
Blame - ESP Agengy Podcast Vol. 3 - Mar 2008
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Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass
Date of Set: Mar 28th, 2008
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Biography of Blame
Blame is one of the most innovative producers on the drum & bass scene - an accolade hard won over years of consistently breaking musical boundaries in an attempt to bring true innovation to the music that he loves. In recent years Blame’s hard work and skills have gained him a steadily rising profile, both as producer and as a dj. Besides running his own imprint 720 Degrees, Blame has built strong bonds with Metalheadz and Charge Rec., both highly respected, yet different labels, showing once more Blame’s versatily. 2006 saw his return to Moving Shadow, as well as the release of his album ‘Turning Point’ In 2007 then he released his first track on Hospital Records. As a DJ, Blame enjoys a reputation of excellent technical skills and extreme professionalism. This, combined with simply being one of the nicest characters in the scene, has lead to many invitations from promoters for him to return to their events.
It all began over ten years ago when, whilst in the studio with college friend Tony Justice, Blame started to create tracks which would be synonymous with the early hardcore scene. ‘Music Takes You’, a solo project for Moving Shadow, saw him break into the UK charts and become number one in the dance chart; many books charting the early days of dance music have since credited this tune as a seminal moment in what was to soon become drum & bass.
After experiencing such early chart success, Blame decided to focus on his musical direction, and received critical acclaim for tunes such as ‘Planet Neptune’, also released on Moving Shadow. In late 1996, he joined LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking Records, and it was here that he began to try out more new sounds, soon becoming one of the label’s most important artists. Blame mixed the second in the famous ‘Logical Progression’ series. He not only made waves with innovative, space-age tunes such as ‘Visions Of Mars’ and ‘Alpha:7’, but he also became one of Good Looking’s best DJs, touring the world with LTJ Bukem.
In 1997, Blame set up his own label - 720. ‘Cuban Lynx’ / ‘Solitude’ was its first release, and since then has used the label as a platform for innovative drum & bass, releasing his own tunes alongside tracks from Odyssey, Seba, Future Engineers and Pariah amongst others. 1999 saw the release of ‘Two Revolutions’, a 720 compilation album that showcased the label’s increasingly dancefloor-orientated sound. It was a direction in which Blame’s own music was heading – his 1999 ‘Between Worlds’ EP featured a fiercely robotic tune called ‘Mechanism’, which seemed to manifest the evolution of his musical vision. “I wanted to get tracks like it out on 720 as much as I could,” he explains. “It crosses the board from the more musical styles of drum & bass to the more dancefloor sound. For me, that’s the future, that versatility.”
In 2001, Blame left Good Looking Records to devote more time to running 720 full time, it was then he mixed the CD “720 Revolution” and re-invented his sound for the changes that were soon to follow. In 2004 musical collaborations with Mampi Swift on Charge Recordings and 12” releases on Metalheadz have seen Blame’s sound rise to a new level.
2005 saw a very busy year for Blame with various releases on 720 Degrees, Charge Recordings and Metalheadz. After his debut release on Metalheadz in 2004 (Burnout / Medusa) with 'Artificial Environment', followed by the 'Rise Of The Machines EP' on Charge Recordings, which showed Blame taking a slightly heavier dancefloor approach. In April/May Blame also had two tracks appearing on Mampi Swifts 'Music Forever LP' and was part of the Charge UK tour with Swift and Metalheadz club nights in the UK, as well as continuously touring Europe, and the USA. '720 Degrees' has kicked off a busy release schedule in 2005 with the first release in March by K.O.T.P (Blame & Pedge) entitled 'Krypton Factor / Android', and swiftly following that in April will be a release showcasing Blames trademark deeper vibes with 'Shadows Of Technology'. Further work for Metalheadz followed in the form of ‘Psychotropic’ on the ‘Winter of Content’ compilation and another single “The Search / Landspeed”, both released in Autumn 2005.
In 2006Blames album 'The Turning Point' was released on 720 Degrees. Tracksincluded the club smash Solar Burn, Skyline, Congress, Desert Planet andSabotage to name a few. The support on the tracks was huge and included all thebig players in the drum and bass scene, firmly cementing Blames position in thefuture of drum and bass.
2007 was a big year for Blame. Theanthemic 'Avalon' appeared on Hospital records 'Weapons Of MassCreation' LP, and the anticipated 'Solar Burn VIP' dropped onMampi Swifts Charge Recordings. There are exciting 12' projects in thepipeline for Charge Recordings, Hospital and 720 Degrees all pencilled in forearly 2008...
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