I should ring him and say thanks actually. Yeah me too! You just do these things so intuitively that you forget it was someone who taught you such an important thing you do every day. I love how people leave a mark on you like that!
It was a no brainer and yeah, Michael did put me on that path. I went there when I was really young and learnt to DJ and stuff but then went to college and did all that type of thing and there was this period where I was about 19, I’d quit this rubbish job thought ‘shit, I’ve got to sort my life out, I can work any more crappy jobs!’ I went to the DJ Academy again because they taught music production courses to bump your English and maths grades up. He’s a guy called Michael Ross, a tutor at the DJ Academy in Luton. He showed me how to lay things out on the DAW and even to this day I still lay out a D&B tune in that type of way. I was taught production by a guy who makes dubstep. Yeah it was but it was super crappy dubstep. Was 140 stuff the first style you tried to produce back in the day? They usually just book D&B artists but they’d seen me posted about doing 140 things on Instagram, they were intrigued so asked if I was up for it. They’ve been really good to me, it’s been a great project to work on. I sent them over, he passed them to Eddie Seven who liked them so we started chatting. He’s doing A&R for Uprise and he asked if I had any more 140 tracks. I put it on Instagram and Joe Raygun, who A&Rs at Uprise messaged me about. I was really nervous but it was great fun and I caught a video of one of my tracks because the crowd reaction to it was really nice.
I thought ‘wow sick, I’ve never done this before.’ So I got some bits I’d done together, got a load of my favourite 140 tunes and worked on my transitions from 140 to 170. But then I was invited to play at 140/170 set in Leeds. I’ve always made little sketches at different tempos and had no real intention of releasing them or them going anywhere. We called up Kirsty to see how the release came to be and cop a few persy 140 favourites along the way. It’s been dropped in the wake of her biggest year to date, in which she toured heavily, dropped massive tracks like Hoodlum and Move This Way (with Document One), commandeered a whole troupe of D&B legends on a boat for Red Bull and formed the new KCDC collective with Collette Warren, Enada and Charli Brix… And she promises more in the future. Four powerful soundsystem sluggers, all warm and weighty, the Uprise Audio release shows a completely different side to the Luton artist. Flip the switch: it’s 2019, Kyrist has just dropped her first release of the year, and it’s not the dark rolling tech-laced D&B you know her for…Ĭue Parallels: Kirsty Clarke’s debut non drum & bass EP.
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