It’s a rather cold spring afternoon and I’m standing outside Brighton station looking at the sleeting rain fall from the overcast sky. The rather late MC in question is none other than ‘Wrec’, MC to the mighty drum and bass stable that is Hospital Records plus eclectic acts The Nextmen and The Stanton Warriors and all-round grafter on the hip hop and drum and bass scenes.

He arrives ten minutes late (not bad for an MC), slender in build sporting the freshest whitest pair of shell-toes; he suggests we hit a local drinking establishment to conduct the interview. I order a pint, he orders a coke and although it’s still a bit nippy outside, he insists we sit in the beer garden so he can ‘wrap up a little one’.

Now residing in Brighton, he’s just got back from Moscow with The Nextmen, and he begins to reel off tales of meeting a rocket scientist, being stopped by the army and people ‘doing press-ups on the dance-floor’. Pushing the Russian tales to one side, I turn his attention to the recent London Elektricity happenings. “It’s been wicked taking it around the world and seeing the reaction from drum & bass and non-drum & bass heads. That’s what we tried to do every show… win new fans and draw people into what we do on stage. Touring is a funny old game though. It sometimes feels like Ground Hog Day! You go to the Airport then sound-check, then do the gig, then hit the hotel, and the same the next day and so on. But it’s a great way to see the world with your mates… so I’m not complaining! We’ve stopped touring as a band now, cos we’d been on road for almost three years and its time to switch things up and do our own projects. But we’ll always be family.” Click to read more...

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