At school, everyone had Fruity Loops on their computers at home and making tunes was more like a game. ![]() "There wasn’t a track in particular that pushed me to start producing. At the time it was like nothing I had heard before." Davinche was on as a guest and Dirty South was the first song he played, I was instantly hooked and loved his use of melody with orchestral instruments but kept hard-hitting drums. I still have the radio show that I recorded, it was from Richie Vibe Vee's show on 1Xtra in 2003. Davinche – 'Dirty South' amazed me the first time I heard. "This isn't a track that got me into producing but it definitely was a big inspiration early on. Although, thinking about it, even that tune was made before the label 'grime' existed." If i had to pick one though, it would be Dizzee's "I Luv U". I was making grime before it was called 'grime' too so to name one specific tune as an inspiration is hard. Being in the studio with him as a kid and watching him build music made me want to produce, not any particular tune. "My dad's a drummer who had his own soundsystem called 'King Original'. George Martin's production definitely made me want to get involved." It would most likely be something from the Beatles' 'White Album' that I listened to when I was a kid I'll say 'Sexy Sadie'. "Even though this is a grime compilation, I'd have to say that the track that inspired me to want to be a producer would have come well before grime was even a scene or in my musical vocabularly. 'War Mission' is one track in particular that's like that and I work on that sound in my own productions today." In later years I loved Dot Rotten's production, especially when it got slow and atmospheric – I just thought it was so emotional. Dexplicit's 'Forward Riddim' is an obvious one, the instrumental for Lethal's 'Pow!'. "I don't think there was a certain track that got me into production, but about the time I started I remember listening to lots of early DJj Ironik and Dexplicit so i would mainly focus on grime stabs and strings. A lot of the early Total Package beats have that vibe too, the same sort of delivery and menacing tone I think."ĭexplicit – Forward Riddim // Dot Rotten – War Mission I think.a lot of my early grime beats were just looking at their stuff and trying to employ them in my own way, definitely. ![]() To me Schoolage sounds like some space age chase scene shit man, I love it, so I guess I take most inspiration from the Slew Dem ideas really. Tunes like 'Gun Man' or 'Shower Hour' are just completely ruthless and so economic. I just love the way a Slew Dem beat sounds really sparse and in some tunes just the minimal elements really work. "I only say 'Schoolage because it's never come out it could be any number of Slew Dem tunes from Waifer, Top Dolla, JT. In 2019 Dave’s debut album earned the accolade of having the biggest first week stream for a UK rap album which led him to win the Mercury Prize Album of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards.As a testament to grime's early hit-makers, we picked the brains of ten producers who appear on the compilation and asked them to name the track which first inspired them to get into the world of producing – even The Beatles made the list… In his time as Grime rapper Dave has won multiple awards including the 2018 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song and soon had a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart and his first platinum certified release. In September of that year Dave released his first EP “Six Paths”, even though the EP was successful in its own right, popularity grew further after rapper Drake remixed the single "Wanna Know," introducing Dave's sound to an American audience. In 2016 David Omoregie performed two major freestyles on BBC Radio 1, The first was on Semtex's 1Xtra show and the second on Charlie Sloth's Fire in the Booth.ĭave released his debut extended play Six Paths in 2016, after the release of a number of successful singles including the grime song "Thiago Silva" with AJ Tracey. After learning piano, Dave tried his hand at rap and soon became a grime MC soon after, David’s brothers would have to serve a long prison sentence, in distress from the change in his life, it forced Dave to focus on his music to cope birthing his signature socially conscious type of lyricism.ĭave would make his first appearance, freestyling on an underground grime channel, in 2015. Dave is a grime artist from Brixton, active since 2015, David Orobosa Omoregie entered the rap spotlight at just 16 years old.
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