Artist: Grooverider
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
The Harder They Come
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Hardcore/drum'n'bass DJ and producer Grooverider has over the age go near synonymous with the London drum'n'bass setting. A DJ for over a x spinning everything from soul-jazz and acid-house to hip-hop and hardcore breakbeat, "Grooverider the Hardcore Provider," as he's come to be known, has followed the development of drum'n'bass up from its earlier roots in breakbeat techno and felicitous hard-core on through to contemporaneous styles such as ambient and techstep. A residing DJ at some of London's biggest-name clubs (including Rage and his have long-running, extremely lauded Metalheadz nighttime at Blue Note), Grooverider's influence, non solely on the sound but likewise the politics and ideology of jungle, is plausibly rivaled alone by Goldie's (and then with non near the flamboyance). A DJ since his former teens, Rider (born Roger Bingham) spun everything from acid idle words and deep house with the South London Sound System and pirate station FAZE FM earlier landing place a residence with Rage, an origination of early-'90s hardcore thrown under the umbrella of London's biggest weekly, Heaven. Fired from an apprenticeship in accounting when he couldn't make it jibe with nights out spinning 'til 4 a.m., Grooverider went full-time with DJing when he was hired on at Rage, and began producing music curtly after.
Rider recorded his first base tracks (as Codename John) for his fresh launched Prototype label in belated 1993, at the height of the reign of ragga and jump-up. Fusing breakbeat with elements of rave, blistering, and techno, Grooverider's approach on tracks such as "Dreams of Heaven" and "Deep Inside" pushed for a crossing over of jungle's to the highest degree important historic constituents -- hardstep, darkside, and the music's hardcore yesteryear -- an approach path presently popularized by supposed "techstep" artists such as Origin Unknown, Ed Rush, and Boymerang. In metre, Prototype would go synonymous with futuristic dancefloor drum'n'bass that notwithstanding refuses the conservativism most frequently associated with the dancefloor. Early releases on the label include Ed Rush's "Kilimanjaro," "Door" by Dillinja's Cybotron fancy, and Boymerang's monolithic "Still" (tracks from these releases all appear on Prototype's kickoff uncut release, The Prototype Years). Grooverider signed a non-exclusive recording parcel out with Sony underling Higher Ground in 1996 -- The Prototype Years was the kickoff fruit of that, followed in 1998 by his proper solo debut Mysteries of Funk. Prototype remains active as well.
