There are at least 5 artists that go by the name "The Force". THE FORCE is a Drum and Bass Producer & DJ from the West Midlands (UK), signed exclusively to the DSTYLE camp. Over the last few years he’s been releasing on the camp's STEREOTYPE label, with releases including ‘The Story’, 'Something Out There', 'Dropzone', 'What You've All Been Waiting For’, ‘War Games’, ‘Dub 2 Africa’ and ‘Keep Rockin’.
The name Potential Bad Boy may be new to some of the younger headz on the scene, but he’s been keeping busy in and around the music business since the days when drum and bass was just a twinkle in the DJs eyes, and certainly way before True Playaz came together on the scene. From the early nineties, producing for ‘Ibiza’ and ‘E Records’ and the eponymous SOUR imprint, home to a number of junglist luminaries (including the likes of Shy FX & T Power), Potential Bad Boy went on to create his own imprint; 3rd Eye Records.
Having grown up in Bristol Xample has always been surrounded by the sounds of drum and bass and the love of this music lead to him buying his first set of turntables. Soon after, Xample relocated to Liverpool and this is where he first teamed up with the local dj/producers Sol and Futurebound. Xample became a regular at nights around the North West, playing at some of the best nights in Manchester Liverpool and Leeds. Around this time, Xample decided he wanted to try his hand at producing and before to long had notched up releases on labels such as Hard leaders, Penny Black and L plates.
Making music began as a hobby for the trio of producers / djs known as Mutated Forms hailing from Estonia. Original members Alexander (Zub) and Artiom (G-ruff) (3 rd member Alex H - joined the crew in 2004)started experimenting with different genres of electronic music using any and all software they could find. It was at the beginning of 2004 when MF's tunes first began appearing on various drum and bass CD-compilations.
There are several bands with the name Harvest: (1) A Minneapolis hardcore band
(2) A Barcelona alternative band
(3) A Texas christian band
(4) A UK-based band
(5) A hard rock band from New Zealand
(6) A German metal band
(7) An Oklahoma City hard rock band from the early 70s
(8) A dark ambient music project
(9) A Japanese indie band
(10) Jump up drum and bass producer
Harvest (1) Harvest (US) was a seminal hardcore band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It released two full lengths on Trustkill Records plus numerous 7"s and splits.
DJ Spice is a British DJ producer from London. He has been a DJ producer since 1989 when he started on the pirate radio station Fantasy FM, which was one of the biggest radio stations in London broadcasting on 98.8 FM. During this time in the daytime He worked at Pacific Distribution learning the music business from the bottom up during 1989 - 1990. "I wanted to learn how the whole thing works from the artist to the label to the whole distribution side of things" During this time spice worked with labels like desire...
Whetu Kay aka Phetsta was introduced to the D & B sound during his final year of High School in 2000 after relocating from New Zealand to Perth, Australia. Tracks such as Ed Rush & Optical's "Locuste", BC's "Inside the Machine" and Konflict's releases on RenegadeHardware instantly appealed to him. The following year he started producing his own tracks and never looked back. After writing solo and DJ'ing around Perth, he joined forces with Ross Deschamp aka Rregula (former guitarist of WAMI Award winning band "The Dirty Whittler") to form Bad Robot in 2004.
Patch is a name that has been used more than once. (1) An Australian progressive rock band with an album in 1977. (2) An American band with an album in 2003. (3) A short lived, innovative rock band from Elk Rapids, Michigan (USA). (4) a caribbean Soca Artist from Trinidad. (5) Electronic Artist, Producer and Sound Sculptor. Patch (1) was a studio project conceived by drummer/composer Peter Dawkins, who enlisted members of the band Spectrum to back him for the album The Star Suite in 1977. Patch (2) released an album called The Perfect Disguise in 2003.