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Violent Drum Records

1993, and In the suburban borders of North Kent/South East London there was a palpable feeling of optimism. Matt Frost and Pete Diggens had been dreaming of big things ever since the demolition of the Berlin wall in ’89, after all, they now actually HAD a future to look forward to despite the fact that young people were still living under the repressive Chintzy grip of Margaret Thatcher’s grey offspring. They also now had the punk fuel of acid house and Public Enemy in their veins and were determined to bring their own version of the noise to 1930’s housing estates where they lived.
 
Frost and Diggens, formed Violent drum in 1993 in a one room garage behind a parade of shops on the corner of Central Avenue and Wickham Street in Welling, Kent. The studio had been built by a friend, with carpet and keyboards screwed to the walls and racks of effects where dusty pots of paint used to sit. The studio was owned by their older friends who were following in the footsteps of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and owned the grocers and newsagents in the parade of shops on Central Avenue but let Frost and Diggens use it during evening downtime.
 
Musically Frost and Diggens had both been inspired by the DIY spirit of the acid house scene but were not content to limit their influences to the normal acid influences of the day. They were passionate not only about the sounds of Chuck D and Flav’s Bomb Squad, but about the beauty of David Sylvian’s solo albums, Basic Channel’s ghost note groove, Stakker Humanoid’s raw excitement, Dead can dance’s otherworldlness and the ‘music concrete’ of swiss sample punks the Young Gods. They would spend the week, gathering ideas, then load up their Casio FZ1 and Akai S950 samplers and get on the bus to the studio on a Friday evening with the aim of emerging on Sunday morning with a 9 minute masterpiece burned onto cassette.

Nearly all the Violent Drum records were made this way.

Violent Drum threw the occasional party in London and released a stream of vinyl from 1993-96 and finished when Matt and Pete were discovered by Andy Weatherall at Sabresonic which led them to sign to Leftfield’s Hard Hands label in 1997 as Dark Globe.

Violent Drum’s output connected with dance music lovers worldwide, tracks made it onto compilation albums, featured in the charts and sets of the top DJ’s from all over the world. DJ’s such as Colin Dale, Ninja Tune’s Matt Black, Joey Beltram, Billy Nasty, Fabio Paras, Leftfield’s Paul Daley, Dave Angel, Darren Emerson, Carl Cox, DJ Three, Sasha & Digweed, Terry Farley and the man everyone looked to at the time, Mr. Andrew Weatherall regularly played Violent Drum vinyl.
 
Original vinyl copies can still be found on the second-hand market, for a hefty price. The duo regularly receive requests from fans around the world to find spare vinyl copies of ‘Silver Surfer’, ‘X O Surf’ (featured on an R&S compilation), ‘Your Nemesis’ and ‘Mondo Scuro’ (cited by many as the first ever ‘Breaks’ record pioneering the genre). Unfortunately, stocks of these ran out years ago and current labels regularly request to re-issue the tracks.
 
Matt Frost: “We are proud to bring these tunes back to life again for you.”  

The complete works of Violent Drum Recordings released between 1993-96 will be rereleased in chronological order from August 2020.

The Deep’s ‘Silver Surfer’, ‘X O Surf’ and the ‘X O Surf remixes’ will be available digitally and on limited edition double vinyl from September 4 2020. Distributed by Republic of Music.

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