Adam and Ned met
as art students at
Kingston University in 1999 when they were into wildly
different music scenes. Born in Hackney, Adam had grown up listening to bands
like Radiohead, Muse and Deftones, and had been bashing out songs on his guitar
and four-track for years. Back then, he didn’t even like dance music. Ned, from
rural Harwich, was raised on a diet of old skool hardcore, and spent his teens
learning to mix and sneaking into
Essex raves with his mates.
Not surprisingly
their music tastes clashed at first. “I assumed everyone thought hardcore was
rubbish before I met Ned,” says Adam. “But he wanted to make music, and I
wanted to be in a band so we went from there.” By this point Ned had fallen in
love with UK breaks, and was soon spinning on pirate
radio station Rude Awakening as DJ Eskimo.
With Adam on songwriting
and vocal duties and Ned bringing his arranging skills and encyclopaedic
knowledge of dance to the table, the pair started writing their first tracks.
So how do they
describe their sound? “It’s big, bad and heavy,” says Ned. “It’s music that
makes you want to sh*t yourself!”
“But there’s more
depth to it than most dance music,” adds Adam. “It’s more intricate, there’s
more of a songwriting sensibility.”
The final word is left to Ned: “Whatever happens,
the tune has to roll, it has to make you want to get up and dance. There won’t be any chin-stroking tunes
on our album.”
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