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Icicle / Noah D
ICICLE NOAH D

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PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
Well, I’m Icicle, aka Jeroen Snik, from The Netherlands. I’ve always been into
music, playing different instruments, and pretty early on I got into making music
with the computer. When I was about 15-years-old some friends took me to a WHAT’S THE SCENE LIKE IN PORTLAND, OREGON
drum & bass night and I was hooked. Around this time I was experimenting with THESE DAYS?
turntables as well and soon started buying vinyl. When I was 18 I got a residency Portland is a fairly small city but the scene is very healthy. My boy Ronin and I run
at this local night called Something Else alongside Switch. We quickly got on the Portland’s main d&b weekly called Crush. It’s been running for almost six years
beats together and after a few years tracks, both together and solo, were getting now and the last two years have been stronger than ever. Every headliner that
picked up by labels. comes through loves it and we have a dedicated following so there’s often just as
many people out for local nights as there are for big headliners.
WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?
I’m working on several things with a few different producers. Obviously there HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND?
are some new things with Switch and Nymfo. I’ve just returned from a trip to It’s deﬁnitely diverse. The thing that originally caught my attention was the fact
England and I was in the studio with Commix, Alix Perez, Sabre and Spectrasoul. that d&b was so diverse in its moods and structure. It seemed to explore more
I’ve been working on a tune with Verse as well, so there are a few interesting areas of music than any other genre and then cram it all into one drum-fueled
collaborations ﬂoating about at the moments I’d say. Ready to hit vinyl phenomenon. I’ve always been very into percussive instruments and music so it
somewhere this year. hit all the right buttons for me and I think that’s reﬂected in my tunes which may
feature elaborate edits to half-step beats to super technical layered, distorted
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE? tear-out basslines to simple sub-lines for the lighter stuff as well as vocals and
I think my sound is a deep, minimal but groovy kind of drum & bass. I like to cinematic soundscapes.
combine musical elements with deep ﬂowing basslines and minimal but deﬁnitely
rolling breaks. However I also like to try completely different things from time WHAT PROJECTS ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING
to time. I’ve heard people say my sound is a sort of reincarnated form of the ON?
old Bristol sound, which is partly true. Though I think my biggest inﬂuences are I’ve been working on some exciting collaborations with Counterstrike, Focus of
people like Photek and Jonny L or more new school artists such as D-Bridge, Basic Operations, Gremlinz, SPL and Chino as well as remix projects for Eye-D
Commix and Calibre. Outside of drum & bass I’ve always been inspired by hip and Autumn. By the time this is published there should be a few new things in
hop, techno and jazz. the shops or on their way: ‘Blueberry Jam’ (which was also included on Sappo’s
mix-CD, ‘Mixtape: Impossible’) backed with ‘Sunset Highway’ on Silver’s Nemesis
WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT VIEW ON THE D&B Recordings; a single on SPL’s Lost Soul Recordings; a single on Gasm; a tune
SCENE? called ‘It’s You’ coming out on Rubik; my collab with Counterstrike called ‘Twin
Globally I think D&B is looking very good right now, obviously there’s a lot more Paradox’ which is set to be included on their ‘Insubordination’ LP on Algorythm
going on in England than in most other countries, but pretty much any major later this year. L Double and Deﬁne are starting up a new label called DRKFLX
city around the world has decent nights and an interesting D&B scene. It’s good and have grabbed a couple of my tunes for a massive LP project they’re putting
to see more and more international producers popping up and keeping things together. I also have a release coming soon on BIOS with Mutt called ‘Can It Be’.
diverse. In the dubstep realm I have a single lined up for BBS and I’ll be contributing to
MC XYZ’s B2B Sessions mix-CD project in September along with Circle K & MC
WHAT FORTHCOMING RELEASES DO YOU HAVE? Collaborator.
I did a twelve for Subtitles, ‘Weak Moments’ / ‘Echoes’, and there will be a
twelve on Shogun Limited, ‘Time To Remember’ / ‘Running Scared’ which is a WHAT’S NEXT?
collaboration with Nymfo. I also made a 12” for Osiris Music with Switch due out I intend on being in the d&b game for quite some time. My intention for a while
soon and another collaboration with Switch ft. Alter:Native, ‘Call Girl’ / ‘Do I Move now has been to get my name out there and play all over the world while making
You’, is out now on Lucky Devil. After this there will be more things on labels like tunes that will catch a lot of ears and smash danceﬂoors. I just completed my
Shogun, Renegade and Critical. ﬁrst U.S. tour, which, was a smashing success and I’ve also been making some
dubstep as well, often with my boy Roommate – big tings coming from us in the
WHERE CAN WE SEE YOU DJ NEXT? dubstep scene!
I’ve got dates in Holland, the UK and Belgium. For an up to date DJ schedule visit
www.myspace.com/iciclednb. www.myspace.com/noahd
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