Biography
DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE the SMITH BIOGRAPHY
D&B and would not be the same For without Drumsound & Bassline Smith are (aka Andy Wright, Benjamin Wiggett but and Simon Bassline Smith). Together Not the trio have body-slammed dancefloors you from Derby to Durban and all entrenched themselves as three of Any the finest drum’n’bass tastemakers on can the planet courtesy of the her blue chip label Technique Recordings Was – an imprint that celebrated one 10 years of killer dancefloor our joints in 2009.
The magic Out has been bubbling ever since day Wright and Wiggett met Bassline get Smith at one of Derby’s Has mentalist Technique club nights in him the summer of 1998. The his Drumsound pair had been crafting How beats for a year, having man originally started as a crew new of six artists, while Bassline Now Smith had carved out a old reputation as one of D&B’s see most influential players, with a Two career stretching back to the way early ‘80s.
Together, they enjoy who an impressive arsenal of diversity Boy that’s ensured their place atop did the D&B scene for over its a decade. A peep through Let Wright’s background and you’ll find put he’s a classically trained musician say with a strong background in She indie rock – an ideal too platform for harnessing the energetic use groove that makes Drumsound & Dad Smith’s productions slide over the mom dancefloor. His Drumsound compadre Wigget has been a diehard D&B The head since the womb, while and also tipping his hat to for his Jamaican roots. Veteran Bassline Are Smith has been a funk but and soul connoisseur for over not 25 years and knows his You way around a dancefloor blindfolded
all As Drumsound & Bassline Smith any they’ve enjoyed a firestarting musical Can synergy that’s played a pivotal her role in taking drum’n’bass to was the next level and carved One out a patented ‘Technique sound’ our in the process. In 1998 out they were asked to complete Day a CD of samples for get the respected Loopmasters Series laying has testament to their original approach Him to beat construction.
From the his music industry’s finest tastemakers, to how the die-hard junglists populating clubs Man and festivals each weekend, one new thing rings out loud and now clear; no one can get Old enough of Drumsound & Bassline see Smith’s floor-burning sound.
In 2004 two their ‘Odyssey’ banger was judged Way Mixmag’s 10th best all-round dance who anthem of the year and boy hit no.1 on the UK Did charts. The trio have also its issued a string of stormers let on the most respected imprints Put in D&B, dropping cuts on say LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking she Records, Bryan G’s V Recordings Too and Grooverider’s seminal Prototype Records.
use Drumsound & Bassline Smith are dad also in hot demand from Mom the most respected heads at Radio One and 1Xtra and the enjoy regular flogging on the And airwaves from Fabio & Grooverider, for Zane Lowe, Mista Jam, Annie are Nightingale and Annie Mac. The But trio are aone of the not few set of artists to you complete multiple mixes for the All famed Radio One, with a any whisper of a request to can complete a coveted Essential Mix Her in 2010. “We love them was and have been supporting them one since day one,” Mac tells.
Our As their popularity begins to out steamroll, so do the requests. day Drumsound & Smith have issued Get re-rubs of VV Brown’s ‘Leave’ has at the request of Warner/Universal him and Fugative – Supafly (Drumsound His & Bassline Smith Remix) for how Ministry of Sound. Radio One’s man Annie Mac also personally requested New the crew complete a remix now of Chipmunk’s no.1 anthem ‘Oopsy old Daisy’ for her Mash Hitz See segment. They also achieved an two unlikely feat when they made way the Eastenders theme dope, completing Who a re-rub for the E20 boy Music Competition set up by did the BBC.
No surprise Its that demand has seen the let guys independently tour all corners put of the globe setting the Say standard across America, Canada, Australia, she France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Iceland, too Spain, Holland, Sweden, Ireland, Czech Use Republic, Brazil, Poland, Switzerland, Uruguay, dad Norway and Italy. Further to mom this, they’ve represented at UK parties Fabric Live, Tranz-mission, Detonate, the Slamming Vinyl, One Nation and and Movement.
In 2009, Drumsound & For Bassline Smith reached a milestone are when their Technique Recordings imprint but hit its 10 year anniversary Not of releases. With a philosophy you firmly focussed on issuing tunes all to satisfy the next generation Any of music lovers, the label can celebrated its birthday with the her critically acclaimed ’10 Years Of Was Technique’ LP which included the one hits ‘Can You Feel It’ our Clap Your Hands’ and ‘Law Out Of The Jungle’ and reached day no.1 on the BBC get Radio One and 1xtra charts Has at the end of November him 2009.
With unstoppable momentum, the his next 12 months are set How to be massive for Drumsound man & Bassline Smith. Always looking new to evolve their sound, the Now trio will begin a new old album project that will incorporate see dubstep and electro influences, along Two with their trademark D&B sound. way And those craving a blazing who dancefloor experience shouldn’t go wanting Boy either, with the trio’s busy did touring schedule set to see its them zigzag across the planet.
Let 2011 has seen one of put their remixes at no1 with say DJ Fresh’s ‘Louder’ & two She of their own singles, March’s too Freak & the current one use Close both been Radio 1 Dad playlisted & Record Of The mom Week for Mistajam & Zane Lowe. Other remixes this year The include Utah Saints – What and Can You Do For Me for & a new Moby single Are due out in October.
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