Paul Blackout - Nuborn Mix 14 - Oct 2005

Biography of Paul Blackout

Name: Paul R
Age: 28
Location: Newcastle, Australia
Musical Styles: dark drum n bass, hardcore techno
Influences: almost everything

Before any of this techno stuff started, I played guitar and sang in an industrial/metal band in Perth called Closed World Assumption. We released two demo tapes and were featured on 2 compilation CDs organised by T.O.A.N in Sydney. I started going to 'raves' in 1993, and after collecting many recordings of various radio shows, I started buying records, and a little while later, my first set of decks. First I played old school techno and breaks, stuff like early Moving Shadow and Formation, along with Edge Records, Rabbit City, Bonzai etc etc. After hearing Wedlock's 'Acid Rain' on Ruffneck, I got the bug for hardcore, and went on to play hardcore techno, such as Ruffneck, Twisted Vinyl, Rotterdam etc until I got into some harder traxx too. From about 1997 until 2000, I played a lot of breakcore and hardcore techno, from labels like Deathchant, Area 51, Industrial Strength, and few harder traxx, like Bloody Fist, Dead End...... I played at a few parties in Perth, and a couple of Fist parties in Newcastle, before I drifted into the world of drum n bass. I played just one party in Sydney, before retiring from the decks to spend more time producing. Nowadays I concentrate on drum n bass, but still feel the need to crank the BPM over 200 and make some hardcore. Then, after scoring my first drum n bass release on Dutch label Ruff-Teck, I picked up the turntables again as a sideline to producing, and have since been playing out when possible to promote my music. Late in 2003 I was handed over the running of Hardline Rekordingz by 'former' owner Max Veritech (Animal Intelligence), and have created a new website for the label.