Ritual - with aid from good friends like Spikey Tee, A.L.F, Motive, drummer from another planet Simone White, Q45, Kenobi (Red in effect) and a whole pile of others who want to write music wit me but just ain't done so yet like sonic genius Mako
Influences
Hendrix
My family
V Forever Baby
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Parliafunkadelicment
JB’s
Tony Williams
Calibre
D Bridge
Photek
Stamina MC
Marcus Intalex and S.T. Files
Old Skool Full Cycle (R.I.P.)
Alix Perez, Sabre, Icicle, Beta 2 and Zero Tolerance,Commix, Breakage, Lynx and Martyn shit (off the hook)
Dennis Brown
Lee Perry
Mad Professor
The Police
Burial
Betty Davis
Marvin Gaye
Dwele
Aloe Blacc
Flying Lotus
Early / Mid 90’s Bukem
Bugz in the Attic / 4 Hero and all the broken beat posse
Madlib (and his many guises) and fellow brothers from another J Dilla (R.I.P.) and Oh No
Premier and Guru
Genius and mid 90’s Wu
P.E.
Spikey Tee
Q45, Kid Kenobi and A.L.F.
Motive, Sean, JPS (Melburn in da place)
Tribal Tech
John Mclaughlan and all the fusion crew
Santana
Led Zeppelin
Positive Vibrations
and shitloads more...
Sounds Like
I'd say Dub jungle soul - but I'll let you be the judge of that...
I guess I'd better put something up real quick...
Ritual has been a boy in love with music for all of his almost 30 years. Like alot of people seem to say, he grew up listening to loads of Motown, Funk, Jazz and guys like Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I developed a massive love for the Police at the age of 4 thanks to my uncle (who has amzing taste in music and had a massive effect on everything I love from music to my ridiculous desire and love for Nike's). Dad was a drummer in a band (called Nirvana Express) and both him and his brother were DJ's in India in the 60's and 70's which worked out great for me as I now have all these original copies of Hendrix and Jazz albums - thanks dad).I was a very serious tennis player and on one Saturday as I was going to coach and dad says "son, since you're playing guitar now I think you should here this" I was about 13, the album was Hendrix 'Band Of Gypsies'. I knew then that music was going to play a massive part of my life (if I really had to chose just 1 album that is the greatest ever - I'd have to say that one).
Ok, let's speed things up a bit here...
Years of guitar playing ensued, studying for a time with Sydney Jazz guitar legend Carl Orr who was an absolute inspiration but unfortunately (for me)left Oz in 95 and another transformation begun...
In '94 it was all about Bukem, Acid Jazz guys like Incognito and Mondo Grosso, Mo' Wax and fusion jazz. Time went on and 3 of my very close buddies and myself started a club night called Green n' Jazzy which was a night of everything from funk, to downtempo and DnB - but all with a distinct party vibe and the bizness of the beats has never stopped running from there.
Over the next 10 years, it was Bukem, then Full Cycle, MIST and now Calibre as far as taste in DnB goes (if i was to give u the bare essentials). I play alot of other stuff to from broken beat, detroit techno, hip hop, funk, beats, dub and reggae - u know I just love music. It so happens that my current passion is DnB. I also write breaks with Q45 and Kid Kenobi as 'Red'. We got comissioned to do a remix of Barcelona a JDS tune called rock star and a couple of other bits. It's great as we are 3 great mates that get to get in the studio together and the results have been well recieved...
Gig wise, I've been lucky to play with most of the big internationals from Roni, Goldie, Bukem, Marcus Intalex, Zinc, D Bridge, Hype, Suv, Krust, Die,Groove - the list is huge and i'm gonna stop there. Being the first person to tour Marky and Bryan Gee in Sydney, Calibre too, I guess you could say that I got involved with all aspects of DnB.
Coming to now (finally - thanks for sticking wit me) and I've been getting alot of support for my music from my 'big brother' Spikey Tee (check the Congo Natty Outernational MySpace), RCola (big love for your support blud) and headz like Suv and Bryan Gee who are constant help and inspiration as well as my local boys like A.L.F. who I do alot of DJ'ing and radio with as Rollers Music and NZ headz who seem to show me more love than over here in Oz.
I'm sure I've missed out some shit and I'll ammend that later but here's the rough info for now.
...Enjoy the beats as they should really speak for themselves
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