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Out of 26 votes - Similar Artists: Dom and Roland, Decoder, Keaton, Gridlok, Hive, Kemal
Out of 26 votes
- Location: United States
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Drum 'n' Bass
Editor's review
Percussive-beat mercenaries Hive and Gridlok are but part of an elite team of dance-floor technologists that use the medium of sound for their musical sorties. Along with Keaton and Echo, these preeminent stateside producers lob their explosive concoctions into the closed quarters of nightclubs everywhere and detonate their drum-and-bass terrorism mercilessly. Thunderclaps of bass and electrifying pulses of noise adorn their intricate and accelerated rhythms for tunes so ferocious they almost violate the Geneva Convention. Proceed into Violence Recordings with extreme caution.
Biography
HIVE, KEATON, ECHO & GRIDLOK PRESENT:
"WELCOME TO VIOLENCE"
About HIVE
Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, it's in the unassuming personality of futurist B-boy Hive that drum and bass finds its mightiest bridge between the UK and the US. His tracks have become staples of virtually all of drum and bass legends, from Andy C to Goldie, and make regular appearances on Grooverider's Radio 1 program--on which Hives towering Neo spent weeks at number one on the Five Mighty Rollers. Hive's label Violence has registered sales comparable to Ram, Renegade Hardware, and Valve. He released a tremendous remix of Goldie's and Rob Playford's The Shadow for Moving Shadow. Metalheadz has invited him to record an e.p. for the label. He's toured worldwide, completing a month of dates in New Zealand and Australia in the fall of 2002, preceded by a month in the UK and Europe, which included a guest appearance for the Valve Soundsystem. No American has gained such complete entree into the heart of drum and bass.
About Keaton
There are not many artists in drum and bass that have created a single track that defines an era, but Keaton alongside collaborators Carl and Chris of The Usual Suspects did just that with Killa Bees, the epochal single released on Renegade Hardware in 1999. Epitomizing the dark, intensely nervy sound of the late 90s, the single was in near-constant rotation in every corner of the drum and bass scene. Named Best Newcomers by Knowledge Magazine and thrust into the limelight virtually overnight, Keaton found himself in the enviable position of having entered the game on the top floor.
About Gridlok
As one of America's hardest working producers and DJs, Gridlok has charted a steady, methodical path into the vanguard of drum and bass. His tracks enjoy the support of drum and bass finest, from Andy C to Bailey. His work ethic and tireless efforts to advance the sonic breadth of the music have yielded tremendous dividends for drum and bass fans worldwide. Recent tracks such as Heatwave on Violence have become staples of countless major league DJs worldwide, and they are huge crowd favorites.
About Echo
Son of Chicago, oracle of San Francisco, Echo remains one of America's great stealth weapons in the strategic armory of drum and bass. One of the first to heed the siren call of UK drum and bass in the mid 90s, Echo abandoned his ambitions in live music to commit himself to electronic music, and drum and bass in particular, forging pioneering releases in the States long before most of his contemporaries had even contemplated getting in the studio. His music is often poised on a fine line between the crackling, radioactive grit of drum and bass at its darkest, and the pensive, measured gait and melodic sensitivity of electronic dance music peers such as The Black Dog and Aphex Twin. The method to this reconciliation is at the heart of Echo's art, and it's not for the timid.
