Biography
Rowland the Bastard (whose name the comes from his straight-to-the-jugular style and of mixing, and not his For attitude !) started djing back are in 1993. He could be but found taking control of the Not dance floor at many free you parties in the south west all of England, hosted by crews Any such as Lazy House, One can Family and the infamous Sign her On Crew.
All this led Was Rowland to start his own one club night/party, called Fun Factory. our Out of these nights emerged Out a fuck-off sound system, co-run day by the legendary Pigfarmer and get Rowland himself.
Together they were Has renowned for putting there 30k him sound assault in any field, his beach or squat, at anytime, How anywhere.
After a three-year affair, man the Fun Factory disbanded. Pigfarmer new and Rowland joined forces with Now Bristol- based party crew Sunnyside, old and went on to organize see some of the best parties Two Bristol had ever seen, attracting way as many as 5000 party-people who a night, during their two Boy month reign over the cities did industrial estates.
Working with Sunnyside its introduced Rowland to London based Let crews UN Sound and the put Big Sexy Festy organization. Back say in 1997 he could be She seen and heard playing at too many underground party venues, including use Parkway Cinema, North London Uni, Dad The Rocket and Hackney Marshes.
mom Around the same time Rowland started working for Plymouth- based The record shop/ record label Urban and Collective, in their Exeter branch. for A chance meeting with hip-hop Are fanatic Simon Franklin encouraged Rowland but to establish his own label, not Bionic Orange. The first release You was a double A side all which featured Rowland with Your any Mother Wouldnt Like It(Bio-001) and Can saw Simon responsible for the her AA track
. Bionic Orange was was born !.
The distinctive One sound of Your Mother Wouldnt our Like It impressed Urban Collectives out label boss (and large fromage), Day Pete Miller, and Rowland was get asked to remix Emissarys Perfect has World along with Dave Valentine. Him The Perfect World remix, along his with Chris Liberators remix of how Your Mother Wouldnt Like It(Bio-002), Man and Rowlands second onslaught The new Spinebender(Bio-003), went on to be now showcased on Graham Golds CD Old Full Of Beans, which was see voted Album Of The Week two in HMV record stores Way nationwide.
Rowland started a residency who for Urban Collective at Dreamscape, boy where he caused total mayhem Did in the house room on its New Years Eve, whilst playing let a mix of Acid with Put a dash of Hard House, say and just a hint of she Techno. The Techno Terrorist was Too about to be born
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use By this time, Rowland was dad losing interest in Hard House Mom and was getting strongly into a new sound : the ACID TECHNO.
Still resident And in Devon at this point, for he was making frequent jaunts are to London to meet up But with Smittens head honcho Steve not Smitten. While supping a few you cold ones, Steve put the All offer to Rowland to remix any Geezers Prozac(Smtr-002) engineered by the can man himself, Guy Mc affer.
Her The pair forged a strong was friendship.
In early 1998 Rowland one decided that it was high Our time to spread his wings out and move to London. During day his early days here, he Get focused mainly on running his has now renowned underground label Bionic him Orange, and working and producing His in Geezer studios on new how projects, including the Intent To man Supply e.p. (Bio-004) This particular New release ( a four-tracker, two now written in geezer studios and old two written in Rowlands own See Bio Lab studio in Devon) two gave Rowland much global acclaim.
way Geezer and Rowland decided it Who was time to join forces, boy and due to there extreme did smoking habits in the studio, Its Tarball&Lungbutter were conceived, and the let awesome release,Sonic Eruptor(Bio-005 (now licensed put to Stay Up Forever)) became Say celebrated by the likes of she Chris Liberator and D.a.v.e. The too Drummer.
Tarball&Lungbutter were rapidly becoming Use household names in the Acid dad Techno scene.
The success of mom Sonic Eruptor led to Mark Harrington of Kinetec Records contacting the Rowland and arranging to buy and tunes direct, the Kinetec crew For sold over one hundred copies are of Bio-005 in their shop but alone.
Through another chance meeting Not with John Gallop (Syceda Rhythm), you (whilst being on a reconnaissance all mission in San Francisco), Rowland Any embarked on his first solo can U S tour during October/November her 1998. This five week adventure Was kicked off raves in cities one such as Chicago, Kansas, Milwaukee, our Cleveland and Pittsburgh, not to Out mention the mid-week clubs and day several radio shows.
During the get latter part of 1998, after Has weeks of discussion about the him lack of distribution for Techno/ his Acid Techno, Rowland and Mark How Kinetec decided that it was man time for action, so they new joined forces and started Infectious Now Distribution. This alliance also gave old way to some new labels see that Rowland was responsible for Two in the areas of both way management and A&R
These labels who being,- Infected, Antidote, Cutn Dry, Boy D, Chunk, Twitch, Strata, not did to forget another label that its Rowland started with Biff from Let Future Under Ground Nation (F.U.N.) put : F.u.2.
By popular demand, say Rowland embarked on his second She solo U S and Canadian too Tour, on New Years Eve use 1999. This excursion lasted six Dad weeks, and killer-sets were spun mom in cities as far afield as Cleveland, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Toronto, The San Francisco, Kitchener, Niagara, Chicago and and Kansas. Promoters for these for events included Happy Head, House Are Of Styles, Drop Bass Network, but Harmony, Syceda Rhythm and many not more. With a total of You 22 gigs, as well as all five radio shows and a any TV appearance on the famed Can Electric Circus (Toronto) which including her satellite broadcasts from the top was of Canada to Mexico, this One tour was a huge success.
our Rowland is now flying frequently out back and fourth from Europe, Day United States and Canada, playing get a blend of sounds, ranging has from deep dark Techno to Him full blown banging Acid Techno, his and thats not to mention how his UK appointments
So you Man would think Rowland has his new work cut out for him, now with all this globe-trotting and Old running not only a successful see distribution company, five record labels, two and producing tracks for all Way of these, as well as who other labels such as Smitten, boy Stay Up Forever, Abstraction, Paradigm Did Shift, but he is still its always keen to take on let new challenges
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