Monday, April 22, 2024

Dantronix

 


"dantronix in the house" - inspired aliasing! 



Listening to this when it came out really rammed home the hardcore / Brit B-boy connection for me. 




Mantronix as  gateway drug to Amentalism  - via "King of the Beats"




                            (I talk a bit about Mantronix and going to UK Fresh in '86 in this podcast C86 Books )


Skratchadelicism   distils the equation: hip hop + E = ardkore 



Flowers In My Garden - luvved-up hardcore as hip hop pastoralized



And of course, the sample, the sample is from Woodstock the movie  - John Sebastian (ex of the Lovin' Spoonful) announcing the birth of a baby at the festival  - "that kid's gonna be far out"  (at 19.40 in this clip)




Danny Break'z was how he monikered himself early on !


The apostrophe got lost 


Then it resurfaced with the new name Droppin' Science, presumably inspired by this track 






Style Warz - flying that flag high! 



"I was more into the music than the rapping" - Danny Breaks, in this 1995 interview for German TV, dropping science on his beat-science




                                                                   (via Blog to the Old Skool, via Droid)



Handy playlist I made of Dantronix trax -  appropriately it goes in a strange loop da loop, starting  with the first Droppin' Science material and goes forward through those peerless releases, until - after "The Bear" - it doubles back to the Sonz of the Loop Da Era, er, era -  but goes reverse-chronology, from "What The..." to "Far Out".   Some remixes by him in there, and remixes of his tunes by others. It's quite a body of work 


My interview with Danny Breaks from October 1995























Quite Viberty, what he went on to do 











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