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december.6.2003 - #1214
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artist : Dual Control
album : Stoned Mason
year : 2003
label : Grand Central Records
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : GC173
url : www.grandcentralrecords.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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A1.Stoned Mason 03:38
AA1.Optical 03:23
AA2.Spring Again Feat. Loretta 03:31
03 tracks | 10:32 mins | 14,5 MB
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Dual control are Mike Ball (Bally) and Phil Davis (DJ Styles) who
have been making beats together in Manchester for 5 years. Dual
Control are not new to the Grand Central camp - their first release
was featured on GC's Central Heating 2 compilation and Mike Ball
has been engineering for Grand Central for years. Hence, the beats
here are distinctly flavoured in traditional Grand Central sauce.
Although Mike's first love is hip hop, he spent his late teens
attending the biggest open air raves down South before moving back
up to Manchester in the mid-nineties and getting work at the Planet
4 recording studio. Here he got to work with the likes of M People,
BT and Electronic. "They were mad mad days!" says Mike - "I was
buzzing off people like Brian Transeau - he was really inspiring
and dead enthusiastic!" Then Mike met Steve Christian (of Rae &
Chrisitian) who was also working in the same studio. Steve asked
Mike to join him as engineer at Grand Central and the rest is
history. Phil Davis on the other hand used to be in a sound system
called the Rude Boy Assassins and he also worked on Soul Nation
pirate radio. Phil does the nifty scratching on Boogie Down Feature
and gives the duo a distinctly street soul vibe.
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greetings to kw, dps, sour, diss, dh, ms, tr & ube
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