* The ever-changing creative hub that is Darren White, aka dBridge, is an artist whose multiple transformations and evolutions glide through a staggering list of achievements. In the scope of White’s jam-packed, many-faced 19 year career, no one year could be comparable nor slowed down.
In 1992, White moved to London to make and produce music for his brother, Steve, who’s known around electronic music circles as the lead singer of the deep electronica outfit Spacek. Darren soon found himself working with UK hardcore group Armshouse Crew, the production posse responsible for Lennie De Ice’s proto-jungle anthem ‘We are IE,’ and began to master the synths and samplers that were the source of this new sound.
After linking with the Trouble on Vinyl (TOV) camp, White released his first solo production as dBridge, ‘Bring Da Flava b/w Keep it Real.’ Shortly after, he crossed paths with a likeminded musician named Jason Maldini, a relationship from which Future Forces spun out. With Future Forces’ early productions standing so far apart from everything around it, a new imprint, Renegade Hardware, spawned from TOV to cater for their innovative sound: tougher, grittier, with classics ‘Dead by Dawn’ and ‘Triton’ becoming the new blueprint for D&B.
Combining forces with two equally divisive producers, Fierce and Vega, the scene-defining Bad Company solidified dBridge’s next chapter. Creating a myriad of anthems that to this day will be heard played (and rewound) any number of times at any D&B night, in any city around the globe (‘Planet Dust,’ ‘Hornet,’ ‘The Nine’), in BC’s 5+ years of working together, they stormed the scene like nothing else. The notorious supergroup created tracks – and 3 full-length albums – that will remain drum & bass epitomes, tracks that will forever line the chapters of D&B history notes. Archetypes. Or, as Photek’s label (an imprint on which BC began releasing in 1999) aptly put it, Prototypes.
“Being involved in Bad Company, there were always 4 people trying to form one opinion. It’s easy to feel like you’re getting a bit lost in that, so in 2003 I set off on my own.”
dBridge opened a new chapter with the first release on his own label Exit Records, ‘Libra b/w The Bride.’ As he began setting off with further solo outings, the dBridge name spread rapidly, as seen across a string of high profile labels including Soul:R, Bingo Beats, Creative Source, Liquid V, Metalheadz, Reinforced, Hotflush and more.
“Exit started in 2003, just after the BC split. From 2003 up until 2006, there wasn’t a great deal of releases coming out on the label. I was just getting my name out there again. I really took my time. It was, in some ways, my third incarnation. I’d been with Future Forces, I’d been with Bad Company, and it was now the next phase of my career.
“I’ve always worked with my brother [Steve Spacek] over the years; I worked on the Vintage Hi-Tek album, I worked on his solo album, ‘Sound in Color’. With our Black Pocket project, in some ways, some of the music came out almost too early. This was before he really blew up, and that whole sound was still in its infancy. But that, for me, was the first step of the label going down a different route.”
More than just a platform for his own music, Exit Records is the fruition of a lifetime goal, and has developed to encompass styles beyond strictly drum & bass. Exit Versus plays host to dBridge’s collaborations with other artists; the first three singles saw him cross swords with the likes of Commix, Concord Dawn, A.I. and Fierce. By contrast, Exit Aptitude focuses on individual artists (with the key focus being on their actual individuality), and includes specially commissioned artwork in a limited edition vinyl package.
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* Information Of Exit Records UK - http://www.exitrecords.co.uk/
In 1992, White moved to London to make and produce music for his brother, Steve, who’s known around electronic music circles as the lead singer of the deep electronica outfit Spacek. Darren soon found himself working with UK hardcore group Armshouse Crew, the production posse responsible for Lennie De Ice’s proto-jungle anthem ‘We are IE,’ and began to master the synths and samplers that were the source of this new sound.
After linking with the Trouble on Vinyl (TOV) camp, White released his first solo production as dBridge, ‘Bring Da Flava b/w Keep it Real.’ Shortly after, he crossed paths with a likeminded musician named Jason Maldini, a relationship from which Future Forces spun out. With Future Forces’ early productions standing so far apart from everything around it, a new imprint, Renegade Hardware, spawned from TOV to cater for their innovative sound: tougher, grittier, with classics ‘Dead by Dawn’ and ‘Triton’ becoming the new blueprint for D&B.
Combining forces with two equally divisive producers, Fierce and Vega, the scene-defining Bad Company solidified dBridge’s next chapter. Creating a myriad of anthems that to this day will be heard played (and rewound) any number of times at any D&B night, in any city around the globe (‘Planet Dust,’ ‘Hornet,’ ‘The Nine’), in BC’s 5+ years of working together, they stormed the scene like nothing else. The notorious supergroup created tracks – and 3 full-length albums – that will remain drum & bass epitomes, tracks that will forever line the chapters of D&B history notes. Archetypes. Or, as Photek’s label (an imprint on which BC began releasing in 1999) aptly put it, Prototypes.
“Being involved in Bad Company, there were always 4 people trying to form one opinion. It’s easy to feel like you’re getting a bit lost in that, so in 2003 I set off on my own.”
dBridge opened a new chapter with the first release on his own label Exit Records, ‘Libra b/w The Bride.’ As he began setting off with further solo outings, the dBridge name spread rapidly, as seen across a string of high profile labels including Soul:R, Bingo Beats, Creative Source, Liquid V, Metalheadz, Reinforced, Hotflush and more.
“Exit started in 2003, just after the BC split. From 2003 up until 2006, there wasn’t a great deal of releases coming out on the label. I was just getting my name out there again. I really took my time. It was, in some ways, my third incarnation. I’d been with Future Forces, I’d been with Bad Company, and it was now the next phase of my career.
“I’ve always worked with my brother [Steve Spacek] over the years; I worked on the Vintage Hi-Tek album, I worked on his solo album, ‘Sound in Color’. With our Black Pocket project, in some ways, some of the music came out almost too early. This was before he really blew up, and that whole sound was still in its infancy. But that, for me, was the first step of the label going down a different route.”
More than just a platform for his own music, Exit Records is the fruition of a lifetime goal, and has developed to encompass styles beyond strictly drum & bass. Exit Versus plays host to dBridge’s collaborations with other artists; the first three singles saw him cross swords with the likes of Commix, Concord Dawn, A.I. and Fierce. By contrast, Exit Aptitude focuses on individual artists (with the key focus being on their actual individuality), and includes specially commissioned artwork in a limited edition vinyl package.
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* Information Of Exit Records UK - http://www.exitrecords.co.uk/
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