Filth Podcast EP011 - Inland Knights
Well, its a been a few month since our last Podcast, but we are back with another exclusive mix from our 5th Birthday guests, Inland Knights.
Djâs, Producers and label owners, Andy Riley and Laurence Ritchie AKA Inland Knights hail from Nottingham UK, a city with a rich musical legacy, particularly for house music.
They met in â93 and cut their teeth DJâing for Smokescreen, the renegade soundsystem from which they drew their early inspiration. Smokescreen consisted of djâs, lighting people, sound people, a truck, a P.A, a generator and general helpers. Old warehouses, woodland, fields, quarries and houses were utilised with the sole intention of having a good timeâŠ. for free! By the mid 90âs smokescreen could guarantee a crowd of hundreds in attendance at their parties, and their club nights became local institutions that ran for years with packed dancefloors, and still do to this day!.
By â98 Laurence and Andy had made the inevitable step into production and the same year the Dropmusic label was born with the release of âInland Knights vol 1â. As Inland Knights Riley and Ritchie undertook a busy schedule in the studio to write tracks for Drop (almost all of the early output was entirely Inland knights, despite many monikers).
Dropmusic has gone on to become one of the most highly regarded house labels in recent years(with 60 plus releases to date), and Inland knights have gone on to become one of the most respected production outfits in the house world, regularly taking on remix duties for fellow labels and producers. Highlights include the accliamed âMohammed Aliâ remix for Faithless on Cheeky Records, cd compilations and remixes for NRK and Om Records, Inland Knights first full length album entitled âCreative Spacesâ, and more recently Inland Knights album to mark 10 years of Dropmusic entitled âDust till Dawnâ.
Currently, as well as remix and production commitments, the pair maintain a busy international Dj âing shedule, and can be found most weekends playing somewhere in the UK or Europe, as well as regular visits to the U.S, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Andy also records under the Toka Project pseudonym, and Laurence under the alias Larry Fives.
Catch Inland Knights at .........
FILTH 5TH BIRTHDAY @ THE WAREHOUSE, LEEDS
SAT 11TH FEBRUARY 2012
Davide Squillace (CircoLoco)
Audiofly (Get Physical)
James Teej (My Favourite Robot)
Inland Knights (Drop Music)
Luke Pompey
Cubiq
Jamie "fatneck" Low
Asa hardtimes
Challis
TICKETS: http://www.filthuk.com
2 February 2012, 10:12 pm