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From the final drum'n'bass pioneer to release a full-length, Roni Size's New Forms could well be the best. Though it's slightly bloated at two full discs, and slightly overhyped due to its winning Britain's Mercury Prize, New Forms was the major statement on drum'n'bass, barring only Goldie's Timeless. Size's prime asset is his unique style -- tough, careening breakbeats and metallic time-stretched effects over the organic, elastic sounds of upright bass and other jazzy add-ons. He also has a knack for deft pacing; though many of his productions test the seven-minute mark, he plays around with the beats so much that no track ever grows boring. On the title track, he weaves two sets of female vocals -- American rapper Bahamadia and resident Reprazent diva Onallee -- into the mix, digitally syncopating Bahamadia's rap into the production with complete precision. The constantly retriggering breakbeat on "Matter of Fact" makes it another highlight, and Size's transition from the atmospheric "Heroes" to a raging breakbeat storm like "Share the Fall" (both are Onallee features) is astonishing. Yes, Size's production clout is much more apparent on the first disc than the second, but New Forms is laced with so much genius it's worth the price of two discs to own all the excellent productions inside.
© John Bush /TiVo
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Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Dynamite MC, LeadVocals - Clive Deemer, Drums
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Steve Graham, Guitar - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Bahamadia, FeaturedArtist, LeadVocals - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Vinnie And The Fat Man, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Clive Deemer, Drums - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Joel LeBlanc, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Clive Deemer, Drums - Kirk Thompson, Composer - Daniel Robert Kausman, Composer - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Si John, BassGuitar - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Si John, BassGuitar - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - D.J. Suv, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Clive Deemer, Drums - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Ben Watt, Composer - Tracey Thorn, Composer - Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
DISC 2
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Steve Graham, Guitar - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - DJ Tobs, Producer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Clive Deemer, Drums
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - D.J. Suv, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Krust, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Clive Deemer, Drums
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
DISC 3
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Steve Graham, Guitar - Dynamite MC, LeadVocals - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Origin Unknown, Remixer - Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Joel LeBlanc, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Remixer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Si John, BassGuitar - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Bahamadia, FeaturedArtist, LeadVocals - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Krust, Remixer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Grooverider, Remixer - Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Clive Deemer, Drums - Kirk Thompson, Composer - Daniel Robert Kausman, Composer - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Photek, Remixer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Steve Graham, Guitar - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Bel Air Project, Remixer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Peter Kruder, Remixer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Joel LeBlanc, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Nuyorican Soul, Producer, Remixer - Roni Size, Producer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - KENNY "DOPE" GONZALEZ, Producer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer - Little Luis Vega, Producer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Steve Graham, Guitar - Dynamite MC, LeadVocals - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
DISC 4
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Clive Deemer, Drums - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Dynamite MC, LeadVocals - Clive Deemer, Drums
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Steve Graham, Guitar - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Bahamadia, FeaturedArtist, LeadVocals - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Andy Henderson, SoundEngineer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Vinnie And The Fat Man, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - DJ Tobs, Producer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals - Andy Henderson, SoundEngineer - Jay Wilcox, Keyboards - Joel LeBlanc, Guitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - DJ Die, Composer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, LeadVocals - Ryan Owen Granville Williams, Composer - Si John, BassGuitar - Tracey Stephanie Bowen, Composer
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Clive Deemer, Drums
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Onallee, Composer, LeadVocals
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Dominic Smith, Composer - Onallee, LeadVocals - Dynamite MC, LeadVocals - Jay Wilcox, Keyboards
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Roni Size, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Remixer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Reprazent, MainArtist - Steve Graham, Guitar - Si John, BassGuitar
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
Album review
From the final drum'n'bass pioneer to release a full-length, Roni Size's New Forms could well be the best. Though it's slightly bloated at two full discs, and slightly overhyped due to its winning Britain's Mercury Prize, New Forms was the major statement on drum'n'bass, barring only Goldie's Timeless. Size's prime asset is his unique style -- tough, careening breakbeats and metallic time-stretched effects over the organic, elastic sounds of upright bass and other jazzy add-ons. He also has a knack for deft pacing; though many of his productions test the seven-minute mark, he plays around with the beats so much that no track ever grows boring. On the title track, he weaves two sets of female vocals -- American rapper Bahamadia and resident Reprazent diva Onallee -- into the mix, digitally syncopating Bahamadia's rap into the production with complete precision. The constantly retriggering breakbeat on "Matter of Fact" makes it another highlight, and Size's transition from the atmospheric "Heroes" to a raging breakbeat storm like "Share the Fall" (both are Onallee features) is astonishing. Yes, Size's production clout is much more apparent on the first disc than the second, but New Forms is laced with so much genius it's worth the price of two discs to own all the excellent productions inside.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 4 disc(s) - 53 track(s)
- Total length: 05:14:11
- Main artists: Roni Size Reprazent
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue
- Genre: Electronic
2017 Mercury Records Limited 1997 Mercury Records Limited
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