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mirex_C7 drop the lime. step it up. 12"
april18>>2005

tracklisting:
step it up
clockman
melting
lost bklyn
bullyhead
the ruckus

“mr. cook?”
“yes?”
“do you have a son named robin, robin cook, age 17?”
“yes!”
“i’m sorry mr. cook, you’d better come down to the station house. your son is dead.”
“dead? ha-how?”
“he died of an overdose. come down to the station house, come down to the station house, come down to the station house…your son is dead.”

wrong, you aging raving fool; he’s been born again hard as luca venezia, a. k. a. drop the lime, reigning badass among the likes of kid606, knifehandchop, and other digital cut-up artists ripping up the back catalogs of early dance music imprints like xl and suburban base, taking wicked samples from the heyday of rave culture and other sources, cracking them wide open, and pouring everything from industrial noise to acid breaks into the mix.

“i was a raver for the majority of my youth,” says venezia, when asked about the happy hardcore tinge in the manic breakcore music found on his new drop the lime release for mirex, step it up. “my teenage weekends were spent going to rave parties in brooklyn and new jersey and nyc. the culture became my life, as did the music, and so i began to dj it, and produce it. i started out djing artists like djhype, congo natty white labels, q bass, and krome and time. all i had besides guitars was a pair of belt-drive turntables, a dr 202 sampler, a casio cz1000 keyboard, and a four-track to record with. so i would sample like crazy, and create new mashed up tracks from the vinyl and cd compilations i owned.”

even before that, venezia was musically inclined, having made mixtapes as far back as elementary school, and being immersed in classical music thanks to artistic parents. now based in williamsburg, venezia pushes the boundaries of breakcore with the humor and sarcasm that went hand-in-hand to create rave and early techno’s dark side, playing up the seedy underside of an originally urban music that was as much a reality-check as it was drug-fueled escapism.

previous drop the lime releases on tigerbeat6, dreadpower/electroviolence, shockout, broklyn beats and ambush have garnered intense press scrutiny in the last year, but no one’s prepared for the break madness on step it up. from the lead-off title track, which begins with the synth choir sounds from either “blue monday” or underworld’s “dark train” (we’re not sure which it is and venezia’s not about to tell us), step it up barrels through six tracks of ricockulous, unrelenting break layering and sampling mash-up. on “clockman,” the vibe is very much in tune with 4hero’s dark raver anthem, “mr. cook’s nightmare,” peering through mournful female cries and bleepy lfo notes to roar on with a raucous ragga bass pulse. the tone gets even more morose on “lost bklyn,” where classic spiraling d’n’b bass tones get a menacing industrial treatment, or on “bullyhead,” which out does the horrific minor chord tones of that seminal kemical kids white label from 1993.

step it up is nothing less than a red glowing poker in your brain; drop the lime recklessly cauterizes the memory of happy hardcore with speedhall heat.

discography:
surrender to the sound. 12". mutant sniper msadv0.02. 2003
sweet desire. 12". ambush 13, 2003
1 for the team. 12". broklyn beats bb016, 2004
gal yu nuh beg (w/ team shadetek). 12". shockout shock06. 2004
i survived the blackout. 7". 333 recordings 333-001. 2004
killy 123 ep. 12". tigerbeat6 meow087, 2004
tribute to tiger (w/ ghislain poirier). 12". shockout shock08. 2004
this means forever. cd / 12" / 12". tigerbeat6 meow111 / meow112 / meow113. 2005
dread power 1. 12". dreadpower/electroviolence dp1. 2005
step it up. 12". mirex 07. 2005

drop the lime on the web:
http://www.dropthelime.com