Member Since: 12/8/2006
Band Website: undeadarmy.org
Influences: Bad Company, Fun Loving Criminals, Moloko, The Wiseguys, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dog & Dre, Warren G (first gangsta rap album I owned - used to wait till parents were out the house before playing it) Old skool house & hardcore, The Prodigy, Reel2Reel (bigup madstuntman - where r u now?), - we are E - old skool garage - casualty, reflex action, I don't smoke de reefer, rinsin sound. Old Skool jungle - the license, ganja man, get mash up, jonny L, original nuttah, Johhny Jungle, Cops don't like us. Old Full Cycle - Drop Bear, Poison Ivy, kloakin Device, Snapshot. Miles Davies, Charlie Parker, nuff other shit i cant remeber cos I woz prolly stoned.
Mary Ann hobs & the Breezeblock who played & recorded sessions of some of the heaviest, darkest shit I ever heard on national radio & responsible for late nights & sleepy bullshit school mornings - sitting in physics daydreaming about beats, basslines, the illest studios & dangerously powerful synthesizers & Bass frequencies that would give middle aged office workers life changing nightmares - the Lo-Fi Allstars, Arab Strap, Alabama 3, A, Portishead (scared the shit out of me listening to their session in bed at night)London Pirate Stations circa 1998 without whom I would never have got into dance music.
RESPECT DUE:
Rude Awakening 104.3
Rude FM 88.2
Life FM 98.1
Choice FM 107.1
Itch FM 105.15
Freeze FM
Origin FM
Kool FM
Ice FM
Rinse FM
THE PEOPLE WHO RAN & RUN THESE STATIONS PUT THEIR FREEDOM ON THE LINE SO WE COULD HEAR MUSIC NOT FROM A PLAYLIST NOT CHOSEN BY A PRODUCER NOT FREE OF ILLEGAL SAMPLES NOT PAID FOR BY THE LICENSEE FEE PAYER. IF NOT FOR THESE PEOPLE I WOULD NEVER HAVE STARTED MAKING DANCE MUSIC
ON THAT NOTE, FUCK ANY CORPORATE BULLSHIT. FUCK ADVERTISING. FUCK MARKETING. FUCK MURDOCH. OH YEHH!!!!
Love to my man Rene Lawrence - we used to get caned & DJ in his room when I was 17, he had more drumnbass than I'd had packed lunches & had a seriously non mainstream yet dancefloor taste which to this day i respect. many a happy evening, edukation.
Big shout Miss trouble one of the first MCs I worked with & one of the top MCs & Vocalists in the UK / World. Power to ya rinsin it now - ya know hard work pays off BIG LOVE! Also to Incyte the hard worker power man also pushing the limits of acceptance.
My Dad who always said its more important to do what you love than make money. more important to be happy than rich. Then he'd say 'don't tell your mother I said that, she'd kill me' - her dad was a businessman. Make music you like, not what other people tell you, & always generous & tolerant with his equipment, even when half his studio slowly migrated to my bedroom from his workroom. I'll never forget the day he came next door while i was writing some Bassic ting with 200 Watt PA speakers at MAX, I thought he wanted it turned down but actually he was using the riddim as tempo to rehearse accoustic instruments...I used to go next door & the wall between our rooms with a rack of 120 cassettes on it literally be shakin & rattlin from my Bass, & he'd just be workin on his own shit with headphones on 2ft from the wall...Big love dad your sacrifice has led to where I am today...with a 1 Kilowatt sound system to keep the neighbours happy! Cos you know we a grow!!
My first Music teacher alex who taught me drums and used to swear all the time & refused to teach me notation. He taught me music was about feeling, not dots on a page or what someone else thought you should be playing
so keep it stiff & tight & make yourself happy & bung anyone who says you should be doing something else...unless u got kids or pets who need to eat!!!! get it out there!!!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None