BAD COMPANY UK

INSIDE THE MACHINE

(BC)

2CD

[OCTOBER 2002; RE-ISSUE WITH BONUS CD: NOVEMBER 2007)

Jason Maldini, Darren White, Dan Stein and Michael Wojcicky teamed up as Bad Company (now called BC due to legal reasons) in the summer of 1998 following a devastating trails of releases as Future Forces (Jason and Darren), Fresh & Vegas (Dan and Michael), Maldini (Jason), D-Bridge (Darren), and Absolute Zero (Dan) on seminal labels Renegade Hardware and Metro. Following the unprecedented success of their debut single ‘The Nine’ (released early 1999 on their own Bad Company label [now entitled BC Recordings]), and the very successful follow-up releases on Formation, Prototype, Virus and their own imprint, the quartet drop their debut longplayer ‘Inside The Machine’ - proof that drum’n’bass hasn’t been sewn up by an elite few.

Bad Company’s style is simple: stripped down and chunky, peppered with rave’s hyperactivity but nailed down by solid tech-step science... and thankfully free from divas painfully wailing for playlist attention. Check for the horror-esque antics of ‘Oxygen’, or the morphing mysteries of ‘Colonies’, rolling through the album you get a stark reminder of Bad Company’s intentions of sheer unadulterated terror, whether it be the edge-of-the-seat effects or the mesmerising bass tones, this one’s gonna get you! Another example of their percussive excellence comes in the form of ‘Dead Side’, or the rip-roaring nastiness of ‘Sentient’, whilst ‘Nitrous’ (in the same vein as Trace’s ‘Sonar’) is a winner with its growling bass and sure-to-bus-your-neck breaks.

Available on quintuple LP and double CD (the second CD being a bonus Bad Company mix which will also feature their debut single ‘The Nine’ and ‘Four Days’), Bad Company prove with ‘Inside The Machine’ why they are the future...