Thanks for checkin out my page, but before I get into all the biog & track download stuff I thought I’d give you a quick rundown of my music career so far.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....... nah, well actually 1990 in Luton! I recorded Music Takes You. This was my first solo project signed to the legendary d&b label Moving Shadow. It all seemed to kick off for me from that very first track (its all a blur now) but somehow I’m still here today touring the world djing and doing my thing!
Around 1998 while touring & recording for Good Looking Records I started my own signature label 720 Degrees which i still run, and have since produced music for Metalheadz, Charge Recordings, Moving Shadow and in the last year the mighty Hospital Records.
Im currently in the process of launching a new project called 'Blame Music'. This is an imprint label aimed at getting back to the beats! It will allow me to focus on pushing a more diverse and experimental sound, while stripping down the layers and going back to what got me hooked on this music from day 1.
Dont forget you can hear the soundclips of all the latest tracks and get the latest news and info on my website www.720-degrees.com
Anyway, thanks for reading, feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment... thanks for all the support!
Blame
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Click here to download tracks from Blame & 720 Degrees Music
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Blame : Stay Forever / Strikeforce (Charge Recordings) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : Hiro / Apocalypto (Blame Music) LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL
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Blame : Hold The Sunshine / Panic Stations (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : Batcave / Harlem (Charge Recordings)
Blame : Hindsight - Friendly Fire EP (Hospital Records)
Blame : Out There / Rush (Charge Recordings)
Blame & The Pedge : Lift Me Up / Memories (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : Solar Burn / Solar Burn VIP (Charge Recordings)
Blame : Guardian Angel / Enduro (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame & The Pedge : Avalon (Weapons Of Mass Creation 3 LP) (Hospital Records)
Blame : Skyline VIP / The Bionic Man (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : Thunder Run / Beholder (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : The Turning Point Album (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame : Skyline / Desert Planet (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
Blame & The Pedge : Magnitude / The Senate (720 Degrees) DOWNLOAD NOW
COMING SOON:
Blame : Keep The Sunshine (feat. Diane Charlemagne) / Flashback (720 Degrees) JULY 08
BLAME BIOGRAPHY
Blame is one of the most innovative producers on the drum & bass scene - an accolade hard won over years of consistently breaking musical boundaries in an attempt to bring true innovation to the music that he loves. It all began over ten years ago when, whilst in the studio with college friend Tony Justice, Blame started to create tracks which would be synonymous with the early hardcore scene. Music Takes You, a solo project for Moving Shadow, saw him break into the UK charts and become number one in the dance chart; many books charting the early days of dance music have since credited this tune as a seminal moment in what was to soon become drum & bass.
After experiencing such early chart success, Blame decided to focus on his musical direction, and received critical acclaim for tunes such as Planet Neptune, also released on Moving Shadow. In late 1996, he joined LTJ Bukems Good Looking Records, and it was here that he began to try out more new sounds, soon becoming one of the labels most important artists. Blame mixed the second in the famous Logical Progression series. He not only made waves with innovative, space-age tunes such as Visions Of Mars and Alpha:7, but he also became one of Good Lookings best DJs, touring the world with LTJ Bukem.
In 1997, Blame set up his own label - 720 Degrees. Cuban Lynx & Solitude were the first release, and since then has used the label as a platform for innovative drum & bass, releasing his own tunes alongside tracks from Odyssey, Seba, Future Engineers and Pariah amongst others. 1999 saw the release of Two Revolutions, a 720 compilation album that showcased the labels increasingly dancefloor-orientated sound. It was a direction in which Blames own music was heading. His 1999 Between Worlds EP featured a fiercely robotic tune called Mechanism, which seemed to manifest the evolution of his musical vision. "I wanted to get tracks like that out on 720 as much as I could", he explains. "It crosses the board from the more musical styles of drum & bass to the more dancefloor sound. For me, thats the future, that versatility."
In 2001, Blame left Good Looking Records to devote more time to running 720 Degrees full time, it was then he mixed the CD 720 Revolution and re-invented his sound for the changes that were soon to follow. In 2004 musical collaborations with Mampi Swift on Charge Recordings and 12" releases on Metalheadz have seen Blames sound taken to a new level.
After his debut release on Metalheadz in 2004 (Burnout / Medusa) , the Rise Of The Machines EP swiftly followed on Charge Recordings, which saw Blame take a slightly heavier dancefloor approach. In May Blame also had two tracks appearing on Mampi Swifts Music Forever LP and was part of the Charge UK tour with Swift and Metalheadz club nights in the UK, as well as continuously touring Europe, and the USA.
720 Degrees kicked off a busy release schedule in 2005 with the first release in March by K.O.T.P (Blame & The Pedge) entitled Krypton Factor / Android, and swiftly following that in April was a release showcasing Blames trademark deeper vibes with Shadows Of Technology. Further work for Metalheadz followed in the form of Psychotropic on the Winter of Content compilation and another single The Search / Landspeed, were both released in autumn 2005.
In 2006 Blames album The Turning Point was released on 720 Degrees. Tracks included the club smash Solar Burn, Skyline, Congress, Desert Planet and Sabotage to name a few. The support on the tracks was huge and included all the big players in the drum and bass scene, firmly cementing Blames position in the future of drum and bass.
2007 was a big year for Blame. The anthemic Avalon appeared on Hospital records Weapons Of Mass Creation LP, and the anticipated Solar Burn VIP dropped on Mampi Swifts Charge Recordings. There are exciting 12" projects in the pipeline for Charge Recordings, Hospital Records and 720 Degrees all pencilled in for early 2008...watch this space!
A wicked party with Myself & MC Stride at Phreaktion, Club Bonbon in Shanghai...Sept 2007
Me & MC Wrec at Hospitality @ Heaven 25-5-07
Helsinki, Finland with the LAOS crew 8-9-07
