budoka

Budoka was born in 1976 and lives near Darmstadt/Hassia/Germany. As a trained drummer and guitarist he played in different Hardcore/Metal/Punk-Formations at the time from 1988-2002, but he has also collected practical knowledge by playing in different Reggae- and Live Hip-Hop Bands. With the release of the first Prodigy-LP the interest in jungle-music has been awaked and the first UK-breakbeat tapes were collected. Together with his brother David (DJ Malice) he bought the first turntables in 1996 and not much time later the Phishmaol-Cru was founded around MC Santana, Tyrell aka DJ Gargamel (Gyration), Rayman (Gyration), DJ Spawn and other artists. Since 2000 Budoka is also activ as producer and releases some of his productions on the german DnB-Label Tilt-Recordings. The style of his productions reaches from dark bassline emphasized minimalistic rolling tunes to intelligently arranged and jazzy, vocal dominated dancefloor tunes. His influences came from Hardcore/Metal/Punk, from Hip-Hop, but also from Jazz and from other genres of music. The most important influences in DnB came from artists like Ed Rush and Optical, Stakka and Skynet and also from more jazzy artists like Big Bud and Seba.