Rodney Hunter has always
been part of the family, since the days of hanging out with a spiky
haired Kruder in the 3rd grade, and later pulling on the heavy four
strings in the Moreaus hip hop band with other social group family
members DSL, Sugar B and the aforementioned Peter K? Did the young
thirteen young olds have aspirations to be successful after 3rd
grade? Well one became an OK hairdresser, while the other jollied
around also as a OK hairdresser!
It was nineteen thousand and 91 when things
became closely knitted, the Moreaus started cleaning up at Hip Hop
awards within Austria, and productions started in earnest with family
members doing the creative thing for real. Dr Rich was well on board
by this time and Vienna became a hot bed of heavenly chilled dope
beats for the masses.
Rodney along with the Godfather Werner Geier
started Uptight recordings and drilled monstrous tunes our way like
Leena Conquest's 'Boundaries'. Even today you can hear such luminaries
as Gilles Peterson drop this extraordinary mammoth track at his
wordwide gigs. Little did we know at the time that this excellent
production was yielded by the musical wisdom of the Uptight upstarts
Geier and Hunter. This highly prized musical treasure was even licensed
to the Stereo MC's label 'Natural Resource' for even more exposure.
It was then Uptight magnified itself by remixing for such dignified
personnel of Omar, Cornershop, Freak Power, Martine Girault and
so on.
(Alan Brown, Soul Seduction, Vienna) |
