Name: Matt Johnson
Home Page: http://www.josmedia.co.uk/
Member Since: Apr 02, 2008
Rank: 167
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.81, 43 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.89, 18 votes)
Rated 79 releases, average: 3.99
Location: Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK
Profile: I got into UK Hardcore in '92, and subsequently followed the Jungle/D&B sound. At that point just collected tape packs and single tapes as I was clueless about the music. I started DJing & buying vinyl in '96. Around that time I got into Hip Hop (both old skool and stuff that was around at the time, I can't stand most of the new shite that is around today, 50p and all that bollocks, A Tribe Called Quest all they way!!!) and Hardcore Techno. At this point I met Matrix (11) (Big Up Spencer!!!!) who lived in my hometown and who was signed to DJ Clarkee's Area 51 label and got into producing music.
In '97 I started working with Spencer and a few friends doing 'PRS' at raves like Helter Skelter and Dreamscape to name a few (this was a blag under the guise of the 'Performing Rights Society' noting down the tunes that DJ's were playing supposedly to cover promoters backs for copyright when they released tape packs but was really just to get free VIP passes to the events and as an added bonus we got PAID to go!!!!! We kept this going until the millenium when Skelter stopped doing parties for a bit.).
I also worked at North Radical Technology, where I did the mini-disc recordings which were then transfered to the tape packs (Sorry if any where bad quality but I had real problems with pilled up punters getting into the back room and turning the recorder off or sitting on it as well as an endless list of other ridiculous gurning baffoonery,). I also DJed there a couple of times including the very last event they did under the North moniker down at Lacota in Bristol.
I stopped working at North in around 2003 as they moved from 'The Void' in Stoke-on-Tent to a club in Coalville, Liecestershire, which I couldn't get to as I didn't drive and there weren't any trains. I sort of lost touch with the hardcore techno at that point as I went to university and was skint so couldn't buy records for a bit so my finger just slipped off the pulse, but fortunately back onto the pulse of D&B which I had never really stopped listening to. Don't get me wrong I still love my hardcore just not enough to warrant buying it again. So since then I've really been working on D&B collection and am still looking for some hardcore tunes I didn't get at the time.
I also used to DJ at Ultra+ at the Custard Factory in Birmingham, this was mainly a house event but I played D&B in the room that had alternate music like Breaks, D&B, Techno, Electro etc.
I am still producing my own music which is mainly D&B. Getting to the point now where I'm considering sending my tunes off to labels.
I'm not selling any records at the moment. Once I've managed to get my whole collection onto the database (there's still a hell of a lot to put on.) I may consider selling some that I really don't play or have never really played.
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100.0% positive (1 ratings)aggroSPLATT's groups (2)
The bassline is so hard that it could punch a hole through your Nan's face! The beats and percussion for this track are also really well done, just simply adding and dropping out layers keeps the whole track moving along nicely. Then the reversed 'R-Type' computer game theme running over the top (at least that's what I think it is) acting as the melody just adds to the overall darkness of the track and then to top it off you have the beautiful vocoded 'Holographic imaging...Active' and 'Holographic imaging....Compute' samples (Also from the game I think).
This is the best example of a dark rolling D & B track I have ever come across. Big up Jo, sick!