The Ragga Twins

As one of my favourite DJs, I’ve seen Roni Size perform multiple times, and can’t encourage anyone enough to see him perform. As well as being an incredibly talented performer, he was also the founder of Reprazent, the drum and bass group who won a Mercury Prize for their album. In the performance, it was awesome that he had a rapper singing over his music, and encouraging the audience to dance and get involved. Sometimes in DJ sets it’s easy to forget that someone’s performing their music, but the support vocalist assisted in making the performance electric. He would step back and signal for everyone to watch Size in the moments where he was mixing like crazy, raising the beat, and scratching the decks. He played mainly form Take Kontrol, the newest album, which was epic as it was one of the first times it had been performed since its release. He also played Kops & Robbers, whick of course everyone at the concert knew inside out and so everyone was on the dance floor with their arms in the air.
The atmosphere was awesome, and he even played a couple of tracks form a Reprazent album that’s currently unreleased. Hearing new music before it goes mainstream is wonderful, and the fact that Size shared that with us was really special.

After being DJ’ing on London pirate radio stations for several years, Kevin Ford began producing Drum n’ Bass in 1989 assuming the name DJ Hype. Mixing in a bit of reggae, hip-hop and house has added to Hype’s distinctive nature. Present at the birth of the rave culture and the electronic new wave, Hype has seen it all and throughout his career has sound tracked many people’s clubbing experience. Known for his jump up DJ sets and his guest appearances at Fabric, DJ Hype knows how to bring the party. Before he even jumps up onto the decks, the whole crowd is pumped as they shout ‘Hype, Hype, Hype’. With venues packed wall to wall, you can anticipate the intense and sweaty environment as the crowd get into the zone aided by Hype’s innate ability to read the audience and help them get lost in the beats as they bang their heads back and forth. His performances consistently have the crowd up on their feet as he drops the jungle mixes in, he’s always interacting with the clubbers as he jumps up and down creating this electric energy which permeates through the room. As legendary as he is, DJ Hype most definitely lives up to his name.