DTAILZ

Drum and bass

Inspired by and admiring the Moving Shadow label and all it's artists, and co-DJ and friend Sebulba, in early 2009, DTAILZ, originated in Belgium, decided to buy two Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntables so he could mix those records himself in stead of looking how others did. DTAILZ first came in touch with drum & bass around 2005. Around that time, lots of his class mates where listening to drum & bass and thus it was impossible to not pick some of it up. While at that time, DTAILZ wasn't really listening to drum & bass, he was in fact listening to it indirectly, while playing games like Grand Theft Auto III (featuring the radio station 'MSX FM', featuring a drum & bass mix by Moving Shadow-founder Timecode featuring MC Codebreaker, containing tracks released by Moving Shadow around the year 2000) and GTA Liberty City Stories (featuring the radiostation 'MSX 98', again containing a drum & bass mix by Timecode and MC Codebreaker). While in GTA III - which was released in 2001, whith a storyline taking place in the same time - the MSX FM mix contained more agressive/darker Drum & Bass music with artists like Technical Itch, nCode and Dom & Roland, GTA Liberty City Stories - released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable, in which the storyline took place in 1998 - contained an MSX mix filled with brilliant jungle tracks from the nineties. It featured Omni Trio's famous Renegade Snares and Thru The Vibe (2 on 1 Mix), Deep Blue's Helicopter Tune and Renegade's Terrorist. It was mostly t...