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DJ DIE
Fullcycle, Clear Sky's ~ UK

Born and raised in Devon, Die moved to Bristol as a teenager but never lost the free spirit of the open air. He lived by the motto then as he does now ‘Skate or Die’.
Die grew up surrounded by music, his parents took him to festivals and as well as his dad’s guitar playing he loved everything from house to hardcore. When he found hip-hop Die’s passion for music really kicked in.
“There was a movement starting around the time I moved to Bristol – there was the Wild Bunch thing, the grafitti thing, the carnival and sound system thing happening up in St Pauls.”
It was the mid 80s.
In Totterdown – Krust and the Fresh Four crew were mixing house, hip hop, rare groove and funk. A young Die started going to skate up at their warehouse parties.
“As a 14 year old I would hear the music coming from the other side of the railway embankment so one day I wandered down.”.
He never looked back. Hanging out there he met plenty of like-minded people – everyone was about the music. Then Die decided to master the decks as well as the skateboard and became DJ Die.
Around 1988 DJ Die got his first taste of musical production through experimenting in Bristolians Smith and Mighty’s London studio.
“I owe a lot to that opportunity. That was the first time I got into a studio on my own and sat down just me and the sampler and I decided ‘I’m gonna make a tune’.”
DJ Die hooked up with Jody, now of Way out West. Together Jody and Die produced 4am, a house tune. It was followed by Tru-Funk and Sub-Love on Three Stripe Records.
As their musical paths split, Die drew more on his love of hip-hop. Already friends with Krust, he bumped into a fresh faced DJ Roni Size walking down Gloucester Road. They got chatting and Roni gave Die a tape to play out. As fellow DJs they began swapping tunes and regularly found each other by the speakers at Universe raves.
“The music becomes your life, night and day, 24/7. You’ll be eating your breakfast in a café and still be listening out for a break in the background music.”
Full Cycle was established and in 1994 Die’s first collabo with Roni ‘Agility’ was released for V recordings.
Soon after, Roni and Die produced ‘Music Box’, and the work-hard play-hard perfectionist began forging his own style.
Only driven by the need to live and breathe music, Die received constant encouragement from the Kiss FM tapes sent down from friends in London.
Hearing his own tunes on the tapes spurred Die forwards to keep more tunes rolling out from his studio.
In 1997, Reprazent gave him international acclaim as one of the four producers for the New Forms album awarded the Mercury Music Prize.
Fuelled further by his success Die kept producing his own tunes, remixes and collaborations with the Full Cycle family.
He co-produced the highly acclaimed Breakbeat Era album with Roni Size which was released in 1999.
In September 2000, Die’s third of Through The Eyes featured ‘Disregard’ a track from newcomer D Product and a couple of tunes from Scorpio (Roni and Die’s collaborative pseudonym).
In summer 2003 came the highly acclaimed Kamanchi album – a joint venture with Krust.
“Kamanchi was born a long time ago. Back in 1998 we did ‘Stay’ for Planet V, then we got together and made a couple of one-offs for Full Cycle, like Hey DJ. It wasn’t until a few years later we stumbled upon the idea of putting an album together.”
Die as ever is currently keeping himself busy in the studio collaborating and working with everyone on the label.
As a result of this, he released a mix CD in Feb 2005 on Full Cycle entitled 'Cross Collaborations' which showcases Bristol’s first drum and bass family coming together to produce 21 designer tracks! The whole crew, from Roni Size to Clipz, were involved, and the various teams produced some vintage Full Cycle sounds, packed with unique chemistry.
He is just putting the finishing touches to the 'The Lost Plates' album for Full Cycle which features unreleased tracks from Roni Size, Krust and Die. This will be out in early 2006.




 


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