The Dream Team

The Dream Team (aka the Active Duo) certainly are a steadily rising duo whose releases independently Joker imprint have managed to get perhaps one of the most popular underground labels for straight-ahead, no-bones jump up-style drum’n’bass. Heading by the brands Bizzy B. and Pugwash, the set began working jointly in 1994 after launching a smattering of single monitors (Bizzy on his Human brain imprint, Pugwash as Increase Dipped on I.D.), starting up through the network of companies and DJs which constitutes the London underground breakbeat picture. Locking up drum’n’bass in its literal type, the pair’s Joker function expands upon the rhythmic concentrate of jump-up mainstays such as for example Timid FX and DJ Buzz, launching floor-filling party monitors with a brand new, complex rhythmic advantage. Although two from the group’s biggest music — “Strength” and “Fresh Canines” — had been released on hardcore mainstay Suburban Bottom soon after the set began working collectively, Joker continues to be the concentrate of their actions since its inception in ’95, peaking in the beginning of 1997 having a full-length launch, The Drum’N’Bass Globe Series, a assortment of fresh tracks and special mixes from Decoder, Rude Bwoy Monty, and Tendency. That yr also saw the discharge of recording, Trilogy, on Sega/Suburban Foundation Records. Furthermore to operating Joker and liberating and remixing paths, Bizzy and Pugwash both DJ, (Pug got a regular slot machine on the mentioned Kool FM), the raising exposure acquiring them well beyond the London underground pirate picture and into party slot machines in Europe as well as the States.