I woke up super early this morning with a riddim my brother Motive wrote for Soundtrax a while back called “A New Day”.

“…It’s a new dawn, it;s a new day – It’s a new life for me”

Yes, it’s a very well know sample but he flipped it with famous Motive drums and Digital-esque funk / knock / bass and it’s set me up well for 2012.

With 2011 behind us with an interesting (and let’s face it, a little flat) and bass music coming through to take over DnB’s traditional creative home, I must admit I expect much more for 170 bpm this year.

Jazz, funk, soul and reggae (our spiritual home) will hopefully be re-engaged alongside the Autonomic and tech fulled flava’s of last year to re-ignite the fiyah for the music we love.

I look forward to returning with more beats and basslines to make you move your wastelines with my partner in crime A.L.F. as Rollers music

We got the bar code on funk mode!

Big Up for 2012 Peeps

May it being you all you ask for!

Bless

:R .

I’ve had some thoughts on my mind recently about where DnB is heading, what’s happening with it and where do I see myself in it after a relationship that has lasted a couple of years shy of 20 (which is long for any relationship). We’ve had our up’s and down’s – I remember ’97 being a bit of a stress on the relationship at one point. I wanted drums and there was a world of kick snare which I eventually took to of course in the form of my love for the Bristol sound and if you know me well you that it is now one of my strongest bonds with this music. Getting back in to radio has meant that there is not only a need for quality but volume as well. The volume I’m talking about is of course the amount of music we need to have fresh shows every week and I had concerns that I would not be able to do that week in week out as I was having trouble finding what I considered enough music. As the post below suggests, I looked to my musical brothers across the globe for the finest there is and they definitely delivered, but being a beat hungry junglist I wanted more.
Enter special guest, Whitey last week…
Smashing out bass heavy steppaz, I was reminded that there are labels like Ingredients, Zoltar and a slew of others who are carrying the mantle for high quality dance floor DnB that is not horrible and rowdy but that middle of the night bizness that you expect on a Randall tape. What this did was re-appropriated my thinking and made me realise that it’s important to listen to people you respect, play the music we love. To put it simply, Whitey is a bad man and got me thinking differently about the longest love of my life as I’d been seeing the Autonomic sound as the new future of DnB and kinda been missing out on the proper dancefloor killas that have been rolling around.
Big up Whites, for laying down the law as usual! I’ll consider myself schooled
Also gotta give a shout out to my main man Lloyd aka Reload who honoured Rollers this week by handing over his warm up slot for Golide to us. It’s not only an honour to be warming up for Goldikus but that such a talented DJ like Reload would look to us in this situation
Big up for the respect and bless to all those that are strictly riddim wise!
:R

Related show

• Artist: Rollers Music (Ritual and A.L.F.)
• Date: Saturday, September 17th 2011
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Rollers Music (Ritual and A.L.F.) in Sydney
• Venue: The Cave @ Chinese Laundry
• Country: Australia
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: Goldie runs tings for some garden party bizness! Serious hype on this with Rollers and Reload bringing the dance in to dangerous territory
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It’s amazing how we live in this world wide connection…
I’ve just got my internet back and it feels good to finally start getting tunes sent over!
It seems to be a nescessary evil for this DnB game and now Rollers has returned to radio I
ve been feeling it more and more.
So, I’m ranting cos 2 of my brothers have just sent me some ridiculous tunes that I gotta let y’all know about…
Rido comes correct with a new flex that is simple, classy and funky as hell. “Exoplanet” took me by pleasant surprise I gotta say. Normally I get these beautifully crafted epic soundscapes that double as simply incredible walls of sound and will murder any dance but with “Exoplanet” I get a funkier, earthier brother that rolls with the most rugged intent. This tune with it’s little sonic edits,oozes badness from every part of its being! Take note, this one’s forthcoming on Obsessions and can simply not be missed…
Then Nocturnal drops “She” on me. oh Shit! Now, I gotta say, we go back long a way and this guy is a badman from time, but “She” is a totally different flex from anything I’ve ever heard from him. Beautiful glassy synths anchored angellically from simple yet effective riddim and bass, takes you on a journey in to the ether. This is straight up epic! What more can you ask for! This one’s really got me…

So, as I look down at some earlier posts this year (where has it gone!) I can see that I was ready to get back in the game quite a few months ago. Alas, this definitely did not work to plan as a shift in apartments and a seriously messy studio did not allow me time and vibe for new beats…
Finally all is well thanks to some help from an old friend big up Timi) which has rescued my studio from the depths of mess and now I’ve got to get to doing a remix for my long time brother Suv and my man Karuna aka Little Boy From The Woods.
The editing has started and I’ll keep you updated about how the beats are flowing.
Still a hard drive to add (with all my beats in it) but things are moving…

Yes Yes!
That’s right.
After way too long negotiating, Rollers music returns to it’s rightful place on the airwaves.
Taking in all things 160 – 170+ as well as some new flexes, Rollers is delighted to be back with Ritual and A.L.F. each and every Saturday…
Every week a new show will be available to download here: http://soundcloud.com/rollersmusic/
and then archived here: www.mixcloud.com/rollersmusic/
Please get in touch via here or at Rollersmusic@gmail.com if you want any of the past shows.
Bless
:R

Upon reading a fantastic review of the not quite so new Mount Kimbie album (which is a cracker by the way, if I have not said this before), I’m inspired to rant about how wonderful great music is and how lucky we are to be a part of what’s happening as we enter 2011. With wonderful memories of a great time in the Dub shack at Peats Ridge (big ups to all that made a nice return for Rollers, with a heaving tent of headz enjoying and allowing us to play great music ), to a wonderful Marky and Stamina show (more to come on that) and rumours of a hero of Brockout’s turning up at the end of March / beginning of April – we can see that there will be no respite in the quality sub rumblings that have been shaking tings up from 2010.

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…so, 2010 was a really quiet time for me, muaic wise. As the brother who laboriously looks after this here site will tell you – I’ve actually been pretty slack.

 After a good 8 – 10 years locked up in the den, I needed a break from the breaks. The thing was, I didn’t know it until it actually happened.

As we roll in 2011 though, buoyed by a couple of great gigs at the end of last year, I’m ready to get back in the game.

This year will probably see a digital release of my album which will consist of some of my proudest moments of the last few years, some remixes and a few releases for a couple of other digi labels – and of course, hopefully some wax.

So bring on 2011 and may the fire return all of y’all also.

Bless

:R