Submitted By: alek91

Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass

Date of Set: Jan 25th, 2006

Filesize: 77.00 MB

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xplizit (Subcon-Fusion / Muziclife / Birmingham, U
Birmingham based DJ & Producer xplizit, aka Seb Oppetit, appears at the forefront of future-thinking Drum & Bass, combining a taste for heavy-impact beats with equally tight production values. DJing for almost a decade, and with influences ranging from early jungle to the minimal sounds of Techno, his sets characterise 21st century Drum & Bass as a global phenomenon. Moulding the more technological, neuro sounds emerging from Eastern Europe and the US with the Hard Funk of more Progressive UK and European dancefloors, emphasis lies heavily on the selection of quality productions, the balance of razor sharp beats with synapse-snapping stabs and mind-reeling soundscapes.

Only now emerging onto the UK scene, with recent appearances at Leicester nights Rotation and Konnection, Xplizit looks set to push Drum & Bass even further into its position as the most innovative and exciting form of dance music, all the while causing devastation in the clubs. For instance every thuesday night at Forme in Birmingham. And soon he'll host his own show on kunninmindz.com, so keep an eye out for that.

- where & when did you answer this questions ?
@home (Birmingham UK), Sept 2005

- What's your age ?
23

- your real name ?
Seb Oppetit

- why xplizit ?
It’s the name I chose when I started mixing at 14. I thought it sounded good at the time :-/

- what was the reason for you start DJing ?
Basicaly listening to all the old rave tapes when I was 13/14. I wanted to do that and it felt like the next logical step for me. I also wanted more interaction with the music I love (fuck that sounds cheesy as well :D)

- your first vinyl ever purchased ?
Shit I dunno. Possibly Profound Noize – Cal-Form/Drifting on Underfire.
I hardly needed to buy any tunes for ages when I started mixing because one of my school friend’s mum used to work for a distro company and me and a mate got a free box of tunes every so often! (cheers Lottie :))

- records, that influenced you ?
Hybrid – Wide Angle, Spacek – Curvatia, Teebee – Blacksciencelabs, BC – Inside the Machine, Matrix – Sleepwalk, Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene, Dan the Automator – Lovage, Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children, Omni Trio – Byte Size Life, Polar – Out of the Blue, Deltron 3030, Innerzone Orchestra – Programmed, Photek – Modus Operandi, Fila Brazilia – Old Codes New Chaos, Method Man & Redman – Blackout, Snoop - Doggystyle and probably lots more I’m forgetting.

- most intense live gig ?
The one when I had two MCs talking bollocks at the same time. That required some intense concentration :D

- most intense club event ?
Probably Flashback @ the Que Club in Birmingham in April 2002. Baby D live PA in the main room and Bad Company in the other room

- what kind of sound should be banned ?
biddibiddibadda, minimana, in da arena, rinseout inside the ride woof woof woof

- favorite venue ?
Que Club, Birmingham - now closed down unfortunately

- favorite drink ?
I’m not a huge fan of alcohol although a nice cold beer is good once in a while. If I have to get drunk it’s got to be tequila.

- what do you take with you to a lonesome island ?
How much space have I got??
My girlfriend, decks, records, some books and lots of weed

- timeless for you ?
Teebee – Blacksciencelabs

- favorite junk food / fast food place ?
”Chick’s” round the corner, but I’d rather eat some proper food

- what do you do between club & sleep ?
Mix, Cubase, watch films, go to uni and work in a shitty call centre

- personal heroes ?
In the drum n bass world at least that would have to be Teebee, Polar and Break, especially Teebee during his Blacksciencelabs era. Their production is so good it makes me feel like I might as well give up now Razz

- personal vision / projects ?
First of all to help spread the good dnb in my area (my idea of good dnb anyway). And also hopefully my production will eventually improve

- describe yourself in 3 words ?
Musically obsessed, lazy and a bit of a geek


- your favorite drugs ?
Mostly skunk nowadays

- current top10
No particular order:

Drifter – Come True
Quadrant - Closure
Noisia – The Distance
Vicious Circle – Contagious
Subtone – Galapagos
[genetix] – Spektral Rays
Phono – Eidolon
Tecsumo – Entangle
Silent Witness & Break - Xtrack
D-bridge vs Fierce - Daylight

- alltime favourites
Polar – Love is the Ear
Teebee – Daywalker
Phace – Polymers
Stakka & Skynet – Nightlore

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