Biography of M.I. Loki |  | | Real name / | |
Meeting on a hazy night in 1995, at Wild Times in Cambridge it wasn't until 2005 and a move to Sheffield that the unique pairing of Matt Scott and Ian Stanley began making tracks together. It began with a bootleg of Come Together by the Beatles, and continued with a joint love for sampling Zoolander, mini guns, Bill Duke and all things Chevy Chase. Some may say that their music has never really evolved from there, but then they probably listen to electro trash music and wear skinny jeans.
Having experimented with hip hop, house, DnB, and whatever else they could place a beat underneath, it became apparent that the laws of breakbeat, or rather the lack of them, would allow them to bring all of their musical tastes to one table. Influenced more by the early days of the "breaks" genre where breakbeats were alive and reigned supreme, they set up Tricksta Recordings in May 2006. Since then they have developed and evolved their sound, playing with everything from a more organic sounding style of breakbeat music to dub influenced bleeps and squeaks. |