
Temper D - Bladerunnaz - Pacha - Budapest - Oct 2005
Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass
Date of Set: Oct 8th, 2005
Filesize: 106.00 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Temper D
Gradually gaining respect as one of very few drum and bass DJ's capable of mixing on 3 decks, the past few years has been a bit of a rollercoaster for Temper D, aka Dave Bowles. Now firmly settled in the Offkey Recordings camp, Dave was brought in by like minded artist and long time hero Raiden, and is now lucky enough to be representing the label and sound behind the decks at raves all over the world on a regular basis.
With all the offkey artists focussing on pushing forward the techno influence on drum and bass, from bleeps and percussion right through to moving old style detroit synths, Raiden, Propaganda, Prode, Panacea, Temper D and K-Fire and Lethal and Khanage feel like they are accomplishing something truely original.
Initially collaborating with university friend Exile on Renegade Hardware in 2002, the initial productions were already being played by the big dogs. The first release ?Warehouse? was caned by Nicky Blackmarket, Dom and Roland, and even aired on Radio 1 by the late John Peel. However, with Exile being a master of technical trickery and Temper D more concerned with the dance floor, the project was short lived, and a new partnership began with guitarist and producer Tim Robinson, aka K-Fire.
A string of releases on various labels has followed, including Invader, Cell, and Concord Dawn's imprint Uprising. Between them, the tunes have been caned by the likes of Klute, Raiden, Adam F, Logistics and Nu:Tone, Concord Dawn, Nicky Blackmarket, and many more. More recently tracks have also been picked up for Raiden's techno dnb label Off-Key, the artistic step forward which follows years of concern that drum and bass could learn from the progression and minimalism of techno. Having written on the subject for Knowledge Magazine, and spoken at length with like-minded breakthrough artist Raiden, the music itself is now there to do the talking, and both Temper D and K-Fire intend to push the sound pioneered by Raiden, Prode and Propoganda as far as possible, both in the studio and on the turntables. Years of raving to DJ's like Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and Ben Simms, as well as the dnb fraternity has brought about an approach to the dancefloor based on patience and maximising certain moments of when the place really does go off, rather than battering the big tunes as quick as possible.
Since winning the massive Dogs On Acid DJ competition, Temper D has regularly DJ?d all over Europe and the UK, and in the past few months alone has played in Hungary, Germany, Austria, Poland, Norway, and Denmark, including some of the biggest raves around, such as Breakbeat Kaos at Fabric in London and Kings of the Jungle in Mannheim, Germany. His schedule for the next few months is equally as hectic, with dates lined up at raves and festivals in Austria, Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Germany as well as his monthly residency in Newcastle and other dates in the UK. He has played alongside pretty much every big name there is, including Andy C, Mampi Swift, DJ Craze, Adam F, Nicky Blackmarket, Skibadee, Shabba, Navigator, and many more. He has also recently done guest DJ slots on the legendary Kiss 100FM with Adam F, and mixed the first in the Cell Recordings Mix CD series.
As much a techno head as a junglist, it is behind the decks where Temper D is most at home. Driven by an attitude of making sure dance floors are always kept interested, his creative mixing marks a style coming directly from the raver's point of view.
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