keen to know go learn and show till my head goes ba boomba boom bom

Electronic music producer hailing from Latvia. Mostly know for his Breaks project called 'Under This'.

Contacts:

kondrashov@inbox.lv

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Established on the concrete coast of NYC in 2000, Downbeat Productions have been continuously pushing their sound of bassline breaks in full force onto the scene. With a slew of quality releases under their belt, Downbeat’s catalogue truly shines in top form. Each and every release is carefully selected to match the labels well known style and sound in order for them to continue their reign as the leaders of basslline breakbeat.

With their roster of large scale talent such as Backdraft, Dub Elements, Ribs &amp; IG88, Specimen A, Access Denied, Left/Right, Digital Pizza, Under This, Dom Almond, Ceos, The Flashback Project and DJ Mutiny to name a few, you know there’s no stopping the future of this label.

As well as their releases, the Downbeat cru have also put together many one offs and weeklies all over the North East. To showcase their talents and the labels sound, Downbeat’s DJ’S have also performed in all corners of the US as well as in Spain, the UK, and Canada.

There’s plenty more madness planned ahead, with loads of monthly singles, ep’s and albums ready to roll. So keep your ears open.

Ben Smithson AKA 'D-ranged' is 27 year old Cornish producer Benjamin Smithson; who has been crafting his production skills since back in 2000. Hearing the sounds of the nuskool breakbeat movement was enough for Ben to focus on creating sound. Bens first release was with the Newquay based House & breaks label 'Play Recordings 'D-ranged' EP 'To The Floor'

following this were a long line of Heavy bassline breakbeat releases, with labels such as: Unstable,DownBeat,Mechanoise,Basstard and Bomtraxx; D-ranged moved throughout the scene, dropping tracks such as 'A love song' which rocked dance floors worldwide and helped begin the Dj caree, seeing D-ranged play nation and world wide, Playing to crowds of thosands at night such as 'Drop Beat not Bombs'. Along with his breakbeat work, D-ranged has worked in the electro scene under the name Benhashkey working with lables Breakin Even. His first single as benhash key 'Saulted' hit number 1 in many stores worldwide.

2008 saw D-ranged take a year out to write techno, house and hip hop. Now starting 2009 he has set his sites back to breaks and after seeing and an inspirational set by Rusko at the Glade festival summer of 2008, D-ranged is turning his hand to dubstep and will have his first release out in 2009 along with a stream of singles and remixs following his heavy breaks sound.


 MySpace URL: 
	
  www.myspace.com/djproducerdranged 

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