Ed Rush Intro: The twelfth installment of the blog’s series is dedicated to a leading figure in the drum and bass proceedings; a prolific artist, a veteran dj with bookings worldwide, a label owner and the undisputed leader of the wave of noir that has swept the scene in the second half of the 90s, Ed Rush. Ed Rush is the primary recording alias of Ben Settle. Constantly active throughout the last two decades, Ed Rush has been an outstanding member of an innovative, forward-thinking circle of like-minded artists and engineers ( Nico, Optical, Dj Trace, Dom & Roland, Matrix and Fierce); a collective that has re-designed the drum and bass blueprint more than once, injecting new ideas, methods and techniques into the production template. Championing the transition from the atmospheric, ambient and jazz-influenced drum and bass, that was prevalent in mid-90s, to a darker sound, tech-oriented, with clinical, precise and sophisticated drum programming, dominated by distorted, moody bass lines, focusing on fills and edits, rather than polyrhythmic madness, Ed Rush and his recording partners abolished the drum and bass stereotypes, creating a new sub-genre widely referred to as techstep(a term attributed to Dj Trace, coined during a session at No U-Turn Records HQ), emulated by a plethora of producers and record labels. Over the course of the last 20 years, Ed Rush has cemented his reputation as a prominent dj and producer. Working mainly within small groups rather than solo, he has released to public and critical acclaim more than 50 singles and EPs, 5 albums and a variety of compilations and mixes.

Shopnewsdv.over-blog.com List Of Rehabilitation Programs In Prisons Vendredi, 30 Juin 2017. While Roni Size was making it big with the mainstream, Ed Rush and Optical were hitting it big on the dance floors with Wormhole - a fixture of drum and bass in the late 90s. Scintillating production helped this stand out from the crowd.

Ed Rush has recorded for a wide array of major and smaller labels, whereas a large number of his tracks have featured in countless compilations along the years. ER007 As most of his peers, west-Londoner Ben Settle moved from the early hip-hop and electro, in his early musical years, to the emerging underground rave scene. Lead the way meaning.

Tipping the Spiral Tribe Sound System as his first introduction to electronic music, that conveyed him to a new, fascinating world of hardcore, Ed Rush soon engaged into production himself. With the aid of his neighbour Nico, Ed Rush’s debut tracks saw the light of day in 1992. Deeply influenced by the chopped up breaks and the ever-increasing speed of the late-period hardcore tracks, Ed Rush rode the wave, introducing himself to the scene.

However obscure his first two EPs might have been ( Look What They‘ve Done b/w What If My Heart Stops, PSY001, 1992 and I Wanna Stay In The Jungle & 5AM b/w Touch Me & Keep On, ER007, 1992) the follow-up the next year has been indicative of Settle’s potential and only the prelude of his prolific career. No U-Turn In 1993, Ed Rush released the darkcore anthem Bludclot Artattack ( b/w Bludclot Artattack (Dark mix), NUT-002) on Nico’s No U-Turn label; a track with pulsating momentum, in a period when the transition from the hardcore euphoria to the jungle/darkcore detachment, heralded by tracks like Goldie’s Terminator and Invisible Man’s The Beginning, was already taking place. Bludclot Artattack samples the catchy vocal hook “ Let It Go” from the acapella version of the song I Need You Now by the disco group Sinammon (that acapella version has been heavily used for samples by various Suburban Base artists as well). The strings in the Dark mix have been sampled from Queen’s The Ring, off the Flash Gordon movie OST. Bludclot Artattack was remixed the next year ( Bludclot Artattack (Licks 1 & 2), NUT-007, 1994) featuring the vocal snippet “ Every time, I think I’m gonna wake up back in the jungle” from the movie Apocalypse Now. Torque In the next three years, Ed Rush released 8 more singles on No U-Turn and its sub-label Nu Black, with Nico on mixing, production arrangement and engineering duties.