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Royce Rolls

You wer' only ment'a blow the Bl**dy doors off

About Me

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The Shadowlights Life is the Satguru:

Taken from the debut Shadowlights album coming soon. Mr Biru Lex on the M.I.C and myself on beats, cuts and clarinet !

Big 'ting {Royce-true-mental}

A fresh beat straight out the Bombtank. Already got a few boys fightin' over this one, think you can bless it then give us a holla.

The Battle Star feat K-Delight:

Taken from the forthcoming album The Fabulous Fantom Funk Frontiers featuring K-Delight, Jazz T and many others {Robot by Chiba}

Royce Rolls DnB Mix:

-Valleys of the Shadow: Royce Rolls
-Fever Flow: Sion {Royce Rolls Re-Rub}
-The Big Boss: Royce Rolls
-Otono: Orbital {Royce Rolls Re-Rub}
-The Nights Just Getting Started: Elan'n'Vital {Royce Rolls Re-Rub}
-Steal Back Your Life feat Cordelia and The Bibow General: Elan'n'Vital {Royce Rolls Re-Rub}

ya might have to refresh a couple of times to get this one goin'

Any DJ's who want a CDR or White of any of the above give us a shout {no fakers please}

"Well well well, welcome to the Bio of the RoyceRolls, once driven never forgotten, you got to check this man out, listen up!!! Rolls, known to many as Vital, was born and bred in the lands of the North East England (represent), where from a young age he started rippin up old wirelesses and creating sub-harmonic generators from them, this lead to a science like obscesion with the art of sound. Added with a constant hum of old motown and funk the wheels were in motion for years of music making. As a young teen, Rolls was playing out at various shin digs and getting his white labels (dnb/garage/house) played by many a local DJ, armed with a Yamaha Beatbox nothing could stop a plethora of deep beats hitting our air waves.
He's always been a super multi talented geeza, with a history of classical, jazz and popular music studies, he is gifted on the keys and clarinet and will make your bowels (or other body parts!) rumble with an analogue synth. His love for UK and international HipHop, DnB and breaks is inspirational, and Ive had the honor of many a late night discussing the music of Bambataa to Coltrane to Stravinsky to Otis Reading. He lives and breathes the contiinuation of our amazing musical history and this fully comes out in his beats, whether thats on indie Hip-Hop, House or Jungle, and its probably why we've seen him hook up with artists like K-Delight to the legendary Guru whilst flying half way across the world to support Busta Rhymes.
Give up your time and check the Rolls out, the future is definitely silver.
One"
Wampa

Cheers Mr WAMPA you should be a journo go check him the boys Whipped!

THE SHADOWLIGHTS

The debut Shadowlights album finally got finished a few weekends ago and will be released into the Portuguese speaking market over the coming months with hopefully a release in the UK and US sometime next year we'll let you know. We've also been working on a lot of new material over the summer so come check us out live we're gonna be doing a short tour in Portugal with hopefully some other dates across europe up untill christmas then look out for us early next year in the UK go check the Shadowlights space www.mysace.com/theshadowlights for more

Yes yes check out this live footage of a suprise gig in york we did in the summer big up to Alex, Dan and crew nice one

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2006
Band Members: Royce Rolls and whoever's in the "Booth"

Future Releases:

The Shadowlights "There's No Shadow Without Light": This album will be out in Portugal over the next few months so look out for import elswhere. Should be out everywhere else 2007. We have also been in the studio over the summer working on new material so look out for some sneaky exclusives coming soon.

The Fabulous Fantom Funk Frontiers: This album is hopefully gonna finally see the light of day sometime in 2007. Hopefully K-D will get things sorted for this and maybe we will even do a live tour aswell! Jazz T from Diversion Tactics has lovingly graced one of the tracks with K-Delight on cuts throughout. I had a right laugh making this album which hopefully comes across in the sound. Check the Battle Star on the music player

K-Delight's debut album ?: I've produced a few of the tracks for K-D's first longplayer due out over the next 12 months. look out for Scratch Club one of the beats I worked on featuring the cream of the international scratch DJs like Woody {ITF Champ} 2 Tall, JS-1 {Rahzels DJ}, J-Red and Select{Aussie DMC Champs} and many others.

The Bomb Tape: This is a self produced mixtape/mash-up feat loads of artists from all over the shop. This one is still on the "Boards" but I'll hopefully have this one for ya early 2007.

There's loads of other projects on the go but if I told you I'd have to send the "Boys" round ya get me.

A few past Releases I've worked on you should check:

CTRL: ALT: THE BEAT Mixed by K-Delight: Go check this excellent mix tape from the boys down at UKHH.COM. An extra special blend of UK Hip Hop with tracks old and new expertly mixed and cut by my man K-Delight. I helped the boys out with the engineering and mastering, available at ukhh.com enjoy.

Pionts of Perception Jonathan Bratoeff: A forward thinking album from French Jazz Guitarist Jonathan Bratoeff with influences from many genres of dance music from House to Drum and Bass. Exellently produced by my man WAMPA and a few guest cuts from myself. Out now on the fabulous FIRE Records

"The Real Thing" EP K-Delight feat Evil Ed and DJ Kentaro: Check out this EP from Playing Around Records with the amazing DMC World Champ DJ Kentaro all the way from Japan. Edits, engineering and mastering of the mega mix by the Rolls

TM DUKE Maps from the Wilderness: What can I say a beautifully produced album which will always put a smile on your face. Mr Duke also producer for the Tru Thoughts soulstress Alice Russell {go check her album to} let me come round for a cup a tea and a play on the old licourice stick to one of his tunes on the album nice one bruv was an honour. Currently out on one of Brighton's premier labels Tru Thoughts

Evil Ed + K-Delight Live at Ceaser's Palace: The first from the current series of mixtapes coming out on Playing Around Records. The duo put together a great mix of Hip Hop old and new and from all over the globe. Loads of cheeky cuts breakdowns and double-ups hhhmmm nice. Engineered and mastered by the Royce.

Any enquires for production, mastering, engineering, post-production or session work by Royce Rolls at The Bomb Tank get in touch {very reasonable rates depending on status and the size of the project email for a quote}


Influences: JD on the Rocks, a bit of Green Goddess and the Collective Human Conscious
Sounds Like: Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Electro, Breaks, House, DnB, Garage, DuB, Jazz and a pair of old socks on the Rinse Cycle
Record Label: I'am Freelance Darlin'
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ha ha finally got this Myspace 'ting on the go

Ha ha finally got this thing on the burn after months of peeps askin why they keep signin' up DJ Vital's and thinkin its me! Well as you'll see I've taken on a new name to solve this problem so no fak...
Posted by Royce Rolls on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:29:00 PST