One strand came from hip-hop, which had fed the musical imagination of a new generation for over a decade, while another strand came from rave, which had provided further stylistic possibilities with its fusion of drum machines, breaks, samples and synthesisers. The DNA of trip-hop was more complex than its reduction to bite-sized adjectives. Pemberton heralded trip-hop as a psychedelic take on hip-hop and the first valid alternative to America’s dominance of the music. I say this as someone who, for the past 18 odd years, has loved the music just as much as I’ve hated the term.Ĭoined in June 1994 by Andy Pemberton in a feature for Mixmag, trip-hop was used to describe the recent stylistic shift of the Mo’ Wax label and that music’s popularity in dance circles, particularly in after hours sessions. He's been replaced on the road by Yuval Gabay.Like it or not, trip-hop is a thing. Size is still pleased with In the Mode, however, though the tour got off to a rough start when drummer Rob Merrill fell ill and had to return to England. It was great to just go in there and make music and not think about deadlines." But we did this album without any of that this time. When you're under pressure to meet deadlines and you feel you have to write a record for the label, when an A&R man is saying, 'Roni, when's the next single going to be finished?' your judgment will sway. We didn't even think about what label we were going to put it out on, let alone when people will hear it. "The beauty of this record is we did it with no deadlines, no expectations, no pressure. So when will we hear this? The ebullient Size isn't sure. It sounds like a true representation of us onstage and off the stage." This record, for me, is the best record we've ever done. Krust sat down with his laptop and 'performed' all the strings, Dynamite put all the lyrics down and I arranged the whole thing, gave it production. All the bass is played between me and Si John. It sounds exactly how we are onstage, no different. It's a joke it's so definitive, so representative of the true sound of Reprazent. "It's amazing I just want to play what we've come up with now. "We were so buzzing as soon as we finished that tour, we went and recorded an album, in the space of two weeks," says Size, who's currently touring North America with Reprazent. But it's already old news to Size, especially after a jag of creativity following the outfit's run on Australia's Big Day Out tour earlier this year. Ma- In the Mode, the latest album from British dance collective Roni Size and Reprazent - and the follow-up to 1997's Mercury Prize-winning New Forms - hasn't been out all that long.
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