Rob Smith is an English DJ, musician and

remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

er from

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

, England. Previously on the now defunct

Grand Central Records Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, England. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae (who, along with Steve Christian makes up the duo Rae & Christian). Rae started out working as ...

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

, playing

breakbeat Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK ...

hip-hop, dub and

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

-influenced music, more recently producing

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 ...

tracks as RSD on a number of labels. Smith was formerly a drum & bass/jungle DJ, most notably alongside Ray Mighty and Peter D Rose in

Smith & Mighty Smith & Mighty are an English trip hop group from Bristol, England, consisting of Rob Smith and Ray Mighty. Their first releases, in the late 1980s, were breakbeat covers of " Anyone Who Had a Heart" and " Walk On By". Both songs entered the UK ...

on the

!K7 Records !K7 Music is a music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. The name is an abbreviation of the company's original Berlin address, Kaiserdamm 7 (it has since relocated, first to Heidestrasse 52, and currently he ...

label. Smith and Rose also produced music under the moniker of More Rockers.

Discography

*Solo ** ''

Up on the Downs ''Up on the Downs'' is the first solo record by the Disc Jockey, DJ Rob Smith (British musician), Rob Smith, and his first release on the Grand Central Records independent record label. Critical reception ''Fact (UK magazine), Fact'' thought tha ...

'' (Oct 2003) *With

More Rockers Rob Smith is an English DJ, musician and remixer from Bristol, England. Previously on the now defunct Grand Central Records independent record label, playing breakbeat Hip hop music, hip-hop, Dub music, dub and reggae-influenced music, more rece ...

** ''Dub Plate Selection Volume One'' (1995) ** ''Selection 2'' (1998) ** ''Select Cuts from More Rockers 12" Selection'' (2001) *With Jaz Klash ** ''Thru the Haze'' (1996) *With

** ''Bass Is Maternal'' (1995) ** '' DJ-Kicks: Smith & Mighty'' (March 1998) (DJ mix album) ** ''Big World Small World'' (Jan 2000) ** ''Life Is...'' (Apr 2002) ** ''Retrospective'' (2005)

Discography as RSD

*With Punch Drunk **"Corner Dub (Blue and Red Mix)/Pretty Bright Light"

References

External links

Studio !K7 siteDub from Atlantis
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English DJs English electronic musicians Musicians from Bristol Remixers {{UK-electronic-musician-stub