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LTJ Bukem - BBC Radio 1 - London UK - Feb 2008

Submitted By: Top 100Schmog22
Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass
Date of Set: Feb 24th, 2008
Filesize: 152.00 MB
Total Downloads: 3

 

 

Biography of LTJ Bukem

Just who is LTJ Bukem? Ground breaking DJ? Inspirational musician? Record label entrepreneur? Club visionary, perhaps? When the man behind those wire rimmed glasses and that disarming smile writes his job description just what does he put? The man who took the drum and bass concept from a small venue off London's Charing Cross Road to the nation's superclubs and then onto the international stage? The geezer whose records launched breakbeat into a brand new galaxy of sound? Or maybe he just writes 'Renaissance man for a digital age'. In truth LTJ Bukem is all of the above. Although he wouldn't like to admit it, LTJ Bukem is the living embodiment of the post-acid house entrepreneurial creative spirit. He is a mild mannered energy flash whose panoramic musical vision has found success in every area he has explored. From running soundsystems to cutting up breaks at raves, from relocating the heart of breakbeat culture to redefining the spirit of drum and bass, the man known to his friends as Danny Williamson has sat at the forefront of breakbeat evolution, lighting the way with little more than a zest for life and a love of music. In other words, LTJ Bukem is a man on a mission!

Bukem's first introduction to music was, like so many others, through piano lessons as a child. Unlike so many others however, the young pianist turned out to possess a natural talent and he quickly moved through the piano grades.

Classical music represented the soundtrack to his home life. Both parents having a passion for Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky that rubbed off on their son. However it was when the family moved to Watford and Bukem changed music teachers that he developed his first true musical love. Thanks to a progressively minded teacher called Nigel Crouch - with whom he lost touch but, after a long search, has recently found again - he was introduced to the world of jazz fusion, a style which has informed his work ever since.

In the mid eighties, at the age of seventeen, Bukem discovered the joys of clubbing. The teenager regularly checked out the local soul clubs and legendary rare groove all dayers. As a keen record buyer he soon became interested in the idea of putting over his own version of the club soundtrack and before long he got involved with a sound system.

Throughout this time he also had a jazz funk band, although this had never presented itself as a serious past-time… just fun. The DJing was his main thing and by 1987 he gained something of a reputation for his sets. However it was 1988 that Bukem first realised that DJing could offer a full-on career.

In 1990, LTJ Bukem got his first big break at Raindance. Booked to play between 1 & 2 AM in front of 10,000 people, it was the first true test of the fledgling DJ skills. It may have taken all his mates to push him onto the stage but it proved to be a set that he'll never forget. From the first track he ripped it up and LTJ Bukem, the world class DJ was truly born.

Around this time Bukem had also ventured into the studio to record a track which was to become one of the most influential records of the era. Called 'Logical Progression' it surfaced on the newly formed Vinyl Mania imprint. At once anthemic and relaxing it offered the first true blueprint to Bukem's sonic vision.

By the time of his follow up to 'Logical Progression' Bukem had set up his own imprint. Run from a small office in Harlesden, London, the label was christened Good Looking and its debut offering came in the shape of 'Demon's Theme'. Finished in mid 1990 and pressed up onto dub-plate, Bukem dropped it into his sets for a full year just to test the reaction before he finally released the track officially in July 91. 'Demon's Theme' caught people's imaginations immediately, its soulful combination of rushing breaks, lush ambience and mellow vibes opening up fresh vistas within the increasingly dark ambience of the rave.

Bukem's next release was 'Apollo' in 92, however his biggest breakthrough came with his next release 'Music' in 1993. In 1994 Bukem unleashed '19.5' while the release of the similarly epic 'Horizons' coincided with the opening of the legendary 'Speed' at the Mars Bar off the Charing Cross Road in London. It was an important time for Bukem. The label was gaining ground with its growing catalogue of must-have tunes and his own in-demand DJing. The launch of Speed was intended to run hand in hand with the growth of Good Looking while also offering a focal point for the growing drum and bass scene.

After a shaky start, which almost forced the night into closure, 'Speed' quite literally took off one night in the summer of '94.

Typically for Bukem he made the most of the situation to forward his vision. He used the sudden media limelight to highlight Good looking Records and its label roster. In 1995 the label licensed a compilation to London Records. Called 'Logical Progression' it featured exclusive cuts from the roster alongside old tracks and is still one of the highest selling drum 'n' bass compilations to have been released.

