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At the age of 17 69db left his home on the
west coast of scotland and moved to London to
play drums for his psycadelic rock band. The
year was 1988 and was the year that Acid house
took the country by force. After 2 years of
discovery in and around the many parties 69db
being a drummer saw the potential in this repetative
beat. At the same time as joining Spiral Tribe
Sound System 69db enrolled in City of Leeds
Collage of Music where he got his 1 st access
to a recording studio. It was here that he compsed
his first tracks for Spiral Tribe.
Over the 90's along with Spiral and its sub
labels Network 23 and Stormcore 69db has worked
under names such as SP23, R-ZAC and Liveset
Dub.He has worked also on many labels i.e. Big
Life, Drop Bass Network, Force inc. , Rabbit
City , Trax Records Chicago , Labworks , Acid
Orange and Expressillon.
69db 's music litterally grew up on the sound
systems of the 1990's. He has played consistently
in the european underground , installing his
live on party after party for now close on 15
years. It is from this background that his love
and need for improvisation has been established.
It was in 1997 that the now much respected
and fruitful colaboration with Paris based Label
Expressillon began. It has been a very open
colaboration that has led to recordings that
have created a world that explores Dub, techno,
breakbeat, hard tec, and group improvisation.
Everything began with the album ''In Dub-technic''
a voyage into improvised jams fusing dub, techno
and breakbeat. This was followed by ''Freestyling''
which highlighted the meeting between 69db and
anglo jamaican M.C. Tablloyd. This brought a
vocal-beatbox dimention to the improvisations.
Following this came the albums ''Dragon Dub''
and ''Chip Jockey'' - two solo projects one
Dub , one Hard- Tech . After that came ''New
Weather'' a Jazz, tachno, dub fusion group that
was a free improvisation between Sax, percussion,
bass, vocals, electronic drums and chip jockey
which brings us up to date with the new album
from M.C. tablloyd and 69db Bedroom mixes from
the soul .
The album ''Bedroom mixes from the soul'' is
based upon the fundamental belief that no matter
what shit life throws at you the trully spiritually
connected will always stand firm. It is for
this that all tracks are one take improvisations
to put our tust in the spontaneous communication
of the spiritual, in other words to let the
moment talk!
69db has always fought to preserve a feeling
of freedom and spirituality in his music. He
has always felt a strong inluence from musicians
such as John Cotrane , Miles Davis , Jimi Hendrix
, King Tubby , Talking Heads, and Frank Zappa.
It is open minded nes s that can bring about
fusion and it is only fusion that can bring
about together nes s
69db 's improvised music has always been an
inspiration source for video performers. The
year 2004 saw the birth of his first Dvd project
with video-producer Dr No: 'Armchair Escpism''.
End of 2004 also saw appearances on Network23
/1993-1996'' triple cd compilation (Expressillon)
as well as on World Traveller Adventures'' dvd
(Uwe).
69db is talkative It's not a surprised to find
him again on Perce-Oreille today for a new psychedelic
techno 4 trackers or on Chip Jockey cd collection
for a new hypnotic uptempo indus techno interstellar
space cruise. End of 2006 see's 69db releasing
once again with Crystal Distortion for their
R-zac project on Expressillon, also a double
CD of an uncut Break-tec set recorded late summer
2005 to be released on Vision Alternative and
numerous represses of Network 23 classics. As
for 2007 there will be the release of another
DVD project this time showcasing 12 different
V.J's on a dub-technic live and also the release
of a project with some Madagascan Hip Hop artists.
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