This weeks show, rolling out a Dillinja special... CALCULUS BEATS!

There are few producers on the Drum & Bass scene who are as respected and revered as Dillinja. With his trademark combination of dirty stomach-churning basslines and tighter than tight beats, his reputation has been secured as one of the most influential producers in Drum & Bass history, as well as one of the scene’s most called-upon remixers, having worked with everyone from David Bowie to Bjork and Basement Jaxx. A true connoisseur of sound, Dillinja’s mighty 96k Valve Sound System is recognised the world over as being second to none. 

It is an often cited fact that by the age of 23, Dillinja already had 50 releases under his belt. His initial records were all on white label, including his first ever release ‘Tear Off Your Chest’, produced with Batmix, but within a couple of years he went on to form a myriad of labels such as Cybotron, Logic, Target, IQ and Deadly Vinyl, the latter being home to such Dillinja early classics as ‘Sovereign Melody’ and ‘Deadly Deep Subs’.

Dillinja’s introduction to Kevin King aka Lemon D in the mid 1990s through a mutual friend resulted in a partnership which soon gave birth to Valve Recordings in 1997, so named after the old Shaka pre-amps used in reggae sound systems. Starting as it meant to go on, the label’s first release was Dillinja’s brutal ‘Violent Killa’, backed with Lemon D’s ‘12.01’. Test Recordings was set up as a subsidiary label at around the same period – a more anonymous, dancefloor-based label. In between these various releases on his Valve labels, Dillinja signed an album deal with London Records in 2000, a move that resulted in the production of the classic ‘Cybotron’ LP in 2001, an album highly acclaimed by the dance music establishment which cemented Dillinja’s position as one of the true leaders in his field. 

Nowhere has this been more apparent than with the Valve Sound System. Fed up with playing on second rate club sound systems which they felt didn’t do their tracks justice, Dillinja, utilising his vast knowledge and experience in the field, decided, with Lemon D, to build his own system – the Valve Sound System – the world’s first sound system designed and built specifically for drum’n’bass and its frequencies of deep bass which were all too often ignored by most club systems. The mighty 96k Valve Sound System made its mind blowing club debut at London’s Fabric nightclub in May 2001, and since then it has extensively toured the UK, with plans for the system to be taken overseas in the near future. 

In May 2002, Dillinja co-produced Valve Recordings’ debut album ‘Big Bad Bass’ with Lemon D, an LP which aimed to reflect the ethos of the Valve Sound System and included dancefloor smashers such as Dillinja’s ‘Thugged Out Bitch’ and Valve Sound System anthem ‘It Ain’t Too Loud’.

LazerFM 12/9/16 (Dillinja special)

This weeks show, rolling out a Goldie special>>>

By 1991, Goldie had become fascinated by the British breakbeat music scene when his girlfriend, DJ Kemistry, introduced him to the pioneering Jungle/Drum & Bass producers Dennis "Dego" McFarlane and Mark "Marc Mac" Clair, known as 4hero. He went on to execute some design and A&R work for 4hero's Reinforced record label.

In 1992, Goldie made his first album appearance, by contributing a short vocal piece to the track "Rufige" by Icelandic group, Ajax Project. Since then the track has been repeatedly misattributed to Goldie himself, perhaps because of his subsequent use of "Rufige" as a moniker for his own ambitions.

His releases Killa Muffin b/w Krisp Biscuit and the Dark Rider EP were released under the alias "Rufige Cru". Recently, he has used the alias "Rufige Kru" to release collaborations with other producers such as Heist. His track "Terminator", released under the name "Metalheadz" in 1992, was a hit in the Jungle scene and is noted for pioneering the use of time stretching. In 1993, he released Angel, another 12" on the Synthetic Hardcore Phonography label. 1994 saw him setting up his own record label, Metalheadz.

