Optical

Matt Quinn’s recordings as Optical skirt the atmospheric aspect of neuro-funk drum’n’bass, the paranoid musings of a small number of industrial-strength British companies like Ed Hurry, Supply Direct and Quinn’s sibling Jamie, who information as Matrix. Jamie and Matt started releasing singles independently Metro Information from a Western London foundation, with Matrix’s “Two times Eyesight” alongside Optical’s “Glowing” because the label’s starting shots. Optical documented for any half-dozen additional imprints aswell, including Goldie’s Metalheadz and Grooverider’s Prototype. The producer’s two efforts to those brands (respectively, “To Form the near future” and “Gray Odyssey”) elevated his profile substantially after getting re-release on Compact disc compilations — Goldie’s Platinum Breakz II and Grooverider’s The Prototype Years. He previously already gained a reputation among the most hotly tipped makers of 1997 when another traditional solitary for Prototype, “Shifting 808s,” strike big past due that yr. By 1998, Quinn have been tapped to lead his engineering experience to two of the very most hyped jungle LPs of the entire year — Goldie’s SaturnzReturn (changing Rob Playford) and Grooverider’s Mysteries of Funk. He also gained co-production credits on Dom & Roland’s Market, and continued release a single after solitary of extreme, Predator-styled drum’n’bass. After developing his personal label, Disease, with No-U-Turn Information don Ed Hurry, he was co-billed with Hurry on the five-LP set entitled Wormhole, the very first full-length to really bring Optical’s name.