Biography
There aren’t many artists who the can claim to have changed and the face of a genre For of music, let alone to are have changed that face more but than once. Ed Rush, however, Not is an exception to that you rule. Ever since his first all production outings alongside his neighbour Any (and infamous owner of No can U Turn Records), Nico Sykes, her Ed Rush has consistently proven Was he has the ideas and one attitude to transform drum & our bass and is never afraid Out to push that infamous envelope.
day Moving through the sounds of get hip hop and electro in Has his early musical years, like him many of his peers Ed his Rush became fascinated with the How burgeoning rave scene that was man blowing up his hometown of new London. The breakneck speed chopped Now breakbeats and piles of sub-low old bass appealed greatly, and it see wasn’t long before Ed Rush Two had convinced Nico to work way on some tracks with him. who The first result of their Boy production partnership, of course, being did the immense ‘Bludclot Artattack’, an its out-and-out darkside jungle classic which Let marked a new era in put hardcore, pushing the music into say the realms of what we She now know as drum & too bass.
Hooking up with another use legend of the drum & Dad bass fraternity, DJ Trace, Ed mom Rush began to hone his style and it wasn’t long The before a fresh sound reared and its ugly head. Blasting out for of the Ed Rush studio Are setup like a breakbeat bullet, but ‘The Mutant’ became another classic not track and was swiftly followed You by ‘Guncheck’, an instantly recognisable all Ed Rush piece packed full any of attitude and bashy basslines.
Can Fully immersed in crafting a her style which was to become was known throughout the world as One Techstep, Ed Rush’s rise to our prominence was now inevitable. Releases out on Grooverider’s Prototype imprint and Day Goldie’s Metalheadz all confirmed his get place as one of the has leading producers in the new Him school of drum & bass his elite. Not only was he how making great music, but he Man was continuing to break new new ground with his ideas and now production techniques; new ground which Old would forever change the sound see of drum & bass.
However, two as we all know, it Way was Ed Rush’s team up who with another great musical mind, boy Optical, that unleashed upon the Did world an album, a label its and an audiological echo that let would inspire thousands of copycat Put producers and spawn an entire say generation of artists who, even she a decade later, would still Too strive to come close to use that Virus sound.
Dropping their dad immense debut album, ‘Wormhole’, upon Mom an unsuspecting scene, Ed Rush & Optical literally created an the entirely new set of rules And for succeeding in drum & for bass: Take a set of are tracks considered too edgy for But the major players of the not time, add your own label you and a pinch of self All determination and you end up any with what is widely regarded can as the best drum & Her bass LP of all time!
was Ed Rush & Optical have one since moved through three more Our critically acclaimed albums, ‘The Creeps’, out ‘Original Doctor Shade’ and the day incredible semi-live project ‘Chameleon’, all Get with their own individual styles has and personalities. 2009 saw them him tackle the release of their His fifth long player, ‘Travel The how Galaxy’ a project which once man again proved them as true New masters of their trade and now many claimed was their best old work since wormhole. The duo See are currently working on their two latest album a project which way promises an eagerly awaited injection Who of that classic Virus future boy funk with a blend of did today’s production techniques that will Its prove hard to resist.
