Emerging from the nascent Nu Skool Breaks scene at the end of the last century, the Plump DJs are the quintessential production duo. Over the course of fifteen acclaimed singles and three superlative albums, Andy Gardner and Lee Rous have become heavyweights of cutting edge club music.
Their beginnings were effortlessly organic; Andy was enjoying success as a producer on Freskanova Records working under the pseudonyms of Bowser and Cut & Paste when he began DJing regularly at the infamous Passenger night, co promoted by Lee and Steve Blonde. With an anything goes freestyle beats approach to its music policy, Passenger was one of London's hottest tickets. "There was a lot of enthusiasm" remembers Lee, "We had four pages about this little bar event in The Face and two pages in NME, just because so many people were going down there, there was so much energy." Already well acquainted through mutual friends and many nights clubbing, the pair decided to transfer the abundance of energy that Passenger exuded into their own music. "I started working as a runner for Freskanova and my DJing was going really well and Andy's DJ'ing was going well but he wanted more gigs and I wanted to get into the studio, so the Plumps were born".
The Plump DJs name first appeared as a remix credit on Soul Hooligan's 'Sweet Pea', a one off white label 'Y2K' quickly followed but it wasn't until their paths crossed with Finger Lickin' Records' A&R doyen Justin Rushmore that things really started to snowball. The pair's first two outings for the label, 'Electric Disco / Plumpy Chunks' and 'The Push' /'Remember My Name', were cavernous slabs of pumping beats and filthy squelching bass that took the world's dance-floors by storm and began to turn the heads of some big name players. It was however, the advent of the samplers for their debut mix album 'A Plump Night Out' that carved their name deep into the soul of dance music. Featuring a typically bold remix of War's disco-edged funk anthem 'Galaxy' and Plump classics 'Move It With Your Mind', 'No Way' and the seminal 'Scram', The Plump DJs were transformed from promising Breakbeat contenders into dance music's big league heavy hitters. The 'Plump Night Out’ album itself went on to become a textbook demonstration in how to rock the party.
The Hartnoll brothers’ admiration of the pair resulted in a personal request for the Plump DJS to be Orbital’s tour support, which regularly saw Andy & Lee taking complete control of 30,000 people and leaving a lasting impression. Their DJ sets became the stuff of legend as they dropped unreleased gems that would blow away the uninitiated and keep the faithful salivating, waiting for their next move. With expectation at fever pitch the release of 'Big Groovy Fucker' kept the dance-floor pressure on, as flipside 'TB Reality' became a Fatboy Slim anthem. The Plump DJs were at the zenith of club-cool.
From obscure prog. rock samples to bona-fide mega-star vocalists the Plump DJs are once again about to change the face of dance music with a stunning step-up that will leave no one in any doubt as to their astonishing ability to stay out in-front, inspiring without fear of baffling their audience. The Plump DJs have only ever known one direction and that's up.
Their beginnings were effortlessly organic; Andy was enjoying success as a producer on Freskanova Records working under the pseudonyms of Bowser and Cut & Paste when he began DJing regularly at the infamous Passenger night, co promoted by Lee and Steve Blonde. With an anything goes freestyle beats approach to its music policy, Passenger was one of London's hottest tickets. "There was a lot of enthusiasm" remembers Lee, "We had four pages about this little bar event in The Face and two pages in NME, just because so many people were going down there, there was so much energy." Already well acquainted through mutual friends and many nights clubbing, the pair decided to transfer the abundance of energy that Passenger exuded into their own music. "I started working as a runner for Freskanova and my DJing was going really well and Andy's DJ'ing was going well but he wanted more gigs and I wanted to get into the studio, so the Plumps were born".
The Plump DJs name first appeared as a remix credit on Soul Hooligan's 'Sweet Pea', a one off white label 'Y2K' quickly followed but it wasn't until their paths crossed with Finger Lickin' Records' A&R doyen Justin Rushmore that things really started to snowball. The pair's first two outings for the label, 'Electric Disco / Plumpy Chunks' and 'The Push' /'Remember My Name', were cavernous slabs of pumping beats and filthy squelching bass that took the world's dance-floors by storm and began to turn the heads of some big name players. It was however, the advent of the samplers for their debut mix album 'A Plump Night Out' that carved their name deep into the soul of dance music. Featuring a typically bold remix of War's disco-edged funk anthem 'Galaxy' and Plump classics 'Move It With Your Mind', 'No Way' and the seminal 'Scram', The Plump DJs were transformed from promising Breakbeat contenders into dance music's big league heavy hitters. The 'Plump Night Out’ album itself went on to become a textbook demonstration in how to rock the party.
The Hartnoll brothers’ admiration of the pair resulted in a personal request for the Plump DJS to be Orbital’s tour support, which regularly saw Andy & Lee taking complete control of 30,000 people and leaving a lasting impression. Their DJ sets became the stuff of legend as they dropped unreleased gems that would blow away the uninitiated and keep the faithful salivating, waiting for their next move. With expectation at fever pitch the release of 'Big Groovy Fucker' kept the dance-floor pressure on, as flipside 'TB Reality' became a Fatboy Slim anthem. The Plump DJs were at the zenith of club-cool.
From obscure prog. rock samples to bona-fide mega-star vocalists the Plump DJs are once again about to change the face of dance music with a stunning step-up that will leave no one in any doubt as to their astonishing ability to stay out in-front, inspiring without fear of baffling their audience. The Plump DJs have only ever known one direction and that's up.