yet,” he stresses. someone,” Matrix suggests, “and you can feel that
thing on it. It was getting played peak time on Radio 1.” “Nobody has it.” there’s definitely a vibe there, but it’s also not 100%;
and maybe you can give the artists a few pointers
“That was good – a fun, little diversion,” says Matrix. “We thought it would be cool to do this,” Matrix and some advice. Then six months or a year later
“Unfortunately, I’ve found that when you do remixes decides. “It seems like a lot of people keep music you’re playing their tunes in your set.”
for really big artists, you never get any of the parts to to themselves and that they don’t want to release
the track. You only ever get the vocal.” it for ages, which we don’t really like. On countless Are Matrix and Futurebound confident that their new
occasions, people don’t want to give out their music work is going to go down as well as their last album?
What track was it? “’LoveStoned’,” they say in Unison. to other DJs, which is a bit counterproductive. Then “There’s always pressure when you have to come
it’s just a secret and nobody knows about it. So, we with something new and fresh,” Futurebound admits,
‘LoveStoned’ was produced by none other than thought it would be nice to put something on the “but it’s good pressure.”
Timbaland himself, and was the fourth single of cover CD that we had done only two weeks ago...”
the 8,600,000+ selling ‘FutureSex / LoveSounds’. And this kind of pressure would make lesser men
“We were thinking that we were going to get some “So that the general public hear it before anyone buckle, so the fact that Matrix and Futurebound
Timbaland beats! But ... we didn’t get any Timbaland else,” Futurebound finishes his pal’s sentence. “Hot lap it up like dehydrated cats suggests that their
beats. It was just an acapella.” out of the studio.” mix will be considerably more fun than the extinct
Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios, Florida.
Matrix and Futurebound are totally vindicated in Who leads the way on the mix, in terms of DJing? “We And you don’t even need “ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE
doing something a bit different with their last album. both do our own thing,” Futurebound reveals. “Jamie GIGAWATTS” to enjoy it.
It was so well received that it became a vehicle to has been doing it as long as I have.”
strange new places for them. “Some strange ones, Great Scott [etc]!
yes,” Matrix bursts out laughing. “What about when “We’ve got slightly different styles but when we play
the guy from This Morning phoned you up?” together they seem to really gel, because we play www.viperrecordings.co.uk
things the other usually doesn’t,” Matrix responds. www.myspace.com/matrixandfuturebound
“Oh yeah!” Futurebound cackles. www.myspace.com/futurebound
“Sometimes Jamie will say to me, ‘I’m thinking about www.myspace.com/viperrecordings
What on earth? “He was like, ‘Oh! The album has just dropping this one’, and I’ll go, ‘mmmmm’, or I’ll say
really done it for me’,” says Futurebound. “He went on the same to him and he’ll go, ‘oh – I don’t know about
to say, ‘I’ve only heard bits and bobs, but what I have that!’ Then we do! And it works. Not every time... but
heard has been unbelievable. Would you be able to mostly,” Futurebound jokes.
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