CodeSouth.FM

CodeSouth.FM

Background

Music

Back in the early 1990s a new sound was beginning to filter into the music scene with sped up breakbeats, low rumbling b-lines and samples taken from wherever and whenever producers felt like it.  Tracing our way back through these pivotal changes we find one constant.  Roni Size, who would go on to take the sound he was creating across the world.  Don’t get me wrong, plenty of Djs were already flying the flag for Jungle, Hardcore and Rave on a weekly basis in every corner of the globe, but it was Roni Size who took things to the next level in 1997 when his New Forms album won the coveted Mercury Music Prize. The ground-breaking project was a critical and commercial success and contained acclaimed tracks such as “Brown Paper Bag” and “Heroes.” Its release was preceded in late 1996 with the Reasons For Sharing EP, which contained an addictive dancefloor killer called “Trust Me,” which had been tearing […]