Sumone - The Melody Inn - Nov 2005

Biography of Sumone

Location : Indianapolis, United States

Genre : Jungle / Drum & Bass / Dub

Influences : Remarc, Bizzy B, Source Direct, Paradox, Alec Empire, Soundmurderer, 16aj, Equinox, Breakage, Fanu, Venetian Snares, Shitmat, Squarepusher, Drop the Lime, Davros, Abelcain, Blaerg, Xanopticon, Dev/Null, Exile, Enduser, Nasenbluten, the beastie boys........... this could just go on forever.

Bio : I've been listening to music since hearing my mother sing in operas and choirs while in the womb. from there it progressed to a love for hardcore punk, grindcore, industrial, techno, to eventually jungle and breakcore in 1995. i didn't even really like jungle until i started hearing the harder wild amen programming styles of remarc, krome and time, shy fx, and especially Alec Empire. In 1996 i decided i needed to learn how to dj and bought my first set of tables. unfortunatly, the only vinyl i could find here was acid house, gabber and the occasional jungle record for the first few years until i started ordering it online. i played mostly regular uk style dnb along with phunckatek test presses and dubplates from UFO!. then in the year 2000, i started talking to a producer named Grizzly from LA California over the internet and he told me i should download some free programs and start making my own jungle. so i started out using hammerhead rhythm station, cool edit 96 free version, and acid express. i doodled some crappy little tunes for the next few years and never really took it seriously(how could i when i was so drunk and stoned all the time?). then in late 2003 i made the desicion to get serious. and i did. i quit drinking and doing any kind of drugs and my production took off. in 2004-2005 i had 5 record releases: 1 Mos-Hi 001 Jahba - Murda Dem and SuMoNe - Reckless, Jungle Expeditons 16 Armed Jack / Sumone - See U Smile/Love So Nice, Sprengstoff EP Murdarah, Shut the F*** Up, Sound Bwoy Doin Time, Freak Out, Aural Carnage 003 The Flesh of Fallen Angels(Bazooka rmx), and Jahba&SuMoNe - Part Time Revolutionary on Jahba's Kriss EP. In 2006: Mysteries of a Sacred Universe / Put a Smile On Your Face (12') Black Track Records, Gimmie some hardcore choon - Mash Dem Sound (12') Mash Records mos-hi 003 sumone and oobokubo - mash up cancer. I have more record deals in the works right now(including renegade recordings, mindrush, and a sublable of soothsayer recordings called dubplatelet that will be more dub and ragga mash up) and i am currently working on an ableton live improv drumfunk/breakcore/dark jungle/dubwise show using my laptop, a uc-33e midi controller, novation remote sl25 and tascam us-122 soundcard.