Aquasky

Aquasky have been around for a while now, notching up many releases on some of dance music's most respected labels. The trio also known as Brent Newitt, Kieron Bailey and Dave Wallace started working on music together back in 1995 releasing their music via seminal drum and bass label Moving Shadow. This resulted in further releases on the Reinforced and R&S labels before they were snatched up by Polydor where they released their first album 'Orange Dust' in 1996 which featured Big Shug from the Gangstarr Foundation and the Scratch Perverts. In 1999 they returned to Moving Shadow and released two more long players titled 'Bodyshock' and 'Aftershock', the latter being a remix project of the first with remixes contributed by Adam Freeland, London Electricity, Rob Playford and many more. During the recording of 'Aftershock' Aquasky were coaxed into producing breakbeat by Adam Freeland who took the trio under his wing and gave them their early exposure to the scene. In 2000 an EP was released on Botchit and Scarper titled 'Sureshot' which was quickly followed by the '777' EP. This release was the first breaks record to have fused drum and bass, old school rave and breakbeat into one mould and subsequently kick-started the 'Bassline Breaks' genre. Whilst releasing these EP's with Botchit and Scarper, Aquasky re-launched their Passenger imprint as a breakbeat label, helping to promote the heavy bassline sound they had created. With acts ranging from Meat Katie, Backdraft, Noisia, The Breakfastaz and The Freestylers, Passenger has always retained a high standard of audio pleasures. During this period of artistic inspiration the boys also started another alias, Tenth and Parker for the Latin label Mr.Bongo/Disorient blending jazz, house, disco and a little techno together which was championed by Norman Jay and remixed by King Britt. The project featured Mark Murphy, an amazing jazz vocalist from the States, Snowboy the UK Latin percussionist, the horn section from Blur and the bassist from Fairground Attraction. A number of 12" singles were released from the album 'Twenty:Twelve' in 2001. In 2002 Aquasky released their 5th album for the Botchit and Scarper label called 'Beat The System' Heavily influenced by their years spent going to free parties and raves during the late 80's and early 90's, the trio updated the old school sound and managed to track down two of their biggest inspirations from this period, The Ragga Twins. Less than 10 months later they follow

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