The year I moved to England, absolute chaos. I walked into a record shop, I bought this album, Hidden Agenda 'Rogue Soul' and Photek 'Modus Operandi'. Happy landing for a French man.

My no 1 fave 
Timeless awesome tune . The bringers of tech

DnB/Techstep/Neurofunk Alltime Favorites

J Majik - Hold You - slowed & reverb

Future Prophecies - Black Dragon

Our way

jungle style drum n bass  created using samples on logic pro x 

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Not sure about dropping this one but this and the last one were more experimental learning processes more than anything, lmk what you think

Konflict - Cyanide  Renegade Hardware 1999

Sector 3 - Ed Rush and Nico

Intelligent Manners & Dynamic - So Sincere (EXPRESSIONS 006 12')

Reboot The System | Part 2

London's Burning (feat. Dom & Roland)

[GLRMA002] Late Night Blues (CD2)

BIG BUD My Spirit

Journey Inwards

LTJ Bukem - Undress Your Mind

BLACK SUN EMPIRE’s first full-length LP brings 10 tracks by these producers, including a collaboration with C4C   and a VIP edit of a collaboration with Concord Dawn plus 2 remixes of BSE Tracks by Kemal and SKC+Chris.su. 
Since the LP was announced  caused quite a buzz

TECH ITCH: "bunch of mad cows making an excellent debut album"
JOHN B : "very heavy, boris the blade is a monster"
ILLSKILLZ: "every single tune would be worth an a-side"
SKC&amp;CHRIS.SU:" solid, sophisticated and very mature album by the Dutch trio. a perfect choice for the synthetic minds..."
IMPULSE: The driving insane LP by BSE boys is simply BUTTER...  it has all ur sonic needs, from the depths of darkness to the smoothest of funkness...Buy this LP without a seconds hesitation!!!
OPTIV: 'i love this album ...every track is solid...they are all crowd rockers''
PENDULUM : "You aren’t ready for half these tunes, seriously! bse taking shit to a totally new level!"
KLUTE: "This is one hell of an album!"
KNOWLEDGE MAG UK : "...such a great piece of art...rinse out drum &amp; bass...raw emotion at the core of your music that really fits   nicely with the tough energy..."
FUTURE PROPHECIES : "Brilliant dark and funky productions from the BSE camp. Devastating dancefloor bizz. Definetely the sound of the future. "

Driving Insane

Arrakis

black sun empire - arrakis

Decoy - Stakka & Skynet

Shadow Era Part 2 (Remasters)

Visible From Space (Aquasky remix - Remaster)

A collection of tracks recorded and mixed by Nico No U Turn featuring collaborations with DJ's mainly from  Barnes, London.   

Most uploaded tracks are from the original DAT masters.  

The 'No U Turn sound' known throughout the drum and bass scene was the culmination of a recording process, honed in over 4 years from 1992 in one room - a studio on the third floor of an industrial building in Acton, London.  

The repetition of DJ's making tracks at No U Turn, often cutting them as exclusive dub plates, playing them out in clubs then seeing the audience reaction before returning to base to try out another idea, led to the creation of a 'new bass sound’.  This essentially involved adding distortion to an already popular bass sound form the world of Jungle/Drum and Bass.  Nico got the idea of adding distortion to the bass from Larry Graham, the great American bass player.  By adding a little distortion to often deep bass lines, the bass could now be heard on even the smallest speakers.  
This bass sound, made No U Turn records stand out from the rest.  You could 'hear' a No U Turn release in a genre where a lot of records often sounded very similar.  

Another feature of a No U Turn record was the final mix down, which was always a live recording of the computer playing back the track whilst Nico 'dubbed' at the desk.  Minimal flicks of eq's and mutes, reverb splashes and sweeping of the bass frequencies were all done live during the final mix down.  
This is why the end of No U Turn record often sounds different from the beginning.  
Things have changed along the way.  
The dubbing process, added a dimension to these drum and bass records.  It made them a bit different. 

All the No U Turn records were completely inspired by the great records of the time.  
Doc Scott’s records in particular.  

BACK IN THE DAY
Nico: “Ed Rush grew up across the street.  His parents had jukebox and encouraged Ed’s love of music.  One summer Ed started playing me all these crazy records, unlike anything I’d ever heard.  These were UK hardcore records.  He had two turntables?  I thought it was weird.   I’d knock on Ed’s door and his mum would say:  “He’s upstairs….he’s in the mix.”  This must have been 1990.  
Ed Rush: “I just want to play out to a live audience, but it’s so hard to get a booking when no one knows who you are.”  
Nico: “How about you have a record with your name on it?  People might get to know you for the music you make and then you’d be nearer to getting a booking because people might have heard of you.”
Nico: “I’ve made records before but never this sort thing!  Let’s give it a go.  I’ve just bought a sampler.”

We made our first record.  Our third was a tune called Bludclot Artattack.   The plan worked.   

The No U Turn ethic was, and still is, about the power of effective collaboration.  
Nico:  “It's just more fun and often turns out better to make music with other people and a computer, rather than alone with the machine. “

Sector 3 - Ed Rush and Nico

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