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Bad Company (UK)
Biography
Never to be confused with the rock band of the same name, drum'n'bass renegades Jason Maldini, Darren White (D-Bridge), Dan Stein (Fresh) and Michael Wojicky (Vegas) formed in 1999 from the ashes of seminal Renegade Hardware act Future Forces. "The Nine," the first release by the foursome, proved an unprecedented success for their own eponymous label, while its follow-up, "The Pulse," for Grooverider's Prototype, cemented their reputation as leaders in the field of post-apocalyptic beats. An eagerly anticipated debut album, Inside the Machine, released in the winter of the same year, continued with that theme, though it also demonstrated an ambition which was to later set them far apart from their contemporaries; the fusion of strings with growling bass rises which defined "Colonies" was an enjoyable demonstration of how the dancefloor could be made more interesting.

With their debut selling in excess of 30,000 copies (practically unheard of within the movement), the crew made a slight, yet still surprising, change of direction -- with their music sounding less like their Virus contemporaries than the soundtrack to some late-night, futuristic drama.
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