Although Orlando’s dance-music history is ruled by breaks, there’s always been a cult here for drum & bass, thanks to the trail blazed by Orlando jungle legend AK1200. For this classic heavyweight ...
In 2013, drum & bass is (sadly) not in the forefront of the dance music scene like it was in the 1990s. During the "electronica" phase, you had artists like Goldie flying the flag for the dnb scene, ...
Roni Size didn’t invent electronic dance music (EDM), but the British DJ and producer surely can be considered one of dance music’s early innovators. As the leader of the drum-and-bass collective ...
“It’s like a part of my body,” says Jozef Van Wissem his instrument of choice, the lute. “The complexity of it is what keeps me going because you can always find something new.” The dark folk artist ...
Roni Size is a bass legend. In the early ‘90s, the Bristol, U.K.-based producer and DJ helped to create and define drum ‘n’ bass’s sonic signatures — all breakneck rhythms and thwacking sub-bass — and ...
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When jungle music first came out of England’s slums in the early ‘90s as the wayward child of techno and rave, few purists ever imagined it would evolve into something as refined as what Roni Size and ...
The 41-year-old DJ, who won the Mercury Music Prize in 1997 with the Reprazent collective, allegedly attacked Jane Andrews after an argument in July, The Guardian reports. Andrews told jurors at ...
Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Beyonce & Jay-Z, Smashing Pumpkins with a bunch of guests, Nico tribute, Lord Huron, Seu Jorge, Glassjaw/Quicksand, BadBadNotGood in Prospect Park, Kings of Leon on ...
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Some urban music legends claim Roni Size served as the best man when drum and bass were married; others say he performed the ceremony. Either way, the Bristol native knows the couple well, launching ...
U.K. jungle-music ace Roni Size may well be the one artist who can rescue the ailing genre from its unfortunate late-'90s run-in with widespread visibility and commercial success, as well as from the ...