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London Elektricity - WODNB - The Big One - Sep 2008
willg
Biography of London Elektricity
London Elektricity has become a byword for groundbreaking fast soul music, ramming venues, destroying drum & bass crowds, leaving huge smiles from the Big Chill to Glastonbury and beyond, London Elektricity live has always been out of this world. Flip the script again in 2007. Tony LE is back behind the decks with sets from London to Japan to Malaysia, Australia, California, Eastern Europe an onwards. Tony also keeps it cutting edge as always by bringing you the groundbreaking Hospital Podcast. This regular show, available through iTunes, is smashing up the bandwith as people subscribe from Canada to Cape Town. Keep locked on as London Elektricity pushes things forward!
The LE saga began way back in '96, and up until 2002 LE was a double-act. Tony Colman and Chris Goss made their mark in 98 with the epic Song In The Key Of Knife, and subsequent critically acclaimed debut album Pull The Plug. In 2002 Tony took on the project solo, as Chris concentrated on taking the NHS empire to the next level. With the release of Billion $ Gravy in 2003, phone calls from Fabio and Radio One requested a live session from Maida Vale - and lo', London Elektricity live was born. For 2 years between 'Gravy' and 2005's album Power Ballads Tony and the Band have played over 150 gigs reaching a quarter of a million people with their Live Drum & Bass spectacular! With the release of Live at The Scala The band has come to a close for the time being, with hospital bringing through the new talent in 2006, expect LE to re-emerge soon with some dancefloor corkers and more fast soul classics!
http://myspace.com/londonelektricity
Rating:
(2)
Oct 12, 2008
1) A radio announcer who periodically breaks in and babbles; at one point he has a phone conversation with someone who called in.
2) A bellowing male MC who contributes absolutely nothing to the set.
3) An extremely irritating female MC/vocalist. Her MC patter is horrid (sample: "are you there Moscow? are you there Moscow? I can't hear you" (well no wonder) and she doesn't sing very well.
As for the music, well what I can hear sounds alright, a bit harder than other sets I have heard from LE, but I haven't heard any for awhile--although I seem to recall that the last set I dl'ed had a similar problem of too much going on over the music.
Anyway, my verdict: save your time and pass this one up. Life's too short. Try to find some of LE's sets without MC gibberish. Try to find sets from the the late lamented Groovetech Radio era. They are several years old, but it was all solid dnb. Sorry to be so negative, but.....