Drop Music is celebrating its 10th year anniversary this October, no mean feat for an underground house Midlands based label operating in true DIY style. With a catalogue of 59 releases to its credit and still going strong, it is renowned within the underground dance community for the quality and consistency of its work and it is one of the UK’s leading imprints.
Springing out of a knowing collective of DJs, producers and party organisers operating within the Smokescreen Sound System since 1991, Drop Music has been delivering music straight for the dance floor since 1998.
Inland Knights are a name synonymous with Drop Music – consisted of Laurence Richie and Andy Riley , Laurence launched the label in 1998 as an outlet for their creative output, they adopted various other guises to showcase their diverse sound including Grand Theft Audio, Toka Project, Larry Fives, Party Criminals, In House Alterations, Big Audio Spidermite and more. Consequently to that the pair released their first full-length album ‘Critical Spaces’ in 2001 to wide critical acclaim.
Their blend of funky jacking bouncy dirty house catapulted them to international popularity both for their productions and DJ sets. Under the Inland Knights moniker the pair have also released tracks and remixes on labels such as 20:20 Vision, NRK, Siesta, cheeky, Om, Doubledown, Tango, Ink Aroma and they have recently put together a mix album for OM Records under the well established ‘San Francisco Sessions’ series.
To celebrate 10 years of Drop Music the label is releasing the triple album ‘From Dust Till Dawn – 10 Years of Drop Music’ in October. Along with re-mastered favourites from Drop Music’s back catalogue the album also comes with a disc of brand new exclusive productions and remixes from various artists including Crazy P, Miguel Migs, Johnny Fiasco, Joshua Heath and Inland Knights. A third disc will feature an exclusive Inland Knights DJ Mix.
"We love this music and always will, it’s in our blood and this compilation is to celebrate and reflect back over the years, with new and old alike. Drop wanted this to be irresistible to all house heads and showcase what talent there is out there and bring it all together, and not be just some disposable download."
INLAND KNIGHTS NEWS...
September 20 Knights host a room at Fabric, London to launch the album and tour. Line up on the night includes the Inland Knights, Little Men and Chicago's DJ Heather
Special feature forthcoming in the September issue of iDJ magazine.
10 Years of Drop tour dates already confirmed for London, Liverpool, Ireland and Serbia with more TBC
Great reviews for the album already coming through ahead of its release!
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