artist....... Roni Size
title........ Sound Advice / Keep Strong
source....... Vinyl   > EP
genre........ Electronic
style........ Drum & Bass

label........ Full Cycle Records
catalog.no... FCY044
year......... 2002
street.date.. Oct.07.2002
release.date. Apr.18.2019

link......... www.discogs.com/release/58714

time......... 16:37 min
space........ 387,79mb
orbits....... 02

encoder...... FLAC 1.3.1
quality...... 3272kbps/96  kHz/Stereo

01 Sound Advice                                        09:24
02 Keep Strong                                         07:13

Vinyl, 12", 33 1/3 RPM, 45 RPM
From the album 'Touching Down'

Bristol native Roni Size is one of the U.K. jungle
scene's most respected names, with production
credits spanning dozens of labels, projects and
releases.

Size's influence as a producer, label owner, and
committed underground magnate figured him as one of
the emerging sound's true pioneers. The breakout
success of his debut album New Forms finally
confirmed his stature and vaulted him to a greater
degree of popularity than any drum'n'bass producer.
Born to Jamaican immigrant parents, Roni grew up in
the Bristolean suburb of St. Andrews (home to
Tricky, Massive Attack, and Smith & Mighty), where
he learned the fundamentals of hip-hop through the
area's sounds systems, house parties, and
underground clubs. Expelled from school Size
started dabbling with house and reggae production
in the late'80s. He hooked up with labelmates DJ
Krust, Suv, and DJ Die at the 1990 Glastonbury
Festival, and the four stayed in contact,
eventually formin Size's longest running musical
commitment to date: his own Full Cycle label.

Although hardly popular in the days before ragga
(then jump-up) ruled the decks, the crew now counts
a number of classics among their credits, including
Size's "It's a Jazz Thing," Krust's "Jazz Note,"
and Reprazent's Reasons for Sharing EP, the crew's
first outing through major label subsidiary Talkin'
Loud
The success of 1997's New Forms launched Size to
the top of the electronica genre, and the Dope
Dragon label also continues to rise in the ranks of
dubplate hysteria, with tracks from Selector Owoy,
Gang Related, and Mask consistently passing muster
on most DJ's decks. After a relatively silent 1998,
Size returned in 1999 with a new project --
Breakbeat Era, with DJ Die and vocalist Leonie
Laws. The trio released Ultra-Obscene in the fall
of that year. In 2000, Size returned to the
Reprazent project with In the Mode, boasting sit-
ins from Method Man and ex-Rage Against the
Machine's Zack De La Rocha.