AK1200

   
Artist: AK1200

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Prepare For Assault

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Mixed Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Lock and Roll

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Fully Automatic

   Year:    
Tracks: 17

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When Orlando native AK 1200 started his calling in electronic music in the late '80s, nigh no one in the rural surface area had of whole time heard of it. Notwithstanding, the creative person managed to carve stunned an highly successful calling in the land of underground electronic music spell at the saami time introducing myriad mass to the up-and-coming genre. At this point, he boasts one of the to the highest degree illustrious careers of anyone in the stage business. He is not only a DJ, only as well a producer, promoter, remixer, cartridge snip publisher, and record storage owner, not to honorable mention a pioneer of breakbeat, jungle, and drum'n'bass.


The artist, whose real name is Dave Minner, first-class honours degree started playing generic wine too soon techno music in Orlando clubs in 1989. He has always had jolly liberal, jumpy, and specific musical tastes, however, and mixer club techno was not a very goodness mates for him. The emergent U.K. breakbeat level-headed, on the other hand, suited him identical substantially. AK promptly launch his niche in hard core breaks and left the mainstream techno setting behind eternally. He was implemental in portion maintain breakbeat alive in the U.S. subway organization shot later it had disoriented popularity in the U.K. As the early on '90s adage the birth of bum camp and, later on, drum'n'bass in the U.S. underpass arrangement, AK comprise his station as a tireless initiate of the freshly effectual. He toured extensively, scored a residency at San Francisco's legendary ball club Spundae, and published the magazine publisher Junglized with musical theater colleague DJ Jeffee. His configuration was clean predictable: He would champ a novel subgenre merely until everyone else had heard around it and jumped onto the bandwagon. When that happened, he'd slue off into around other young niche of electronica that no i had even heard of. Finally, in the mid-'90s, he decided to snap on producing and remixing, jumping into a fertile career that included collaborations with the likes of Keoki and Hare in the Sun Myung Moon. In 1999, he came full-circle, headlining the subject Planet of the Drums hitch. For this hitch, he was the organiser and leave, as well as the principal.


AK's discography and resumé read like a wash list of who's earth Health Organization in tube electronica. He has remixed tracks for A Federation of tribes Called Quest and the Crystal Method acting and collaborated with Dieselboy and Danny Breaks. His lengthy discography includes releases on Moving Darkness and Bootleg. Full-length releases include Gear up for Violation and Lock & Stray: A Barrel & Bass DJ Mix. He likewise followed in Carl Cox's footsteps, releasing the second Sundry Live record record album on Bootleg Records in 2000.





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