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http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/news/icicle-mixes-rinse-19-compilation.html
Lately, UK dancefloors have become spaces where genres collide. It's become commonplace to DJs to refuse to be confined within any particular bracket, making for club sets that frequently veer wildly from one genre to the next: from dubstep through drum and bass, house and techno.
It’s taken DJs and producers with enough imagination and skill – many, like Kode9, Oneman and Ben UFO, closely associated with Rinse FM – to highlight the shared ground between all these disparate sounds.
Jeroen Snik, aka Icicle, is another such explorer. Starting out as a drum and bass DJ and producer in his native Holland, his move to London and helming of Shogun Audio’s Rinse FM show gradually drew him deeper into the ever-evolving sounds of dubstep.
"I just decided that I wanted to incorporate more into my sets," says Icicle of that move. "Why should I limit myself? It hasn't always been very easy - especially playing dubstep tunes in drum and bass sets for the first time a few years ago, people were going 'What the hell is he doing?’” he laughs. "But now people get upset if I don't play any dubstep at all."
Throughout, the mix's anchoring rhythms remain constantly in flux, shifting seamlessly between four-to-the-floor and all kinds of exquisite broken variants. The mood, however, remains consistent throughout. Though Icicle takes a similarly broad approach to genre as his friends and contemporaries Hessle Audio and Numbers, his selection is very different from theirs.
Rinse:19 is the sound of the urban environment, tied deeply to the darkness, pressure and steely intensity of drum and bass – something as true of Icicle’s own dubstep and techno tracks as it is of his drum and bass tunes, as well as selections from the likes of Proxima, Youngsta and Distance.
“My ideal world,” Icicle says, “would be where, as a music producer, you're known for a sound, but not so much for a specific genre.” Rinse:19 looks at transforming that vision into reality.
Icicle - Intro
Icicle - Deep Tech
Locked Groove - Centraal
Icicle - Kick In The B
Distance - Searching
Spinline - Monday Luv
J. Robinson - The Maasai
Icicle - Together In The Dust
Proxima - Grunge
Icicle - Acid Step
Sleeper & District - Terraformed
Youngsta - Untitled
Proxima - Brainstem
Killawatt - Centipede Effect
Icicle - BNC
Clarity - Other Sights
Rockwell - The Rain
Spinline - Alien
Sabre - Halo Danger
Icicle - Full Moon
Lately, UK dancefloors have become spaces where genres collide. It's become commonplace to DJs to refuse to be confined within any particular bracket, making for club sets that frequently veer wildly from one genre to the next: from dubstep through drum and bass, house and techno.
It’s taken DJs and producers with enough imagination and skill – many, like Kode9, Oneman and Ben UFO, closely associated with Rinse FM – to highlight the shared ground between all these disparate sounds.
Jeroen Snik, aka Icicle, is another such explorer. Starting out as a drum and bass DJ and producer in his native Holland, his move to London and helming of Shogun Audio’s Rinse FM show gradually drew him deeper into the ever-evolving sounds of dubstep.
"I just decided that I wanted to incorporate more into my sets," says Icicle of that move. "Why should I limit myself? It hasn't always been very easy - especially playing dubstep tunes in drum and bass sets for the first time a few years ago, people were going 'What the hell is he doing?’” he laughs. "But now people get upset if I don't play any dubstep at all."
Throughout, the mix's anchoring rhythms remain constantly in flux, shifting seamlessly between four-to-the-floor and all kinds of exquisite broken variants. The mood, however, remains consistent throughout. Though Icicle takes a similarly broad approach to genre as his friends and contemporaries Hessle Audio and Numbers, his selection is very different from theirs.
Rinse:19 is the sound of the urban environment, tied deeply to the darkness, pressure and steely intensity of drum and bass – something as true of Icicle’s own dubstep and techno tracks as it is of his drum and bass tunes, as well as selections from the likes of Proxima, Youngsta and Distance.
“My ideal world,” Icicle says, “would be where, as a music producer, you're known for a sound, but not so much for a specific genre.” Rinse:19 looks at transforming that vision into reality.
Icicle - Intro
Icicle - Deep Tech
Locked Groove - Centraal
Icicle - Kick In The B
Distance - Searching
Spinline - Monday Luv
J. Robinson - The Maasai
Icicle - Together In The Dust
Proxima - Grunge
Icicle - Acid Step
Sleeper & District - Terraformed
Youngsta - Untitled
Proxima - Brainstem
Killawatt - Centipede Effect
Icicle - BNC
Clarity - Other Sights
Rockwell - The Rain
Spinline - Alien
Sabre - Halo Danger
Icicle - Full Moon
