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Ruff Kut! Records. Profile: The history of Ruff Kutt starts back in 1990, when it was set up by Jimmy Ryan (5). Mark Straker and another guy called Jon helped with the initial investment, with money from the Prince's trust going towards the studio.
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- Had You Any Musical Experience Before this?
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- I Imagine It Got Fairly Wild in There…
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OK, so I used to work in a youth centre in Stevenage called Bowes Lyon Centre. From the age of 11 up to 16 or 17 I was there literally every day. I’d gone to the director of the place and asked him if there was anything I could do, and he said, ‘yeah we’ve got a music project going’. The project was to produce an album using all the youth that go t...
I DJ’d at Bowes from the time I was 11, I used to breakdance as well. The music thing was in me, it was my way to get out from the real world. Once they offered me to do the album, I know a couple of people who had studios, so I took all the people we were working with to a studio and said right we’re into hip hop, house, dance music, this is what ...
It was everything we used to play at Bowes. There was a group of us who were really into hip hop from an early age. We were all DJs and MCs, we were into stuff like Public Enemy, Rob Base and EZ Rock, all the electro albums. Bowes was a youth club – if you imagine a youth club that every Friday had 500 kids from all over Herts and Beds. It was quit...
The thing about Bowes was that we all got on. As long as you were inside, it was calm. Everybody would be dancing and mingling. There might be a scuffle outside, but Bowes was the place where outside stuff didn’t come in. Just to give you an inkling of the heritage of the place, Rob Playford from Moving Shadow, and 2 Bad Mice used to go.
I produced about 6 or 7 tracks on the album and engineered it all, I was just a guy who was into music, and another guy showed me what buttons I needed to press, and how to connect up my Technics so I could add some scratches – the engineer taught me everything. As a project it did a lot of people a lot of good.
Will, with what I gained knowledge wise, I went to Princes Trust to start a recording studio, I’d got a bug for the recording side of things. The youth leader at Bowes said, look I know you’re interested in starting up a studio, I’ll let you do it here until you get yourself going. I couldn’t believe it! I got the grant from Princes Trust, then I g...
Hahaha One of the guys was Mark Straker, he died a couple of years ago – he went off to Hollywood to write screenplays – he wrote one called New Town Boys about the drum n bass scene before it became drum n bass – and another guy called John, but I just cannot remember his last name. He worked in insurance. They had people who wanted to invest in b...
Yeah, we took all the bits we loved and mashed it together. And then that was ours. The weirdest thing for me was before I’d created what I’d call my first rave track, a guy took me down to a rave club called Milwaukee’s. I walked in and was like, wait a minute, this is me! Hahaha… I’d gone, ‘everything I love about music is here, its getting playe...
It was supposed to be like Soul II Soul at the time, people would drop in and out – I was the main person, some people would drop in – for example, when we did PA’s there’d be 5 of us working keyboards and samples, scratching and DJing, and MCing, then we had about 15 dancers. It was all people who used to dance at Bowes, it was just a natural thin...
We just used to do crazy things at the time I think that when we came up with the name The Good 2Bad and the Hugly, it was a joke like, you weren’t just ugly, you were HUGLY. And it stuck, so we were thinking how we could make hugly fit; who’s the hugly one in the group? So we decided to get a Freddy Kruger mask because he’s hugly… and we just boug...
Good 2Bad And Hugly
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1991 Vinyl release of "Ruff Kut" on Discogs.
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8. Juni 2015 · After more than 20 years dominating the music industry as arguably dancehall and reggae's most sought-after backing band, Ruff Kutt says it wants its legacy to inspire the new crop of backing bands to represent Jamaican music to the best of their ability.
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