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The result has been a series of diverse remixes and ║▓█ █▓║ productions mixing funky and techy house elements, tied together ║▓█ █▓║ with head twisting production. ║▓█ █▓║ From obscurity to four Essential New Tunes, a couple of Buzz Chart ║▓█ █▓║ No. 1s and a pair of bona-fide Ibiza classics in twelve short ║▓█ █▓║ months. Chuck in the solo releases and remixes as Mainframe,UBU and ║▓█ █▓║ Watkins, plus live decks and FX sets at dozens of clubs (including ║▓█ █▓║ Cream, Renaissance, Code, Ministry, Elements) and it's not hard to ║▓█ █▓║ see why the two Matts are a) happy and b) knackered. ║▓█ █▓║ Their drugged-up remix of Mutiny's "The Virus" seduced and battered ║▓█ █▓║ clubbers in equal measure, making it one of the big club tracks of ║▓█ █▓║ the summer. On a more soothing level the chilled yet hooky remix of ║▓█ █▓║ Baz "Believers" sound tracked more than one Ibiza sunrise. Meanwhile ║▓█ █▓║ a quick name change and a killer vocal sample yielded "Dirty" by ║▓█ █▓║ Dirty, an Essential New Tune and Single of the Week in 7. ║▓█ █▓║ Highlights of the year include making Steve Lawler play Madison ║▓█ █▓║ Avenue at Code; getting the chance to remix tracks like Chocolate ║▓█ █▓║ Puma's "I Wanna Be U", Stylus Trouble's "Sputnik" and Foremost ║▓█ █▓║ Poets' "Moonraker"; doing the Essential Mix; hooking up with the ║▓█ █▓║ Junior posse to make dirty (and Dirty) tracks. And then there was ║▓█ █▓║ Cream in Tokyo û early morning earthquakes, Afro-Ken frenzy, tiny ║▓█ █▓║ techno bars, pissed pole-dancing and the very first KU stalker - ║▓█ █▓║ "93!-93!-93!-93!". ║▓█ █▓║ Rounding the whole thing off, the countdown to New Year set at ║▓█ █▓║ Tribal Sessions. ║▓█ █▓║ Twelve more months like that please! ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ Matthew Roberts: ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ Matthew Roberts got the house music bug at the age of 15 whilst ║▓█ █▓║ supposedly studying for his High School exams. A rather more useful ║▓█ █▓║ education was gained by taping ManchesterÆs Key 103 house show every ║▓█ █▓║ week, and he soon became wise in the ways of house (while failing ║▓█ █▓║ most of his grades). As soon as he looked about old enough, he ║▓█ █▓║ visited the now legendary Hacienda, staying with older brother Leon ║▓█ █▓║ who was working in a Mancunian artificial limb unit at the time. ║▓█ █▓║ Things got pretty twisted, but there was of course, no going backFor ║▓█ █▓║ the next couple of years, life pretty much revolved around The Hac ║▓█ █▓║ every Friday, with a Thursday weekend warm-up at a small club in ║▓█ █▓║ Chester, where Matthew cut his DJÆing teeth. The main crew there ║▓█ █▓║ included fledgling decks-wizard DJ Lottie, a clothes shop assistant ║▓█ █▓║ called Darren Hughes who would later start some club in Liverpool ║▓█ █▓║ called Cream, a gang of blokes with a drum machine who were thinking ║▓█ █▓║ of calling themselves K-Klass and various other social misfits and ║▓█ █▓║ deviants. The excitement and hedonism of that period was so intense ║▓█ █▓║ that Matthew even got a normal job for a short time to get the cash ║▓█ █▓║ necessary for the Friday night out. The horror of 9-5 life quickly ║▓█ █▓║ led him to the realization that he just had to make music for a ║▓█ █▓║ living. One of his proudest achievements is the fact that he has not ║▓█ █▓║ had a proper job since 1989. ║▓█ █▓║ After Manchester went gangster-city, Leon moved back to Wales. Both ║▓█ █▓║ brothers spent every penny on vinyl, being connoisseurs of finest US ║▓█ █▓║ house, silly Italian party music and elusive mutant Hac tunes. ║▓█ █▓║ Unsurprisingly they soon found themselves being turfed out of the ║▓█ █▓║ parental home to "make that bloody racket somewhere else", thus ║▓█ █▓║ commencing a long career of vinyl hording, music obsessing, and weed ║▓█ █▓║ smoking. Matthew's initial hook up with cheeky ticket-tout James ║▓█ █▓║ BartonÆs Olympic label spawned some innocent DIY house mostly made ║▓█ █▓║ under the Bottom Dollar name, very much influenced by the heroes of ║▓█ █▓║ the day such as Todd Terry, MAW, Kevin Saunderson, MK, and Slam. ║▓█ █▓║ These were good times. ║▓█ █▓║ In 1996, after 3 years of spinning at Olympic records little ║▓█ █▓║ offshoot club, Cream, Bottom Dollar became Funk Force. Leon had come ║▓█ █▓║ on board, and the brothersÆ studio skills had developed nicely. ║▓█ █▓║ Increasingly bored by the corporate sound of the UK record labels, ║▓█ █▓║ the brothers set out to subvert the cause, greatly inspired by the ║▓█ █▓║ almost punky attitude being dished from Chicago label Relief and the ║▓█ █▓║ then on-form Armand Van Helden. Their first tune, "Mind Games" was a ║▓█ █▓║ dark nÆ sleazy Twilo throbber signed to Ultra Records. This picked ║▓█ █▓║ up support from dark house DJ's of the time such as Terry Farley, ║▓█ █▓║ instantly dispensing with the