Chris Inperspective - Is Too Loud - Apr 2006

Biography of Chris Inperspective

Being born to parents from the West Indies, the young Chris Walton was exposed to a diet of calypso and rhythm and blues from an early age. His elder sister increased the range of music to include 80s music, and the scope was further broadened whilst learning to play the violin and taking music exams at school. Tuning into pirates, such as Weekend Rush and Kool FM, round at a friend's house lead Chris towards the dnb scene, and before long he was experimenting with his Amiga and OctaMED, producing his first trial tunes.

However, a long conversation about the music at the time with Equinox in 1996 took Chris along a more business-oriented path. 'I started the label in ’97 because I was just a bit pissed off with not hearing what I really wanted to hear. I wasn’t really in the whole Ed Rush and Optical sound, but was always on the Source Direct, Photek, Crystl stuff, anything on Certificate 18, Good Looking, Reinforced, Moving Shadow and Metalheadz. All that was wicked but it still wasn’t enough for me, I just wanted to add my little two bobs worth and that’s where the label was born really. I decided to put out two tracks by Equinox, under the name Tek Unlimited.' Unfortunately, because of the predominance of other styles at the time, the label struggled to find distribution, with Chris ending up taking the tunes from shop to shop himself. 'It was really very painful, you know, the money, the time and effort and no-one really wanted to listen to what we had to say.'

So putting the label on hold was the only option for Chris. During this time he kept involved with the music by going out, helping to run a pirate radio station called Pure Vision from a place he used to stay and got involved in helping with promotion here and there. It was the closure of Section 5 Records in 2000 that made Chris re-start his label. He began using the internet to communicate with other like-minded artists, which lead to him hooking up with James Clements, better known as ASC. Two singles from Clem followed, together with one from Pariah, and the label was back on track.

In addition to the re-start of the label, Chris founded the now legendary Technicality night, at Herbal in Shoreditch, London. 'Technicality is just a progression from the label because we just want to be able to play what we want to hear.' At the time, the more atmospheric end of the scene was only really being represented by Logical Progression, and Chris thought: 'let’s do a mid-week alternative but maybe with more emphasis on breaks.' He explains: 'as good as the musicality was within drum and bass there still wasn’t enough beats. It’s all very well having a nice tune but if it’s not going to make you dance then it’s just lounge music, you may as well play it in elevators! I still liked Reinforced, Paradox, Photek, Source Direct, even guys like Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. Those are the guys that still make me want to hear beats you know what I mean? That’s really what Inperspective is about ingenuity, diversity and TECHNICALITY!'

Chris's love of music as a whole is evident in the fact that each artist 12' on Inperspective contains at least one non-dnb track. This is part of Chris's vision for the label, Chris states, 'I'll release anything that is not conventional but at the same time is just good music – dnb, smooth soulful house, experimental grooves, anything. I want the label to be known for releasing good MUSIC, not just dnb!'

Discography

Chris Inperspective – Wednesday Evening – Inperspective

[b]Forthcoming releasesp/b]

Chris Inperspective – Each Twin Unique – Synaptic Plastic