Pressure Drop are an English electronic music duo made up of Justin Langlands and Dave Henley.
Career
Pressure Drop released their first single ''Feeling Good'' in March 1990. It was written and produced by Justin Langlands, Mike Puxley and Gareth Tasker, but when Puxley and Tasker left, Dave Henley joined. Since then Pressure Drop has been a duo.
Langlands and Henley had known each other since 1986,
and started DJing together at London's
Wag Club
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after being introduced by Paul Guntrip.
Langlands and Henley's first single together as Pressure Drop was ''Back 2 Back'' released on
Big World Records in September 1990.
After recording the debut album ''Upset'', their English label closed and was only initially released by Marlboro Music in Germany in 1992, and later in England in 1993 on Logic.
sold imported copies of the album at
Honest Jon's, the record store he worked at prior to setting up his record label
Mo' Wax.
He would later credit Pressue Drop for helping define the sound of his label.
Pressure Drop's second album ''Front Row'' was released in 1993 on Marlboro Music and in Japan on Meldac in 1994.
Their music was largely unavailable in England until they released ''Tearing The Silence EP'' on
Leftfield
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's Hard Hands label in 1995,
and their third album ''Elusive'' in 1997.
During this period, they were likened to the current
Trip Hop
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music trend,
such as
Massive Attack,
Portishead, and
Tricky,
as their album received wider release than had been possible before.
In 2001, Pressure Drop released their fourth album ''Tread''. They had relocated to Brighton in 1998 to begin work on the album.
The album featured vocals from Martin Fishley,
MC Skibadee, and Vanessa Freeman.
''Food of Love'', a compilation of their previous work and remixes, was released in 2003. ''Touch'' magazine called it "a timely retrospective of an important, but low key British collective."
Blood Brothers Broadcasting Corporation
Pressure Drop hosted a weekly radio program on German's
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under their alias Blood Brothers. Titled Blood Brothers Broadcasting Corporation, it featured their own live DJ mixes, as well as guest mixes and interviews with musicians and producers, and was available throughout
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via the
Astra
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satellite network. Broadcast between 1992-1997, the programs were eventually digitised from cassette and made available online.
Discography
Albums
* Upset (1992)
* Front Row (1993)
* Elusive (1997)
* Tread (2001)
* Food of Love (2003)
References
External links
Pressure Drop official websiteBlood Brothers Broadcasting Corporation website* {{Discogs artist, artist=2669
Electronic music duos
English electronic music groups