TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Signal To Noise

LABEL: Combination Records

1hr 05min total- 94.4mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-03-22
RIP DATE: 2004-02-16

03 Speed of Sound                 6:09

07 After the Fire (Altern. Vers.) 4:32
08 The Way I Swing (Rmx)          6:06

10 Spend the Night (Rmx)          5:52

Kabuki aka Jan Hennig belongs to the
most experienced German drum&bass
deejays. We were lucky enough to be able
to follow his career as a producer
during the last seven years, on the
Precision Breakbeat Research label,
co-founded by his partner Mainframe. He
also manages the label Spectrum Works,
to offer us musical experiments below the
drum&bass speed limit. Kabuki began his
curriculum in music as a
student on classical guitar at Dr. Hochs
Konservatorium in Frankfurt. He also
studied jazz theory, aural training and
composition at the American Institute
of Music in Vienna, the European
version of the famous Hollywood

Together with his partner Mainframe he
produced the first drum&bass album.
Under their project name Megashira they
released a very well received cd and lp on
the Frankfurt labelInfracom in 1996.
Soon after this success, the duo
founded their label Precision
Breakbeat Research, to be able to
publish 12" singles under their own
name. Under the name of
Makaithey had already released two maxis
with the sophisticated British
drum&bass label No U-Turn and soon after
that, the first Makai album Millenium was

The success of the first Makai album
led to a tour through Japan, where
Kabuki performed together with MC
Glacius and tried the local scene. It
proved to be a very important phase,
because not only did Kabuki discover a
first class producer team with Pentagon,
he also got himself a job as sound
designer and composer Sony Playstation
in Tokyo. It was the beginning of a
journey that lasted a few years, with

between Germany and Japan on a regular

In the mean time, Kabuki is not only a
big name in drum&bass: his star has
risen far beyond. Through co-productions
with Vikter Duplaix or Cleveland
Watkiss, releases with labels likeSonar
Kollektiv or Reinforced and last but
not least his remixes for various
artists like f. e. Sabrina Setlur orr
Rockers Hi-Fi the musician Kabuki could
prove his wide range of interests.

The name "Kabuki" by the way, is
Japanese for a classical theatre genre.
The single syllables of the word also
have their own signification and
symbolise music, dance and technique,
all words that have something to
do with the job of a deejay.

The tracks on this album were all
released under the Kabuki-alias and are
especially edited for this album. We
have filtered 11 tracks out of 30 and
added the new Logicbomb and a tricky
hidden track to become a conclusive
album called Signal to noise.

Have fun with this 1 month pre!