Caliber (musician)
Caliber is the stage name of the Northern Irish drum and bass music producer Dominick Martin . Active as a DJ and musician since 1995 , he is one of the most productive producers in drum and bass history to date with ten albums published since 2001 as well as numerous EPs and over 60 self-published singles.
With his more melodic style, inspired by jazz , funk and soul , he is one of the leading representatives of the drum and bass variation Liquid Funk .
Popular tracks that can also be viewed as audio samples for Liquid Funk are Drop it down (2004), Mr. Majestic (2004), which he co-produced with High Contrast , and Even If (2010).
Life
Born in Belfast , Northern Ireland , he received classical music training on several instruments. In 1995 he began to produce drum and bass and released (from 1998 at the latest) on the now closed label Quadrophonic . He also began studying art at the University of Ulster .
After the turn of the millennium he came into contact with DJ Fabio , who coined the term Liquid Funk for his more harmonious form of drum and bass . Caliber was signed to Fabio's Creative Source label . In 2003 Martin founded his own label, Signature Records , with which he published all of his productions from then on. He also ran the Soul: R label together with Marcus Intalex .
Discography
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Albums
| year | title | Label | Release |
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| 2001 | Musique Concrète | Creative Source | September 25, 2001 |
| 2005 | Second Sun | Signature Records | October 24, 2005 |
| 2007 | Shelflife | Signature Records | October 1, 2007 |
| 2008 | Overflow | Signature Records | May 1, 2008 |
| 2009 | Shelflife Vol. 2 | Signature Records | May 18, 2009 |
| 2009 | Shine a light | Signature Records | November 2009 |
| 2010 | Even If | Signature Records | November 12, 2010 |
| 2011 | Condition | Signature Records | October 3, 2011 |
| 2013 | Spill | Signature Records | May 20, 2013 |
| 2014 | Shelflife 3 | Signature Records | March 19, 2014 |
| 2016 | Shelflife 4 | Signature Records | February 26, 2016 |
| 2017 | The Deep | Signature Records | March 31, 2017 |
| 2018 | Shelflife 5 | Signature Records | June 29, 2018 |
| 2019 | Planet Hearth | Signature Records | November 30, 2019 |
| 2020 | Shelflife 6 | Signature Records | May 01, 2020 |
EPs
| year | title | Label | Release |
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| 2003 | Just fine | Creative Source | - |
| 2006 | Late night squeeze | Signature Records | April 24, 2006 |
| 2006 | Corner dance | Signature Records | May 2006 |
| 2006 | Deranged | Soul: R | October 23, 2006 |
| 2008 | Roundhouse | Signature Records | September 11, 2008 |
| 2008 | Don't mind | Signature Records | October 22, 2008 |
| 2010 | Judgment Day | Samurai Red Seal | June 7, 2010 |
| 2011 | lobster | Samurai Red Seal | August 29, 2011 |
| 2012 | Rennaisance EP | Footprints | 19th November 2012 |
| 2015 | Strumpet EP | EXIT records | May 18, 2015 |
| 2015 | Fourfit EP | Soul: R | July 31, 2015 |
| 2015 | Dreamz Dub EP | CIA | 18th September 2015 |
| 2018/19 | Break That EP | The Nothing Special | 2018/19 |
| 2019 | Cowper Street EP Ltd Edition | Signature Records | 2019 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caliber - Reflections / Last Man On Earth on Discogs (accessed August 11, 2015)
- ↑ Dominick drums up an act of a first-class Caliber Belfast Telegraph, August 15, 2008 (accessed August 11, 2015)
- ↑ Caliber in the UK singles charts
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Caliber |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martin, Dominick (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British drum and bass producer and DJ |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Belfast , Northern Ireland |