TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Space Cowboy

TITLE: Across The Sky

LABEL: Southern Fried Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 49min total- 72.0mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-00-00
RIP DATE: 2003-09-25

01 Crazy talk (Acoustic Version)  2:07

03 All 'Bout Money / Skit 1       2:26
04 Love Is The Reason / Love Skit 4:33
05 Prove Me Wrong / Skit 4        2:54
06 So You Like What You See Part 14:47

08 Just Put Your Hands In Mine    3:26

10 Heavy Metal                    3:09
11 Always And Forever             2:44

A b-boy who loves pop as much as he
does hip hop? A DJ who searches for his
breaks in both dusty record shops and off
the screen of VH-1? A Parisian born chap
who perfected typically English genres
like jungle and big beat before
falling for French house? Welcome to
the offbeat world of the Space Cowboy.

The Space Cowboy was born on the
outskirts of Paris but swiftly moved to
the Surrey 'burbs. In the early eighties
he was known as Wizz Fresh, Fresh Master D
or even Defmaster T as the ten year old
Nick Dresti changed his graffitti tag
as often as underpants. Hip hop was
his first Damascine conversion. "I
remember seeing Grandmaster Melle Mel's
'Step Off' on Top of
the Pops and the graffiti and breakin'
in Chaka Khan's 'I Feel For You' video.
Next thing I had to make sure my Mum was
buying me the 'right' Adidas." The ten
year old was beguiled by the beats and
snazzy bling of hip hop who, after,
soaking up films Beat Street and
Breakdance formed a posse.

They were fierce. "We wore stupid
clothes, carried a box and sprayed crap
graffiti everywhere". Though the
Defmaster T tag, thankfully, didn't last
long hip hop is the one genre Dresti is
still addicted to. Growing up with Mike
Allen and Tim Westwood he still records
the Greatest Living Wigga every week
to play in his car. When asked what
he'd save if his house was on fire
Nick says "My Run DMC 'Tougher Than
Leather' film poster. It's tag-line is
'Leaves the bad guys running and the
good guys rocking'".

In the late eighties Nick was a fan of
the fast underground UK hip hop sounds
of Gunshot, Blade, Caveman and
Taskforce. Down the rave-up he heard
the frantic '20 Seconds To Comply' by
Silver Bullet and seminal breakbeat by
The Scientist (You can hear some vintage
rave riffs midway through his new
single 'Just Put Your Hand In Mine')
Inspired by this period he moved from crap
graf tags to his first pseudonym proper.
As DJ Apex Nick
pulled on the Marigolds and started
rinsin' dem plates releasing jungle
choons and DJing on pirate stations like
Hackney's Format FM.

After a few more rarified visits to
house clubs Nick soaked up the sounds of
Todd Terry. The result was the hip house
of 'The Wildstyle' as DJ Supreme which
sampled UK rappers Hijack and gave Nick
his first chart hit. Changing monikers
again - just like he did as a kid with
his graffiti tags - Nick became Loop Da
Loop who hit with 'Go With The Flow' and
'Hazel'. In '97 and
'98 Nick completed over 30 Loop Da Loop
remixes for artists as varied as Felix
Da Housecat, Bobby Brown, Bomb The Bass
and Afrika Bambaata.

It was in 1998 that Nick experienced
Damascine conversion number two. He
heard Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better
With You' and became hooked on French
house, in particular, the distinctive
sound of Thomas Bangalter's Roule
label. "I thought that is what I should
be doing. Stardust was a crazy
record and Roule records were always
rough, dirty but emotional." Our
musical magpie started making house
music and the Space Cowboy was born.
His first release - the Steve Miller