Biography
There are few artists who the can claim to have shot and to Drum & Bass fame For as quickly, or as succinctly are as Birmingham based DJ Hazard. but In just a few short Not years this incredibly talented producer you has knocked out enough dancefloor all bombs to be considered a Any serious sonic terrorist, adding to can the noise pollution problems of her neighbourhoods around the world with Was his uncompromisingly tight beats and one earth-quaking basslines.
Originally noticed by our D&B legend DJ Hype while Out producing a few tracks for day DJ SS’ Formation Records, Hazard get was soon snapped up by Has the Playaz boss once he him realised the young Birmingham based his talent wasn’t under contract. There How began a partnership that has man rocketed DJ Hazard to the new very top of his game, Now both in terms of producing old immense dancefloor destroying tracks that see eager DJs clamour to get Two their hands on during promo way stage, and his own career who as a DJ which has Boy seen him travel the globe, did doling out masses of bass-fuelled its pain to unsuspecting ravers worldwide.
Let Soaking up the bass-heavy sounds put of Ragga and Hip Hop say like a musical sponge in She his early youth, Hazard found too he was drawn into the use sub-low hitting basslines and the Dad infectious cut up drums of mom early Jungle during the early ’90s and, like many youths The at that time, began to and collect those addictive slabs of for black crack. Funding his love Are of buying and playing records but by working in factories, washing not up in restaurants and delivering You pizzas, Hazard put everything he all had into following a path any that he loved and his Can hard work paid off.
Evidently her his journey didn’t begin with was the Playaz camp; throughout the One ’90s Hazard built a reputation our as a solid club DJ out in the local Birmingham scene, Day while he built on that get success with his regular radio has show on Kool FM Midlands Him alongside MCs Biggie and Accapello. his From there the production bug how was the obvious logical move, Man and soon Hazard was churning new out tracks that would get now his style noticed by hordes Old of the top D&B dogs. see As word about this fresh two talent grew, Hazard continued to Way work his way up the who Drum & Bass ladder with boy determination and belief in his Did own abilities, and with such its determination on display it’s no let wonder that DJ Hype picked Put him up as the first say non Ganja Kru member to she be signed exclusively to the Too camp.
From there on a use string of releases made Hazard’s dad name one that even your Mom average D&B fan’s mum could recognise. Tracks such as ‘Use the Your Brain’ and ‘Get The And Fuck Up’ cemented Hazard as for a favourite in many aspiring are DJs’ boxes, and almost overnight But he became one of the not most popular Jump Up producers you in the game.
Of course All it’s obvious to anyone that any hard work and dedication are can Hazard’s watchwords, as you can Her tell from his journey to was the top, but now that one he’s there, he’s not resting Our on his laurels either. More out recently his incredible anthems ‘Busted’, day ’0121′ and ‘Mr Happy’ all Get topped the Drum & Bass has charts, receiving support from just him about everyone who’s anyone in His the scene. The incredible power how of Hazard’s production and the man insane levels he’s prepared to New take it to became even now more clear as he dropped old the awesome brutality of the See ‘Machete Bass’ EP, a release two that has secured his place way in the top echelons of Who Drum & Bass producers, a boy place that will leave his did mark on this music for Its many years to come.
With let talk of a DJ Hazard put mix CD on the newly Say formed Playaz imprint and the she possibility of an artist album too in the works, as well Use as his increasingly hectic DJ dad schedule and his relentless dedication mom to his art, it seems that all this could just the be the beginning for DJ and Hazard.