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Reprazent
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Reprazent Rip It Up!
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The afternoon's delights of The Wailers and Moloko were a more than adequate hors d'oeuvre for this set - but Roni had a few new flavours up his sleeve. Drum & bass may have had it's chart peak more than three years ago but it's brief stay in the media spotlight had burnt itself deep in to the publics concience. The spearhead of this movement is the small man bent forward over over one of the four keyboards on stage, hair tightly platted into go faster rows and covered, like his colleges, in space-ed age coats and combats.
The new album is due in September so it's 'play the new stuff' time but it's all good. 'New Forms' set a high standard winning a Mercury Music Award and picking up an army of new D&B; fans. Bassist Si John is the driving force of this monsterous groove machine of a band, swapping between fat acoustic to driving electric. 'Brown Paper Bag' rears it's 'naaasty' head as the first piece to send the crowd delerious, the main band joined now by super sexy singer Omali (looking awesome in 'the' sexiest black PVC catsuit anywhere on sight) and rapper MC Dynamite. As if the assembled talent of Roni's regulars wasn't enough of a main course the presence of DJ Die and DJ Krush on the backline only added to the fact that this was a killing set.
After we had had our head pumelled with some ridiculous BPMs that sought to find a breaking point in the crowd, but failed, instead Roni was about to make our night truly memorable. Taking soul charge of proceeings Roni took us all back on a trip through memory lane back to those after hours parties and basement jams with a special Glasto mix of some of the choicest old school drum & bass classics. After over an hour of super charged beats and bass lines deeper than the deepest Bristol dock back home, the good ship Reprazent cruised out on another blistering version of 'Brown Paper Bag' as the encore leaving the crowd glowing in the knowledge that they had witnessed a classic closing act to a fantastic opening night.
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