DILLINJA

Cabin Fever Crew, Newy Bass Crew & Particle Sound System present

DILLINJA (UK)

DILLINJA’S TRADEMARK COMBINATION OF DARK’N’DIRTY STOMACH-CHURNING BASSLINES AND TIGHTER THAN TIGHT BEATS, HAS SECURED HIS REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PRODUCERS/REMIXERS IN DRUM’N’BASS HISTORY.

BY THE AGE OF 23, DILLINJA ALREADY HAD 50 RELEASES UNDER HIS BELT.

HIS INITIAL RECORDS WERE ALL ON WHITE LABEL, INCLUDING HIS FIRST EVER RELEASE ‘TEAR OFF YOUR CHEST’, PRODUCED WITH BATMIX, BUT WITHIN A COUPLE OF YEARS HE WENT ON TO FORM A MYRIAD OF LABELS SUCH AS CYBOTRON, LOGIC, TARGET, IQ AND DEADLY VINYL, THE LATTER BEING HOME TO EARLY DILLINJA CLASSICS SUCH AS ‘SOVEREIGN MELODY’ AND ‘DEADLY

DEEP SUBS’. AS WELL AS HIS OWN LABEL, DILLINJA WENT ON TO RECORD FOR MANY OTHER DRUM’N’BASS LABELS, INCLUDING BRYAN GEE, JUMPIN’ JACK FROST’S V RECORDINGS AND

PHILLY BLUNT LABELS, HARDLEADERS, PROTOTYPE AND GOLDIE’S PIONEERING METALHEADZ IMPRINT. DILLINJA USED THESE LABELS TO SHOW HIS UNIQUE MUSICAL VERSATILITY; WHILE LABELS SUCH AS PHILLY BLUNT AND LIONHEART RECORDS SHOWCASED SOME OF DILLINJA’S

MORE RAW JUNGLE BASED SOUNDS, SUCH AS ‘MUTHAFUCKA’ AND THE REGGAE-FUELLED BASSLINES OF ‘LIONHEART’ (PRODUCED WITH BERT), HIS SEMINAL 1994 BLADE RUNNER- SAMPLING RELEASE ‘THE ANGELS FELL’ WAS AT THE HELM OF THE NEW WAVE OF DRUM’N’BASS

ENCAPSULATED IN THE CUTTING EDGE METALHEADZ SOUND.

DILLINJA’S INTRODUCTION AND PARTNERSHIP WITH KEVIN KING AKA LEMON D IN THE MID 1990S

GAVE BIRTH TO VALVE RECORDINGS IN 1997, SO NAMED AFTER THE OLD SHAKA PRE-AMPS USED IN

REGGAE SOUND SYSTEMS. DISSATISFIED WITH THE DEEP BASS FREQUENCIES OF CLUB SYSTEMS TOGETHER THEY BUILT THE WORLD’S FIRST SOUND SYSTEM DESIGNED AND BUILT SPECIFICALLY

FOR DRUM’N’BASS; THE MIGHTY 96K VALVE SOUND SYSTEM, WHICH IS RECOGNISED THE WORLD OVER AS BEING SECOND TO NONE.

DILLINJA IS STILL

A RECOGNISED NAME IN NOT ONLY THE D&B SCENE HE HELPED DEFINE FROM 91’ BUT ACROSS THE ENTIRE DANCE GENRE.