DRUMSOUND CONSISTS OF 2 MEMBERS, ANDY AND BEN. EACH MEMBER BRINGS THEIR OWN INDIVIDUALISTIC TALENT TO THIS TIGHT GROUP NOW REGARDED AS ONE OF THE HOTTEST DJ / PRODUCER COLLECTIVES IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

ANDY IS THE MAIN PRODUCER /ENGINEER AND HAS BEEN MAKING DRUM AND BASS AND BUILDING HIS STUDIO SINCE 1995 AFTER ATTENDING A STUDIO SKILLS COURSE AT SQUARE CENTRE STUDIOS IN NOTTINGHAM. BEN COMES FROM A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BACKGROUND. HE HAS BEEN DJ’ING FOR THE BEST PART OF A DECADE NOW, PLAYING EVERYTHING FROM HIP-HOP, EARLY HARDCORE & JUNGLE TECHNO, AND FINALLY DRUM AND BASS. OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS HE HAS PLAYED ALL AROUND THE WORLD ALONGSIDE THE REST OF THE TECHNIQUE RECORDINGS CREW.

THE INITIAL IDEA BEHIND DRUMSOUND WAS FOR LOCAL DJ’S/PRODUCERS TO JOIN FORCES IN ORDER TO PROGRESS QUICKLY AS ONE TIGHT UNIT INSTEAD OF SLOWLY AS INDIVIDUALS. THE PRODUCERS MADE THE TUNES WHICH THE DJ’S PLAYED AT THE RESIDENCY THEY HELD AT A LOCAL CLUB NIGHT CALLED ‘TECHNIQUE’ (ONE OF THE BIGGEST ECLECTIC BREAK BEAT NIGHTS IN THE MIDLANDS AT THE TIME).

AS TIME PROGRESSED THERE TUNES BECAME RENOWNED FOR TEARING DANCEFLOORS APART AND IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE WELL ESTABLISHED DJ’S BEGAN TO SHOWED THERE SUPPORT AND WANTED TO RELEASE AND CUT THE TUNES THEY WERE MAKING. THIS LEAD TO COLLABORATIONS WITH DJ RATTY AND DJ ASCEND (DREAD BASS) WHO WERE REGULAR VISITORS TO WATCH THEM PLAY. AS THE TUNES INCREASED IN QUALITY AND NUMBERS IT WAS TIME TO FIND A VEHICLE TO RELEASE THEM. THEIR VERY FIRST RELEASE WAS THROUGH TRIBE RECORDS BRISTOL WHO WERE PREPARED TO GIVE, AT THIS POINT A VERY EXPERIMENTAL DRUMSOUND, A CHANCE TO SHARE THEIR IDEAS WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. AS THE TUNES WENT OUT THEY UTILIZED THE MONEY TO BUY BIGGER AND BETTER EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR STUDIO.

AFTER RELEASING MORE TUNES THROUGH TRIBE AND WITH RELEASES ON SEVERAL OTHER LARGER LABELS ON THE CARDS IT WAS TIME TO THINK ABOUT STARTING THEIR OWN LABEL. AS THEY NEARED THE END OF 1998 DRUMSOUND LINKED WITH ANOTHER ‘TECHNIQUE’ RESIDENT SIMON ‘BASSLINE’ SMITH OF ABSOLUTE AND ABSOLUTE 2 FAME.

THE TWO PARTIES QUICKLY BECAME REGULAR SPARRING PARTNERS AND SOON WERE MAKING TUNES ON A DAILY BASIS. THEIR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND MUSICAL TASTES WERE COMPLETELY IDENTICAL AND IT WAS SOON DECIDED TO FORM A COMBINED IMPRINT IN ORDER TO SHOWCASE THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND JOINT PROJECTS. ‘TECHNIQUE RECORDINGS’ WAS BORN……

Since its conception Technique Recordings, Drumsound AND PARTNER BASSLINE SMITH have gone from strength to strength utiliSing their knowledge and enthusiasm to build an imprint of global proportion. Their success has been created through the ability to work tightly as a team and to progress as one formidable unit.

2004, 2005 & 2006 wERE massive years for Drumsound. Alongside Bassline Smith, THEY produced the biggest track of 2004 for Grooveriders’ Prototype imprint, The mighty ‘Odyssey’, WHICH went on to hit the number one spot in the UK dance chart AND ALSO VOTED 10^TH IN MIXMAG’S DANCE ANTHEMS POLL OF 2004.

2005 saw THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED debut artist album ‘NATURE OF THE BEAST’ from the Drumsound & Bassline Smith collaboration, and a string of releases on Renegade Hardware, Creative Source, FULL CYCLE, V recordings, Formation, CIA and of course their own Technique Recordings and Worldwide Audio Recordings.

IN 2006, The momentum continued with remix projects delivered TO DJ Hype’s Ganja and their debut release for ADAM F & DJ FRESH’S Breakbeat Kaos IMPRINT, CALLED ‘KILLA DJ’. BY MID 2006 DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH UNLEASHED their 2^nd Album ‘ Street Technique’ on Technique Recordings which featureD tracks from Roni Size, Fresh, Youngman MC, J Majik & WICKAMAN, Friction & K TEE, Tali, PHETSTA & SKYVER & D JON, as TECHNIQUE moved from A WELL respected underground drum and bass label to one of the leading labels in the industry.

WITHIN THIS SHORT PERIOD OF TIME DRUMSOUND HAVE CATAPULTED THEMSELVES INTO THE D&B PREMIERSHIP. SUCH CONSISTENCY HAS CREATED HIGH DEMAND FOR THE VERSATILE DUO & A HECTIC DJ SCHEDULE WHICH HAS ULTIMATELY TOOK THEM TO ALL FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD. tHEY HAVE MADE DJ APPEARANCES AT SOME OF THE BIGGEST & BEST RAVES across THE GLOBE, SUCH AS WODNB, I LOVE JUNGLE & STAR WARZ as well representing for MANY OF UK’S LEADING organisations INCLUDING Slammin Vinyl, Accelerated Culture, One Nation, INNOVATION, FABRIC LIVE – the list goes on. THIS EXPERIENCE, SMASHING UP DANCE-FLOORS ON THE GLOBAL D&B CIRCUIT, HAS NOT ONLY GIVEN THEM THE EDGE AS DJ’S BUT HAS GIVEN THEM THE KNOWLEDGE AND DIVERSITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL ‘TECHNIQUE’ SOUND..

Fast forward to 2007 and Drumsound & Bassline Smith HAVE releaseD monster anthemS ‘SKUMBAG RIP’, ‘Cold Turkey’ & ‘hARDER, FASTER’ on Technique Recordings with massive support from headliners such as Grooverider, Hype, Andy C, FRICTION, Roni Size, Mampi swift & RADIO 1’S ZANE LOWE & ANNIE MAC….to name a few .

it seems there is no stopping Drumsound, Simon Bassline Smith and THE Technique Recordings MUSIC EMPIRE.