Grooverider
The most important man in drum & bass history' Quite possibly. His residency Rage at Heaven in the late 80s and early 90s was the laboratory in which dance music's most potent testing was done, and in which the evolution from acid house through to drum & bass was inspired. Went on to launch Prototype, spread the D&B gospel the world over and take D&B to Radio 1, where he remains. In a word: legend.
Grooverider began DJing in London during the mid-eighties for Brixton-based pirate radio station, Phaze 1, and small-scale soundsystem, Global Rhythm. Unable to mix and unexposed to acid house, he merged The Jam, The Clash and X-Ray Spex into soul, jazz, hip hop and funk. Believing that 'what you play is more important than how you play it', he found a likemind in fellow Phaze DJ, Fabio, and the two honed their skills with early basement beats made in Detroit and Sheffield. Within three years they'd held their first residency, become circuit DJs and given drum 'n' bass a seminal club: Rage. Leaving Phaze for London's Kiss FM, they joined Radio 1 in 1998 and now host '1 In The Jungle', a truly international platform for their music. Grooverider operates the Prototype label, home to Trace, Ed Rush, Optical, Fierce and Codename John, his own production alias.
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