“‘Close To The Edit’ is full of sounds nobody had heard yet in 1984: sampled instruments, drum loops, cut up voices, digital synths. I just found that some records had amazing sounds I’d never heard before, sounds that jumped out of the speakers and made me feel funny: the melodies played on sampled voices in Freeez’s ‘I.O.U.’ or Nu Shooz’s ‘I Can’t Wait’, the stuttering speech and wild stereo of Paul Hardcastle’s ’19’ or Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus’, Kraftwerk’s ‘Tour De France’ with its beat made from electronic clicks, heavy breathing and bicycle chains. I didn’t know how the sounds were made, or that I didn’t like guitars much. hl=en_US” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”>Įd DMX: “I was 11 when the single ‘Close (To The Edit)’ charted, and without knowing it, I was already by then obsessed with records with electronic sounds. Over the next five pages, Ed talks us through five records that he’s been digging of late, from the “wrong-sounding” edit science of The Art of Noise through to early demos by Aphex Twin. This month DMX Krew will release a new EP of “analogue synth-derived dance traxx” on fledgling, highly promising UK label Wavey Tones (check the clips here) he’ll also be appearing at the upcoming Bloc festival in London. Put simply, Ed’s knowledge of, and passion for, the sounds of the underground is second to none, and it’s always a treat when he shares it.
His career, spanning nearly 20 years, is nothing if not an extended love letter to electro, but his matrix of influences and ideas also includes acid house, Detroit techno and much else besides – check out his regular EDMX Radio podcasts, where you’ll hear classic grime instrumentals from Jon E Cash and Wiley alongside Kraftwerk, Underground Resistance and countless more obscure producers and productions culled from the back-pages of electronic music history. Following recent turns from Saint Etienne and Black Dice, today it’s the turn of DMX Krew.ĭMX Krew is a crew of one – the wonderful Ed DMX.
Five Records is a regular strand on FACT in which we ask an artist whose taste we respect to talk us through – wait for it – five records that they’re currently enjoying.
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