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Ryan Owen Granville Williams (born 29 October 1969), better known by his stage name Roni Size, is an English DJ and music producer. He came to prominence in 1997 as the founder and frontman of Roni Size & Reprazent , a drum and bass collective.
Roni Size & Reprazent (stylised as Roni Size / Reprazent) are a British drum and bass group fronted by Roni Size. Their debut album New Forms won the Mercury Music Prize in 1997. Their follow-up album In the Mode featured artists including Rahzel, Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine and Method Man.
Roni Size’s whole life has been about building something new from whatever was around him. From Bristol youthclub parties, through the white heat of rave and the foundational moments of jungle and drum’n’bass, to transforming underground electronic music into something that could be played by a live
Roni appeared on BBC TV as well as regularly on radio and had his music chosen by Virgil Abloh to curate the designer’s Off White runway shows. Meanwhile, Roni played the likes of Printworks, Tomorrowland, Eastern Electrics, Fabric, Untold Festival and countless others.
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Last time we spoke to Roni Size was July 2014. Teetering on the edge of a major comeback; his album Take Kontrol was en route and his band Reprazent were fine-tuning their weapons and chiselling their groundbreaking live D&B sound for the first time in over five years.
Everything You Need To Know About: Roni Size’s new live show. The last three years have seen Roni Size remind us of the raw drive and ambition that originally propelled him, his crew and his city to pioneer game-status over 20 years ago. We’ve touched base with him every year lately… In 2014 he returned with his first new material since 2008.
To say that Roni Size changed the sound of the UK is no overstatement. Few people can claim to have captured the sound and spirit of a time quite as definitively as the wiry Bristolian did at the end of the nineties.
Aug 25, 2014 · Roni Size is speeding down the motorway, speaking almost as fast as he is driving. The longstanding drum & bass producer, who broke all kinds of barriers for electronic music with a genre that was the stepchild of the scene to begin with, has a lot to say about bringing his new music to the masses.
Bristol native Roni Size is one of the U.K. jungle scene's most respected names, with production credits spanning dozens of labels, projects and releases. Size's influence as a producer, label owner, and committed underground magnate figured him as one of the emerging sound's true pioneers.
