Rockers Hi-Fi

Recycling the dub aesthetic from the 1970s and putting it on to ’90s trip-hop and electronica, Rockers Hi-Fi produced in 1991 when DJ Dick (aka Richard Whittingham), a reformed punk, rare groove, and acid home mixer, fulfilled up with rock and roll & roller Glyn Bush. Initially known as Primary Rockers (a salute for an Augustus Pablo LP), the duo lent a friend’s mixing machine and began reducing it through to their debut one, “Breathless,” documented for the pair’s Wedding cake label. After renaming the imprint Different Drummer and themselves Rockers Hi-Fi — in deference to Pablo’s demand — DJ Dick and Bush added a rapper called MC Farda P. and released “Force Force.” By enough time of the debut record, Rockers to Rockers (even more a assortment of singles when compared to a full-length function), the group started moving intensely into ambient dub and what afterwards became referred to as trip-hop. A licensing cope with Isle and reviews that are positive from critics obtained them notice, along with a well-received tour from the U.K. and U.S. demonstrated that the studio room boffins could rock and roll the joint aswell. After the discharge of the dub remix record, Music Is normally Immortal, Rockers Hi-Fi returned making use of their second full-length, Mish Mash.