Bottom Dollar vibe. They remixed for ║▓█ █▓║ the likes of Jay Williams (Testify), U2 (Mofo), Way Out West ║▓█ █▓║ (Ajare),Olive (You're Not Alone), and the Sneaker Pimps (Post Modern ║▓█ █▓║ Sleaze). The Funk Force brothers were now getting cheeky and more ║▓█ █▓║ creative, making everything in their own crappy little studio, and ║▓█ █▓║ soon scored a biggie with Revival 3000 "The Mighty High". This was a ║▓█ █▓║ dirty, raw and ruthless cut up of The Mighty Clouds of Joy's "Mighty ║▓█ █▓║ High", a 1975 down-home gospel LP track. They cut a slate, and ║▓█ █▓║ passed it on to Doc Marten who broke the record all by himself. ║▓█ █▓║ So, those were the good old days. Now it's 2002, and Leon has ║▓█ █▓║ decided that he'd rather live in San Francisco, where the weather is ║▓█ █▓║ warm and the KFC actually tastes of chicken. Matthew is now spending ║▓█ █▓║ all his time making records and DJ'ing with Matt Thomas as King ║▓█ █▓║ Unique and Dirty, and with Leon as Ubu. ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ Matt Thomas : ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ Matt 'Watkins' Thomas is a studio junky who has spent the last few ║▓█ █▓║ years releasing dirty tech-house under the Watkins name, and tougher ║▓█ █▓║ more progressive tracks as Mainframe. 1999's Watkins 'Heavyweight ║▓█ █▓║ EP' found favour with Pete Tong, DJ Dan and Norman Cook (who was ║▓█ █▓║ still playing it 18 months on at his Brighton beach bash). More ║▓█ █▓║ recently Nick Warren, Deep Dish and Pete Tong championed the ║▓█ █▓║ eponymous Mainframe single on Fuju, and the Mainframe remixes of ║▓█ █▓║ Stylus Trouble 'Sputnik' led to howling, screaming and gibbering in ║▓█ █▓║ clubs across the globe. Any attempt at providing an organized, ║▓█ █▓║ coherent personal history is doomed to failure, due to the ║▓█ █▓║ disorganized and incoherent events that have made up Matt's career ║▓█ █▓║ to date. ║▓█ █▓║ However, the following may help:- Matt entered the glamorous world ║▓█ █▓║ of showbiz when, shortly after discovering a corpse in Leicester, he ║▓█ █▓║ spent his entire year's rent on a synthesizer. His first taste of ║▓█ █▓║ success came providing the music for an animation shown on BBC ║▓█ █▓║ children's TV classic Take Hart. He still hasn't received any ║▓█ █▓║ royalties. ║▓█ █▓║ He spent the best part of the 90s working in various Liverpool ║▓█ █▓║ studios where he helped nine million identical sub-Las guitar bands ║▓█ █▓║ record nine million identical jangly guitar tracks. In his spare ║▓█ █▓║ time he kept his underground house credentials intact by not setting ║▓█ █▓║ foot in Cream even once, little knowing he'd eventually be booked to ║▓█ █▓║ play there. Shortly after catching a final ferry across the Mersey ║▓█ █▓║ and moving out into the wilds of Wales he acquired the Watkins name, ║▓█ █▓║ taken from both a 1950s tape-echo and from a small furry cat known ║▓█ █▓║ as Mr. Woo. In addition to his Watkins and Mainframe alter egos Matt ║▓█ █▓║ releases collaborative tracks under a variety of different guises ║▓█ █▓║ including King Unique, Fatty Acid and Headhuntaz. He has also worked ║▓█ █▓║ as a programmer and engineer with various remixers, adding his ║▓█ █▓║ unique 'bonus bleeps' to dozens of releases. He has more recording ║▓█ █▓║ gear than he knows what to do with, but wants more. Matt Thomas can ║▓█ █▓║ also occasionally be found damaging eardrums in good, honest ║▓█ █▓║ northern clubs with his live filter-abuse sets. ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣▓█ █▓║ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ║▓█ █▓║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ FFS IS NOT REALLY LOOKING FOR NEW RIPPERS/SUPPLIERS BUT IF YOU FEEL ║▓█ █▓║ YOU ARE SPECIAL AND THAT YOU CAN BRING SOMETHING INTERESTING TO OUR ║▓█ █▓║ SMALL AND DEDICATED FAMILY YOU ARE FREE TO EMAIL US. ║▓█ █▓║ * ║▓█ █▓║ FFS NE RECHERCHE PAS PARTICULIEREMENT DE NOUVEAUX RIPPERS/SUPPLIERS ║▓█ █▓║ MAIS SI VOUS SENTEZ QUE VOUS ETES SPECIAL ET QUE VOUS POUVEZ ║▓█ █▓║ APPORTER QUELQUE CHOSE DE BON A L'EQUIPE, VOUS POUVEZ NOUS LE FAIRE ║▓█ █▓║ SAVOIR PAR EMAIL, NOUS PRENDRONS LE TEMPS D'Y REPONDRE. ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ SERIOUS SITES OFFERS ARE WELCOMED. ║▓█ █▓║ * ║▓█ █▓║ TOUTE OFFRE DE SITE EST LA BIENVENUE. ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓║ ║▓█ █▓╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣▓█ █▓║ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ║▓█ █▓║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║▓█ █▓║ ALL THE GREETS GO OUT TO OUR FRIEND MISTAHWAX WHO HAS BEEN A VERY ║▓█ █▓║ CLOSE FRIEND FOR MANY YEARS. ║▓█ █▓║ YOUR PRESENCE WAS MUCH APPRECIATED BRO. REST IN PEACE. ║▓█ █▓║ WE'LL MEET LATER, I'M SURE. ║▓█ █▓╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗▓█ █▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓█ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████