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February 2008 Profile:
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By: Juandingo
This months profile is none other than Ryan Black aka System a fixture
on the drum and bass scene for some time now. Focusing on the new
school jump up sounds, he has made a name for himself dating back all
the way to the days of '99 and eventually getting the attention of
Dallas' dnb godfather Adrian/Katalyst. This soon led to his first high
profile gig at Trees. From there, he propelled himself within the
ranks of the dnb soldiers. With his regular schedule of bookings and
well known tag team sets with Gilbert/Titan and their success, he was
then asked to join the seminal dnb Tuesday night Battletech as a
resident alongside the Dykast family and Big Ballin Colin. Since then,
he has traveled with it across it's various venues dating back to the
early Royal Rack days and impressively still continuing today.
Incidentally, not long after joining Battletech, the well known MC,
Astro, came up with the idea to unite the various producers that were
utilizing his microphone talents into one cohesive production team
soon to be named DAP or Dirty Alien Project. This effort would be
focused on merging the members love of both hip hop and dnb and
striving to create something innovative and hopefully recognizable
worldwide for it's originality. Since then, DAP has become a launching
pad for each of it's members to produce their own distinctive sound as
well. The key players being: Ryan, Trek, Croix, Cobalt alongside the
MC skills of Denzil and Leo J.
Ryan has still kept his dj skills in top form with consistent gigs on
a local and national basis. In addition, the first production efforts
to be released will be his own album entitled System Sounds which will
be coming to your ear holes mid February or March and which will also
coincide with the release of Astro's own solo effort as well to create
a double shot to storm the streets.
Looking towards the future, plans include the continuation of DAP's
current efforts which are now incorporating various new elements such
as House, Breakbeat, Dubstep and of course their touchstone, dnb. This
next effort will also include some very high profile appearances and
collaborations. So don't sleep.
