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southstar wrote:

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Gravious - Winter sun
Intex systems - destroy
Froensix - Solace

Phigure wrote:the sully/innasekt + threnody stuff from back then was sick, there was a lot of good stuff like that, armour - iron man from tectonic had the same sorta vibe and i dont think it speaks against tectonic nor armour

also 100% behind roll with the punches being in top 5... the way that bassline just casually drops in will always give me goosebumps...

threnody wrote:

ultraspatial wrote:i wonder if sully or threnody regret having tunes on rottun

Hahahaha. Not at all - it was a different time and Excision was really supporting a few of us who were making harder, breakier stuff (in the vein of Destructive Records etc....). I think my track 'Sound' which came out on the 2nd ever Rottun vinyl sounds like nothing else Rottun has ever released and there was quite a diverse (but harder) sound to begin with. The early Sully stuff is incredible too.

Rottun as a label found the midrange stuff worked best and they have had great commercial success, albeit maybe with sacrificing some of the early diversity.

The tracks that i released on Rottun (in 2008) were all written in 2005 so by the time they came out my sound had already moved on and developed and the harder edge had gone in favour of a breakier sound (maybe parallels to what Etch is doing now?).... see my releases on Urban Graffiti/early UK Trends.

I did have a conversation with Blackdown about wider 'reputational' damage amongst people writing off me/sully as brostep based on the fact we had released on Rottun. I think it is difficult to change people's perceptions about you as an artist, even if what you do now bares no resemblance to what you were doing 8 years previously. It was difficult for a couple of years to reach out to new audiences when one of your first releases is on arguably the biggest Brostep label. Hopefully me & Sully have both reached out to new audiences and people are feeling our sound as it is in 2013/14.

Certainly don't regret it tho. When i released on Rottun it was not a brostep label, just a label, the brostep bit came later. Some of the early releases are brilliant and Excision is a top bloke who really pushed hard for his label to succeed and it is always great to have your tracks on wax.

Muncey wrote:The 'tracks' joke has been done to fucking death on here. Hopefully it stays in the official thread now. TBH I was surprised it took 3 pages to get a mention on the top 10 songs of the year thread, but it got there in the end.