Bad Company UK
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| General information | |
| origin | London ( United Kingdom ) |
| Genre (s) | Drum and Bass , Neurofunk , Techstep |
| founding | 1998, 2016 (reunification) |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Website | www.badcompany.uk.com |
| Founding members | |
| Dan Stein ( DJ Fresh , Absolute Zero) Darren White (dBridge) Jason Maldini (Maldini) Michael Wojcicki (Vegas) |
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Bad Company UK (including Bad Company , not to be confused with the rock band Bad Company ) is a British drum-and-bass - producers quartet from London . The members Dan Stein ( DJ Fresh ), Darren White, Jason Maldini and Michael Wojcicki first gained notoriety in the drum and bass scene , primarily through the song The Nine .
history
Maldini initially published with White as Future Forces . Dan Stein as Absolute Zero and together with Wojcicky as Fresh & Vegas on music labels such as Renegade Hardware or Metro Recordings.
In 1998 they formed Bad Company and released The Nine , The Pulse and their first album Inside the Machine in 1999 . DJ Fabio, Grooverider , Andy C and Goldie spoke out in favor of those releases, which quickly made Bad Company better known.
After numerous other publications, the members finally went their separate ways again in 2003. Dan Stein hit the UK charts as DJ Fresh . Darren White published numerous solo projects as dBridge and founded the music label Exit Records . Jason Maldini and Michael Wojcicki released as Maldini & Vegas , together with Uman as Blokhe4d and founded the label Bad Taste Recordings . Maldini and Vegas also kept the Bad Company name as Bad Company UK from now on .
In 2008, The Nine was voted the best drum and bass single of all time by readers of Kmag (formerly Knowledge Magazine).
In 2013 White, Maldini and Wojcicki got together again for a joint DJ set for the 10th anniversary of Exit Records . In early 2014 the songs The Nine , Dogfight and The Bridge were digitally mastered and republished. The Fear EP was re-released on record in mid-2014 .
After Dan Stein had indicated in 2014 that he was thinking of reuniting the group, Bad Company UK announced the reunion in February 2016. Shortly afterwards, the first new single, Equilibrium , was released as a free download.
Discography
Albums
- Inside the Machine (2000, BC Recordings)
- Digital Nation (2000, BC Recordings)
- Book of the Bad (2001, BC Recordings)
- Shot down on Safari (2002, BC Recordings)
EPs
- The Fear EP (1999, BC Recordings)
- Twisted EP (1999, Virus Recordings), Seizure and Skin Tag
- Ad Infinitum (2003, BC Recordings)
Singles
- The Nine / The Bridge (1998, BC Recordings)
- The Pulse / China Cup (1999, Prototype Recordings)
- Coma / Spraycan (2000, BC Recordings)
- The Nine / Dogfight (2001, BC Recordings), re-release of The Nine
- Planet Dust / Speedball (2001, Prototype Recordings)
- Spacehopper / Tonight (2001, RAM Records)
- Rush Hour / Blind (2002, BC Recordings)
- Nomad / Equilibrium (2016, RAM Records)
Remixes
- Fortran - Sardines (Bad Company Remix) (1999, Metro Recordings), released on Level_01
- Pressure Rise - Stranger (Bad Company Remix) (1999, Aspect)
- Bad Company - The Pulse 2000 (Bad Company Remix) (2000, Prototype Recordings), released on the Connexions EP
- Q-Project - Champion Sound (Bad Company Remix) (2000, CIA)
- Ray Keith - Something Out There (Bad Company Remix) (2000, UFO)
- Moving Fusion - Atlantis (Bad Company Remix) (2001, RAM Records)
- Adam F feat. Redman - Smash Sumthin (Bad Company Remix) (2002, Kaos Recordings)
- Total Science - Squash (Bad Company Remix) (2003, Advanced Recordings)
Web links
- Bad Company on Facebook (English)
- Bad Company at Discogs (English)
- Bad Company at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: UK1 UK2
- ^ Bad Company - Biography. Resident Advisor, accessed August 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Kmag (Knowledge Magazine) - Issue 100 (July 2008) - Top 100 D&B Singles Of All Time
- ↑ Dan Cole: Kmag Announces The Top 100 Drum & Bass Tracks Of All Time. (No longer available online.) Beatport News, June 30, 2008, archived from the original on February 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Exit Records 10th Birthday News. (No longer available online.) Kmag, March 21, 2013, archived from the original on August 19, 2014 ; accessed on August 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bad Company UK: The Nine / Dogfight / The Bridge - Digitally Remastered. In: Facebook. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
- ^ Bad Company UK: The Fear / 4Days (BTBCUK002). In: Bad Taste Recordings Shop. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
- ^ Dan Stein (DJ Fresh): Think it might be time to get bad company back together. In: Twitter. May 28, 2014, accessed August 1, 2014 .
- ^ Bad Company UK: Official Announcement. In: UKF. February 8, 2016, accessed February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Bad Company UK - Equilibrium - DOA Exclusive Download | DOA | Drum & Bass Forum. Retrieved January 22, 2017 (American English).
