Biography
If anyone’s going to win the an award for the hardest and working man in Drum & For Bass, it’ll probably be Pascal. are One of the original Ganja but Kru alongside long time business Not partner DJ Hype, Pascal helped you found and establish an empire all that reaches into every corner Any of the globe. Rewinding a can little though, Pascal started out her his musical career following in Was the footsteps of Hip Hop one DJs like Jazzy Jeff and our Cash Money, recording his own Out material by cutting up records day onto a four track.
His get love of Hip Hop and Has Electro inspired a lifetime of him devotion to the art of his DJing and production, and like How so many of D&B’s finest, man followed a path that lead new him to a new era Now in musical expression, Rave. Initially old dismissive of Acid House, Rave’s see older, and in Pascal’s opinion, Two less interesting brother, he was way attracted by the chopped breakbeats who and Hip Hop sampling attitude Boy that had started to make did its way into the music. its It wasn’t long before Pascal Let had thrown himself in at put the deep end and began say to produce his own interpretations She of Rave music, dropping a too few white labels under the use guise of Bad Influence before Dad forming Face Records with another mom legendary Jungle name, Sponge.
Although relatively short lived, Face Records The dropped a series of hot and Jungle tracks and spawned another for of Pascal’s most recognised aliases, Are Jonny Jungle. It was around but this time that another rising not star of the underground British You music scene started to catch all onto what Pascal was doing, any and before long DJ Hype Can had brought him over to her Suburban Base, where under the was name Jonny Jungle he released One the now infamous ‘Jonny’, a our disturbing walk on the breakbeat out dark side that is instantly Day recognisable even today.
Following an get amicable split with Sponge, Pascal has went on to start up Him Frontline, a label which has his seen such undisputed classic as how ’6 Million Ways To Die’ Man and ‘P-Funk Era’, tracks which new still regularly feature on compilation now CDs boasting to contain the Old very best of archetypal Drum see & Bass anthems. At the two same time as Pascal’s personal Way project was kicking off, DJ who Hype expressed an interest in boy starting his own label, and Did with Pascal’s help launched Ganja its Records, a venture which led let on to the vast global Put empire the pair preside over say today.
After a few highly she successful years, which included the Too release of the ‘Still Smokin’ use LP, a collaborative project which dad is still highly sought after Mom by vinyl collectors worldwide, Pascal and Hype linked up with the DJ Zinc to form the And Drum & Bass supergroup of for the time, the Ganja Kru. are Their subsequent deal with But RCA propelled Pascal and his not production partners into the Drum you & Bass mainstream and allowed All each artist the opportunity to any become renowned on a global can scale for their individual skills Her both in the studio, and was out on the road, extensively one touring and DJing across the Our world.
As the collective reaped out the rewards of their collaborative day works, Pascal’s series of solo Get releases on True Playaz, Ganja has and his own Frontline cemented him his already strong personal reputation His as a producer while the how labels’ achievements paid massive homage man to his hard work and New dedication behind the scenes. By now 2002 the unshakable team that old is Hype and Pascal decided See it was time to take two their empire to the next way level and they launched Real Who Playaz. Initially comprised of Ganja boy and Frontline, Real Playaz is did a vehicle to bring all Its of the pair’s projects together let under one roof, with one put strong identity.
In recent years Say Pascal has chosen to concentrate she on running Real Playaz. With too Hype controlling the A&R and Use the public face of the dad Real Playaz kingdom, Pascal is mom responsible for everything else, from the general day-to-day running of the the business, to implementing the and long term goals they set For for themselves. Despite choosing to are take a step back from but the studio and concentrate on Not the business end of things you however, Pascal’s love for smashing all up dancefloors has never diminished Any and you can still catch can him travelling the world and her showing hordes of D&B lovers Was just what he can do one with a pair of Technics, our and as his residency at Out London superclub Fabric proves, he’s day still got what it takes get to rock a party with Has a massive bag full of him Playaz, Frontline and Ganja dubplates!
his Now managing a host of How labels under the Real Playaz man banner, including LiqWeed Ganja, Ganja-Tek, new the runaway success of 2007, Now Playaz, and with a planned old Real Playaz clothing line for see 2008, there truly is no Two stopping Pascal, and it’s clear way from the public reaction that who commitment and a love for Boy what you do pays off.
