The Drum Club

Disenfranchised and frustrated with Britain's early-'90s rave scene, former club promoters and DJs Charlie Hall and <a href="spotify:artist:15enV9io8zA6Joh9MrobdU">Lol Hammond</a> formed the Drum Club as a combination production/remix act. Inspired by groups like Spiral Tribe, DiY and Tonka on the emerging free-festival circuit, the duo toured with <a href="spotify:artist:3csPCeXsj2wezyvkRFzvmV">Orbital</a> on the MIDI Circus during 1993, and their debut album Everything Is Now appeared soon after, on Big Life Records (also the home of <a href="spotify:artist:5HAtRoEPUvGSA7ziTGB1cF">the Orb</a>). After remixing <a href="spotify:artist:0unDPLolgomClz3Xj5qCIT">Hardkiss</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0iJhiPC0WcLXObM9SXXeLX">Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2JrTxbnRU8RGKyuyHE8SGP">System 7</a> among others, the pair was soon tagged as one of the hottest remixing teams in Britain. Their follow-up Drums Are Dangerous was a breakthrough of sorts, earning an American release through Instinct in 1994. Instinct also documented Hall and <a href="spotify:artist:15enV9io8zA6Joh9MrobdU">Hammond's</a> crucial concert appearances on 1995's Live in Iceland. Later that year, however, <a href="spotify:artist:15enV9io8zA6Joh9MrobdU">Hammond</a> formed the breakbeat act <a href="spotify:artist:07Dm913JfwJRIWBfKOvJGL">Slab!</a> with <a href="spotify:artist:75VNjRaVkoPt0hloW93Cic">Nina Walsh</a>. ~ John Bush, Rovi