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The last three years have seen Roni Size remind us of the raw drive and ambition that originally propelled him, his crew and his city to pioneer game-status over 20 years ago. We’ve touched base with him every year lately…
Aug 25, 2014 · Roni Size is speeding down the motorway, speaking almost as fast as he is driving. The longstanding drum & bass producer, who broke all kinds of barriers for electronic music with a genre that was the stepchild of the scene to begin with, has a lot to say about bringing his new music to the masses.
Jul 8, 2016 · Almost 20 years after he and Reprazent won the Mercury Music Prize with New Forms, Roni Size is still pushing drum 'n' bass into the future
Aug 6, 2020 · Roni Size & Reprazent’s debut album New Forms won the Mercury Music Prize in 1997. On the 90s Bristol scene, Roni said: “Bristol is always been tarnished with this brush of having this creative energy in the water, you know they’re like ‘what’s in the water down there, what’s going on in Bristol?’. “It’s a small place.
The New Forms combined the three elements from the childhood, adolescence, and youth of Size: dub, jazz and hip-hop, only with a very dark Bristol flavour. Spin magazine included it in the list of the best albums of 1997.
Last time we spoke to Roni Size was July 2014. Teetering on the edge of a major comeback; his album Take Kontrol was en route and his band Reprazent were fine-tuning their weapons and chiselling their groundbreaking live D&B sound for the first time in over five years.
May 15, 2024 · Roni Size: ‘D’n’B is the new rock’n’roll. It will never die’. By Ursula Billington , Wednesday May 15, 2024. Roni Size needs little introduction. The St Andrews-born producer who began his journey in a Sefton Park youth club became a household name when his drum and bass collective won the coveted Mercury Prize in 1997.
