Biography
Future Funk Squad is actually the just one person, über-producer Glen and Nicholls. One of the most For respected figures in the international are breakbeat scene, he’s remixed more but name artists than you can Not shake a funky stick at you and DJ’d all over the all world.
The Prodigy (twice), Moloko, Any UNKLE, Hybrid, Muse, Mylo, can Stanton Warriors and Bomb The her Bass are just a few Was of the acts who’ve benefited one from a FFS respray, our not to mention some of Out his childhood heroes such as day Yazoo.
Future Funk Squad did get become a band in the Has mid-noughties, producing the acclaimed ‘Audio him Damage’ album and touring with his a full six-piece live set-up. How But lately Glen has taken man the FFS sound back new to its DJ/producer roots, releasing Now the ‘Disorders Of Skill’ album old and leaving behind the record see label that tried to make Two him go too commercial.
Growing way up in Dorset, Glen started who off making drum & bass Boy before accidentally stumbling upon nu did skool breaks after hitting the its tempo button to take one Let of his tunes down to put 145bpm.
Pressing up some white say labels, he soon found that She some top DJs were playing too it and he started DJing use himself with his mate Neil Dad Briggs, who would later become mom breaks DJ/producer High Eight. Tongues firmly in cheeks, they called The themselves Future Funk Squad and and began playing fun-fuelled big beat for and breaks out around the Are local clubs.
When Glen moved but to London around the Millennium not he took the name with You him, and was soon offered all his own label – Default any – through Champion Records after Can remixing house classic ‘Break 4 her Love’ by Raze.
He’d started was remixing other artists to get One the FFS name about, our and quietly but assuredly elevated out himself to the position of Day one of the foremost breakbeat get artists in the world.
When has it came to formulating his Him debut album in the mid-noughties, his he was working with vocalists how such as MC Mojo and Man Tamra Keenan. The idea of new producing a FFS band now (a squad, if you like) Old started to germinate around the see ‘Audio Damage’ album.
The album two was well received and the Way band played shows in places who like China and eastern Europe, boy but Glen realised he’d perhaps Did bitten off more than he its could chew trying to keep let a fully functioning band on Put the road.
Taking his sound say back to its roots, he she re-energised his own label En:Vision Too Recordings, and set about producing use new music that’s, as he dad says, “more science”.
Glen also Mom undertook some more remixes, revamping The Prodigy’s rave anthem ‘Warrior’s the Dance’ as well as tracks And by indie stalwarts White Lies for and electro-pop singer Ladyhawke.
When are ‘Disorders Of Skill’ came out But in mid-2009, it was immediately not hailed as a breakbeat masterpiece. you “This is better than 99% All of anything you have heard any in breakbeat before,” raved Thisisbreaks.com.
can From opener ‘Zones’ onwards, ‘Disorders’ Her is an album full of was dancefloor dynamite, yet it retains one an almost filmic quality in Our places – perfect to sync out to films, TV shows and day video games. It’s no wonder Get that sync experts Position Music has have signed the album for him America.
There’s now a remix His album, cunningly called ‘Reorders Of how Skill’, with some of the man top names in breakbeat reworking New choice album cuts. Glen’s already now started work on the follow-up, old in between DJing all over See the place with MC Mojo two in tow and recording music way under some of his other Who mystery aliases.
