23-11-2009 @ 14:31
Jakeone, half of Process's first album act Toob, first discovered a love of electronic dance music as a young teenager stumbling around the early 90s free rave scene. Captivated by the energy of Detroit's deep bleeps meeting raucous London breaks and balls-out hardcore techno, he soon started playing the odd record at dirty basement parties and piecing beats together on a cranky old Emu Emax sampler.
The first proper break came landing a job at London's Orinoco Studios working with likes of Th...
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09-09-2009 @ 15:57
They were a brilliant London duo while they lasted. But the artistic differences that split the Catz were a bit more extreme than those of the average duo - a near car crash in France that almost took out a writer for DJ magazine, one person drinking for four, fistfights in Ibiza, cross-dressing, and a few hundred too many Sundays spent at London's endless afterparty scene.
Thankfully, even after falling so far off the wagon you get run over by the wagon following, you can still come back. Dan...
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11-08-2009 @ 10:58
Nick Verwey is an Australian producer who, like Claude von Stroke, turned out his first few wonky tracks on surprisingly old-school technology - in CVS's case Reason, and in Nick's case Fruityloops. He started out making his own tracks to play out at a few Melbourne residencies, and his take on the brassy, funky and wonky sound - the oldschool vocal snippets, the horn section, the stumbling rhythm of Horn Rash? Well, we think he's a bit of a talent.
Which is why we've paired him this time roun...
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