Break Beat from where it all begun!
Break Beat from where it all begun!
The Englishmen from Drumattic Twins could be simply called Break Beat. Because they represent what can be called the origin of this musical style. They’re ferocious and distortioned and name their sound „Hammer & Tongs”. All their songs are different from each other, and at the same time all having undergone a success story: breaks mixed with soul, electro and funk. „We’re oldschool, we don’t follow any trend and we like to let the music lead and not the other way around, says Lanx, the one half of the duo. Together with Nick Slater, they perform together since the 90’s, skillful breakbeat, sustained by a „rude” bassline with it’s roots in elektrophunk.
http://soundcloud.com/drumattic/dt-feb-mix-2010-11-128kbps
Before calling themselves Drumattic Tweens, they were known as Shades of Rythm and had one more vocalist. The ones who were children at that time or lived the adolescence years at MTV, must have surely grown up with songs like Sweet Sensation and Sounds of Eden. The first disc was brought out, in 1000 pieces and also distributed by them, at the vinyl shops in London and Manchester. After they did all the hard work, they signed with a big label. 15 years after their initial success, they wanted to reinvent themselves. So they changed their name into Drumattic Tweens and escaped the „net” of a contract with a big music label. They always give advice, in interviews, to their colleagues in the music industry about how it isn’t good to sign with a big music label, and if they do, they should have a lawyer evaluating the contract, or else they will pay for the money received initially for their entire lives. They mean, of course, the author rights, that the music label holds not only as long as you live, but also some decades after you die. Therefore they founded their own label, together with artist Lee Combs, so they could be the ones holding the author rights for the pieces they compose, and not a commercial society.
They launched their debut album , Drumattical, with the label Finger Likin, the mother of Plump DJs – a symbol in Break Beat. On this album the funk mixes with nuschool brakes and meets funky electro house, we have synths and orchestral samples, everything is so groovy that it takes your breath away and the influence of troups like Afrika Bambaataa is obvious. The song Feeling Kind of Strange entered the Top 40 of many european countries, was mixed a lot and won the remix of the year at a breaks awards in London in 2002. Listen to them again, as beyond what I wrote earlier, they are also very nostalgic in 2010.
When they are at the music desk and you are on the dancing floor, they cause a lot of pain in the neck, from too much headshaking on puping bass. I would suggest you bring along a t-shirt to change because…there’ll be sweating. Other than that…sound effects, new songs and exclusive songs for Iarmaroc, jammed with old breaks elements, and Prodigy-syle voices.
Tags: break beat, drumattic twins, electrophunk, lanx, nick slater
