Fabriclive 50 :

Autonomic, the combination of Bad Company's most musically accomplished member, dBridge, and the single most exciting production outfit to come out of the D&B scene in a decade, Instra:mental, have redefined the notion of drum & bass with FABRICLIVE 5. Appropriately for the 1th title in fabric's compilation series, this trio have concocted possibly its most revolutionary and forward-thinking collection of tracks. Since drum & bass' glory days of the mid 9s, a time when the world looked to the UK's most vibrant and creative indigenous music scene for inspiration, drum & bass has been looking for an artist to break the confines of the sound's stylistic template, and Autonomic have delivered. FABRICLIVE 5 sums up their last couple of years of work, and represents the work of a collection of producers - many of whom have delivered tailor-made tracks for the CD, from ASC to Skream to Actrss to Scuba to Genotype - who are creating music for dBridge & Instra:mental that redefines what the world know as drum & bass, for now, they just call the Autonomic sound. dBridge started his career as a member of the all-conquering drum & bass production outfit Bad Company. The highlights of their discography remain some of drum & bass' biggest anthems. Since their disbandment he has gone on to be the group's most credible and musically adventurous solo survivors.He went on to release on some of D&B's biggest and best respected labels including Liquid V, Metalheadz, Creative Source, Bingo, Soul:r and Quarantine. He also launched his own label Exit Records, which as well as his own music has released sides by Spacek, Rufige Kru, Survival, Commix, Calibre, Fierce, A.I. and Concord Dawn amongst others. After a flurry of releases around the turn of the decade, Instra:mental begun making a big impact on the scene around 27 with their early releases on Darkestral Recordings, which had instant effects for them. Their career trajectory since has been off the scale, just two years later they are the drum & bass' scene's most in demand artists from the outside. Since those Darkestral tracks, Instra:mental have gone on to release on Horizons, Soul:r, Naked Lunch, Appleblim's Applepips imprint and Exit Records at a variety of tempos. They've also launched their own label, NonPlus, which though still in its nascent stages, has had releases from Instra:mental, ASC, Skream and has lined up releases from a startling array of talent from across the electronic music spectrum