22 Frontlines
RIOT GOING ON
The wild beats of Angolan Kuduro music has After this Riot started DJing and producing as BSS, Riot still plays, produces d&b and is now
been big in Lisbon clubs since the late ‘90s and drum & bass as well as playing drums for other starting his own label, Faster Music. “Our goal is
Buraka Som Sistema - AKA Lil’ John, Riot and projects. He joined Cooltrain Crew, the foremost to release drum & bass, dubstep and grime 12”s
Conductor – have fused it with 21st century Portuguese d&b crew, and some years later periodically,” says Riot. “Our catalogue will focus
electronics to create a whole new sound. Now signed what is to this day the biggest d&b hit in on both national and international artists whose
this electro ghettotech take on their favourite Portugal, a remix of 80s pop rock track ‘Chiclete’ music share the Faster vision.”
South West African music is corrupting by Taxi. This was first of a series of successful
dancefloors all over the world. remixes signed by Riot that brought pop acts Their first release features two drum & bass tracks
to dancefloors relying solely on the power of by Riot, ‘Automan’ / Ciclops’, and is out now
However, band member Riot is also a bass. Most of his remix work came out on a CD on djdownload.com. It will also have a limited
prominent drum & bass DJ / producer. “Once compilation, ‘Cooltrain Crew Southeastern edition vinyl release with exclusive artwork signed
I went to a college party in Lisbon, entered D’N’B Flavas RMXs 2000 – 2006’. by graphic designer and artist, Paulo Arraiano.
the room and my mind was blown away by the Faster Music 002 will be a dubstep release by Riot
beats and the breaks. That was rock for the Producing / DJing d&b, playing drums and & Ego entitled ‘Mermaid Dub’.
dancefloor! I danced all night and my musical producing music with partner Lil’ John was his
life changed forever,” says Rui Pité, aka DJ Riot, life until Buraka Som Sistema hit in 2006. Even www.myspace.com/riotdj
recollecting his first contact with drum & bass. in the midst of an international success story such www.faster-music.com
a Dutch DJ called Olivier Serbrock, and we had a NUDE have their roots (surprisingly) in the
weekly night going in Shanghai. When I returned EBM community and have already released two
to Sweden I really missed d&b because there isn’t albums in a mixed breakbeat / drum & bass /
much more of a scene here than in China and techno style and they have a massive fanbase in
figured that a label is the best way I could get a Germany. We’re bringing their best drum & bass
scene started here. tracks out in non-album versions for DJs.
WHO IS INVOLVED WITH RUNNING IT? Celt Islam is a Manchester based producer with a
I’m running the whole label group with Mikael unique Mid-East sound. It’s dark and deep and
Arthursson here in Gothenburg. He does most the first instrumental single ‘Quest’ will certainly
of the business side type of work, and I’m in go down well. Kenzie is also from England and
charge of the creative parts. is working on a tight, rock influenced album.
The rhythms are all drum & bass so the tracks
WHAT’S THE CONCEPT BEHIND THE LABEL? will work great in a mix, but his music also has a
The label is dealing purely with drum & bass huge potential to break out into the mainstream.
for DJs, mainly (but not exclusively) tracks on Lyrics are tough and aggressive but the sound is
ORANGE JUICE
the dark side. We’re looking for solid tracks somewhat less dark and more guitar driven than
– the future classics. Nothing too harsh or NUDE. We’ll see the first two Kenzie singles out
experimental, as we are trying to use our music before the summer.
Clubsteam Orange is a new drum & bass label to build an actual club scene over here. We’re
based in Sweden, we caught up with co-owner going to try to keep up one to three new releases FORTHCOMING RELEASES?
Håkan Ludvigson to find out what they’ve got in a month. The releases will all go out on CD with We do have some bigger names that have been
store for us… CDJshop.com and online. showing interest working with us later on, but
we want to build recognition by producing solid
WHY HAVE YOU SET THE LABEL UP? CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR tracks by names that are new to the scene. We
I’ve been running techno and house labels for a KEY ARTISTS? have 11 planned releases right now, but are always
few years now but I only got into the d&b scene NUDE have signed with us for five EPs / singles looking for new material. We’re encouraging
a couple of years ago while living in China, this year. These are all real solid releases not people to hit us up and say hi on
spinning techno for a living. I started getting too far from the sound of the latest works by www.myspace.com/clubstreamorange
involved in building the Chinese d&b scene with Pendulum with full vocals on some of them.
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