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Ed Solo

Ed Solo
Birth nameEd Bickley
OriginUnited Kingdom
GenresElectronic, breakbeat, ragga jungle, dubstep, drum and bass
Occupation(s)Disc jockey, producer
InstrumentTurntables
LabelsEmotive Records, Sludge, Jungle Cakes

Ed Solo (born Ed Bickley) is a British disc jockey and record producer of electronic dance music. He has worked with artists including Blak Twang, Deekline, MC Det, Fatboy Slim, Roots Manuva, Shy FX, DJ Swift,[clarification needed] DJ Trace and Elisabeth Troy.

Career

Solo's first releases were "125th Street" and "The Danger", co-produced with label boss Dave. Solo and Stone went under the name Click and Cycle.

In 1997, he moved to Brighton and set up a studio with Stone. Solo started working with DJ Brockie and the pair made "Reprasent", Undiluted's first release, which reached number one on all the drum-and-bass charts.[citation needed] Brockie and Solo continued to make more songs, including "Turntable 1", "Echo Box" (on the True Playaz label) and "System Check".

Solo became involved in the nu skool breaks in 2005; his studio was located above Krafty Kuts's old record shop. He then began working with Krafty Kuts and later the pair began co-producing music together on Krafty Kut's album Freakshow (2006). Within Nu Skool Breaks, Solo has also collaborated with musicians including Deekline, Darrison, Skool of Thought, as well as mixing down tunes for breakbeat artists including Freq Nasty and Splitloop.

In 2007 Solo collaborated with Skool of Thought to release the underground dance album Random Acts of Kindness, which, in a 4* review in DMC World, was said to feature a "raging party-starting mentality".[1] Between 2008 and 2010, Solo had been making dubstep music such as the anthemic "Age of Dub", which was released on Sludge, a label he established with Deekline. Throughout the 2010s he released Jungle music with Deekline on their label Jungle Cakes.

He is also involved in a project, BattleJam, with British DMC[clarification needed] champ 2007 "JFB" and UK beatbox champ "Beardyman" which involves live beatbox, sampling, looping, video scratching as well as crowd-sampling interaction.

Discography

Ed Solo singles
Title Artist Year Peak
UK Singles
Roar[2] Ed Solo 1999
Mars/Echo Box[3] DJ Brockie & Ed Solo 2002 79
Sleeping Giant/Piano Tu[3] DJ Brockie & Ed Solo 2003 95
Aborigini Bass/Bioplasma[3] DJ Brockie & Ed Solo 2003 89
System Check[3] DJ Brockie & Ed Solo 2004 68
When I was a Yout[4] Ed Solo & Skool of Thought 2008 90

References