Artist: Justin Robertson: mp3 download Genre(s): Techno Discography: Gyroscope Year: Tracks: 2 Justin Robertson has planned a successful career as a DJ, remixer, and producer (the latter under his possess bring up as easily as Lionrock). Aloof from the glare and popular about despite himself, Robertson took an most preposterously conventional route to a level of success reached by believably less then one pct of saltation music producers. A native of Manchester, Robertson earned a degree in school of thought before pickings a problem as (what else) a phonograph record clerk in the Eastern Bloc criminal record shop, where he began compendium the funkier side of progressive house and DJing on a unconstipated base. After remixing a track for Mad Jack on in-house tag Creed (his desegregate of "Feel the Hit" became something of an subway system nail), Robertson was subsequently flagged downcast by the likes of the Shamen, Candyflip, the Sugarcubes, and Erasure to lend his evolving signature to their material. As his style matured, he became associated with the burgeoning Balearic scenery (a mingle-mangle subcategory of house extensive a range of influences, from rock and R&B to disco and garage). Robertson released his solo debut, "Roots and Culture"/"Lionrock," on his have Most Excellent label in 1992. After raising a few brows and spawning another beat of remix work out, Robertson was courted by pop/dance label Deconstruction, with whom he signed in 1993. Oscar Robertson released an extra EP, Packet of Peace, on Deconstruction in April of 1993 ahead subsiding in to record his full-length debut. Released late the next year as Lionrock, An Instinct for Detection was an ambitious exertion to sound out the least, featuring scores of instrumentation decisively untraditional by U.K. dancing music standards, mixed and matched with dirty mansion breaks and aggressive simply accessible arrangements. Although the record was met warm, its subtle mistreat of pop (in the Beach Boys -- not the Mariah Carey -- sense) was lost on many, and it remains something of a cult favourite. Robertson embarked on an complicate turn next the album's sack, and the presence of guitars, pleximetry, and drum kit on the microscope stage of a Lionrock prove became standard from word go. In 1996, the democratic desegregate CD series Journeys by DJ contracted a mixed set from Robertson, resulting in a massive two-disc set spanning the range not merely of Lionrock's influences, just of the last two decades of electronic dance music as a hale. Robertson continued to be a popular remixer, and Lionrock releases -- including 1998's City Delirious -- appeared on a sporadic fundament until he ditched the assignment for his first production album under his have call, 2001's Revtone. |