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Bigga
Bush spent most of the 90s honing his writing and studio production
skills with Rockers Hi Fi, with classic tracks such as "Push
Push", "What A Life" and "Going Under".
He also produced a string of remixes with Rockers for artists
such as Sly & Robbie, St. Etienne, Richard Dorfmeister's Tosca
project and Dawn Penn.
Many
of these remixes are now available on cd exclusively from BiggaBush
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Rockers
HiFi (nee Original Rockers) - BiggaBush and Richard "DJ
Dick" Whittingham defied categorisation with their
warm and bass-heavy mix of dub, beats and house. In an era
when every new style is so quickly submerged in the melting
pot of modern music, it was good to hear something with
its own unique sound, holding its head above the swirling
waters of style clashes and mismatches.
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rockers
to rockers
Anyone
who was clubbing in the early 90s will remember Push Push,
a seminal fusion of raw subsonics and epic roots vocal;
or funky foray, What A Life, with its whispering rap and
un-braggadocio lyrics.
Purveyors
of the finest dub basslines and deep atmospherics on their
own Different Drummer label and later released on Island
Records - the logical home for some of the most dubwise
music not actually recorded in Jamaica.
Buy
Rockers to Rockers
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mish
mash
After
extensive European touring, the duo - augmented by larger
than life MC Farda P and a hallucinogenic lightshow
- built up a massive following that was reflected in
the success of their second album, Mish Mash.
True
to its title, Mish Mash was a collection of diverse
styles and grooves, the Rockers at their most experimental.
Drum & bass, film soundtracks, slo-mo grooves and
the inevitable subterranean bassquakes made this album
a must have and helped introduce the world to the finely-honed
lyrics and unmistakable voice of UK rapper Phoebe One.
Buy
Mish Mash
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dj
kicks
Staying
true to their sound-system roots, Rockers Hi-Fi were prolific
in their production of mix tapes which incorporate live
DJing, chatting, toasting and mixing-desk mayhem.
Along
with Kruder and Dorfmeister - whom they hold in deep and
mutual respect, and who added their own brand of magic
to the remix of Going Under from MishMash, - this was
one of the best selling albums in the
DJ Kicks series.
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overproof
The
Rockers mission for Overproof was simple: to return
to the deep, dub-flavoured atmospherics and above all
SOUL of Rockers to Rockers.
VocalistTweed provided bittersweet rootsical singing
and conscious lyrics, adding a new dimension to the
Rockerssound, a sense of structure to their hypnotic
grooves and the articulation of their affinity to the
culture of dub.
Once
again Farda P added his own particular brand of ruffness
on the disco-flavoured Transmission Central and a new
take on the early house classic 7 Ways (To Make You
Jack) originally by Marshall Jefferson. The result is
a distillation of what the Rockers had been working
on for the best part of the nineties.
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"Why
should we be in so much haste to succeed, and in such desperate
enterprises. If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or
far away." Henry David Thoreau
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Rockers
Hi Fi split in 1999
and since the turn of the century BiggaBush has concentrated on
working from his own studio in the depths of rural England. During
that time he has produced a string of well-respected remixes for
the likes of Ennio Morricone, Tosca, Ella Fitzgerald and
the late lamented Brazilian artist Suba, which picked up
considerable airplay from the likes of Gilles Peterson and Ross
Allen. He has reworked tunes for Up, Bustle & Out,
Kocani Orkestar as well as revisiting ambient dub territory
for a take on Tapper Zukie's evergreen "MPLA Dub".
2002
saw the unveiling of a new BiggaBush project: Lightning Head,
which fuses the funkiest aspects of early Jamaican, Nu Yorican
and Brazilian styles into a joyful soundclash of dub, salsa and
batucada. His debut album, "Studio Don" was released
on the Best Seven/Sonar Kollektiv label run by Berlin's Jazzanova.
To order this album please click here.
Since
then the first BiggaBush solo album "BiggaBush Free"
was released on Stereo Deluxe in 2004 followed by a mix album,
"Sound Sensation" in 2006.
email
biggabush@gmail.com
To
listen to and buy recordings from the BiggaBush Productions Archive,
please click here
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