Ultra-Obscene

1999 debut from trio comprised of Roni Size, DJ Die and Bristol-based singer/ songwriter Leonie Laws. A collection of hard-edged funk tracks with deep down & dirty vocals, it prompted Ed Rush to say 'You know its going to be the massive future sound'. Eight tracks. Comes packaged in a gatefold slipcase with an old fashioned book binding on the spine & the disc in an attached protective sleeve on the inside.

Roni Size is a man with a mission: to bring drum & bass to the world by any means possible. With his first full-length, Reprazent's New Forms, Size ably took a few small steps for mankind--and a huge leap for the jungle nation. Taking the acclaimed Mercury Award was only the first step toward world domination, but Breakbeat Era just might be the key to unlock the public's ears to drum & bass. Armed with vocalist Leonie Laws--whose snapshot lyrics fit like a glove with the sharpshooting drums and bass--and with coproducer and boy wunderkind DJ Die, one wonders after a listen to this exceedingly catchy record, is there anything Size can't do? --Tricia Romano