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Words Adam Anonymous
Photography Seth Underwood
NEW GENERATIONS
There aren’t many more personable players in drum & bass than BCee, aka 32-year-old Norfolk-based producer / label boss
Steve Jeffery. After a career to date peppered with collaborative tunes with Lomax, latterly of Ram Records fame, and as the
driving force behind the Spearhead imprint, however, it’s taken until now for Jeffery to unleash his own debut EP, ‘Generations’.
“I’m quite a crap producer!” announces Jeffery imaginations may wish to skip ahead instead Mediterranean Sea out of my window. I’ve still got
by way of explanation when we venture that of learning the inspiration for the third tune, loads of friends out there, so I’ll be going out this
‘Generations’ has been a while coming. It’s ‘Glitter Balls’… summer, but not particularly for the clubbing.”
not the most ringing endorsement to kick-
start an interview, yet that keen sense of self- “The day I wrote that track my girlfriend got For now Jeffery has his hands full with
deprecation is, you suspect, part the reason why me into bath bombs from [fragrant high street forthcoming Spearhead product (plus ongoing
he hasn’t ventured into fully-fledged solo artist cosmetics store] Lush,” Jeffery chuckles. “While I ‘little brother’ label Future Retro), including
waters already. was writing the track I noticed I had a glittery ball- a BCee solo album featuring a raft of guest
bag from the bath bomb! vocalists, which is planned for release next year.
“I was always writing tracks with Lomax,” he Before that, compilation ‘Moodswings 2’ arrives
expands, after initial laughter subsides. “We used “I was toying with the idea of calling the EP ‘The this summer, boasting tracks from S.P.Y., Utah
to share a studio in Norwich. I’ve got the ideas Daytime TV’ EP,” he expands, breaking down Jazz, RedEyes and BCee himself, as well as a stash
and everything else but I figured I had one of the the blissful deep beat-craft of Dick Van Dyke- of remixes on its CD release.
best producers available, in my opinion, in the influenced closer ‘Diagnosis Murder’, featuring
scene at the minute. He’s still miles ahead of me S.P.Y. “I used to lose my days to daytime TV, “If I was sensible and only doing it for the money
in production.” but at the moment I work four days a week for a I’d just release vinyl, stick everything else on
company called Kadesh Education, working with iTunes and Beatport, and not bother doing
Don’t let such modest talk catalyse thoughts that excluded pupils and running a farm project. The CDs,” he considers. “But I want to make drum
Jeffery’s tunes aren’t worth the vinyl they’re about label has gone back to being more of a hobby, & bass I can give to people that don’t necessarily
to pressed on, though, because in ‘Generations’ but a hobby that takes up far more time than think they like drum & bass. When I’m doing
he encapsulates an expert love for rolling liquid it should!” CDs I’m thinking ‘Can anybody that just likes
drum & bass, with touches of endearing sentiment music stick this in their car CD player and listen
and a cheeky brand of humour. It’s a far cry from the sunny climes of Ibiza, to it all the way through without thinking “This all
where Jeffery resided for a couple of years, but he sounds the same”?’
“My nan died and I wanted to give a tribute wouldn’t swap his current home for the Balearics
without it being some big cheesy thing,” he right now… “My mum likes some tracks,” he admits with
reveals. “When she was alive she was in the ’paper a final laugh, “I don’t know if that’s actually a
because there was five generations of our family “The funny thing is everybody gets the image of good thing…!”
alive at once, so I thought ‘Generations’ was a Ibiza being the party island, but when you live
good title.” there all year round it’s a very different vibe. You
feel like everybody’s intruding on your island. I
Followed by a Logistics remix of BCee’s don’t actually miss that clubbing vibe at all, but
‘Consumed’, those with particularly vivid I do miss it as a beautiful place: I could see the
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