SPEX - Q1 - Tell us a little bit about your musical back ground, did
DJing come first or producing?
PAUL RESET - Well I'd tinkered with trackers on me ST when I was back
in
school - but these were fairly basic - I mean we're looking at I
basically had 4 tracks/channels :) Still it gave me a little grounding
in the layout of electronic music and stuff but I was only young :) I
gave up for a while and basically just went out and had a brilliant
time
for a few years and started Dj'ing in about early 1997 - then started
producing again in 99.
PYRO - For my case it was producing, but the urge to go out and play
the
stuff I've been producing was there from the beginning.
SPEX - Q2 - How did the T.O.V. release come about, had you any releases
before hand.
PAUL RESET - Well basically we sent em the toon and they liked it!
Rest
is history! No releases for me beforehand
PYRO - I had a CD out on a danish label, my first attempt with real
gear. Was an experiment for the label and since it didn't sell well
nothing really happened
SPEX- Q3 - Are you going to get a release on Negative Recordings.
PAUL RESET - Well not unless we come up with something as good/better
than
the bits Kemal & Rob are doing, and I think thats a long long way off
yet :)
PYRO - Hope so, guess the future will tell
SPEX- Q4 - I know of Kemal and Rob Data (Konflict), but who else is
making D'n'B and live in Scotland.
PAUL RESET - Well there's KMC and the Future Engineers doing the more
kinda lighter style, dunno if the F.E are still doing stuff, but KMCs
working on stuff again, looking forward to hearing that as although I'm
not overly into his style, his stuff is always very well produced.
There's a handful of others that I know of anyway, notably a guy called
Morphy doing stuff on the kinda old skool tip.
SPEX - Q5 - Do you feel Drum and Bass needs a face lift, a new
direction.
PAUL RESET - Erm not really - I mean there is the quality out there but
it gets hidden underneath all the shit - agreed the shit far outweighs
the good these days, but I dunno if a new direction is the answer -
more
just people kinda doing original work within the boundaries already
layed out if you know what I mean.
PYRO - A lot of people seem to think so but all the innovative stuff is
there if you look for it. I love the techno inspired sound that's
around
and here's amazing mellow stuff out too like fellowship, callibre,
carlito and addiction etc.
SPEX - Q6 - What are thoughts on the U.S. producers and DJ's as a
whole.
PAUL RESET - Well I think the US scene in terms of producers has come
along a lot recently, producers like Tom B & Kojak have been doing
really good stuff for a while now never really getting noticed. I can't
really comment much further not having heard that many US producers and
never really have heard many US Djs
PYRO - There's some really good djs but their releases are lacking in
quality. Abstract (pneuma records, green label, phunckateck) has done
some wikkid stuff though.
SPEX - Q7 - What's next for Paul Reset and Pyro, as a duo and solo
artist?
PAUL RESET - Well I've been working on a lot of breaks and more
eclectic
material recently, but we've got the Flex release coming up, plus my
ting with Kemal on Underfire is out and Pyro's Outbreak release came
out
end of last year and its been doing really well. I've also got a breaks
Ep coming out in Feb and we're sorting out a few releases with Southern
Sessions and Coup De Main, alongside that I'm working on an album under
the alias Phuturelabs with friends Scott English and Billy Walker
PYRO - I'm concentrating on the outbreak deal at the moment. I'm signed
for 6 releases
which'll give me a chance to get established in the scene.
SPEX - Q8 - Would you say you've opened up the doors for the
Scottish/Danish D'n'B scene?
PAUL RESET - Well not really, there's a good scene clubwise here - G
Mac
does his Manga thing over in Edinburgh (and sometimes Glasgow) with
great success, plus I'm a resident at the LiveVEvil nights here in
Glasgow (www.livevevil.com) and they're going really well at the
moment,
but Kemal & Rob kinda laid the groundwork in the Glasgow scene and
we're
really just following it up.
PYRO - Hmm nah not really. There are a few producers in Denmark trying
out stuff but no one are nowhere the quality of the uk stuff. There's
some potential there though.
SPEX - Q9 - Who influenced you
PAUL RESET - Well production wise - there's a wicked new producer from
Australia called V Tek and he's doing some amazing stuff, I listen to a
lot of new producers and stuff and a lot of it is average but his stuff
totally blew me away - amazing stuff, Dj - well there's a local guy
called Simon D who's on the same kinda tip as me musically and his
mixings always tight, plus he's an old skool raver like meself so he
knows his shit :) There's a couple of other Glasgow Dj's like Adam and
Geco who are very talented Djs as well. Label - has to be Kemal & Robs
Negative - I mean its pretty big as it is but I think its really gonna
blow up huge stylee
PYRO - I think Kemal & Rob Data are gonna blow up big time as far as
the
techno sound goes. BC will keep their place in the scene judging from
the plate material I've heard. The Virus crew is well the Virus crew
and
will be there for ages. As far as the mellow side goes sky's the limit
for Fellowship and Calibre.
The Future........
PAUL RESET - Well after 4 releases between us, myself and Dj Pyro
decided it was time to try and start our own label....so its all kinda
been sorted (just one or two wee tings to sort - artwork etc) and
hopefully within a few months the first release will hit the
shops...the
labels called Nerve Recordings...and the first release will be Pyro's
"Tension" backed with his "Spaced" track. The second release should be
Paul Reset & Michael Rivera with "Sketch"...
After that who knows! :)
