At the age of 17 69db left his home on the west coast of scotland and moved to London to play drums for his psycadelic rock band. The year was 1988 and was the year that Acid house took the country by force. After 2 years of discovery in and around the many parties 69db being a drummer saw the potential in this repetative beat. At the same time as joining Spiral Tribe Sound System 69db enrolled in City of Leeds Collage of Music where he got his 1 st access to a recording studio. It was here that he compsed his first tracks for Spiral Tribe.
Over the 90's along with Spiral and its sub labels Network 23 and Stormcore 69db has worked under names such as SP23, R-ZAC and Liveset Dub.He has worked also on many labels i.e. Big Life, Drop Bass Network, Force inc. , Rabbit City , Trax Records Chicago , Labworks , Acid Orange and Expressillon.
69db 's music litterally grew up on the sound systems of the 1990's. He has played consistently in the european underground , installing his live on party after party for now close on 15 years. It is from this background that his love and need for improvisation has been established.
It was in 1997 that the now much respected and fruitful colaboration with Paris based Label Expressillon began. It has been a very open colaboration that has led to recordings that have created a world that explores Dub, techno, breakbeat, hard tec, and group improvisation.
Everything began with the album ''In Dub-technic'' a voyage into improvised jams fusing dub, techno and breakbeat. This was followed by ''Freestyling'' which highlighted the meeting between 69db and anglo jamaican M.C. Tablloyd. This brought a vocal-beatbox dimention to the improvisations. Following this came the albums ''Dragon Dub'' and ''Chip Jockey'' - two solo projects one Dub , one Hard- Tech . After that came ''New Weather'' a Jazz, tachno, dub fusion group that was a free improvisation between Sax, percussion, bass, vocals, electronic drums and chip jockey which brings us up to date with the new album from M.C. tablloyd and 69db Bedroom mixes from the soul .
The album ''Bedroom mixes from the soul'' is based upon the fundamental belief that no matter what shit life throws at you the trully spiritually connected will always stand firm. It is for this that all tracks are one take improvisations to put our tust in the spontaneous communication of the spiritual, in other words to let the moment talk!
69db has always fought to preserve a feeling of freedom and spirituality in his music. He has always felt a strong inluence from musicians such as John Cotrane , Miles Davis , Jimi Hendrix , King Tubby , Talking Heads, and Frank Zappa.
It is open minded nes s that can bring about fusion and it is only fusion that can bring about together nes s
69db 's improvised music has always been an inspiration source for video performers. The year 2004 saw the birth of his first Dvd project with video-producer Dr No: 'Armchair Escpism''.
End of 2004 also saw appearances on Network23 /1993-1996'' triple cd compilation (Expressillon) as well as on World Traveller Adventures'' dvd (Uwe).
69db is talkative It's not a surprised to find him again on Perce-Oreille today for a new psychedelic techno 4 trackers or on Chip Jockey cd collection for a new hypnotic uptempo indus techno interstellar space cruise.
End of 2006 see's 69db releasing once again with Crystal Distortion for their R-zac project on Expressillon, also a double CD of an uncut Break-tec set recorded late summer 2005 to be released on Vision Alternative and numerous represses of Network 23 classics. As for 2007 there will be the release of another DVD project this time showcasing 12 different V.J's on a dub-technic live and also the release of a project with some Madagascan Hip Hop artists.
For our 3rd digital outing, we bring you something different with 2 slices of robotic funk...
Stereotype & Structural come with a slick technoid number: «Ozone» combines smooth synthwork with a fat low end, definitely one for the bassbins!!
«Electro convulsion» is exactly as the title suggests: Asphexia's very own brand of futuristic groove, mixing cheesy synth riffs with growling basslines and punching drums, use with caution!
Mate....good to hear some of the oldies - but seriously - that live mix was pure subliminal groove... I think you said the stuff I'd done was up there with what you're getting out there these days - you MUST be fucking joking - the manipulation of sound, the subtleties, the beats, the sheer, pure, rampantly sensual music... Seb...... Nuff said - WICKED
