Pressure Drop
Originally Justin Langlands (percussion), Mike Puxley (keyboards) and Gareth Tasker (guitar), Pressure Drop made their debut with the house track "Feeling Good' for Big World in March 1990. The members met at the Heavy Duty night at the Wag Club where Langlands was DJing. It was he who obtained the bank loan in order to set up an eight-track studio in his front room. However, afterwards Pressure Drop would re-emerge as a duo of Langlands and Dave Henley (a hairdresser at London's Kensington Market, and Langlands" partner in Blood Brothers, who had remixed Pressure Drop's first record) whose four-track Sampler EP in 1991 made waves with its heady, eclectic mixture of hip-hop, dub, reggae and jazz. The most notable track was "You're Mine", an adaptation of "Transfusion" by the Blood Brothers. However, despite selling over 30,000 copies on a German independent label, their debut album did not receive a UK release, a fate shared by its follow-up. Langlands and Henley's moody, reggae-influenced beats proved too unsettling in an era of upbeat dance music. The duo subsequently signed to Leftfield's Hard Hands imprint, and in 1995 released the Tearing The Silence EP. The record rapidly gained cult status at a time when jungle, a genre with a similar aesthetic to the duo's music, was breaking out of the underground. A deal with the Columbia Records imprint Higher Ground resulted in wider promotion for the downtempo classic Elusive, although the title was an accurate reflection of Pressure Drop's commercial fortunes to date. Langlands and Henley relocated to Brighton to record the follow-up, Tread.
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- Dusk
- Theme for the Outcaste
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