RUMBLE!! PRESENTS DOM & ROLAND (UK)
@ TORVI, LAHTI
10€
DOM & ROLAND (UK) [ DOM & ROLAND PRODUCTIONS, METALHEADZ ]
Growing up in London with the early rave scene, Dom got into production when one of his friends Nico Sykes, already an accomplished engineer told him that all he needed was a sampler and a computer to get going. With the early crop of bedroom producers using ‘Akai s1000’ samplers, Dom, wanting to be different, went out and purchased a ‘Roland S760’ and hence the name was born. Dom had always had a lot of music in his life with his parents being opera singers and having been taught both piano and trombone to a high level at school, so it was fitting that he should also try to make a career out of it.
Dom started releasing records through ‘No-U-Turn’ records in 1994, a small independent label that at the time was gaining a large amount of respect from the then famous radio DJ’s of the day including the now highly credited ‘Dj Grooverider,’ who helped him out immensely at this time providing almost blanket coverage of Dom’s music on his shows. On the strength of this early success and regular airplay, Dom persuaded his bank manager to lend him enough money to upgrade his home studio to professional standards.
Shortly afterwards in 1996 he was discovered by ‘Moving Shadow Recordings’ and signed a three album deal with them; his reputation further cemented when Dom was chosen to collaborate on their 100th release, ‘Distorted Dreams’ (SH100) along with ‘Rob Playford,’ and upcoming star ‘Goldie’.
Dom’s success continued to grow over the next few years, as did the drum and bass scene, which was now becoming a global affair. He was now DJing himself all over the world on a regular basis, had released records on most of the major drum and bass labels, and was frequently being asked to remix dance and rock tracks, many that he would turn down on the grounds of not liking the originals! He did accept a few and having been a fan of theirs for some time, couldn’t say no when he was asked by electronic pioneers ‘Art of Noize’!
When he wasn’t travelling to distant places, Dom now found himself engineering and producing tracks for other Drum & Bass DJs/Artists who did not yet know how to use studio equipment themselves. During this time Dom mixed and produced various Drum & Bass classics including ‘Mutant Revisited’ and ‘Sonar’ with ‘DJ Trace’ and others with ‘Virus’ boys, ‘Optical’ and ‘Edrush’; it was in fact Dom that introduced them to each other! Moreover it was for this first collaboration with Trace, that Dom created the now legendary ‘Tramen’ break - a break that has been sampled and used in Drum & Bass tracks by other artists ever since! The late ‘John Peel’ was also a great fan of Dom’s work and asked on a couple of occasions to record with him, although unfortunately due to their separate busy schedules this was never realised.
Autumn 1998 saw the long awaited release of Dom’s first album, ‘Industry’ - to unanimous public and critical acclaim. This album was so popular on its first two weeks of release that it went in at No.3 on the Music Week Independent Album Chart, with only ‘Tribe Called Quest’ and ‘Lauren Hill’ beating it to the top slot. Several BBC documentaries also used sections of this album for their theme music including ‘Merseyside Blues,’ a popular police reality series in 1999.
In 2001, while working on his second album ‘Back For The Future,’ Dom, alongside ‘Derrick May’ and ‘Surgeon’, were each commissioned to write five exclusive pieces of music for ‘Midnight Club,’ one of the first games to be released on the PlayStation 2, these tracks were also subsequently released on ‘Moving Shadow,’ one being the mighty ‘Imagination,’ a monster of a track that Dom will always be remembered for, and that has been remixed countless times since. Although he prefers making albums, Dom has continued to write music occasionally for ‘Rockstar Games’ and other games companies.
His third Moving Shadow album ‘Chronology’ came out in May 2004 to yet more critical acclaim. He featured quite heavily in the music press around this time including a five-page studio feature in ‘Future Music’ magazine in their November issue, which saw Dom being interrogated for his engineering and production skills.
In late 2005, having fulfilled his commitment to Moving Shadow, Dom started his own record label ‘Dom and Roland Productions’ to release collaborations between himself and the crème de la crème of drum and bass artists that he had met over the years.
Now in 2014, 20 collaborations and 3 albums further on, Dom still runs Dom & Roland Productions and is just about to release his 4th album on the label in Sept 2014; a remix album featuring 12 of the top names in DnB. His previous three solo albums, ‘Through the Looking Glass,’ ‘No Strings Attached’ and ‘The Big Bang’ were all very well received and have featured some amazing collaborations with artists such as Noisia, Rob Playford, Amon Tobin and Audio among many others.
He has just released a new 7” remix box set on Goldie’s “Metalheadz” label following his domination of the no.1 spot of all dnb charts over Christmas and New Year with the original. This was a remix of Goldie’s “Jah” from his “Timeless” album, backed with the year long club stormer that was “Outta Endz,” a solo work by Dom on the flip. Goldie himself described the work as “beautiful”.
Dom is currently writing an album for ‘Metalheadz’. As well as writing drum and bass and DJ'ing around the world, Dom has also embarked on a new journey as an engineer and producer of other types of music. He recently worked on the new "OMS" (one minute silence) rock album and is also heavily involved with various hardware and software companies taking studio tools to the next level.
He remains at the pinnacle of the underground and electronic scenes. He is highly respected as a result, even outside the drum and bass circle.
DESTROY ! [ RUMBLE!! ]
In 1998, Joni Heikkilä aka Dj Destroy began his journey & love affair with drum & bass music listening to the beats and sounds that emanated from the UK underground scene around that time. Citing his addiction to the music as the classic Virus Ed Rush & Optical tech monster “Wormhole”, the early dark twisted sounds Virus & Renegade Hardware provided the soundtrack to his submersion into dnb music and culture.
Whilst being a knowledgeable connoisseur of drum and bass, with an appreciation of tunes from across the wider spectrum of the music, Destroy draws his dj set inspirations from his favorite artists which include the likes of Dieselboy, Dj Hype, The Upbeats, Noisia, Phace & Misanthrop. His record bag on an average evening is filled with the latest, and some timeless classics from labels such as Ram, Viper, Bad Taste, Lifted, Neosignal, Playaz ..
His djs style leans towards the more upfront and techy/dancefloor selection of the dnb genre, with dynamic fast mixing, utilizing his 12 years of technical experience behind the turntables with double drops.
Not content with just playing the music, Destroy has been actively spreading the vibe and promoting Drum and Bass in his city Lahti in Finland. Since 2008, hosting the very popular sessions RUMBLE!! he´s invited a wide variety of international guests & performers alongside well known national dj/producers whom he supports with equally as much vigor. Previous international guests have included OPTICAL (UK), DIESELBOY (USA), Dj AMC (UK), MC COPPA (UK), EZ ROLLERS (UK), PROLIX (UK), CHRIS SU (HU), FAR TOO LOUD (UK) to name a few ..
2014 opened up a new chapter in the Destroy story as he's been playing in countries such as Germany, Italy.
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