Boy 8 bit essential mix 14 may 2010

.::biography::..::биография::.

BOY 8-BIT’s name and music may be on everyone’s lips and ears right now but even if  it’s  only  the  spiraling,  super-melodic masterpiece  ‘Baltic  Pine’  –  championed  by everyone from Pete Tong and Fake Blood to Cassius and Annie Mac – that you know, there’s  an  awful  lot more  to  be  seen  and  heard  from  this  Boy  –  AKA DJ/producer David Morris – in the weeks and months ahead. Indeed, there’s a brilliant brand new double-header  called  "The  Keep’/’Restricted  18’  on  This  Is  Music  incoming.  Both tracks bristle with bonkers energy and hooks  the size of South Dakota. But despite his  not  inconsiderable  success  in  the  electronic  world  already,  not  that  much  is known about this self-confessed former rock junkie from Penzance. 
 "It’s  true,” said David.  "I grew up  listening  to Guns N Roses, Metallica and a  lot of heavy metal and my first steps  into dance music came when  I discovered that there was a copy of The Prodigy’s first album ‘The Experience’ on the other side of a Slayer cassette I was given. Oddly, I found myself listening more to The Prodigy album and feeling somewhat guilty about  it. But  then  I got  into house and wanted  to see how electronic music was made. Coming  from Cornwall,  I had no  thrust  into  the dance scene – we only had one Our Price and that was it. So you’re only influenced by chart dance and when you’re a kid and you have social groups, that’s bad – I was still a bit too young to go to clubs so got into The Chemical Brothers, the odd jungle tape and old hardcore stuff. My  first night experience was a club called Groove  Juice when  I was 15 and  that was  funk, big beat and breakbeat.” Welcome  to 1995. The best  is yet to come. As is the second Prodigy album ‘Jilted.’ 
"Of course, I then went out and bought ‘Jilted’ – the first two Prodigy albums were a
big  influence early on. But  in 1996  I bought my  first album on vinyl,” he recalls.  "It was  a  Shy  FX  album  jump  up  album  and  that made me want  to make  jungle  so  I started working on my computer, an Amiga and  I had Octamed. And  I had an 8 bit sampling  cartridge  -  which  is  where  the  name  came  from,  and  I    started making music  on  that,  4  channels  of  8  bit  sound.”  Believe  it  or  not,  the  Boy’s  earliest recordings were jump-up jungle business. "The tunes didn’t have names – they were just  jump up!” he  laughs.”  I was using  things  like Public Enemy and movie samples and the riff from Warren G – ‘Regulate.’ Not massively inventive, but it was a start!” 
From  there,  our  Boy  decided  to  take  things  more  seriously  and  embarked  on  a software  engineering  course  at University. And  then  things  swerved  again.  "When  I finished  Uni  I  went  and  worked  in  a  theme  park  and  during my  time  there  I  got thinking about electronic music again and started to make stripped back tunes. This was  electro-clash  time  –  so Miss  Kittin  and  The  Hacker  and  Stuart  Price’s mix  of ‘Silver Screen Shower Scene’ were key references for me.” 

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01. Boy 8-Bit — The Blood Tide [White]
02. Aleem — Get Loose Dub [NIA]
03. Eli Escobar — Glass House [Plant Music]
04. Patrick Turner — Planets Align [Inversus Records]
05. DJ Sprinkles — Grandcentral Pt 1 (MCDE Remix Dub) [Endless Flight]
06. Ali Love — Love Harder (Jokers of The scene Unreleased Remix) [White]
07. Gui Boratto — The Glam [Kompakt]
08. Kolombo — Acai [Boxer Recordings]
09. Liz Cirelli — Ultraviolet [LouLou]
10. Kaiser Souzai — Altocumulus Floccus (Piemont Remix) [Yellow Tail]
11. Visti & Meyland — All Night Long (Trentemoller Remix) [Eskimo]
12. Justin Martin — Get Low [Dirty Bird]
13. Diamond K — Damn Track [White]
14. Boy 8-Bit — Tropical Heat [White]
15. Mele — Bombay (Nadastrom Remix) [Mixpak]
16. DJ Will Roc — Twilight Zone [Unruly]
17. Zombie Disco Squad — The Duke Sound [Made To Play]
18. Footsteps — Worker [White]
19. Detroit Grand Pubahs — Sandwedges (Unknown Mix) [White]
20. Ron Hardy — Sensation (Obi Blanche Remix) [White]
21. Carte Blanche — Black Billionaires [Ed Banger]
22. Alan Fitzpatrick — Green Light [Tokio]
23. Boy 8-Bit — Yard Birds [Turbo]
24. Boy 8-Bit — The Keep [This is Music]
25. Boy 8-Bit — Baltic Pine (Roy Apron Dub) [White]
26. Ink & Needle — Thirteen [Tattoo]
27. Bookashade Vs Mandy — Donut (Boy 8-Bit Remix) [Living the Dream]
28. Boy 8-Bit — An Impending Sense Of Doom [White]
29. MMM — Nous Sommes [MMM]
30. Pig & Dan — Terminate [Cocoon]
31. Leftfield — Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) [Hard Hands]
32. Thomas Schumacher — Red Purple [Spiel-zeug Schallplatten]
33. Joe and Will Ask? — The Rusty Pig [Gulp]
34. Florence and The Machine — Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit remix) [White]
35. Yousef — Come Home [Cocoon]
36. Josh One - Contemplation (King Britt Remix — Mat Playford Edit) [Social Problem]
37. Rodriguez Jr. — Pandora [Leena Music]