Artist: Ed Rush
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Resist (RESISTCD2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
The Original Doctor Shade
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Skylab / Density / The Raven
Year: 1996
Tracks: 3
Wormhole-Mix CD 2
Year:
Tracks: 16
Jungle manufacturer Ed Rush's discover has become nearly synonymous with the give-and-take "sour." With a steady cosmic string of 12-inch releases dragging drum'n'bass to sin and back, forcing taught, kettle-sized noose snaps through plangency rides and thunderous, superdense basslines, Rush, unitedly with oftentimes collaborationist Nico Sykes, has been nearly singularly responsible for jungle's eventual (re)turn to the darkside. Recording most often for Nico-related labels No U-Turn and Nu Black, Rush has also more late begun to cast his network further out, delivery his pensiveness, dank-heavy brand of nightmare drum'n'bass to such labels as Prototype and Metalheadz. First introduced to jungle through late-period hard-core (tracks such as 2 Bad Mice's "Bombscare" and Doc Scott's "Here Come the Drums"), Rush began producing afterward hooking Nico (a for-hire producer wHO lived on Rush's block) on the well-grounded. The couple released a few forgettable tracks earlier buckling down and working on putting together a raw sound. Nico formed No U-Turn in 1993 as a vehicle for that well-grounded, and the pair's number one proper Ed Rush dozen, "Bloodclot Artattack," was released that same year.
Although he'd already been qualification tracks for a couple years, Rush's reputation began to produce in the wake up of the 1996 recoil against the smooth, rolling atmospherics of ambient and heavily jazz-oriented jungle (Bukem, Alex Reece, Wax Doctor, PFM, etc.). With respective tracks on the genre-coining compiling Techsteppin' (released by Emotif), and with darkness once again approach to the forefront among the DJs, Rush tracks such as "Guncheck," "Bloodclot Artattack," "Underground" (recorded with Dom of Dom & Roland), and "Check Me Out" began screening up in more and more (and more and more influential) DJ sets. Releases on Speed/Blue Note DJ Grooverider's Prototype label ("Mount Kilimanjaro"), as well as twelves for Metalheadz ("Skylab") and Nico's No U-Turn offset, Nu Black ("Huffy Different Methods," "Amtrak") further cemented Rush's rep at the cutting edge of a new style. Although he remains a disengage agent, demand for Rush tracks (as advantageously as remixes) means he's been playing the field, releasing increasing quantities of material on a number of labels, both tumid and belittled. And patch the sinful rumble of darkside techstep is bandaged to wane in popularity, Rush's most recent work has proved he's non reliant on the novelty of that sound.
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