Ed Solo (born Ed Bickley) is a

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and

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of electronic dance music. He has worked with artists including Blak Twang,

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, MC Det,

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, DJ Swift, DJ Trace and

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Career

Solo's first releases were "125th Street" and "The Danger", co-produced with label boss Dave. Solo and Stone went under the name Click and Cycle. In 1997, he moved to

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and set up a studio with Stone. Solo started working with DJ Brockie and the pair made "Reprasent", Undiluted's first release, which reached number one on all the

drum-and-bass Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bas ...

charts. Brockie and Solo continued to make more songs, including "Turntable 1", "Echo Box" (on the True Playaz label) and "System Check". Solo became involved in the

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in 2005; his studio was located above

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's old record shop. He then began working with Krafty Kuts and later the pair began co-producing music together on Krafty Kut's album ''Freakshow'' (2006). Within Nu Skool Breaks, Solo has also collaborated with musicians including Deekline, Darrison, Skool of Thought, as well as mixing down tunes for

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artists including Freq Nasty and Splitloop. Between 2008 and 2010, Solo had been making

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

music such as the anthemic "Age of Dub", which was released on Sludge, a label he established with Deekline. Throughout the 2010s he released Jungle music with Deekline on their label Jungle Cakes. He is also involved in a project, BattleJam, with British DMC champ 2007 "JFB" and UK

beatbox Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

champ "Beardyman" which involves live beatbox, sampling,

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as well as crowd-sampling interaction.

References

External links

Ed Solo
on

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Ed Solo
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