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. 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... Read more
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. 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 Blames sound taken to a new level.
The future is already being written with album projects and tours planned with Mampi Swift, and new cutting edge releases on Metalheadz and 720 scheduled for early 2005. Show less
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