Website review: KOSHEEN: HOME
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auroras discovered 33 months ago- Official Kosheen website
Taken from an article by Tim Irwin in DJ Magazine If you're a drum & bass fan, there's a chance you will know of Kosheen trio Markee Substance, Darren Decoder and Sian Evans already, what with their debut 'HideU' release smashing it up on the circuit last year and subsequently voted Best Single at the recent Drum & Bass Awards. Kosheen was a project born some two-and-a-half years ago when Bristol drum & bass faces Markee Substance and Darren Decoder hooked up with singer Sian Evans after hearing her sing on a tune a friend had recorded. But the Kosheen story had already begun long before that fateful meeting. From skatepunk bands to the Welsh free party scene and onto sweaty Bristol raves, it's a history as rich and varied as the music Kosheen create and one that's played a pivotal part in the development of the band's free-flowing 21st Century sonics. For Sian Evans, the story begins in Wales. "Wales was buzzing at the time," remembers Sian. Everyone wanted to get a party together and there was plenty of space to do it. With the free party thing, we all thought we were having a revolution, we thought we were going to change the world through dancing and in a small way maybe we did. It certainly broadened a lot of people's horizons, musically and otherwise." With mind well and-truly blown open and the taste for new sounds fresh in her mouth, Sian began venturing across the English border to Bristol, where she had her first encounter with drum & bass courtesy of the seminal Roughneck Ting parties. The brainchild of promoter Markee Substance and a group of like-minded ravers, Roughneck Ting was Bristol's first full-on drum & bass rave, establishing a serious reputation around the city with a series of firing parties between 1993 and 1998. It also played a major part in bringing the three Kosheen players together . By the time Roughneck Ting was up-and running, Glaswegian born-and-bred Mark(ee) 'Substance' Morrison had already been enthusiastically following the prototype jungle/breakbeat hardcore sound for several years. The move into drum & bass was as logical as his decision to abandon his love affair with the guitar in favour of the delights of electronic production. Meanwhile, Bristol native Darren 'Decoder' Beale was also being seduced away from his career as a jobbing axeman in a series of skate-punk bands after college mate Geoff Barrows (of Portishead fame) introduced him to the delights of the sampler. "I was becoming bored with the guitar sound and Geoff showed me this thing called a sampler, which I'd never heard of before," recalls Darren. "I was like, 'that's amazing, it's a band in a box'. I realised what you could do with it, started making electronic music and never really looked back.....- Official Kosheen website
- emjayprice rated 3 months ago
- The official website of Kosheen.