'I wanted to see the label grow, I wanted to invest in the people who were signed to the label, so the move had to happen. It was never simply about LTJ Bukem, it was about Good Looking Records, Logical Progression and the sound.'

Bukem's own music never took a back seat. There were remixes (including astounding reworks of Jodeci's 'Feenin' and Michelle Gayle's 'Sweetness'), his own addition to the label compilations and a collaboration with David Arnold on the infamous James Bond theme to 'Thunderball'

In the middle of all of this rampant activity Bukem also managed to release the 'Mystical Realms EP' in March 98. The EP featured 'Twilight Voyage' with some somber flute refrains, chopping keys and outer world ambience. The vocal and instrumental versions of 'Orchestral Jam', with its urgent break, echo dropped sonar and dissonant violins, and final track; the reflective, Herbie Hancock-esque 'Journey Inwards'. Three new tracks, each representing a deeper development of the Bukem sound, further underlining Bukem's position as a sonic leader of post rave breakbeat culture.

Bukem went further and continued to produce and mix some of the World's best Drum 'n' Bass and cross-over compilations that have ever been put out. Titles such as Progression Sessions, Earth and further instalments of Logical Progression series have become notorious for their and exciting directions that Bukem has always strived to take, but without losing sight of his original musical roots and all the things that inspired him in the beginning.

The begining of the 21st century saw LTJ Bukem continuing his extraordinary musical odyssey with his long awaited solo album Journey Inwards. A diverse and multi directional album of Drum 'n' Bass, Soul, Downbeat and house tracks that opened the eyes of those that had no faith and warmed the soul's and inner belief's of those that did. He has also added to his impressive remixing portfolio with his interpretation of 'The Essence' by jazz legend Herbie Hancock. On top of this he has continued the Progression Sessions series, with a storming live performance from the USA captured on CD, compiled the highly acclaimed Soulfood and Soul Addiction compilations, released not one but two Producer CDs, and continued to set the venues of the world alight with his stunning DJ sets.

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Fabio - BBC Radio 1 - London UK - Feb 2008

Submitted By: Top 100Schmog22
Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass
Date of Set: Feb 24th, 2008
Filesize: 152.00 MB
Total Downloads: 3

 

 

Biography of Fabio

Real Name : Fitzroy Heslop

My family aren't musical at all except in the sense that when I was growing up there was always music playing in the house. My parents were real party people who used to go out a lot. Brixton was a very musical place when I was younger as well, so I was influenced a lot. There were always parties around the corner from where I lived and a blues party ever Saturday night. Brixton's that kind of place, you cant escape music there.

My DJing came about through different things I was doing. I used to go out a lot - I mean I was the original party man. Monday, Tuesday we'd just find places to go. My raving partner was Colin Dale who plays techno now and used to be at Kiss FM. He was a DJ and used to play at a club called Tiffany's. I started to think this DJing thing doesn't look too bad and then a pirate radio station opened up near my house and Colin was supposed to be doing a show. He couldn't as he was already playing on Kiss (which was a pirate then) so he asked me to do it for him. I wasn't sure, I wasn't a DJ, but he said I had plenty of tunes so I could cover for him. I went up and did the show and that was really the start. I hadn't thought about it before and it was really frightening going there with loads of people in the studio watching. Once everyone left me to it and I was in the studio by myself I was like hey, this is alright and I was hooked. I thought, Yeah, this is me! I got a daytime show and did that for a couple of years which really sparked things off and I started to get a few gigs before acid house blew up. I was asked to play a small but notorious after-party for this club with Grooverider because we were the only people the promoter knew who played house music. It was a Tuesday night and we weren't really up for it - Groove had to go to work in the morning - and when we got there we were playing music to ourselves really. Then at about 3 o'clock hundreds of people turned up out of the blue as we were packing up to go home. After that, they asked us if we wanted to do it on a regular basis. That was great because not many people came to Brixton then. We'd just come out of the riots and everyone was still wary about the place, so to see all these people coming down partying, monged out of their brains, was a really funny experience! That's how the Fabio and Grooverider thing kicked off and how DJing started for me.

The studio is something I've never really done. I never got my head around it and I've never enjoyed myself in the studio any time I've been in there. It's one of those things like riding a bike or driving, as soon as you find out ways of doing things it becomes exciting so I need to get to that stage. I still think it's really boring but there's still time and I've a lot of ideas. It's something I've got to look forward to.

