Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:29

In 1995 Ollie Bown and Sam Britton accidentally tuned into a pirate station and split their sides with hysterics at the machine-gun breakbeat frenzy they were soon to learn was called jungle. After the laughter subsided, Sam and Ollie turned their wholehearted attention to the domain of samplers and breakbeats, consuming and producing more or less unfamiliar strains of drum'n'bass, tinged by longer-standing influences such as no-wave, free jazz, psychedelic rock, minimal techno and avantgarde classical music.

Apart from Icarus, Ollie Bown has been collaborating with Squidsoup, The Live Algorithms For Music Group, Adem and others Sam Britton can also be found writing music for many weird and wonderful scenarios under the alias Isambard Khroustaliov.

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