His first studio album, Timeless, followed in 1995. Timeless entered the UK Albums Chart at number seven. The album fused the breakbeats and basslines common in Jungle with orchestral textures and soul vocals by Diane Charlemagne. The album's title track was a 21-minute symphonic piece. "Inner City Life", a track from the album, reached number 39 in the UK Singles Chart. Timeless helped to popularise Drum & Bass as a form of musical expression. The music critic Simon Reynolds noted that Goldie's credentials as a musical innovator – and particularly as one of the key driving forces of innovation in the Jungle/Breakbeat scene – were exceptional. "Goldie revolutionised Jungle not once but thrice", he noted in The Wire magazine, continuing, "First there was 'Terminator' (pioneering the use of time stretching), then 'Angel' (fusing Diane Charlemagne's live vocal with David Byrne/Brian Eno samples to prove that Hardcore could be more 'conventionally' musical), now there's 'Timeless', a 22-minute Hardcore symphony."

1996 saw the release of his Toasted Both Sides Please remix of the Bush song Swallowed, which topped charts in the USA and Canada.

Goldie released his second album, Saturnz Return, in 1998. The album's opening track, "Mother", is an hour-long orchestral Drum & Bass piece. The album featured appearances by David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and KRS-One.

In 2002, Price said that he had been working for three years on a film called Sine Tempus, described as a coming-of-age story of a young paintbrush artist. In 2006, he announced the soundtrack as his new album. The album was released via the Metalheadz website in 2008, but the film has not been released.

Price is known for his work as the leader of Rufige Kru. The group has no fixed members and has included Drum & Bass producers such as Technical Itch, Heist, Cujo, Agzilla, Da Ice, Danny J, Doc Scott and Rob Playford.

March 2013 saw the release of The Alchemist: The Best of Goldie 1992–2012, featuring prominent tracks from throughout Price's musical career.

LazerFM 10/10/16 (Goldie special)

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My first show of 2018, 2 hours of vibes... Soul, Hip-Hop, 140, Hardcore, Jungle/DNB!

AfterDarkRadio 2/1/18 (New Year special)

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AfterDarkRadio Weekender 27/5/18

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Feeding quality dancefloor tracks into the scene for over 20 years, Spirit (real name Duncan Busto), began his music career working in the Redeye Records shop in Ipswich in the East of England. This somewhat unlikely hub also spawned Photek, Klute and Paul Arnold’s Certificate 18 Records, and it was with Klute that Spirit made his first track. 

Teaching himself his craft as a producer, Spirit went on to record on labels like Timeless and CIA before starting his own label, Inneractive. 

His sometime partnership with Digital, following the ‘Phantom Force’ project, and increasing acceptance of his music by scene bigwigs allowed him to go full time just before the Millennium.

He was a prolific producer who went on to release on top labels like Metalheadz, Renegade Hardware, Commercial Suicide, V Recordings and Dispatch. 

The sad loss of Spirit comes just over a year after other producer mainstays Marcus Intalex and Tango passed away.

AfterDarkRadio (Spirit Tribute Show) 27/8/18

My first show of 2019, a New Year "Old Skool" special.

AfterDarkRadio 14/1/19 (New Year Old Skool special)

AfterDarkRadio 11/2/19

AfterDarkRadio 25/2/19

www.onlyoldskool.com 27/2/19

AfterDarkRadio 11/3/19

JUNGLE | DRUM & BASS | DJ

Check me every other Monday, 8pm-10pm on www.afterdarkradio.org and monthly on www.onlyoldskool.com

BEATS, BASS, VIBES!!!

Music's always been an important part of my life, even before I started DJ'ing. Growing up I had a lot of different influences around me. Hip-Hop was my first love back in the early 90's and around 1991/2 my older brother introduced me to the Acid House sound, I never looked back! I've always been into my breaks. And Hardcore, Jungle/Drum & Bass was what it was all about for me. I play across the board, dance floor, deep, dark as well as the more "musical" side, I love my breaks and if I'm feeling it I'll play it! I've played out locally on a regular basis over the last 20 years as part of the Platinum:beats and Sik Mix crews and since 2015 I've been pushing the radio vibes. A monthly resident on www.onlyoldskool.com was followed by a weekly show on LazerFM. I left the latter after a year, before joining the After Dark radio.

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