Tech Itch & Dylan & Therapy kru, Dom and Roland, Bailey & 1XTRA kru, Metalheadz, early Virus, early Bad Company, early DSCI4, Renegade Hardware, Barcode, Vicious Circle, Universal Project, Prototype, Breakbeat Culture, Kool FM, Pure X, Randall, Decoder,
Other influences include:
Pounding grooves, Ritchie Hawtin, Dave Clarke, The Surgeon, The Advent, Stay up forever Collective, Chris Liberator and D.A.V.E. the drummer, Cluster,
Holodeck (Club Ifor Bach Cardiff)
Pentatonik, early Orbital, early Prodigy, Lamb, Archive
early Wu Tang & Gravediggaz, early Cypress Hill, Eazy-E, Gangstarr
Buju Banton, Prince Fari, Mad Professor, Lee Scratch Perry
Pantera, Megadeth, Metallica, Sepultura, Nailbomb
A Northern Chorus, Low, Red House Painters, Nirvana & early Sub Pop, The Pixies, recent Radiohead & Thom Yorke, Pink Floyd, Dan Hicks
...the list goes on
Movies
Dead Man's Shoes, Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine, Evil Dead, Aliens, Predator, Marx Bros, Mike Leigh, Memento
Television
Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Chris Morris, The Simpsons, Blackadder, Steve Coogan, Peep Show, Strutter
Books
Drum and Bass for Dummies
Heroes
Karl Pilkington, Groucho Marx, Peter Cook, Bill Hicks, Richard Dawkins
UNDERCOVER ELEMENTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ELEMENTAL DRUM N BASS NIGHT PRESENT
UNDERCOVER ELEMENTS NEW SINGLES LAUNCH
DOM AND ROLAND - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ALBUM TOUR
LIVE ABLETON MIX OF 2x NEW SNGLES RED DRAGON AND VIOLENT SKIES + CD AND VINYL DJ SET
ELEMENTAL @ THE BASEMENT NIGHTCLUB CARDIFF 26-06-08 £5.00 ON THE DOOR - CHURCH ST CARDIFF
THIS IS A NIGHT NOT TO BE MISSED
WED 25TH JUNE 2008
http://www.radiocardiff.org
TIME OF SET - 11-1PM - EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF 2X NEW SINGLES - RED DRAGON + VIOLENT SKIES + LIVE CD-VINYL DJ SET
OR IF YOU ARE IN CARDIFF (OR SURROUNDING AREAS) TUNE IN LIVE ON 98.7FM RADIO
RADIO 1 THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT
BBC 1XTRA AND HOMEGROWN THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT
HEADS OF THE VALLEY STUDIOS
UNDERCOVER ELEMENTS @ CLWB IFOR BACH CARDIFF
UNDERCOVER ELEMENTS AND LOXY @ ELEMENTAL - CARDIFF
INTRODUCING THE 3RD ELEMENT - NEW MEMBER AL MONDO
Undercover Elements Time Line
1993-1997
Going out and listening to sounds in clubs and free parties (old barns, quarries, warehouses, barns, places in the middle of nowhere, often deep in the Welsh countryside!)
Clubs The Bunker - Lakota - Hippo Club - Black Swan - Cloud 9 - Annabelles - Easton Community Centre - The Thekla - The Que Club
Music Listening to early dnb and techno - ragga - breakbeat - dub - Kool FM - Pure X - Brockie - Randall - Plastikman - Dave Clarke - Pounding Grooves - Buju Banton - Capleton - Mad Professor
Started messing around with Amiga 500+ and Music-X using the megalosound hardware sampler (back to the old skool).
1998-2000
Developing DJ and production skills, focusing on tech step and harder edge of dnb. Luke becomes prominent as a DJ on local/free party circuits.
2001-2005
Both living in Hertfordshire. Visiting Renegade Hardware at The End nightclub, Therapy Sessions at Herbal. Developing production skills and beginning collabarating on tunes together.
2006
Both return to South Wales to live and Undercover Elements are formed. We get a tune played on Bailey's 1Xtra demo showcase, since then 1Xtra shows continued support of follow up tunes (big up Bailey, Dave, Rhodri, L-Double).
Visit 1Xtra Drum and Bass Website. Tunes getting support from local DJ's on South Wales and Bristol circuit.
Visiting Therapy Sessions in Bristol, back into the Welsh free party scene.
2007
Tunes getting more and more support on DJ circuit.
'The Gateway' is dropped twice by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1.
Visit Huw Stephen's Radio 1 Website.
2008
Dropped 'Manipulator', our finest tune yet. Getting plenty of DJ support and smashing it all over Cardiff. Plenty more in the pipeline including this year including collaborations with
The Collaboration and
Mondo, watch this space...
2008 APRIL UPDATE!!!!
Al Mondo has become the 3rd Undercover Element - We welcome him aboard. His skills range from 15 years top quality DJing and influencing some of the biggest clubs in and around South Wales. Al Mondo we Salute you!!!
Hi there! How's it going? Thanx for accepting my request! Come check out the songs from my brand new EP on my page! I'd really appreciate your opinion of them:) Cheers Itamar
JUNGLISED UNLEASHED KICK START THE NEW YEAR WITH A HUGE LINEUP AT CARDIFFS NEWEST DNB CLUB; CONTI'S! FRIDAY FEB 1ST, 9PM TILL 6AM, 3 ROOMS OF MUSIC WITH DRINKS OFFERS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
"BATTLE ROYAL" .. 2nd of feb 2007 @ THE BASMENT cwmbran. £3.00 b4 12. doors open @ 9.00pm.
Feauturing ..................
UNDERCOVER ELEMENTS & MONDO (dnb) FATTMAN & P-MIDI (exclusive breaks set) THE COLLABERATION (dnb set) KILLA B (4 decks n effects) JAMIE B B2B A.P BOLAND (dnb) DJ RANDOM (rave breaks set)
jo pansy boy, i avant got time to talk that gay n bass shit munn, to busy climbing mountains,,,,, lolo,,, i,m living up the mountain dude, getting loadsa tunes done n all,resist is sounding well phat mate,proppa jungle guy,,,,nar serious mate sounding real good,,quallity !!!! i,m up 4 getting 2gether this weekend mang,,,give me a ring like,,,, keygen is avin it aswell!!!!
Ez now. was chattin bollox to u lot outside on saturday night @ Dissident in bristol..Big ups....let me know if u got any tunes for me to play on my radio show..good meet u...safe
Hey there! hope you are well! This is our next event on April 27. This time the theme is battle of the sexes! For more details, visit our myspace. Hope you can make it
