http://electronicexplorations.org/podpr ... ecords.mp3
[01] - Radioactiveman - State Of That (Starkey Remix) - [Control Tower]
[02] - Excision - Serious Business - [Forthcoming ‘Rag & Bone Records’]
[03] - Threnody - Eclipse - [Forthcoming ‘Bankai Audio’]
[04] - Neil Landstrumm - Transmission (with Si Begg) - [Forthcoming ‘Planet Mu’]
[05] - Likhan - Redlight - [Forthcoming ‘7even Recordings’]
[06] - Unknown - Untitled (CH-Signal Laboratories Edit) - [Sandwell District]
[07] - Milanese - Iacon - [Warp Records]
[08] - Bong-Ra vs Deformer ft. Scapu Lox - Dede-ede - [Forthcoming ‘Ad Noiseam’]
[09] - Bruce Stallion (aka DJ Floorcleaner) - Juice Cup VIP - [Dubplate]
[10] - PROPA TINGZ - Propa Tingz - [True Movement]
[11] - Ekelon - Asian Blades - [dubplate]
[12] - Warlock - Click Clack - [Forthcoming ‘Yellow Machines’]
[13] - XI - Light FM - [Forthcoming ‘Formant Recordings’]
[14] - Wireman - Axiom - [Forthcoming ‘Prime Numbers’]
‘Rag & Bone’ Label Owner ‘Warlock’ - Relentless Bass mix
01. Stagga - Policeman Get Hype - [unreleased]
02. MRK 1 - Counteraction - [Contagious]
03. Loetech - Marijuana Overdose (Excision Remix) - [unreleased]
04. Stagga - Sick As Sin - [Forthcoming ‘Rag & Bone’]
05. DZ - Wildstyle - [Rogue Dubs]
06. After Dark - Booty Shaker - [unreleased]
07. Kromestar - Badman - [Dubstar]
08. Bassnectar - Heads up - [Amorphous Music]
09 Excision - Serious Business - [Forthcoming ‘Rag & Bone’]
10. Phlayed Alive - Babylon Isn’t Dead - [unreleased]
11. Deville - Stamina - [Senseless]
12. Blackmass Plastics - Future Past (Kanji Kinetic remix) - [Rag & Bone]
13. Beatmonkeys - How U Like Me Now (Rico Tubbs Remix)
14. A Trak - Say Whoa (Sinden remix) - [Kitsune]
15. Detboi - Come Rest Up - [Skint]
16. The Count & Sinden - Hardcore Girls - [Domino]
[15] - Elemental - Pistons - [Forthcoming ‘RunTime’]
[16] - Sigha - Rise Raise Raised - [unreleased]
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NOYEAHNO - RAG & BONE
It all started at the Asylum in Woolwich (South London), a small forgotten acid house party held in 88 with the likes of Darren Jay and Mickey Finn on the decks. The music flowing from this dark dingy venue was mind blowing, I just couldn’t comprehend how the DJ’s managed to blend in a tune and then let it disappear again……..this was my introduction to mixing! As with any vinyl junkie, I needed to find out what these tracks were, so at 16 I began to enter the world of record shops, delving into the likes of Groove records (now a sex shop I’m afraid….oh how sad!) and Red records in Beak Street, Soho.
After many warehouse parties later, I landed a set on the now infamous Fantasy FM (Nov 89), playing alongside such legends as DJ Hype, Rhythm Doctor, DJ Krome and DJ Rap. As the youngest & least skilled on the station it was time for me to get educated and buy a pair of decks. After a good few months of learning in the darkness of my bedroom, I landed sets at places like the Astoria, Michael Sobell Centre, The Dome (Tuffnell Park), Red Lion Gravesend, up in Scotland, Blackpool, Birmingham and Club Kinetic in Stoke. The Rave scene was in full effect and as well as Djing I was also raving hard, at Land of Oz, Rage, Labyrinth, Raindance, AWOL, feeling privileged to be part of this new and exiting dance music explosion.
The scene then took on a new direction, Breakbeat, and the early form of Jungle took hold, which I loved but the vocals were speeding up so fast it was becoming ridiculous. I then looked further afield and found Techno with the like of Jeff Mills ripping it up, reminding me of fond memories of the dark side of acid house. I again started playing on a pirate, this time, Chillin FM, with a weekly Saturday show along side the Controlled Weirdness and from this I played at parties like Analogue City, Gardening Club, Dead by Dawn VFM and partying at the likes of Lost and various London squat venues. At the same time I took a strong interest in Drum and Bass and I could be found many a Sunday at the Metalheadz sessions at Blue Note which will always hold special memories for me.
By 98 I was needing a change again, techno’s locked groove wasn’t doing it for me anymore and along with the Warlock in May 99 fled the country for 2 years to travel the world without any London influence or scene. This is where Rag & Bone Records was born, in (of all places) a bar in Alice Springs. There a decision was made to set up a label that incorporated all the sounds that we had gone through and the ones we hoped were to come.
Our return in March 2001 was a shock, London now held a healthy electro scene, an interesting break scene and out of the ashes of the UK garage, there was 2 step! Alongside the birth of the label, the vinyl addiction took hold again to find all those tunes that we had missed while away. With the warlock, we set the Rag & Bone parties up, which have been held at various venues since our return as well as djing at parties with the Deadsilence crew, Rebel Bass, Phat Bitch, Rude Nation and others. Again radio is always a passion with shows on the pirate Rude Awakening and the internet station Breaks FM.
