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DRUMSOUND CONSISTS OF 2 MEMBERS, ANDY AND BEN. EACH MEMBER BRINGS THEIR OWN INDIVIDUALISTIC TALENT TO THIS TIGHT GROUP NOW TIPPED TO BE ONE OF THE HOTTEST DJ / PRODUCER COLLECTIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
ANDY IS THE MAIN PRODUCER /ENGINEER AND HAS BEEN MAKING DRUM AND BASS AND BUILDING HIS STUDIO SINCE 1995 AFTER ATTENDING A STUDIO SKILLS COURSE AT SQUARE CENTRE STUDIOS IN NOTTINGHAM. HE SPECIALISES IN BLENDING HEAVY DISTORTED SUB BASS WITH NOISES RANGING FROM SPACEY TO ALMOST FUNKY. BEN COMES FROM A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BACKGROUND. HE HAS BEEN DJING FOR THE BEST PART OF A DECADE NOW, PLAYING EVERYTHING FROM HIP-HOP, EARLY HARDCORE & JUNGLE TECHNO, AND FINALLY DRUM AND BASS. OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS HE HAS PLAYED ALL AROUND THE WORLD ALONGSIDE THE REST OF THE TECHNIQUE RECORDINGS CREW. THE INITIAL IDEA BEHIND DRUMSOUND WAS FOR LOCAL DJS/PRODUCERS TO JOIN FORCES IN ORDER TO PROGRESS QUICKLY AS ONE TIGHT UNIT INSTEAD OF SLOWLY AS INDIVIDUALS. THE PRODUCERS MADE THE TUNES WHICH THE DJS PLAYED AT THE RESIDENCY THEY HELD AT A LOCAL CLUB NIGHT CALLEDTECHNIQUE (ONE OF THE BIGGEST ECLECTIC BREAK BEAT NIGHTS IN THE MIDLANDS AT THE TIME). AS TIME PROGRESSED THERE TUNES BECAME REKNOWNED FOR TEARING DANCEFLOORS APART AND IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE OTHER BIGGER DJS SHOWED THEIR SUPPORT AND WANTED TO RELEASE AND CUT THE TUNES THEY WERE MAKING. THIS LEAD TO COLLABORATIONS WITH DJ RATTY AND DJ ASCEND (DREAD BASS) WHO WERE REGULAR VISITORS TO WATCH THEM PLAY. AS THE TUNES INCREASED IN QUALITY AND NUMBERS IT WAS TIME TO FIND A VEHICLE TO RELEASE THEM. THEIR VERY FIRST RELEASE WAS THROUGH TRIBE RECORDS BRISTOL WHO WERE PREPARED TO GIVE, AT THIS POINT A VERY EXPERIMENTAL DRUMSOUND, A CHANCE TO SHARE THEIR IDEAS WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. AS THE TUNES WENT OUT THEY UTILISED THE MONEY TO BUY BIGGER AND BETTER EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR STUDIO. AFTER RELEASING MORE TUNES THROUGH TRIBE AND WITH RELEASES ON SEVERAL OTHER LARGER LABELS ON THE CARDS IT WAS TIME TO THINK ABOUT STARTING THEIR OWN LABEL. AS THEY NEARED THE END OF 1998 DRUMSOUND LINKED WITH ANOTHER TECHNIQUE RESIDENT SIMON BASSLINE SMITH OF ABSOLUTE AND ABSOLUTE 2 FAME. THE TWO PARTIES QUICKLY BECAME REGULAR SPARRING PARTNERS AND SOON WERE MAKING TUNES ON A DAILY BASIS. THEIR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND MUSICAL TASTES WERE COMPLETELY IDENTICAL AND IT WAS SOON DECIDED TO FORM A COMBINED IMPRINT IN ORDER TO SHOWCASE THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND JOINT PROJECTS. TECHNIQUE RECORDINGS WAS BORN. SINCE THEN THE TWO PARTIES HAVE GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH BY COMBINING SIMONS OLD SKOOL BACKGROUND WITH DRUMSOUNDS NEW SKOOL IDEAS TO FORM AN EXPLOSIVE PARTNERSHIP RANGING FROM FUNKY TO DAMN RIGHT NASTY. DRUMSOUND & SIMON BASSLINE SMITH ARE NOW WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE LEADING HEAVYWEIGHT DJ/PRODUCTION DUOS IN THE WORLD WITH RELEASES ON THE BIGGEST DRUM'N'BASS LABELS SUCH AS PROTOTYPE, BREAKBEAT KAOS, V RECORDINGS, GOOD LOOKING, LIQUID V, FULL CYCLE, CREATIVE SOURCE, RENEGADE HARDWARE, TOV, FORMATION RECORDS, CIA, TO NAME BUT A FEW, AND A DISCOGRAPHY AS LONG AS YOUR ARM ITS EASY TO SEE WHY. WITH THE SUCCESS OF THERE FIRST ALBUM NATURE OF THE BEAST AND NOW WITH SISTER LABEL WORLD-WIDE AUDIO RECORDINGS (WAR) REACHING ITS 13TH RELEASE, IT SEEMS THERE IS NO STOPPING DRUMSOUND, BASSLINE SMITH AND THE TECHNIQUE RECORDINGS MUSIC EMPIRE. | ||
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