"I started playing music when I was at school really" recalls Rob Solomon, the man they call Lexis. "But it got a bit more serious afterwards when I joined a band called Choice, gigging in local clubs and backing bigger groups around East Anglia. Our sound was quite jazz funk, mixing it up between instrumental tracks and vocal tracks with a girl who sang in a jazz style." When his band dissolved in the early nineties, Rob swapped traditional instrumentation for new technology, getting a studio together with his brother and exploring the dance sounds that were emerging. After checking out 40,000 people events like Vision, Rob took things a step further by opening up a record shop (Essential Selections) and label (Rude Boy Records). While at college, he enlisted the help of a graphic designer who was also interested in production. That person was Rupert Parkes - better known in d & b circles as the formidable Photek. The pair bonded and began to knock together back to back twelves for the nascent imprint, like The Five Tracker, a five track EP that came off on a twisted jazz tip. After a while, both profiles grew and the pair eventually went their separate ways, Rob going on to produce tracks for respected imprints like Creative Source, Certificate 18, Moving Shadow and Good Looking. With labels like this behind him, it was obvious Lexis had something to offer. Rather than continue to record for a variety of imprints however, Rob felt that he was spreading himself a lit