- Meat Katie caught my attention when Freestylers dropped ‘Rotten dot com’ by Meat Katie. It was the chunky bass line that got me. Since then I haven’t been able to get away from that track, it has been featured on ‘Urban Underground’ mixed by Plump DJ’s, ‘Y4K Further Still’ mixed by Tayo and Meat Katie’s ‘Long to Belong’ and ‘Seismic Sounds’. Obviously popular with breakbeat DJ’s.
Mark Pember (DJ Meat Katie) has been labeled as a breakbeat DJ and tech-house DJ but his style is genre crossing and pushes boundaries to make his sound unique. Mark Pember founded the successful “Whole 9 Yards” record label in 1998 has recorded an LP for R&S records and released Seismic Sounds on the Kingsize record label.
Seismic sounds starts off delivering chunky basslines (characteristic of Meat Katie) and some percussive and tribal samples. ‘Dirty South’ and ‘Rotten dot com’ are the more familiar tracks on the album. ‘Dirty South’ is dirty funk with a driving bassline. Into some tech-house sounds with ‘Point 2’ (Dylan Rhymes remix) - Housebreaker. The sound then moves into more dark and experimental techno with Phil Kieran’s ‘Vitalize’ and ‘Whitenoise’ - Swithcraft. Track 12 ‘Visions of you’ - Disco Assassins allows a change with a accented breakbeat. The album goes out with an 80’s disco sounding melody and spiratic sound effects.
Seismic sounds is a funky tech-house album with some breakbeats and experimental beats thrown in for good measure. The sound is raw and definitely seismic with the emphasized basslines and shifting pitch. Oh and did I mention the bass was damn good?!
Track Listing:
Sir Drew – The Everything Women
Outcast – Last Bullet (Chicken Lips dub remix)
Bentley Rhythm Ace – How’d I do Dat (Chicken Lips 3 course dub)
Meat Katie – Dirty South
Meat Katie – Rotten dot com
Housebreaker – Point 2 (Dylan Rhymes remix)
Switchkraft – Kagjunk
Shaktimaan – Wandering Sound
Sir Drew – Mates Rates (Peace Division Dark Daze mix)
Phil Kieran – Vitalize
Switchkraft – Whitenoise
Disco Assassins – Visions of You
Chicken Lips – Many Members