The drum and bass legend talks about Music House, Blue Note and more.

This should be interesting!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?382037

Scotty's doing an exclusive Nasty Habits set for us here...

Doc Scott will always be known as 'the king of the rollers'....and his early 90's career was always had that snappy, rolling sound.

Drums '95, Blue Skies and Nasty Habits. Legend.

Really looking forward to listening to this!

i've got full respect for doc scott, been a fan for a long time and still love the deep tech inspired D&B he plays now. I know exactly what you're saying about 'soul in motion', 15 years later and it hasn't been beaten, that period of D&B was ridiculously creative. I hear youve considered quitting recently, i for one hope you keep on rolling the beats out and would love to see you get a booking in newcastle upon tyne again, it would make this aged junglist very happy indeed. p.s i'd make do with a new volume of future beats to play in the car over summer! RESPECT SIR!

So humble, I think he should stop second guessing him self!

Nice nice^^

Very nice ^^

I liked it alot!

On a sidenote, are you going to do all the exhanges in 320 from now on?

great interview - really interesting, and what a sound guy Doc Scott seems to be

"Even when the minimal, rolling style that he is often associated with has fallen out of mainstream favor" - was this why he spent a good chunk of the 00's playing and pushing some pretty dreadful wobbly rubbish, to the extent that he was the first person to sign a Pendulum record?

I remember seeing him in 2003 and being bitterly disappointed at some of the records he played, especially since I hadn't seen him since the 90's and only had his Hidden Rooms mix CD to give me an inkling (false as it turned out) of what i might have heard.

Having said that, he went right back up in my estimation in 2006-ish when he was man enough to apologise on a public forum for the records he'd spent the last four or five years playing - can't think of too many other people in electronic music who would have had the balls to do that.

Always thought it was interesting how ambivalent he always seems to be about his own productions though, especially since they've always been almost uniformly excellent.

The bit where he's talking about the smell of a box of dubplates made me smile though - for those of you who have never had the pleasure it's a little like a cross between a freshly opened box of slightly warm crayons and a library full of leather bound books.

Dont want to sound overcurious, but i sortof assume you know mick from the sound of that post, is that true?

How humble is Mr Scott.

Christ. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard 'The Drumz' on pirate radio .

I heard this track and experienced the'FUCK ME, What the fuck is this?' I quickly pressed record onto my C90 and listened to it over and over. A game changing tune.

And of course the same years later when I heard 'unofficial ghost'.

What a legend.

Really enjoyed this.

History lesson by the Don. Enjoyed every second of it, thank you.

From his Myspace (written in 2006)

"Big shout to the people who have shown some love on my myspace,
just wanna say that I KNOW i lost my way from late 2003 to early 2005,
playing tunes that i should n't have been playing.
To those people who pulled me up, i say thank you, you know who you are.
Its not a nice feeling to fall out of love with the music you've been involved with since day 1,
its not a nice feeling to loose yourself and forget who you are and what you stand for!
I feel over the last 12 - 18 months ive found out who doc scott is again and ive fallen in love with dnb again, (the right kind of dnb!)

I think everyone is allowed 1 slip up in 17 years?"


I think any DJ with the balls to come out and say something like that is deserving of respect.