Colin Dale really helped me through the early stages. When I didn't have many records he would lend me some. He was the one who taught me how to mix so Colin was very important to me. Tim Westwood gave me my first break as a DJ at a big night and I had a fucking nose bleed on the decks! Grooverider was much more important in the acid house times. Our partnership was a really good bond and up 'til now we're still doing it out there, so it's all good. It's really freestyle, we play exactly what we want. If he gets on a roll then I'll leave him for an hour and then come back on. It's very important to give a DJ space, even if he is your partner. If he's blowing it out I let him get on with it and vice versa. There's no real set DJ thing between us, it's just whatever feels right. We play everywhere, all over Europe and the old Iron Curtain states where they have great scenes: Estonia is great. Australia is amazing too and they love breakbeat there; drum n bass is bigger than house. Canada has always been into drum n bass, America is quite a strange place to go to. They're bang into it but you go to certain places that are just really odd. It's nothing like England, totally different but amazing to go to places like New Mexico because they are so off key and weird. The great thing about America is that wherever you go people come up and say that they listen to us on the radio. It's great, I love touring and people who go to drum n bass clubs are actually into the music because it's such a weird sound.

When we started on Kiss they'd had their independent licence for about 4 years. They wanted to keep the pirate feel so it was anything goes really. It was a good time and the show was really popular, it was the height of the drum n bass thing in the early 90s and Kiss capitalised on that. We've been at Radio 1 for four years now. The reason we left Kiss was that it felt like they didn't give a toss about us. We won a lot of awards for the show and really raised the profile of Kiss but we never got a thank you, no one ever said, respect for what you're doing. Towards the end it just got a little bit shabby and when our producer went to Radio 1 he came and said there was an opening for a drum n bass show and asked us what we thought. Radio 1 is worldwide and we knew that drum n bass was going that way as well, so getting out to all those different places was what we wanted. We got feedback from places like Australia, America and Brazil. It's great to be able to express yourself to people worldwide through your DJing and the radio. The radio is a very personal thing, you play what you want to play but as a DJ you play half for yourself and half for the crowd.

I've been playing at FABRIC LIVE a couple of years now. Fabric put their money into drum n bass when no one else would in London. At the height of the garage thing, when everyone was acting like drum n bass was bollocks and no one was interested, Fabric always put on drum n bass. I don't think there's a better night than FABRICLIVE anywhere for what it is. FABRICLIVE is the best of it's kind. With the whole drum n bass and breaks thing I've got total respect for what they're doing. On the back of the housey superclubs, Fabric have turned around and done something totally different on a big night of the week. They've shied away from cheesy house and shit like that, the house night, fabric, is proper. You've got Terry Francis and guys like that: I used to play with them years ago when I played house. I know that these guys are proper house DJs and fabric's a proper club. I feel totally proud to be involved with it. And it's not arse licking on any kind of level, I just always really enjoy playing at FABRICLIVE. You can ask any of the big DJs and they'll tell you that Fabric has set the standard.

I'm doing my Swerve night and I'm probably going to get into production this year, 'cause I think it's about time. I'm going to South Korea soon, which will be interesting with world events and Japan, which has a great scene. Culturally it's so different and I'm really feeling it: crime free, the people are pleasant and the shopping is great. I'm also playing Sonar for Radio 1 this year, it's off the hook, then a festival in the desert in Spain that I do every year. Brazil will be great to visit as their drum n bass sound, particularly Marky and Patife, has really infused the scene with some great vibes.

Fabio started off in the scene playing on pirate radio, called 'Phase 1'. Here, he played a mixture of Soul, Jazz and Rare Groove. After this, Fabio got into acid house as it came along and he then hooked up with Grooverider and together, they would DJ as a team. They started getting booked for all the big rave parties, like Sunrise, Energy and Biology. After this, Fabio himself did not look back. Fabio has always steered towards the mellow and jazzy side of Drum and Bass and is well known for this style. Fabio has not done much in the way of producing although that looks set to change in the future with different projects lined up. Fabio does run a label called 'Creative Source' and acts as the A&R man for the label which keeps him busy spotting new talent. Fabio also plays with Grooverider on Radio 1 for the 'One In The Jungle' show, after Kiss FM failed to keep hold of them. With this type of exposure, Fabio is sure to remain on the Drum and Bass scene for many a year to come.

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