Black Grass

Before DJ/producer Mex (born Ian Thompson) took within the name for himself, he and fellow producer Carl Faure were collectively referred to as Brighton, England-based duo Dark Lawn, utilizing their respective backgrounds to compose an extremely eclectic mixture of Uk rap and trip-hop. Mex is normally a worldwide-respected DJ who found such status through the middle- to past due ’90s, DJing for famous brands Portishead, Big L, and Jurassic 5 aswell as releasing many big defeat- and turntablist-oriented aspect tasks under aliases the Mexican and Clockwork Voodoo Freaks. His hearing for hip-hop breaks, extracting from Latin, spirit, jazz, home, and funk information, produced the backbone from the duo’s audio while Faure injected components of the U.K.’s dance subculture along with his knowledge in making drum’n’bass and jazz-house. Documented for the Brighton-based Catskills Information, their 2004 self-titled debut (though it had been available overseas previously in Oct 2003) was received favorably in both U.K.’s underground membership/dance and hip-hop circles. Quickly thereafter, nevertheless, Faure defected in the duo, departing Mex to suppose the Dark Lawn moniker as another alias. Through the next year or two, Mex turned intensely to touring, both in Britain and in Australia, helping serves like De La Spirit and Miguel Migs. Mex came back in 2006 with the next Dark Grass effort, 100 Days in a single, over the Catskills label.