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Stevie Hyper D (born Stephen Austin, 20 September 1966 – 5 July 1998) was a British
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-ba ...
MC.
Early life
Stephen Austin was born in London, England on 20 September 1966, to a
Spanish
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mother and
Barbadian father.
Career
Austin was one of the pioneering MCs in 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-ba ...
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oldschool jungle
Jungle is a genre of dance music that developed out of the UK rave scene and sound system culture in the 1990s. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, an ...
scene. He has been credited with inventing the "Double Time" MCing style, where he would double the speed of the generic MC flow but would still fit within the bars of the music.
Austin the first drum and bass MC to have a major release when ''The Next Step'' was released on Island Records in 1999. He also had an album, ''The Legend'', which was released on the independent drum and bass label
Dance Concept and produced by
Benny V
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. Austin performed on
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and
Kool FM
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radio shows (the latter usually with
Nicky Blackmarket
Nicky Blackmarket (born Nicholas Andersson-Gylden) is a British drum and bass DJ and record producer. Blackmarket is regarded as one of the pivotal figures in the early jungle/drum and bass scene. He has been playing drum and bass all over th ...
. His track "Buffalo Soldier" from the album was nominated for DNBA tune of the year in 2004.
Austin is widely accepted as one of the true pioneering drum and bass MCs. It is also accepted he was the innovator of the ‘double time’ MC style that is commonly used today.
Appearing first on the 1991 track "Teknoragga", Stevie went on to record tracks across various genres, from jungle, to hip hop and even to house music. He was the first drum and bass MC to secure an album with a major label, Island Records. ''The Next Step'', with his producer Dfrnt Lvls, was released in 1999, a year after his death.
Death
Hyper D died 5 July 1998 from a heart condition.
Discography
Albums
*''The Next Step'' (1999), Island Records
Singles
*"Teknoragga" (1991), Reverb Records
*"Boomshakalack" with Ils (1995), Made in London Records
*"Life Is Funny" (1999), Island Records
*"All I Wanna Do / Move Your Body" (2003), Dance Concept
*"Flexin Today / Junglist Soldier" (2006), Dance Concept
*"Aint No Stoppin Us Now / Buffalo Soldier" (2007), Dance Concept
References
External links
Official site
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English drum and bass musicians
English male rappers
Rappers from London
Black British male rappers
1967 births
1998 deaths
20th-century British musicians
20th-century British male musicians