“We started messing around with a sound we first called ‘rave’, then ‘jungle’, then jungle techno’ and then it became “drum ‘n’ bass’.”
there’s no other music like it, you know, it has it’s own tempo, it moves in its own way and keeps reinventing itself. How did Reprazent start? When I first started out making records we got approached by a few independent labels, but we set up our own, called Full Cycle and through putting records out on the underground we started getting approached by major labels like Talkin’ Loud and Mo Wax, because they’d become familiar with the sound. Once we’d decided to sign to Talkin’ Loud, we recorded and delivered the album. Ten I was asked “So when are you gonna go live then?” and I said “Live??” I’d never even considered it before in my life! Once we’d talked it through and worked out how to do it, I put my studio on the stage and we decided to go out and be a band. We didn’t really have a name. We knew we were doing something very different for our scene and we knew that we had to represent, so that’s where we got the name from. Reprazent’s New Forms won the Mercury Music Prize back in 1997. To what extent do you feel that this accolade helped raise the consciousness of people to drum ‘n’ bass? It was a great moment for us. I’ve got no qualifications, I never finished school, I doubted myself
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