Roni agrees."It's really exciting, because I phoned home yesterday, and there were messages from about six American promoters wanting to book us. Also, a friend of mine from Chicago had called to say that it's really kicking off over there. You wait until next year, man - it's going to be wicked!"So what about America's indigenous junglists, I ask him. Are they cutting it yet?"Listen, there's good drum 'n' bass coming out of America, France, Finland, Austria... you name it." Ah, so they're catching up, then? "Well, they're catching on," he smiles, without missing a beat.As Everything But The Girl's Ben Watt explained on a recent documentary about Roni & co (screened for BBC2's The Works) both visually and sonically, Reprazent's particular strain of drum 'n' bass really comes into its own in a live context.
For clubbers tired of the PA event's one-man-and-a- deck visual impasse, Reprazent's complex hybrid of live instrumentation, sampled sound, rap, MC-ing and singing is a tonic for the sensorium.Even without their trademark strobe-lighting, their frenetic, flawless performance of "Heroes" for New Power is incredibly arresting. The interplay between vocalist Onallee and rapper/MC Dynamite is fresh and fluid, while bass-player Si John punctuates the scattershot beats with awesome precision. Watching the polite, but somewhat non-plussed reaction of some of the older members of the studio audience, I'm reminded of the scene in Back To The Future where Michael J Fox plays 1990's guitar licks to a 1950's audience.
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