As with any history, it makes a mark on your style so at this point in 2008, I am playing a hybrid of breaks, dub-step, electro and techno, just bass driven music really, and at any time dropping one of the many styles that passed through my record bag over the years.
WARLOCK - RAG & BONE
"Acid House was what got me on the decks. It made me get involved rather than just being a spectator. Full respect goes out to Stafford DJ Jon Caine in a town where I spent my latter teenage years after moving there from Watford. Doing the mobile disco thing, Jon would battle it out, squeezing in such classics as Adonis and Armando, much to the dismay of most, but to me it was wicked and like nothing I’d ever heard before. Some smoke and a strobe in a darkened basement, and I was well and truly hooked.
College meant a re-location to East London. This was 89 and a fantastic time. An electronics student built me a transmitter and for 6 months we were blasting out on the airwaves. This all came on top, but fortunately I got a slot on Pulse 90.6FM. Things were going really well, but looking back, maybe 3 shows a week was pushing it, because one Tuesday night it all abruptly came to an end. The DTI bust through the door, taking all my tunes and slapping me with a hefty fine. I stayed clear for a while but Pulse FM kept getting hit hard and eventually closed down. But the radio created exposure and I started getting regular gigs up and down the country.
I got a few sorted residences. I’ve got many happy memories from doing Slimetime and also Labrynth when it was down at 4 Aces, Dalston – one of the most unique venues ever - it has to be said. Plenty of the big raves were happening, and I was getting slots at places like Helter Skelter, Interdance, Universe, Elevation, The Eclipse, Quest, Kinetic and 2000AD to name a few. This was the heyday of Hardcore and it was slammin. But before you knew it, the chipmunk vocals and nursery rhymes were giving it a bad name to what was an otherwise original emerging UK movement. It was time to find a new direction.
This was around 93 and there was a new wave of industrial techno coming through. You would often catch me spinning down at Knowledge and Eurobeat 2000. Both were pushing the new sound and Knowledge was becoming such a pivotal club. I’d be there even if I wasn’t playing. I was resident at another legendary night, VFM. There I had the opportunity to really experiment, since the organisers and their audience were all so into their music. A spin off from VFM was the uncompromising Zero Tolerance label. I put out several releases as one half of Lorenz Attractor, and also as Integer and Noetic Movement. ‘Dead by Dawn’ was another cult moment in this era. A small basement in Railton Road Brixton and a night put on by Praxis records. Spiral Tribe were putting on a lot of free parties and I was doing that circuit too. I recorded one of my first tunes with them before their dispersal round Europe.
It was at about this time I got a job at Kickin records. For a couple of years I was there as A&R and learnt a lot about the runnings of a label. I got to put out some great records from a roster including DJ Hell, Bushwacka, Bam Bam, Colin Dale, Surgeon and Damon Wild and put together a lot of the albums. Techno Nations and Underground London/UK were a couple of them.
I was playing some of the leading nights of the time. Analogue City, Deep Space, Sativae Edinburgh, and gigs abroad, but all too soon, the music literally got stuck on a loop and lost its sense of innovation and its will to develop. About the same time, I left Kickin Records to pursue my own productions with a view to getting my own imprint of the ground. I was starting to spin the new Electro sound, early breaks stuff and dark D&B around the late 90’s, but by this time I was getting despondent with everything. Great music I knew should have been blowing me away just wasn’t moving me at all. It was time for a break. I put everything on hold and went travelling abroad for a couple of years.
I returned in 2001 and had regained my enthusiasm. I got back on the case. Combining forces with long-time dj, Stacey (now known as Noyeahno), we put our studios together and laid plans for Rag & Bone. We had both been through similar genres and wanted to do something with it. The label has evolved into a melting pot of dubstep, breaks and electro, with the occasional hint of old skool and techno. Its ended up being a bit uncompromising as an imprint, skirting the fringes of several scenes and sounds but not really getting stuck, trapped or defined by any particular one of them. Probably not the best way to go about things, but the label is about putting out what we like, what moves us and releasing music that pushes things to another level.
And that's how I'm spinning - I just like to mix it up and make people move with edgey forward thinking beats. The last few years have been good. Playing here and abroad at a range of underground events like Dead Silence, Wang, Haywire, Delta 9, Unsound, Yardcore, Toxic Dancehall plus places like Uglyfunk, Rebel Bass, Colony and Interakt. And when there's been time, putting on our own events under the Rag & Bone moniker with a policy of good underground music, new and old.
Having the opportunity to put out my own material on Rag & Bone has led onto several other projects. Tracks have been included on two releases for Blackmass Plastics cutting edge Dirty Needles label, and there's also a new release imminent for 2007 on Thorn Industries. Skint records gave us the opportunity to cut a Rag & Bone remix of Roman Flugel's 'Gehts Noch?' and I've just completed a mix for Si Begg's 'New Style'. But the story doesn't end there. A new sub-label is in the pipeline focussing on an alternative dubstep sound plus there's more remixes and collaborations on the way. As long as there's good music, I'll be there."
22:00 - 00:00 (WEDNESDAY'S)
Rag and Bone Records (on rotation)
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