From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 01:40
From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 01:40
I was delighted to see Dom spin last night at Science. He has been one of my favorite drum n bass artists for a couple of years. So I was especially happy to see him spin. He played alot of awesome tunes, alot of Ed Rush & Optical tunes, and 5 or 6 dubplates of his own tunes. He said that the next upcoming 12" was entitled "Parasite" on Moving Shadow. I can't wait to get this!!! For those of you on the list that haven't heard Dom & Roland - Industry LP (Moving Shadow) or the "Trauma/Transmissions" 12" (Renegade Hardware).... I would highly recommend getting these. (Below) Here is a rather old article/interview with Dom. Just to give those who aren't familiar with him a little background ------------------------------------------------------- Not two people as you may think, DOM & ROLAND is one man and his sampler. But the tempestuous love affair between the pair makes for jungle noir of the highest order. Sinister, tough, and irate, the asbestos breaks and belching b-lines of Dom & Roland place him at the very vortex of drum & bass' darkest beats. Yet the force behind the murky mechanics of "Aliens", the post-rave darkscapes of "The Storm" and the chilling strings of "The Planet" grins brightly. DOM: "No, I never get depressed, I like just having a laugh" Fraternising with the hard-as-nails No U Turn posse during the early stages of his career, it's little wonder that 24 year old Dom Angus has been tarred with a dark streak for life. It all started when he bumped into No U-Turn's Nico at a house party seven years ago. Flashing a freshly made track at the keen young blade, Nico told Dom that he could go up and do something in his studio...for the small fee of 100 pounds. DOM: "I was actually stupid enough to say yes", recalls Dom. But from there he was hooked. Saving up some cash from the restaurant job he had at the time, he bought a sampler and found himself a erm, "right hand man". DOM: " I really did love my Roland when I first got it. It was my life" he giggles. Although his recording career began through No U-Turn splinter, Saigon, it wasn't until Dom joined the mighty Moving Shadow camp that jungle's young harbinger of dark really began to find his feet. It is a confidence which is exemplified by "Hydrolix" and also Dom's presence on Moving Shadow's 100th Release, collaborating with Rob Playford on "Distorted Dreams". A riot of rampaging pustulence, it's a track whose technical complexities push the basic essentials of drum & bass to their starkest outer limits. DOM: "We just went into the studio to try and make the darkest, hardest track we could imagine", laughs Dom again. Taking his inspiration from Sunday nights spent at Metalheadz, Dom's vision for his saturnine sound is not surprisingly to recreate a mystic virtual soundtrack as a backdrop to untold sci-fi filmscapes. He also talks of a book he read which both confirm and further fuelled his futuristic fixations. Titled the "Celestine Prophecies", it recounts the author's visions, based on ancient Peruvian documents, of how humans will develop over the next 3000 years. DOM: "It's American and it's dodgy," Dom offers. "But it will change the way you think. With my music, I'm trying to recreate the feeling you get when you see or read something that makes you think of the future. I don't really know if it's all dark, I'd say some of it 's more mysterious. But the limits are only where you want them to be." _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com