- FORCE Recordings Presents: FREE DnB w/ LEMON D. -12/27/2007-
Location: Crowbar in Ybor City (Tampa) Florida
Time: 10pm-3am
18 and up to Step
21 and up to Stumble
Cost: FREE COVER FOR ALL!!!!
Lemon D’s first releases were all on his own dancefloor-friendly "Planet Earth" label, and as well as white labels purely on his own, Lemon D has recorded for a variety of other labels. These include Kickin’ Records’ Conqueror and Hardleaders labels, V Recordings, Metalheadz, Dread, Reinforced, True Playaz and Belgian label R&S and of course VALVE Records which he operates with the mighty Dillinja. He has recorded under several aliases, including Souljah, Eskobar and Afro Kid. Lemon D has a range of impressive remix work under his belt, having given remix treatment to the likes of En Vogue, Beck, Ken Ishii, Future Cut and other drum’n’bass producers, and he has also worked with Michelle Gayle and Billy Cobham.
Lemon D’s introduction to Dillinja in the mid 1990’s lead to the birth of their co-owned label Valve Recordings in 1997. The label started as it meant to go on with Lemon D’s aggressively funky “12.01” backed with Dillinja’s brutal “Violent Killa”. Test Recordings and new label on the block “Beatz” soon followed.
Not content to stop there, Dillinja & Lemon D went on to design and produce the Valve Sound System. Fed up with playing on second rate club sound systems which they felt didn’t do their tracks justice, the pair decided to build their own – the Valve Sound System – the world’s first sound system designed and built specifically for drum’n’bass and its frequencies of deep bass which were all too often ignored by most club systems. The mighty 90k Valve Sound System made its mind blowing club debut at London’s Fabric nightclub in May 2001, and since then it has extensively toured the UK, with plans for the system to be taken overseas in the near future.
In May 2002, Lemon D & Dillinja produced Valve Recordings’ debut album “Big Bad Bass”, an LP which aimed to reflect the ethos of the Valve Sound System, with the inclusion of ten dancefloor smashing tracks which continue to enjoy club success some months on from the album’s commercial release to this day some 5 years later.