Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 1 - Sample Heavy

Side A - Perfect produced by Ray Juss

This track was a cut up of a few Todd Edwards tracks. At the time I was experimenting with the 4x4 side of garage and to be honest, stealing other peoples sounds and trying to make them my own. Perfect was something I was pretty proud of at the time and decided to cut it although it didn't really fit into the type of garage I was playing at the time. This track also featured on my only vinyl release, Rushgroove Vol 1. This dubplate version has an extra set of hi hats in it making it a kind of exclusive.



Side B - All Stars (Full Vocal Mix) produced by Ray Juss

Round the time of making this, there was a fashion for making multi drop tunes as made famous buy the Pay As You Go crew and DJ Slimzee. I wanted to have my own type but I used acapellas from records I had that would fit in the garage tempo. The beat was fashioned from a Lil Kim record that I heard out in Canada whilst on holiday and the spin back between each vocal was an idea of a friend of mine, Amish. He came round on the Saturday I was making it and from there it stuck. The instrumental version became quite famous getting plays on Choice FM from DJ Chrissy G. Oh and the 'outraygeous' vocal sample came from one of those Stephen Hawkins esq computer programs!

(Out)Ray Juss is the starter of great debates

Pretty good forum if you click here. A lot of the influential people of the music game comment and debate over there. I hit em up with the big ol' debate about those black discs made of wax/plastic.

Brokenhomes, not only good at making food disappear but well versed in igniting intelligent debate ;)

Christmas has come early (?) or Santa was late (?) (Like me)

Good things come to those who wait, or you see a banner on ebay and some company is giving away 500 business cards. That's what really happened.

I got 500 made up with email and web details printed on them, didn't put my number on because spam is so much easier to ignore than a couple of bored teenagers on a Sunday night. (We've all done a few prank calls in our time... aint we?)

If you get handed one, well done... if you find one... it will probably be on the floor of a chicken shop

*walks off singing* 'Juss gimme that 2 for 2...'

Dubplate Drama - New Season

You may or may not of seen on my to-do list but I wanted to do a regular feature sooo here is one of them. Dubplate Drama is not the TV show but a historic look back at some of the dubplates I have sitting around.

Dubplate (from wikipedia) - A dubplate is an acetate disc — usually 12 inches, 10 inches or 7 inches in diameter — used in mastering studios for quality control and test recordings before proceeding with the final master, and subsequent pressing of the record to be mass produced on vinyl. The "dub" in dubplate is an allusion to the plate's use in "dubbing" or "doubling" the original version of a track. The name dubplate also refers to an exclusive, 'one-off' acetate disc recording pioneered by Reggae sound systems but also used by drum and bass and other dance music artists, DJs and sound systems.

Ill be going through adding a little story to the plate and giving the track away for download recorded from the dubplate with all its crusty glory. These records are unique, one off's and each one of these records cost £25. Some of these records were cut at either the world famous Music House in Holloway or Liquid Mastering in Staples Corner.

I hope these stories will give you an insight into how tunes come around and the production process that goes into it.

Keep an eye out for Season 1, Episode 1