DJ Mutiny (UK) at Fractured

Dark, Rolling, Stepping Breaks....

As a late teenager obsessed with hip-hop, old soul, jungle and his guitars, DJ Mutiny was introduced to the world of music production through a friend at college who had a rubbish old PC with the dead-but-not-forgotten 'Making Waves' software - probably more basic than 'Music2000'...

Immediately transfixed, Mutiny was suddenly staying awake into the early hours messing around with samples and learning how to put beats together. Early experiments included some craaaaazy sheeeuut, including jungle remixes of Queen Latifah's 'UNITY' (drop basses eeeeverywhere) and, er, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2.

After college and into paid employment, Mutiny managed to scrape some money together to buy an Akai S3000xl sampler - definitely a turning point as he realised how limited he had been over the last three years of making music with a dodgy PC alone (in the days when that really did not work...).

He started to put together a little project studio, consisting of the sampler, a Yamaha digital desk, a Proteus 2000 sound module and, later, a Novation Supernova pilfered off Deekline and some compressors. Meanwhile the music scene was changing, and Mutiny's tastes developing. Garage, previously a strictly-4-4-wine-bar type affair, was starting to be transformed into the underground music that everyone was tuned into.

The 4-4 beats were gone and serious bass had emerged from out of nowhere. Mutiny immediately saw the potential for fusing the dark, energetic, technical side of drum+bass with the crisp garage beats that were coming through, and got busy.

His earliest release, 'Combat', in 1999, was a proper experimental electro-jungle-meets-garage roller that, while fairly shoddily engineered, was pretty groundbreaking for the time!

Meanwhile the breakbeat scene, always there in the background, was starting to assert itself, with the likes of FreQ Nasty and Chris Carter putting out some incredible tracks. Furthermore, people like Deekline and EZ were starting to bring breaks into their garage sets, opening up a whole new area of breaks. Mutiny was regularly locking on to Flex FM, the station that championed this new sound more than any other, and this heavily influenced his production.

In 2000, he sent a CD to DJ Deekline, who after a quick listen immediately called him up to sign some tracks. This resulted in the release of 'Latin Break' (Dig the Funk EP) on SubFunk in 2001 and a cheeky dark four-to-the-floor stomper 'Def Charge' on Breaking Beats also in 2001.

Soon after, Mutiny hooked up with like-minded West London producer DJ Quest. Working together on Cyberfunk and Funkatech they released a whole host of breakstep and nu-skool killa tracks such as Mutiny's 'Soul Deception' and '4-Play', Quest's 'Electric Love' and 'Fuct Beat' and L-Jay's 'Nu Wayz'.

Mutiny now runs Funkatech along with MC Incyte, L-Jay and DJ Cubit. The current release, DJ Mutiny vs J da Flex - 'Cape Fear' / DJ Mutiny - 'Heavy Price', has been receiving rave reviews, and receiving full support from the likes of Aquasky, Deep Impact, Deekline, Sonz of Mecha, Oris Jay, Lombardo, Reza, ... Forthcoming tracks on the label include the new Deep Impact remix of 'Mic on Fire' - watch this space!

Meanwhile DJ Mutiny has a number of releases forthcoming on other reputable breaks labels, including Wireframe (DJ Mutiny - 'War on the Streets' / 'Synthetic'), Supercharged (DJ Mutiny feat. Amaziree - 'Resistance'; Quest feat. IC3 -'Floorbasher (DJ Mutiny vs Uncouth Youth remix))', Mechanoise (DJ Mutiny vs Uncouth Youth - 'Sidewinder' / 'No Looking Back') and Botchit (Autobotz - 'Rocky (DJ Quest vs DJ Mutiny remix)). He is getting an increasing number of international bookings, and this August sees his first tour of Australia and New Zealand.

DJ Mutiny (UK) at Fractured
Friday September 5
Seven Nightclub