The Invibsible Man

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Graham Mew, who as both Doctor G and The Invisible Man laid down some of the most influential early breakbeat science created, but tends to get lumped in with the often maligned 'intelligent' jungle scene. Outside of jungle circles he’s pretty much unknown, but to the heads he’s a legend. Based in Oxford, which had a healthy rave scene going on in the early 90s, Mew’s first release was the Oxford Ardkore 12”, put out on his own G-Spot Records. The stand out track on the EP is The Beeline, a pretty straight up mix of breaks, heavy sub and a whispered voice saying ‘ecstasy’. The Beeline isn't too earth shattering – it uses the same tools as million other tracks, but you can already hear Mew's talent as an engineer- the bass is deep as fuck and the breaks cut over the top with a snapping clarity. I’ve managed to find an interview with Mew hosted on God Is No Longer a DJ – here’s what he had to say about the early days: “When I first started making music (if that’s what you would call it!), at the start of ’92 with the “Oxford Ardkore EPs”, I was just releasing them on stamped white labels, using the catalog prefix “DJGxxx”. Technically, there was no label name at all for that first release. Then, with number two, I decided to use a proper label name and that was the first of the crazy hand-drawn labels. As I recall, my mate James Kearney thought of the “G-Spot Records” label name, he also drew the main logo – the rest of the label art was literally just me scribbling on a piec

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