Interview – Ed Rush & Optical
Posted in Drum'N'Bass, Interviews on February 26th, 2007 by facterFor almost a decade, the partnership that is Ed Rush and Optical have been changing the face of the increasingly popular genre of drum and bass with their production skills. From the moment they smashed onto the scene with singles such as the seminal Alien Girl and Bacteria, these stalwarts of the UKs Virus label have maintained a consistent attitude of difference, or indifference as things may be, to the trends of a genre that is all too easily pockmarked by copycat production.
There are defining moments in the growth of any art form, and when the dark and utterly xenotypical rumblings of tracks such as Alien Girl hit, one of those points was reached in dnb. “There was this realisation that there was a completely different way of doing a breaks mix than everyone else,” Optical explains. “It kind of vindicated our attempt to do something different. There were a lot of people who were against what we were up to at the time, well, not against it but just like this isn’t what other people are doing so they weren’t really interested you know?” Read more »