Roni Size
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United KingdomRoni started on the path of production when he was thrown out of school aged 16, but music had always been a part of his life. Born and raised in Bristol, the sounds of the 70s blues parties and sound-systems happening in the St Pauls area of the city infected Roni's bones. Meeting up with Krust in the early 90s brought two musically compatible minds together, subsequently creating Full Cycle in 1993 and a new direction for electronic music. Having built a name for himself through Full Cycle and other labels
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1997 was an incredible year for music...Roni Size...Radiohead...Verve...Spiritualized...Chemical Bros...Prodigy...Primal Scream...
First time I heard this was at a party in Sheffield in 1997-8 visiting a friend at the uni. All his friends were together in a large dimly lit room and there was a DJ. It was post-acid house and rave era and people were serious about their drum and bass. The ragga had diversified into atmosheric and jazz and it was multicultural as well, Indian experimental stuff among others. The people were very friendly and had dreadlocks or crazy spiky hair and quirky looking baggy clothes with lots of pockets to hide drugs in. The air was thick with weed smoke and someone passed me a spliff the size of my forearm, which had buds in that crackled sweet juice when you inhaled. Everything looked like it was glitching in slow motion and I could hear the layers clearly separated in the music, surrounding me and washing over me. The DJ dropped this track and I was like holy shite wtf is this!!! Every single little hair on my body stood on end with the endorphin rush that went up through the back of my head and down through my arms and nose. I looked down at myself and realised I was no longer sitting on the floor smoking - I was now on my feet and dancing with everyone else. I'm so glad I was there. I do hope young people today have similar.
2026 anyone?
That bassline, forever burned into my head as are the nights in Fabric bouncing to Roni and all the legends from back in the day..
Late 90s is the future.