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aka Hirez, started composing electronic music at an early age using only 4 tracks on a Commodore Amiga home computer. HipHop was his first love, though his interests covered every kind of breakbeat. Ramone, who never really belonged to just one „scene“, was not of the SP12 school, he even did not have a single 1210, but still his attitude and approach were those of a pure B-Boy with a classic old school style. As early as the early '90s - long before the web-boom - Ramone was making world-wide internet contacts through his music. He got to know many kindred spirits, particularly within the monotonik.com community, engaged in a lively interchange of ideas, musical styles and techniques, and in making good music on a low budget. In 1997 Ramone released his first drum and bass 12" on Firehorse Records. But some years were to pass until the release of his first album. Andi (Ramone’s real name was Andi Horvath), brimming with different ideas, mixed a collection of his own tracks in the spring of 2001 that now happens to be his first official long player. Here it is now - "Don't Get High On Your Own Supply" - a continous mix of 75 minutes of ideas and quotes, sudden breaks and surprising fades - an extraordinary organic feeling: This mind-blowing musical journey was programmed by Andi using the "Fasttracker" software on a simple DOS-PC work station. Unfortunately, Andi isn't alive today to experience the success his music will have with the followers of instrumental HipHop - he died on the 18th of June, 2001, wholly unexpectedly. But in his music he will live on forever. After Andi’s death his family and friends found this special piece of work and made the decision to release it as his first LP. The only difficulty proved to be locating the individual track titles and IDs; apart from that the work had already existed as a finished audio CD. – We took this album as a point of departure for the "modul8" label. This was also something Andi had often talked about – starting up a label to serve as a platform for our own music. We'd like to take this opportunity to give a special thanks to Andi's parents and friends for their support in completing this project. Ram0ne - your style was identical to none. "Don't Get High On Your Own Supply" album mailorder: via modul8.de |
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Numa1
2. Dojo 3. Ghetto 4. Shaolin 5. Cold Rock Stuff 6. Powermove 7. Hit Ya 8. Sonic 9. Smooth Operator 10. On Wax 11. That's Why 12. Break Off 13. Mouzdis 14. Saigon 15. One Two 16. Hirez 17. 6little 18. Boomin In Ya Jeep 19. Trip 20. Prt 21. Outro
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