Minus 8

By the finish from the ’90s, Minus 8 maker Robert Jan Meyer had developed a diverse, unique design of beat-driven jazzy dance music that received him very much acclaim. His past due-’90s drum’n’bass-influenced recordings for Inflamable and Higher Floor had been effective, but Meyer’s work with Compost required him to some other level alongside likewise exciting beatmakers as Jazzanova as well as the Trüby Trio. Like these makers, Meyer crossed all limitations as Minus 8, sometimes producing music that’s jazz-inflected, additional times producing music with a solid Latin experience. His work with Compost also distanced him from your drum’n’bass picture and relocated him nearer toward the burgeoning nu-beat picture of the first 2000s. Furthermore to his best-known work with Compost, which include full-length albums, the Swiss maker also put together CDs for Mole and remixed a lot of his peers. Combining drum’n’bass-style breakbeat percussion, a down-tempo feeling of Latin tempo, a jazz method of arrangement, along with a deep dosage of funk, Robert Jan Meyer’s Minus 8 task originally resulted from his years like a bass participant in funk rings. Perhaps even more notably, though, his music resulted from his desire to present an alternative solution towards the sped-up “plus eight” design of dance music sweeping across European countries through the early ’90s (a mention of the negative and positive pitch modification on turntables). Meyer 1st produced a name for himself like a DJ, touring with lots of the U.K.’s drum’n’bass top notch: Grooverider, Poor Firm, Goldie, and Krust, amongst others. DJ Cam after that released Meyer’s initial Minus 8 productions on his Paris-based Inflammable label. The next Minus 8 full-length, Beyond Beyond, made an appearance over the U.K.-structured Higher Ground label, as well as the prominent Munich, Germany, label Compost released Elysian Fields, the 3rd and most famous Minus 8 album up to now. His second discharge for Compost, Minuit, verified his move from the drum’n’bass motifs that acquired characterized his past due-’90s work.