Roni Size/Reprazent AKA Breakbeat Era, Dope Dragon
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History
Group Members: Roni Size / DJ Krust / DJ Die
When Roni Size/Reprazent won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize for the best album of the year it was of little surprise, given that New Forms was definitely one of the best records of the year.  Unfortunately, that award effectively killed drum 'n' bass, but who cares, Roni Size rules.  Roni Size's stunning remixes include Adam F's Circles, Basement Jaxx's Fly Life, En Vogue's Whatever, Olive's Miracle & chart-topper You're Not Alone, U2's Mofo, Pressure Drop's Silently Bad Minded.  DJ Krust's remixes include Adam F's Music In My Mind.   Size/Krust/Die set up their own record company following the success of New Forms - Full Cycle - releases on that label so far include DJ Krust's solo works, Dope Dragon's Wayz Of The Dragon (New Forms - the uncommercial version - lots of the original samples for that record, and other underground drum and bass tracks - this was not given a proper release) and, of course, Breakbeat Era - Roni Size's Breakbeat project - the first single was called Breakbeat Era - the new album is called Rancid.
Discography

Year

Title

Artist

Type

Label
1997 Share The Fall Roni Size/Reprazent Single Talkin' Loud
1997 New Forms Roni Size/Reprazent Album Talkin' Loud
1997 Heroes Roni Size/Reprazent Single Talkin' Loud
1997 Brown Paper Bag Roni Size/Reprazent Single Talkin' Loud
1998 Watching Windows Roni Size/Reprazent Single Talkin' Loud
1998 Breakbeat Era Breakbeat Era Single Full Cycle

1998

 Warhead Krust

Single

 Full Cycle

1998

 True Stories Krust

Single

 Full Cycle
1998 Wayz Of The Dragon Dope Dragon Album Full Cycle
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Reviews
Breakbeat Era
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Roni Size and Reprazent are back after massive success with their debut album New Forms, this time recording under a new name - Breakbeat Era - the track is excellent - just as good as the New Forms project, and the record sleeve is amazing - featuring loads of different signs and logos on top of a rusty background. This record is released on Reprazent's own 'Full Cycle' label - in conjunction with XL (Home of the Prodigy).
True Stories/Cold War
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Krust is part of Roni Size's Reprazent and the Dope Dragon project. His new single is excellent, though not very radio friendly - it's a lot less easy to listen to than New Forms. The CD features just two tracks - True Stories and Cold War. There's no radio edit. The first track lasts almost 12 minutes, and the second track brings the single to 20 minutes.
Watching Windows
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Roni Size and Reprazent are the best drum 'n' bass act that isn't apollo 440! They're much better than Adam F. Roni's released a load of singles - each on e better than the last, but, to be honest, they're not that good as singles - much better in the context of the album. However it is worth getting the singles, for the stunning remixes, especially the NuYorican Soul (Masters At Work) remix. There are also awesome offerings from the likes of DJ Die & Ed Rush, plus remixes of Down, and New Forms.
Brown Paper Bag
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The Mercury Music Prize winners come up trumps again, with the stunning vocal remix of Brown Paper Bag. Originally a nine minute instrumental track two from the 100,000 selling New Forms LP, this song's been cut to under 4 minutes, and had an excellent brown-paper related lyric added, to make this one of the d + b highlights of '97. The single comes in two forms - A limited edition brown paper sleeve, featuring the great new track Western (which sounds like a drum & bass western theme tune, as you may have guessed). The other CD features five different tracks, including the original version, two vocal mixes and two remixes (which both sound very much like Reprazent, even though one is by the mighty Photek.
Heroes
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The fact I purchased this CD single will surprise very few of you. I think it's great, and the new song 'Electricks' rules too. There are fantastic remixes (Including Basement Jaxx), and the CD sleeve is in keeping with all other Roni Size releases. The case comes complete with a label stating that Roni Size is a '1997 Mercury MUSIC PRIZE Nominee' He won the prize - just incase you didn't know.
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