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Volume 13 Number 12
December 2000

Size Matters:
Roni Size still hasn’t found what he’s looking for. It doesn’t matter much to him that New Forms, his 1997 debut, arrived loaded with crossover possibilities. By dressing as a proper album, clocking in at an epic Two-Plus Hours, New Forms extended drum-n-bass – which, at the time, here in the States, was in diapers – beyond the 12-inch record. Furthermore, by taking his Reprazent crew – Die, Suv, Krust, Onallee and Dynamite – on the road live, with drums, upright bass and banks of Roland sequencers, Size broadened the genre’s reach beyond the rewind and into the realm of microphone check.
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Cleaning House

The telephone rings and a voice on the other end says, “Dave, I have a remix for ya. How fast can you get it done?”

“Well,” I reply, “Do you have an a cappella, or am I on my own?”

“No a cappella, but I can get you the radio version and maybe a club mix.”

Trying to buy as much time for myself as possible, I hesitate, then ask, “When do you need it by?”

“You have a few days,” the voice says. “I’ll send it out to you today.”

The next day my FedEx man drops off a thin cardboard package. Inside is a DAT – although on other occasions it could be a CD version – of a song to be remixed. And so begins a day in my life – the life of a service remixer...


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