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Biography
During 2000-2002, a brief but influential window opened in urban music. Drum & bass began moving out of its London heartland and UK garage started to implode under the weight of commercial expectation. Between these forces one man, Lewis Beadle aka El-B, assembled a production crew in Streatham, south London, whose influence was to be felt for the rest of the decade.
The Ghost Camp took a little from both scenes – the bassy masculine edge from drum & bass and the sexy feminine swing from UKG – and made a new mutation, later to be named dubstep.
The roots of dubstep were sown in a shed at the end of a winding garden path in Streatham. Paid for by the funds of a failed album deal, overgrown with blackberry bushes and built by hand by the crew themselves, the shed contained Ghost studios, where during the night hours, El-B and the camp built a sound all of their own. Edgier than UK garage but sexier than the cold onslaught drum & bass was moving into, the Ghost sound was unique. “I try and marry the beautiful with the ugly,” explained El-B in an interview at the time.
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Tempa Allstars Vol. 2
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The Dirty EP
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Ammunition & Blackdown Present: The Roots Of El-B
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Buck & Bury / Back2Me
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mq9demo
I feel good, good, good.
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The_Vein
mainly his garage beats never cease to amaze me. many of them are unmatched... the new stuff (on DPR, Ghost or Night Audio) and some remixes are still top of the game.
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ninjiless
THINK UR GREEZY <3
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KERPLAPS
IT ALL STARTS IN THE CLUB
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Digital_Eargasm
The Roots of El-B, one of the best albums ever [1]
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coffeeandpigs
The Roots of El-B, one of the best albums ever
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fallenworld
Love some El-B but Groove Chronicles' Stone Cold is the boy.
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incubatetilburg
El-B will be playing at the Incubate festival in Tilburg!
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safe-as-milk
actually the album sampler on his myspace sounds pretty weak, looks like hes just trying to keep up with the times like in his live sets
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safe-as-milk
this is probably the best thing ive heard in a while: http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4237&Itemid=26
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clark_
show a little love...
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Nethiros
i really dig "the roots" but the tune "stone cold" is still absolute favourite
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RJ-B
legend
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JudsonLee
Big Up! Lovin the Roots Of... I agree with oneizm, Buck & Bury is buzzin... B)
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The_Late_Knight
j da flex, roxy, es-g, the rest of the ghost crew are well worth checking. otherwise chris mack, zed bias, steve gurley & dem 2 are the dons of that sound
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oneizm
buck & bury is madness, I'm loving it, anyone know an other more artist with that dark garage flow?
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The_Late_Knight
Anyone else think the Ghost Trax stuff is extremely over-rated? I appreciate it's importance vis a vis the evolution of dubstep but his remixes & singles for Locked On tower over it.
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ox2
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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massyl
pureeeeeeeeeeeeeee garage
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The_Late_Knight
serious mix 2 >>>>
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