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XRS Land
12+ albums
Drum and bassliquid funkbraziliandnbsambass
about
XRS Land is a place where emotions become characters, and melodies imprint color and temperature to objects of our daily life. A sunflower divided between the sun and the moon, burning of love. The winter is always blue, although scenarios and hearts might be on fire, red and gold. Drum patterns are the background for water oscillations. Journeys from south to north, underwater, through our beloved oceans, bring the present of our life, of the mud of which we are made. Biography: Michael de Oliveira Nicassio has a rich musical biography. Extremely versatile, he has adopted many aliases, such as XRS, Xerxes, XRS Land, Sys-X and Kapitel 6. Known as one of the key figures responsible for the high visibility of Brazilian drum’n’bass, Michael´s debut as producer was in 1993, when he won a contest with the remix “Power 2 the People”, a hardcore track produced from tiny analog reel-to-reel tape samples cut by hand and spliced together. Founded in 1996 by XRS and Ramilson Maia, Innerground was the first Brazilian label to release drum’n’bass. The release of the EP “From the Land you the City” initiated the project named XRS Land, that culminated in the álbum “Sarau” (1999). One of the tracks on this album, “Só”, produced together with Jorge Paizão and Marcello Marcky, was the first to have vocals in Portuguese, and inaugurated a Brazilian influenced movement in drum’n’bass that, some years later, would be incorporated as an “authentic” expression of the style. Since his first in
